This is along the same lines as your post so I will mention it here. The DE’s (the ones involving combat) should be even a little bit more difficult IMO as once you enter a dungeon currently you are introduced to a much more difficult environment. Having the players being forced into dodging once in a while would make them more suited to a dungeon run.
^ I stand by my statement. Most mobs (including bosses) drop garbage anyways, so why even help. Most only want the title anyways.
I sincerely hope that that pay gold for this service enter the dungeon and then afk. Otherwise your spending hard earned cash to someone else whilst helping them do the labor. I don’t know about you but I won’t pay my mechanic to change my oil and then hold the car up for him, but that is just my opinion. The February patch is coming quick enough as has been mentioned, so at least save your coin until after you see what is done to this dungeon.
Spot on OP.
The dragons of legend were sought out because they hoarded gold and valuables. It seems that in GW2 these scary creatures of the world are much more content to just collect kitten from whatever trash happened by their lair within the last week. Coming from a purely AD&D background it makes no sense and IMO needs to be reworked. Greens at minimum should be offered for one of these glorious beasts of legend, with rares, exotics and yes even ascended being possible.
I can fully understand it if the chest was offered after taking down say the giant in Diessa Plateau, who, would have a few random trinkets mostly what us mere humans might not find of value (blues, greens, throwing rocks, crafting mats junk etc.). But chickens should logically drop some crafting material and nothing else (meat and feathers etc.) but it seems that logic holds no place in the GW2 universe and that is just sad.
Edit: Yes i realize this is a fantasy game and having a bow that shoots unicorns isn’t logical either, but unless we are living in an alternate universe as well as playing in an alternate reality MMO, players still want rewards worth the risk.
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So long as they don’t nerf epidemic or wells in the process I’m all good with it. Unfortunately ANet likes to think of us as an attrition class so we’re not likely to see cleave any time soon as it defeats the purpose of being a brick with the ability to tickle things to death.
Waiting until they release knight’s amulets, then buying one.
You could always flex your muscles in L.A. showing off your legendary like all the others that have beaten the game. Otherwise I concur with BurnedToast.3781 just play something else.
I personally just hang out with friends, doing DE’s hearts, PvE bosses, dungeons, mapping out regions, jumpng puzzles and sometimes just chatting but everyone sees this game differently and if your “finished” with it so be it. Maybe you’ll come back someday.
Never did a monthly before this one due to the WvW element. This time I have already completed it even though dungeons arn’t usually my thing using GW2LFG.COM was a breeze. If your inexperienced, as I am, and wanted to get some under your belt, all you have to do is post a LFG stating such and you will most likely find a good group to help you out easy enough. The other portions, DE’s, salvage and dailies I would not in any way consider a grind, more like just playing the game.
^ others before me have said it as eloquently as I could. However I will add when the daily resets it takes me no more that 30 minutes (usually much less) in Gandarrian Fields just north of L.A.
Edit- 5 Vets = Veteran Oakhearts abound south of Nebu Terrace
Underwater 25 kills = white 1 hp fishes and barracudas
Dodge = Moas have a breath attack with a long wind up
(or centaur bowman drawing the bow makes a noise that will alert you to dodge)
Gathering = lots of wood and ore about, get some tools and start cracking
Rezes = NPC’s near and around Nebu Terrace die on a regular basis
Crafting = refine 10 of what you gathered in L.A.
The longest part is waiting on DE’s to fire, some players will alert you to when they are up though
Easy as pie even for a someone working a full time job (like me)!
Your welcome
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Quick over here————It’s that thread again!
Well strictly from a lore point of view it shouldn’t happen as we are all suppose to be fighting the menace that are the elder dragons. Now if you guys want to beat each other to pulp, I’m all for a PvP server or arenas in each city as a “training area”, so long as I don’t have to see all the races pretending that for some reason it is now all out civil war after the storyline I’m fine with it.
I have just started using “kitten” as a substitute in game for when things aren’t going well. I get more than a few “what was that about” statements, but those who have been on these forums always give me a ROFL back.
How about you?
Had an incident this past week where someone had a character that was almost dead when I went in to help, basically told me to kitten off and leave the area because I hit their mob once. They were doing their dodge daily
…. snip
Report for foul language, block, go on your way. If someone is so rude as to tell you to kitten off (I assume the kitten in this is a curse word) then they neither deserve your help or understanding.
Even with blood magic maxed your better off using it for when your heal is almost off cooldown.
^ And yes pies will do more for you.
I seriously don’t get the drama about this month’s monthly, unlike the previous ones it actually focuses on pve stuff, and is something anyone can complete..
Honestly if you can’t bother to invest 2 hours into dungeon in a span of 4 weeks, then news flash you do not deserve the monthly, ITS TWO HOURS.
WvW on the other hand does not belong on monthly, it is something that is unreasonable to expect people to do:
1: because there are already pvp monthlies.
2: because WvW will absolutely murder the average computer.WvW is not PvP, these are two completely separate aspects of the game.
It is hysterical that people complain about 50 WvW kills which you can get in 15 minutes from EBG. You then turn around to others and say if you don’t spend hours running a dungeon you don’t deserve the rewards. lolz, just lolz.
Where does it say anywhere that the Monthly is a PvE daily? Put back the WvW in my opinion. If you are going to force dedicated WvW players to run dungeons then you should force the PvE dedicated people to have to take SM castle or something equally as annoying
Soon (end of month I hope) we will choose what ones we wish to do thus making this a non issue.
Give the AI mobs in PvE some AI. If the mobs were to dodge once in a while (or even kite) it wouldn’t bother me in the least as a condi/vamp necro, but it will sure take the fun out of using 100b in a hurry. If we as players can dodge 2 times even as a lowby 2nd level why can’t most (any) mobs?
If you want to know why GS warriors are generally not used in PvP it is due to the fact that your opponent there has a brain and can and will get out of your way when he/she sees 100b coming.
Edit: my prediction though is c.. no change coming
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This may seem like a stretch, but I personally would like to see housing handled like in Wizard 101. The houses you could get were bought, though in this game having one set aside in your home instance would suffice. Pets could be set to free roam, the items you bought or made were free place-able, unlike LotRO where you had hooks and limited space. You could plant a garden, that produces “cards” but here we could have them produce something else and give players a reason to visit their “home”.
On a seperate request though, I would love the ability to fish from within my home instance once fishing is implemented. There is nothing more relaxing that fishing from within my own front room through the media of an online MMO.]
edit: IMO the dev time is well worth the investment IF done right, IF NOT then it is indeed a waste. They just need to find what works and what doesn’t for the players.
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The first monthly I will complete, thank you anet. Although dungeons are not something I have done much, with a requirement of only 5 I’m sure it will be quite easy. Please continue to keep the WvW out of the non-PvP monthly.
You picked a good month for it too; I already have lots of coins and karma, but not laurels.
4 GS warriors and 1 mesmer with the timewarp elite can clear rooms, even tough ones in minutes. That is why you are seeing so many requests for it on lfg.
I can understand the novelty of having the monsters you kill carrying their valuables in a chest that drops when they are killed. However, I would much rather just have a small icon flash similar (perhaps smaller) to the chest that you receive with your daily. This would remedy the having to look around for fear of missing a really good item, with the benefit of knowing your not leaving the area without well earned loot.
On topic, I received a rare once and a white once from the only chests I had received.
Name: Ying/Yang
Description: a matching set of daggers (one black one white) signifying the duality and change that happens in in nature.
Effect(s) They glow with a slight aura; each with it’s own color. These daggers make your footprints into the ying/yang symbol while wielding them.
Properties: Upon defeating a creature, thus changing it from alive to dead, make the user’s armor glow with a subtle grey outline.
As for this guy I’ll wait till the scavenger hunt is made and save my coins.
Is that even happening? Last official word I saw (red post from about two weeks ago) is that they’ve only considered the idea of a scavenger hunt, but no actual work has begun on such a thing.
Did they say something more recent, and something more concrete? Did they give any sort of timeline as to when we can expect it?
More recent no; even though I did check. However, I would gladly wait a year to save and buy it off the TP before gambling away that much coin. But thankfully some are willing to give their money away. Any good game needs money sinks and a voluntary one doesn’t hurt the general (wiser) population.
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What happens in the mystic forge, stays in the mystic forge.
In other words “you pays your money you takes your chances”. As for this guy I’ll wait till the scavenger hunt is made and save my coins. 500+ gold is far to much to even consider donating to science of this kind in the name of ego.
I think the siphons are best used as a part of your strategy and not your main device. This is the way I use them anyway. They wont do sufficient healing to enable you to sustain a dps class, but they will add a few extra 1000hp to your total if you play smart.
^ this. I only pull out my siphon if I’m in a long fight and I need those few precious seconds till my dodge/heal/DS/plague are off cool down. Other than that the heal is little more than a way to stay neutral in a fight; healing for as much as your getting hit for.
I stand corrected, and although it doesn’t actually apply a burning aura (dumb IMO) it does the job of damaging more than one. I do have a different dagger with Sup run of earth I use when I have to pick off single targets I carry. My power isn’t to bad @ (80) 1810 attack @ 2791 (full knights) so it does seem to get their attention.
On a side note I used to use pizzas, but I found that using mixed berry pies (omni are far too expensive) the heal on crit synchronizes nicely with my precision and makes me much more tanky.
I mean, condition damage love,
How about our 5% toughness converted in condition damage as the mesmers?
How about our 50% bleeding duration like the warriors?
Where’s our LIMITED access to burning or confusion (yep i said limited access, otherwise could be a little op),
Can you imagine people saying “my god there’s a necro get the hell out, kitten man… those necro are so op”?,
I’d say the first one could replace the jagged horror, (taking in consideration the tree itself give us toughness), and hemophilia could be improved a 20% – 30% percent,
As for limited access to burning or confusion, i mean, really limited like a 25% on crits with a 30 sec cooldown, (this would need to be a trait, otherwise won’t work with sigil of earth),
Although it would be quite nice to see these added as profession related “fixes” I try to do what I can to work around these problems as follows:
1) [partial workaround] I know it isn’t included as a trait, but if you use crystals as your buff food (lack of a better term) then you can get toughness and Vitality to boost your condi damage and crystals are easy to make and/or cheap to buy.
edit: also the Superior rune of the Undead (6) 5% of your toughness becomes condi damage
2) [no solution] in a perfect world we would have a nice boost to our duration(s), but it’s not as if we’re masters of the dead or anything.. we really should have a master trait that boosts all bleeding/poison durration by 50%. Better yet add a new condition called disease that is Necro only!
3) [workaround kinda] I use superior sigils of fire on my main hand weapon (dagger) as this allows for a chance at an AOE (meant as cleave effect) that we don’t have with any of our weapons. I know the standard is earth, but even with it’s 60% chance it is only stacks a condition we already should have on the critter. The fire one only has a 30% chance of firing but it is an AOE and I find when using CURSES (25) Target the weak I get a 2% boost for having the extra condi on it. It may not be the way many would go, but for me it works.
Just some brain droppings of mine.. i too think as necros we deserve to standout in a crowd.
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Well, the problem is, its an emergency button, so I click it franticly most of the time.
Thanks for the laugh; I too am quite guilty of this one.
My redesign would be:
Dagger (1) I would add a slight poison effect to Necrotic bite even if I had to reduce the Life force regen to +3 instead of +4
Dagger (2) actually with all the traits it isn’t to bad, but I would increase the siphon to 250 per pulse and reduce the damage to 600 per pulse as a compromise
Dagger (3) give us the pull from the old risen in Orr, I personally only use this for when things are running away and this would be sweet justice for all the times i got pulled in Orr … heh
Offhand:
Dagger (4) Keep it as is but for the love of all that is unholy speed it up
Dagger (5) I’m not a big fan of targeted skills so I never use this, Hoverer I love using the DS ability (Weakening Shroud) that self targets this on activate.
I’ve not seen much of a difference actually. If they did a nerf on the bags it was a subtle one. I was there for half an hour tonight post patch and although I never got one rare (one a day if I’m lucky), I did get a pair of greens, 3 blues, 6 or so whites, couple salvageable, and yes a few bags. These were gotten during an event and are compatible to what I got pre-patch.
1) Have the forum designers add a -1 button to the forums
2) Step down, giving myself a nice golden parachute as a parting gift
3) Put ANet back in the capable hands it is in now
4) Profit
Not me. Unlike some it seems I went into this game with my eyes open to everything said by the devs and took the manifesto seriously but with a grain of salt. Going into any endeavor blindly believing that things will not change from the original design, especially for an online video game, is by definition foolish. I, it seems, am of the minority here though as I am quite happy at the progress ANet has and will continue to make with this great game. For those that are not all I can say is there will be another shiny game along shortly so please haunt those forums instead of these ones.
In the spirit of tracking down the bug(s) for ANet I’ll post that I have received only 2 chests since yesterday one had a yellow rare and the other was empty. HTH.
What’s so wrong with a tank being a tank and a healer being a healer? That aspect of this game sucks IMO…
Because this game promotes diversity not standardization. As has been said there are plenty of other games that cater to the trinity system and if you are unhappy with this one I’m sure you can find your place among one of them.
Well not a mod, but trinity … never gonna happen. The change was implemented due to rez running; repeatedly dying and running to to the bosses until it died. IMO it was a well needed change and in the end it will help to bring the players closer together and promote teamwork in place of just zerging.
Right now it is not much of a problem. Just use Cavalier’s (pwr, tough, critdmg%) items. It comboes very nicely with knight’s gear and fury and has some of the best critdmg% for stat tradeoff rates in the game.
The hell it is a problem all right. I do not have fury on any regular basis and the less I crit the less buffs I give out to allies. I don`t give a …. about the damage I do, because couple of might stacks on 4 people is more damage per second bonus than I can achieve by some measely critdamage %.
Thank you, I was about to post the same thing actually. If I wanted something other than Knight’s I would be using something other than Knight’s. Power/crit % damage is worthless to my build; well maybe not worthless but it sure doesn’t help as much as a guaranteed crit chance (with fury) along with the ability to soak some damage.
Just noticed this as well. I’m just going to stick to my exo rings until i see something that matches my build better. I will most probably buy the “jack of all trades” amulet with the utility slot though (because the others are all useless +4 to stat) with laurels. other than that I will most likely save my laurels until i can get the cat tonic for jumping puzzles.
As for those of us that dislike WvW we seem to have been stuck with it as a monthly forever now – join the club.
We haven’t seen next month’s monthly yet.
I await the new monthly with baited breath /s *
- (not expecting anything different TBH)
Ewww crafting… Seriously?
What a poor attempt at flushing materials from the playerbase for a lousy laurel.
Mine 20 mithril. Refine ten ingots. Sell for profit. Done. Can we shut up about this now?
I would aasume those complaining about crafting arn’t anywhere near the level to make mithril ingots. That being said jute and copper are not only everywhere in the starter area(s) but can be purchased cheap off the TP, refined and then sold back in very quick order. Even the most adamant non-crafter could do this quicker than say killing 1 champion.
As for those of us that dislike WvW we seem to have been stuck with it as a monthly forever now – join the club.
Crafting = no big deal took me under a minute
Combo’s = I helped a whole swack of players get theirs by just liberally placing wells as a necro in Gendarran Fields near mobs for them to hit with finishers
Water kills = actually took me the longest but that was because i was in Orr at the time and they die slower in a high level area
To the OP if your not going to actually play the game then you deserve nothing and I for one hope they keep innovating.
So nothing for us non-pet users; I guess i will just start playing my warrior again.
Duration means next to nothing in WvW or PvP as any player worth anything will carry a remover. I seldom even use it in PvE as 20% isn’t a big deal compared to others in the trait line. I would suggest instead of duration make it either 10% or 15% stronger bleeds to make it actually worth taking over weakening shroud at adept (even though it is currently bugged). YMMV but for my build (DS heavy) it isn’t worth the slot.
I will forgo the purchase of this item, as I’m not into the “cutsy” items (don’t collect mini’s either). However I am very happy that ANet has released this item, due to the excitement it has garnered it will mean the coffers for the game will overflow and we in return will reap the benefits in actual improvements for the game. Well done.
Too true. I wanted my dagger (2) skill to be the “oh kitten” button for when I’m under heavy stress, but it turns out to not even be good at healing you during a 1 on 1 with trash mobs. BTW I run with 25 points in blood magic (II/V) and wear knights for the toughness but even without the clerics IMO it should give back much more than it does. Personally I would like to see it changed to an AoE and scaled to siphon more per point of compassion; this is just a pipe dream. I would also like to see dagger (1) have any condition added to the necrotic bite portion; but this too is fantasy. If we’re lucky though we may not have our AoE’s nerfed to badly.
Took me about 2 week of casual play to do the PvE maps.
Took me 5 minutes to switch servers to Kaineng for the full WvW map in less than a day (only died 4 times).
Now waiting to switch back.
Here lies your average nondescript necro….
“I am death itself” proved to finally be true.
They all reset on down and area change, the former is self explanatory due to the way being downed works (food items used to reset too). The latter IMO is more of an anti exploit mechanism designed to keep players from kacking low level critters in say Queensdale and then going to Orr pre-buffed.
Suggestion: Maybe do a search before posting this idea yet again.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Dueling-in/page/2#post1235309
Anyways as I stated in this thread it doesn’t fit the lore to have open world dueling. However if you want to have a seperate “arena” for it then It could be explained simply as play fighting (training).
I play a vampire build as the minions are kitten terrible but if they do decide to nerf the aoe life transfer (DS4) then they should at least up give us either poison of cleave for our dagger hits. Epidemic is already been nerfed to the ground with it’s 5 target limit so let’s hope they leave it out of the conversation. At very least they should make life siphon scale better with our compassion as it sits not it more of a “life trickle”.
Hopefully though we’ll get a pass on this one, the vampire build of this class is already wearing plastic fangs IMO.
Only for a necromancer “Transfers” means “copy”, (plage signet)
Every time I test it, plague signet transfers conditions on both the active and the passive, curing the ally (passive) or the caster (active).
Only a necromancer cuts themselves to hurt their opponents. (Dark Pact, Blood is Power.)
I’d gladly take half damage from a condition for the full area epidemic (i.e. > 5 targets) back.
So therefore…. Only a necromancer will cut themselves to hurt only a few (or one) of their opponents.
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I use it in PvE for when a champ is “out to get me” and has locked on to my backside. Not only can you keep the champion blind, but you take next to no damage while others in the area pound it into dust.