Guild Wars 2

Kraggy.4169:

Items bought off the TP shouldn’t be re-listable, I despise ‘flippers’ be they bots or not.

This would be a hilarious addition to the game.

I got these on my first playthough I never realized they were even achievements until I saw them appear completed.
The best thing I can tell you is to just be patient with yourself and be aware of what’s around you. I did it on a necro with little mobility so i have 100% confidence you guys can get it!

I did.

Beat all of it.

Don’t care for it, while it is challenging… It is not challenging in the way I prefer. Fractals are more my speed. I don’t like feeling rushed to complete content, Which is how the raid makes me feel.

How will leaderboards work though? Speed =/= skill and shouldn’t really be a measurement of such.

Was hoping Twisted Marionette would become a Boss Fractal, obviously scaled down to 5 players… Maybe one per lane.

I enjoy the mechanics of the raid, I just hope they do something different to make it challenging than what’s already being done. Mix it up a bit

It surprises me how few people know that the wiki will give you the best information about the game. Except maybe full raid walkthroughs. Also surprising how few even know the wiki exists.

Frenchtoastersticks.8061:

why are all of you shooting down inspections. all the OP wants is to view another players SKINS without having to whisper and hope they are nice enough to link their gear.

inspections for skins NOT gear is not going to break the game. it is fashionwars afterall.

This is how I interpreted it. Let it show just skins, kind of like pinging a Legendary doesn’t show stats.

I play power reaper. Mostly because it’s what has all of my agony infusions :p

I love it and there arent any difficulties that arise from it. I use something different than that but a similar concept :p

My biggest issue is raid design, but that’s been talked about to death in other threads.

I have no opinion on Gemstore/Black Lion stuff, I love Fractals, I don’t think the game is grindy, and the other thing I don’t really understand what you mean.

Mechanically I enjoy them. And the loot is nice

How does one measure success? GW1 had less players after 4 years than GW2 does.

GW2 makes them more money.

I do that all the time… Put my 25% speed on, then as I’m about to enter a fight, I’ll swap it out… I genuinely figured that was the norm

Rauderi.8706:

Khisanth.2948:

Rauderi.8706:

But the Leadership runes costing so many drop-only, maybe-you’ll-get-one items, which require a key item to get… that’s just a groin kick. Especially for a zone that requires special permission to get into the One Sacred Map. I’d really like to see a way to use other zone materials to buy the crystalline ore, even if it’s just a limited per day purchase.

Noxious pods give a minimum of 1 Crystalline Ore so there is no maybe. The maybe is only for a chance to get more from each pod.

Unfortunately, that is not consistent with observation. I have opened pods and gotten no ore. And the rate of gain via pods is brutally low, even on a map that’s doing the meta. So needing to open at least 600 pods for one full set is a huge grind. 150 is a much more appropriate number in relation to the effort the other HoT rune sets take.

The April update, which basically made everything a lootpocalypse, guarantees 1, 3, 10, or 14 Crystalline Ore from every pod. Since that update I have obtained enough Crystalline Ore for my needs before evening finishing Dragon’s Stand itself, which is in increments of 50-150. If you aren’t getting any Ore, file a bug report, but I highly doubt you are getting ZERO Ore. Only Crystallized Supply Caches do not have a guaranteed drop of the map’s currency.

“Expected of me to have a set in raiding” join parties that don’t care.

wolfie.7296:

@OP players have the ability to block and remove each chats.

“The storerooms are spotless, and I haven’t seen any vermin for a week. That said, I’m pretty sure I saw her fly past on a riding broom just now…”

Having said that, does the store news above refer to “Broomstick One” and what does that say about the background of the developers of gw2 (ie religious since it’s suggesting witches are vermin)?

They do, however chat filters and other methods are not justifiable causes for one to violate the terms of service.

Wintermute.5408:

Warcry.1596:

As a Power necro in the raid no one has ever told me in a party I’ve been in that I wasn’t pulling my weight. We never had DPS issues and actually did better than when I was playing something with more DPS, like Revenant before the changes to sword. As long as content is beaten it does NOT matter how long it takes, unless you are trying to set a record. That’s where the disconnect is =/

You don’t quite get the problem here. Have you been around before HoT? When you could be kicked from DUNGEONS for simply playing necro, regardless of your build or skill? Fractals were completely out of question. Becouse “common knowledge” claimed necros suck. I don’t want to go back to that. Reaper was the cure from that cancer, yet it’s wearing off. I know I’ll be hard-pressed to find guild willing to accept my reaper once I decide to go raiding. Not becouse it’s unviable for content. Becouse “common knowledge” claims so.

I started at launch yes. My necro is what I’ve always used for dungeons and Fractals, it’s the only one with 150+ AR. I DO recall parties that would say “No Ranger no Necro”, I just simply avoided those parties. I was never kicked from a party “just for playing a necromancer”, because again, when pugging I found parties that didn’t care. I DO remember the struggles, I just avoided them. I love to pug, and I only pug if the party description is something appealing to me, why would you join, or try to join a party that apparently doesn’t want you there?

Crystal Desert now and forever.

Love my havoc prowess here

The community is mostly a bunch of egos and politics, or it used to be, but loyalty is a guiding principle in my life, I am 100% happy here.

I seldom run condi as it is, but when I do it’s either Parasitic Contagion (open PvE or depending on my roam team comp WvW), or if I am asked to run condi in the Raid I’ll use Lingering Curse.

I didn’t know my goal was to kill things quickly :p. Running the trait has never caused a timed event to time out.

As a Power necro in the raid no one has ever told me in a party I’ve been in that I wasn’t pulling my weight. We never had DPS issues and actually did better than when I was playing something with more DPS, like Revenant before the changes to sword. As long as content is beaten it does NOT matter how long it takes, unless you are trying to set a record. That’s where the disconnect is =/

LuxAeterna.4621:

Warcry.1596:

Amineo.8951:

My complaint about raids is how it destroys the idea of the “no trinity” in GW2, because now there’s one: Chronomancer, PS Warrior and Druid. Basically if you don’t have these, you’re not getting anywhere aside the easy encounters like VG, Trio or Escort and that’s a big shame.

They’re beatable without those… People are too blinded by the meta to do other things though. I haven’t read a single guide or watched a single video about raid content so I don’t know metas or anything when I would raid.

I don’t get how people who profess not to know anything about raids or care a hoot about raids, form opinions on how to beat them.

I know how to beat them silly :p
I said I never read a guide on how to. Those two are not mutually exclusive. I was only offering a different take to the raid content, the person I quoted said he hates the “trinity aspect” of the raid in terms of Chrono Warrior Druid, I simply stated they are beatable without those things.

I never once said I don’t know anything about the content.

vicious.5683:

I just want my necro zerker be viable for raids, with an ele level of DPS. Or superior ,since necros doesn’t really buff the squad.

I use mine, you should use yours.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Warcry.1596:

Personally I find the issue of what the challenge is. Fractals does it better, where the mechanics are harder and more punishing than just a DPS race under a timer. That’s just my thoughts and really hope they take it into consideration for future raid content.

I yolo fractals daily and it’s a snoozefest because of how easy it is. Raids actually maintain my attention because single mistakes can kill teams. They are already heading in the right direction with the changes to Swampland by making the content more raid-like and actually providing an introduction to the complexity of raid mechanics in a dialed back context.

I didn’t mean to make it sound like the raid was NOT challenging, I just think it’s challenging in the wrong way. The challenge is mostly artificial, and not due to the fight itself. I get WHY it’s that way, because due to time limits all 10 people need to do the thing (the thing being whatever mechanics are necessary for that particular fight) or it’s often no good, as opposed to in Fractals where, at least in terms of final bosses of each fractal, as long as one person is alive it is soloable. That’s my gripe, and I get bored with timers, it forces me to go quick and not enjoy myself because at one point in time for whatever reason it was decided that how quickly content is beaten is how you determine the skill of a player in “high end” content. I’m no record setter, I have no desire to be, if I was I wouldn’t play power necro in 99% of the content I play (the 1% being PvP). My goal is to beat content the way I enjoy, and so far I have, I just wish it were possible for others to as well =/

I meant I like It’s effect. It doesn’t heal for very much in single target encounters so for me it’s an open PvE only trait.

It doesn’t matter to me one way or another… But the inconsistency is what bugs me.

Dragon’s Stand meta finishes: people are locked out
Auric Basin finishes: You can go between maps all you want.

Pick one and do it the same for both… Either way is fine

What dilemma is that?

Amineo.8951:

My complaint about raids is how it destroys the idea of the “no trinity” in GW2, because now there’s one: Chronomancer, PS Warrior and Druid. Basically if you don’t have these, you’re not getting anywhere aside the easy encounters like VG, Trio or Escort and that’s a big shame.

They’re beatable without those… People are too blinded by the meta to do other things though. I haven’t read a single guide or watched a single video about raid content so I don’t know metas or anything when I would raid.

I like what you said.

Personally I find the issue of what the challenge is. Fractals does it better, where the mechanics are harder and more punishing than just a DPS race under a timer. That’s just my thoughts and really hope they take it into consideration for future raid content.

I have 1 human, it’s male, and a warrior. My only female is charr.

Just my experiences, the raid fights are boring and too one dimensional for my tastes

I find the Bloomhunger fight to be generally more difficult than most of the raid encounters. The raid fights are generally predictable, Bloomhunger can have some difficulties with surviving the swarms.

Mikhael.2391:

Warcry.1596:

There is nothing wrong with Necro. I haven’t had any issues with anything. Perhaps those that complain just don’t know how to play Necromancer =/
Usually those that are outspoken are the ones that are upset anyway. I seldom see positive threads. This one was kind of odd, implying Necro had issues but maybe I’m too naive or I don’t run into difficult opponents but I never lose fights when on my necro unless I’m outnumbered or caught off guard.

Im gonna add you for some duels later. Already got flow showing me a few tricks but wanna get more people for more show.

I don’t know who flow is but this may be fun

There is nothing wrong with Necro. I haven’t had any issues with anything. Perhaps those that complain just don’t know how to play Necromancer =/
Usually those that are outspoken are the ones that are upset anyway. I seldom see positive threads. This one was kind of odd, implying Necro had issues but maybe I’m too naive or I don’t run into difficult opponents but I never lose fights when on my necro unless I’m outnumbered or caught off guard.

Tweak numbers and most of these seem good.

Parasitic Contagion I like the way it is

I like the cap. It incentivizes people to look elsewhere for points. I’ve been doing it for months and I’ve done things I haven’t really thought I’d obtain. Finishing my Story Achievements, Slayer/weaponmaster, and some collections, along with the Current Events I hadn’t done. Shortly I’ll finish Emperor and evetually get the raid ones i don’t have. I never would have gone for those if I gained a steady 10 per day until the end of time. I’m not trying to rank high on the leaderboard, I’m not even on it, I just figure it’s about time I get more as a result of the cap.

So why can’t YOU play the raid?

If anything heals Like Well of Blood ticks, and Sig of Vamp’s on hit heal, and Blood Fiend’s attacks should heal through shroud, even if it’s at 50% effectiveness

The combo field dropped first is the one that it will combo off of. That’s how it’s always been.

Necro just after Heart of Thorns. I have close to a 75% win rate in PvP since then as a result. Don’t get me wrong, I still love necro even to this day, no amount of changes will be too much for me to change

afrocrusade.4253:

(why are you even raiding on a necro?)

Always have, always will. No interest in playing anything else. I never used Lich Form for it though.

I don’t know what any of the numbers mean =/

Can keys go into the wallet? What else are they used for.

I see nothing wrong with the guide.

They said if you want to optimize for fastest potential times, run with x and not y.

They didn’t say using x makes your raid impossible. Optimalization =/= winning. By that I mean you can win without optimizing, and conversely you can lose while optimizing.

I appreciate these. I personally do not take much from them beyond knowing limits on each profession, but I know they are helpful.

I’m not some record setter, I don’t care to be, my goal is to finish content, regardles of time it takes, while using the build and set up I and my group finds the most fun

Yeah. I always played power necro in the raid and did just fine. I have more a mindset of “as long as the DPS is enough to kill A boss in time, I don’t care how it’s done”. Which works well enough :p. People play what they want, we beat it, everybody wins.

That’s valid. I guess I didn’t specify. As long as we are on the same page

That is not what I was asking. Answer what’s asked, I know Vale is easier than other bosses

That is NOT Gorseval. Gorseval requires a minimum DPS due to updraft usage. Everyone can beat Vale Guardian, but that isn’t the ENTIRE raid. Beat 100% of all threee wings with ZERO DPS gear, otherwise you aren’t answering my question.

Show me. I would love to see a video of such a thing.

If it’s possible to do, with 10 people having 1000 Power max, then the raid isn’t difficult.

Sectry.1236:

Warcry.1596:

I personally have more enjoyment out of content where one’s equipment didn’t determine pass/fail

You can clear the raid in full greens if you’re good enough and dedicated.

There is a minimum damage requirement on the fights. That’s what I mean. Can 10 people in FULL non damage gear best every boss? I would love to see Gorseval done by 10 people with no one wearing any power of condition damage increasing equipment / food.

Thief (2012-2013)—-> Guardian (2013-2014) —> Necro (2014-Present).