Guild Wars 2

Only thing my necro plays, that and some wells in WvW. I can honestly say my usual fractals group adores me, I bring on call weakness through bone minions, TONS of damage, even in PVT gear ((Since minion damage doesn’t scale based off your stats, the little buggers will hit their top damage no matter what))

They took the PVE health buff, along with flesh of the master the bigger ones have upwards of 33k HP. Our jagged horrors just took a buff, allowing more out, more touchness from our minor trait, as well as 3 to 4 little death nova bombs if you snag that trait.

Responsiveness is still a bit shaky, strangely enough last patch I could get them to attack and defend on the milli-second but they’ve seemed to sliow down a slight bit recently. Even so it only takes a second and a half or two for them to go. “Hm, Master is fighting, lets help.”

Just checking in to see if they fixed the bug with the endless tonics yet, from what people where saying, they where giving the giver’s darksteel inscription recipe.

Doggie.3184:

How come her powers don’t wear off when she’s KO’d. She should be laying on the ground naked. Plotholes!

Then we could all see her buisness…. Huehuehuehuehuehuehue

Vlad Morbius.1759:

Can you list your build WereDragon. I’m swapping some stuff around and would like to give it a shot, thanks.

Sorry it took so long, here ya go.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAodWjEal6ta2a07JApHRT90TK6GcIF5KNA-j0BBofCiEEgUBBK7pIaslhFRjVZDT9iIqWKgU2CA-w

Kahrgan.7401:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

The unintended change has been reverted as of today’s hotfix. You can see it reflected in the patch notes here.

What about us Charrs that dislike the original look. In dec 10th’s patch you FIXED horns being hidden, and the cloth on the back not sticking out (it looked more appropriate) and now charrs are back to having spent 500 gems on an item which looked decent after the fix, and horrible on them after you changed it back to what it was pre-dec 10th.

Do we get fixed? Or is this another “Charrs arent high enough player base, so tough kitten”

Charr shouldn’t have anything to do with the human gods anyway, this is Grenth’s punishment for being a poser. XD

Anyway,s yeah I disagree with a radical model change if they’re not going to offer refunds

It’s a veteran because it fell out of a kitten ed exploding tower, if that doesn’t shave a few levels off I have no idea what will.

Alot of people are bringing their spite for condition necro’s into this. But look at the big picture, instead of bringing a spec in line with everyone else, they gave another class a complete hard counter to deter it. Who’s next after this?

Wait, how did the event become ruined with ADDED content, you liked the event before, it’s the same event +…. This makes far to little sense.

Ha, I just read my log, I double cliched on the recipe and learned Giver’s Dark-steel inscription.

I don’t even run a condition necro and this looks painful. Necro’s now have 2 full hardcounters. Mesmers moaing minion masters and ele’s running diamond skin against condition necros.

Also in the video he swapped to carrior, still got wrecked.

What people aren’t seeing is this made Ele’s CC immune too at the beginning of fights, and if they keep themselves healed enough they will remain CC immune.

Interesting, I wonder what the minor will get replaced with

Same here, learned it, not on my artificers recipe list.

Looks fine on my human necro =D

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Bhawb.7408:

Which is why the trait is being combined into Death Nova, and we’re getting a whole new 5 trait, which I said originally.

Got a link to it?

I would very much like a link too.

This both worries me and makes me happy. If they remove death nova entirely I would be a bit upset. But a buff like that to horrors, could mean I could venture into blood for the condition removal. Or boon removal on minion hits.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/short-story-what-scarlet-saw/

That’s what you’re looking for, official.

So I was messing around in the new patch, testing the new sig and something I often ignored occurred to me. Jagged Horrors… These little buggers where mostly an afterthought, but I noticed I was indeed getting a few more then usual thanks to the patch. In a 2 minute even fight I had 3 to 4 of the little buggers chasing me around at constant.

Then it dawned on me, just how much of a buff this was to MM’s.

Not only does each new jagged give me a 20+ toughness increase, but when the little buggers expire they also proc death nova ((30 point death magic trait)) This now means instead of having 1, maybe 2 ticking time bombs chasing me about. I now have 3 to 4, that not only increase my survivabilty by a half decent amount… 80 extra toughness is a good increase. But each one is going to pop for 3k and poison.

Did I mention they life siphon as well?

I hadn’t actually been able to decide the usefulness of this till I actually got into the patch, and honestly, i’m surprised and more then a bit happy.

Scarlet might not be making an appearance, but what about her alter ego Snata Briar.

Seriously, think about it, it’s right up her alley to dress up as a character and pretend to be them a bit.

Running a 100% evasion build as a thief is extremely easy, just cause they’re reducing this effectiveness a bit doesn’t mean the sky is falling.

Also, since when did Sword/X become the ONLY theif build?

From personal experience. Minion Master is quite strong in even 2v1 situations. I usually take poison nova… It’s funny to watch a warrior run up and try to 100b my minions, suddenly 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k and a minute and a half of poison XD

OP’s post in a nutshell. “Let them spit on us, so they won’t spit on us as hard later on!”

Honestly there was a million different things they could have done, gave us a perma finisher with our servers rank. Passed us Laurels like a proper monthly. Maybe somthing cool like a random, unlimited blueprint depending on how our server did.

This game is ENTIRELY about cosmetics, it’s why we don’t have a gear treadmill.

The current rewards are farmable in around an hour

People complain about her being a goodie two shoes…. She acts like a bad guy. People flip the F out.

The last few posts of this topic sound like the guys who got their accounts botched for massively exploiting the Karma bug at games launch and are slipping in here with a sour perspective on it.

Lordrosicky.5813:

For pvp this is the worst skill in the game by quite some distance.

Here is why:
1, This essentially “heals” by taking damage, which is stupid as healing for 300 when you take a 6k eviserate or backstab is hardly going to help you.

“O look I am low on health – I better tank some damage to heal!” – No – terrible.

2, The active will be easily dodged, blinded or evaded. And even when someone has it on them they can dodge, kite, line of sight and not get hit for the duration. Then you have no healing at all.

3, In addition – when you activate the skill (i.e. when you need a healing burst) you have to then put yourself in harms way to actually try to hit a target. The last thing a necro – with light armour and no blocks or evades – wants to do when low on health is to be in harms way trying to attack someone. You will die faster than you can believe.
For pvp, this “heal” is beyond unplayable. I wouldnt even call a skill which makes you tank damage to “heal” for 300 a heal. I would call it a way to get yourself killed.

Awful skill from a pvp perspective. Worst in the game. Unless some broken combos can come out of it which they wont because the life sihpon line sucks and life siphoning numbers are just way way too low to ever be viable – “Yay, i am life siphoning for 45!”

Edit – It is worth noting that the active fits in an aggresive burst build – as you can burst someone down with dagger auto attack and yet the passive fits in a tanky build as being hit when you have a ton of toughness means the net loss of health is less than being hit when you are a glass cannon.

There could be some gimmicky 1 shot build from this “heal” but even then I doubt it.

1: The signet is strong in siphon and minion master builds where I take healing from 6 minions at one time as well as my main attacks. This not only mitigates some damage but retaliates on the target.

Here’s a good combo for you. Dagger #3 to root, Warhorn #5 for locust swarm Dagger 2 for awesome siphon skill WHILE the signet is active. Hell if you’re running Axe+focus in back up for boon strip you can double up the retaliation effect with axe #3

2: If it’s like most Signets it’s instant and a good PVP’er watches and waits for their opponents to burn their dodge rolls before hitting with an ability. On top of that, in PVP why am I going to dump my heal if my opponent is running towards a wall or LOS object, if i’m that bad I my as well get out of PVP

3: We are an offensive class, our strength is in our insane pressure. We have the highest HP pool in the game, double that with toughness and you’re a god mode tank. We have some lovely gap closer, more roots, cripples and chills then you can shake a stick at. We’re arn’t thieves, we don’t need to hide, that’s why we have a second HP bar we are mean’t to be a spiked wall.

This heal isn’t mean’t to REPLACE all other heals, it’s mean’t to spread build viability. See thieves Venom heal and Warriors stance heal. It’s mean’t to break up cookie cutters and add more diversity and some group utility.

Brendar.3548:

Scarlet: “It’s time to make this dragon my pet!”
Jormag: Eats Scarlet, vomits due to how disgusting the salad tasted. Becomes weak.
Players: Attack with canons
Jormag: 1 HP left
Trahearne: Pokes Jormag with his finger, Jormag dies. “This victory belongs to me!”

Please god edit this post, they’ll actually use it.

coglin.1867:

Healing turret does not regenerate health on its own, in or out of combat. I still fail to see why necromancers deserve to be special.

Because 4 out of our 6 minions regen HP out of combat.

I’m pretty sure the OP is talking about out of combat. Blood fiend, along with bone minions are the ONLY minions that do not passively replenish their lost HP while the MM is out of combat. This requires the minion master to sac these minions for NO reason, put them on cooldown, just so he can resummon them again so they have full HP

This thread is showing real promise!

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I hope Scarlet makes her usual appearance to spice up the workshop. She is best pony!

Psh, fool please, rarity is best pony. Also, this is the perfect holiday for her to attack. Everyone’s happy, it’s a joyous occasion. Then suddenly Scarlet steals all the Children.

Near perma swiftness using withdraw. I can run faster then a centaur…..

Bhawb.7408:

kyubi.3620:

did they ever plan to make damage increase to pets depending on player stats someday?

We will never get true scaling with pets. The one thing that quite a few of us are hoping for is that they’ll either flat buff all minions in PvE to comply with the new Ascended tier, because as they are now they are “tuned” to Exotic.

Pure scaling would make minions ungodly powerful, so like Bawb said we’ll probably get a flat increase to bring them up to ascended. I wouldn’t mind seeing a wow style set up where weapon damage affected minion damage through scaling, this would people running ascended would have their minions doing ascended damage, instead of giving everyone a big quality of life bonus. I think that would make the other classes upset. =P

Passive Damage 352
Passive Heal 306
Active Damage 633
Active Heal 544

It’s like constant retaliation with a minor damage reduction through healing… my PVT mm is going to adore this and my enemies shall hate it.

If it’s any help healing power does NOTHING for minion’s life siphon, the siphined HP isn’t affected by healing power. The only thing the healing power is good for is your healing skill ((Blood fiend is unaffected)) and regen from staff 2 and or traits.

youlostthegame.8102:

If you take healing in DS trait in the Blood line, I think you can wait till you’re really low, pop Life Transfer and it will heal you. I’m not 100% on that but try it… could be a free 3.5k heal for you

No saddly it’s only allies, i’m running the trait right now.

Mesmer
Ranger ((Spirit shortbow build))
possibly thief?

I run a D/F minion master in world vs world. I rarely have issues with alot of classes. Focus 5 melts anything that decides they what to boon up and I can USUALLY down most people in a charge, root bone minion bomb. Anyone who survives after that is on their last leg so a deathshroud fear+darkpath, followed by staff fear usually puts them down.

90% of warriors I fight run in and try 100b’ding down my minions or attempt hammer rushes. Being PVT the only thing that takes damage is the minions and if they die putrid explosion causes around 2 to 3k damage for each minion killed + poison.

Mesmers mess around with my minion’s AI with the constant stealth and warps but their burst spikes usually scuff off like 1 maybe 2k on my 29k HP One mess up and ill usually have a charge. ((They’ll break it with their stun-break)) Then fear root and bone minion explosion. Then I hop shroud, tainted+Life transfer so even if they poof away in stealth they come out biting dirt.

Thieves are entirely wildcards. They’re almost all running zerker builds and melt like paper under me. I have issues when they play extremely defensive and hop in and out of stealth alot, this fiddles with the minion AI alot. BUT same as mesmer, if they make a mistake I can usually zerk them down in around 2 to 3 seconds. Lock them up with golems charge, bone-fiends root a couple of chain-fears and of course the wonderful bone minion pop for 3 to 4k and poison.

Ranger’s drive me up the wall believe it or not a good spirit build can put me on the ropes incredibly fast and i’m still researching how to deal with them, since you don’t see them in PVP all that often the ones you do know what their doing and i’ve yet to have enough practice against them to get them down.

The fight is soloable. I’ve done it several times after my team goes down.

Actually, when that dungeon first came out I on my thief single handedly saved the group. Cloak and dagger mia, drop shadows refuge, hit blinding powder, rez team mate, go from person to person getting them all. Got them all to around 98% rez health and then mass rezzed everyone up. Saved the fight.

It’s a fractal, what did you want the next full on dungeon?

Do you think Abbadon would have been done any justice in a 20 minute fractal?

This guy has little issue 3v1

I don’t mind her, I found her an interesting character at first with a half decent backstory. I DO feel their shoving her fingers into too many things at the moment, this causes a “Oh it’s just scarlet again.” Effect where people won’t be surprised for new content.

I beg to differ, my PVT minion Master necro does around 4 to 5k in a full cycle of dagger hits and minion smacks. With no minions up I still hit about 2k and some change with a full dagger rotation. 460×460×1280

None of this is counting siphon damage which is about 34 a hit, per minion and dagger smack. It’s also not counting stat food or bloodlust buff on my dagger being stacked

On top of that having 29k HP and 1.9k toughness usually means i’m the last one up and i’ve finished several bosses by myself after the group died, unlike a full berserker who has a stiff fart blow their way to topple them

KOPPER.1458:

Are you going to support 400 gem Helms if this happens to be the case? 400 for 1 armor piece?

Hey, they need to make cash, they gave us a one time payment game and we can all play for free… I’m completely fine feeding them a few bucks for a cosmetic. Hell we can even earn the gems through gold, all be it the inflation is high, but it’s still doable.

Uvatha.5476:

Hahaha, you thought you’d get your levels INCREASED to 30?

What in my post made you think that? I thought everyone UNDER 30 was getting reset to 1?

I’m currently in a fractal 9 and it’s saying my reward level is still 18, did the reset not occur?

So apperently, while sitting in LA today, someone linked. “Grenth’s Hood Skin” into game My jaw instantly dropped and the wardrobe click made it drop further.

It’s a ploy to get us to hate her more then trehearn. Don’t fall for it.

I do enjoy seeing all the Evon supports get their Evon print panties in a big bundle. I for one am happy with the reactor.

I moment of silence for the new anti gravity tonic going wrong….

Few basic and general tips. Make sure you dump reapers mark in the center of his shadows refuge IF he leaves it early he takes relieved.

Save flesh golems charge for when he drops BP to attempt to stealth. ((IF he’s a D/P thief)) If not, hit him with the charge as a follow up to fiends immobile.

Mark of blood should be at your feet on cooldown, not only does it give early warning it does about 2k bleed damage ((When not conditioned speccced)) and regen.

The second he’s out of stealth you want to Dagger 3 to root him and burst, he’ll most likely drop BP or shadow’s refuge at this point, reapers mark him out of refuge or have fleshy charge through his BP, at this point he should be init starved, if you haven’t burned bone minions nows the time to crush him with their amazing burst.

If he gets on you deathshroud up and fear him off, this is a life saver in dire straits. Also your 4 and 5 STILL hit him in stealth even if you don’t have a visual for it ((Tested this on my thief in WvW about a week ago and despite stealthed I still took damage from it.))

Soloed the tower as a Necro, no issues what so ever. My thief also single handedly won in the aether dungeon by rezzing my entire party mid fight using well timed stealths.

“As a soldier of the High Legions, Gnashblade first came to Lion’s Arch at the age of 20 as part of an Ash Legion operation to extort the people of the city under the banner of the Black Lion Trading Company. Gnashblade was by all accounts a dependable soldier who never disobeyed orders—until that day. When he raised concerns with his legionnaire, Aria Gnashfang, believing that attempting to intimidate the pirates of Lion’s Arch would not be fruitful, the disagreement led to a fight and Gnashfang was killed. The next day, the Black Lion Trading Company was established in earnest.”

Wiki ^

At what point did he save LA? Hell his original mission was to extort the city for money.

panzer.6034:

In all seriousness, Kiel didn’t win because of WP costs. She won because joe average player that never visits the forums logged in and saw that she was clearly portrayed as the hero of the story line while Evon was portrayed as an underhanded villain.

I beg to differ, I voted for Kiel because she is human I am human and Evon is the back-stabbing random number humping leader of the the black lion rip off company.

I can’t believe so many people forgot about the insane amount of complaints due to black lion keys and the RNG… Oh wait they didn’t cause Kiel won.