Guild Wars 2

Yshyr.8709:

Why not just remove the pve crap from wvw. Those mobs serve no purpose and detract from pvp.

They serve a purpose..

To res the guy you’re trying to stomp because some random mob got hit in a fight.

See a purpose has been served ;o)

naphack.9346:

1 treb could kill all of these within 4-5 minutes, then you’d be starved of supplies while your opponents build arrowcarts to prevent you from entering/leaving the tower while their treb kills the walls.

(Siege wars 2)

You’d not even need a treb shot, look where they’re placed..you can hit most of them with AOE from the outside.

graverr.6473:

Xsorus.2507:

Lets see if I understand this right..

Before the patch, a group of 50 people comes up on a defended keep with arrowcarts, with say 20 defenders….

They blow through the keep and take it because 20 people with ArrowCarts couldn’t do squat against 50 people.

Now the 50 people are dying and are kind of mad they can’t take a defended keep anymore as easily as before?

Also the whole “Well small mans are screwed cause they can’t take a Supply camp with someone defending with and arrow cart”

That is a load of horsekitten by zergers who are mad they can’t out zerg people anymore.

I small man all the time, I solo all the time, I can safely say if you have an arrow cart in a Supply camp I’ll run in and kill you before you can kill me with an Arrow Cart, hell as a ranger i can send my pet in and he’ll kill you or the siege weapon and you’ll not be able to do squat about it (the guards won’t help you)

I’m sorry you guys can’t bum rush defended keeps anymore with massive numbers and take it…I’m sorry you’ll have to rethink your strategy, but don’t try and use Small Mans and Solo’s as an excuse to nerf Arrow Carts because you want to be a Sea of Bad and throw yourself against a defended gate.

Whaaa? So 20 defenders can’t build 4 or 5 superior arrow carts to defend against 50 ppl before tha patch? Really? I believe what you were experiencing was a chronic symptom of terrible defensive tactics.

Superiors didn’t do enough damage to stop a 50 man zerg before the patch.

I can safely say that in a zerg i’ve never been killed by a bunch of arrow carts shooting me prepatch.

The only thing that ended up killing me in a zerg before the patch was a bigger zerg.

Lets see if I understand this right..

Before the patch, a group of 50 people comes up on a defended keep with arrowcarts, with say 20 defenders….

They blow through the keep and take it because 20 people with ArrowCarts couldn’t do squat against 50 people.

Now the 50 people are dying and are kind of mad they can’t take a defended keep anymore as easily as before?

Also the whole “Well small mans are screwed cause they can’t take a Supply camp with someone defending with and arrow cart”

That is a load of horsekitten by zergers who are mad they can’t out zerg people anymore.

I small man all the time, I solo all the time, I can safely say if you have an arrow cart in a Supply camp I’ll run in and kill you before you can kill me with an Arrow Cart, hell as a ranger i can send my pet in and he’ll kill you or the siege weapon and you’ll not be able to do squat about it (the guards won’t help you)

I’m sorry you guys can’t bum rush defended keeps anymore with massive numbers and take it…I’m sorry you’ll have to rethink your strategy, but don’t try and use Small Mans and Solo’s as an excuse to nerf Arrow Carts because you want to be a Sea of Bad and throw yourself against a defended gate.

I’m talking about when you randomly hit a mob during a fight

But yea when you get hit running away by some random mob..also on my list of annoying things.

The slow down is just ug….

Some people are asking, what is NPC slowdown?

Its that stupid slowdown you get when you’ve hit a mob in PVE…. Its pretty stupid in PVE, but its really stupid in World vs World where there is a mob every 10 feet.

Can we please remove this god awful “feature” Its horrible and serves no purpose other then to annoy your customers.

Yea, Technobabble might not even be comparable to Signet of the Stone right now, since Signet of the Stone has a much lower cooldown

30 Marksman/30 Skirmishing/5 Wilderness/5 Beast is what i’m running on the build right now.

I’m thinking if you see a 2v1, you should switch to Signet of the Stone over Technobabble.

Technobabble is so incredibly powerful though in a 1v1 against some people..You can basically just lock someone down while you kill them.

Signet of the Stone though would help a ton… But yea Signet Builds right now are way better then they use to be now that the cooldowns have dropped.

Sic’Em ends if you use it before engaging the target in combat.

For example, If I use Sic’Em first and it sends my pet in before telling my pet to attack, It will run alway to the mob and then stop for a split second (which is the buff dropping) before attacking.

This is a known bug from this ability.

It also won’t work with F2 abilities, or basically anything that is considered an “action” by your pet.

Turn off auto attack

I’ve won plenty of fights without it, It does lessen my ability to fight Multiple People and win though.

I also don’t believe that whole mantra of “Race skills should only be viable in PVE” that honestly is a load of bollocks and really is just silly.

Racials should fill up gaps in your build if you desire.

I chose to make a Norn Guardian for example because of their elites.

A 25% nerf would of been fair for WvW, a 50% nerf just breaks it like SPvP currently is.

buki.3108:

This is quite hilarious. Warrior is super fun to play now. 3.8k armor, 3.1k attack, 70% crit chance, 26k HP, invulnerable to CC… gg. Warrior is God Mode now XD.

I hate to tell you this, but most classes will still just crap on you unless you somehow jump them while they’re not looking at 100b them to death (even then most will stun break and break their foot off in your kitten /p>

RyuDragnier.9476:

I have to ask, why is this bugging you? Warriors are already ridiculously easy to kill in wvw, even with that setup on them. Give them just a little bit of tankiness before you crush them in battle.

This..

I absolutely just take a dump on pretty much every Warrior I come across 1v1 on my Thief/Ranger/Necro.

Sol.4310:

I think it was right thing to do, PI was OP and we all know it.

Also last update was great, rangers are in good place both TPvP and WvW just matter finding them NEW builds, the latest update gave us heap of new viable builds but like 90% of garbage on the ranger forums most of you are uttly clueless like always and would rather complain rather then come up with new builds and test new idea’s, to busy crying over stuff you have no idea about….

PI wasn’t overpowered, It was just really suited for BM bunker build

I mean if you looked it in comparison to some other classes, It wasn’t used..I used it on my thief for example but honestly i preferred Caltrops

edit

I used it on my thief in my one PI video, but when not filming that i didn’t bother with it, Should of stressed that.

If you look at all the other classes, Few of them got a huge benefit out of it, and hell not every build got a huge benefit out of it as well, For Example..Trap Build, You’d not use PI even if you’re condition just like BM.

BM Bunker though got a whole lot from PI, It was just a perfect match for it.

If they’d just cut damage by 25% vs 50% it’d still be usable I think..but with the current nerf its simply not viable

i popped some poor underlvled necro earlier for 12k with it.

Technobabble build, It’s weaker in 1v1 then bunker, and 1vsX, its better if you’re zerging though.

Still, some people you can just lock down and they can’t do anything.

Going to film another Technobabble movie I think.

I’ve had 2 1v1’s so far.

One against a Mesmer who i popped for 9k with Maul then quickly crapped on him, and another against a Ranger I just 3 shot with Great Sword.

The fact that i only have to wait 48 seconds on Signet of the Wild is pretty kitten nice.

This opens up a fairly good option as a Build goes.

just for the record

you don’t need full berserker to break 10k I’m thinking

I just hit for 9348 damage on a Maul against a GC 80 Mesmer

In my Knight/Cav/Soldier gear.

You can hit for 10k with full zerkers and food in World vs World, i’ve done it…

Managing to do it though is a pain

Well to be fair, it’s not my fault guys..

I blame Mesmer’s and Engineer’s for screwing me yet again

Welcome to ranger bows

Sometimes PvPing in this game makes me feel like i’m PvPing in Stillmoor in Rift, I’m sure people who played Rift will get that reference.

Daecollo.9578:

Why is ranger’s pet better then the Warrior?

Pros:
- More health.
- Ignores most pathing.
- Double the armor (due to perma-protection.)
- Better boons/buffs. (perma regeneration!)
- More sustain. (more HPS, better buffs.)
- Better temporary abilities. (better invulnerabilities.)
- Easier to use not so animated knockdowns. (self-explanatory.)
- Better condition removal. (All you need to do is switch me out to clear all conditions! Not only that my master can cure them off me!)

Cons:
- Less damage.
- Can’t be controlled by a player.

I don’t know, Why is the Ranger pet better then you as a player?

When i played DAOC, I often soloed and small manned in RvR, i ended up getting about the same about of Realm Points per hour as most Zergers, This game is the complete opposite, It pretty much forces you into running a big ball of zerg over everyone..Its the kind of mindless play that honestly shouldn’t be catered to as much as it is.

Kind of crappy to have a 40% damage ability that I can’t use with my pets F2 attacks.

Wtf….I knew something was off today when I was playing, but wasn’t sure what it was…Now i know why..

Why is this not able to be disabled?

Archaon.6245:

Gallrvaghn.4921:

Awhy the buff on pets?!?!

Because someone still managed to kill pets…but apparently pets must not die, their bunker specced ranger won’t die too so you’ve just better to give up cuz now we basically have a bunker ranger+tons of evades+conditions AND a dps pet with more tough and hp to face able to chase you for the whole kittening map..

…yeah…fortunately i already lost all hopes months ago so i don’t care so much, i’ll just reroll ranger if needed, it’s easy to play and it takes a very short time to bring it on a tpvp level (3-4 hours in hotzerg aka custom arenas or whatever they are it’s more than enough, just to memorize the skillbar and cds)…not so much skills needed and good rewards for a cheap price..

btw i already said (Something like 2 months ago) that bunker char + dps pet is clearly nonsense since pets must follow their owner’s base points, you can’t just give a “pocket warrior” to a bunker….

Dps Spec = Dps Pet
Bunker\Condition Spec = Bunker\Condition Pet

No matter which animal you take, stats must always be based on owner’s ones.

But we all know…anet used to do 1 thing right (Ele nerf in this case) and screw up everything else with every patch…so not a big surprise after all..

You won’t reroll Ranger, Because it actually requires some amount of skill to play one.

I have a feeling this guy thinks Guard works on the Ranger…

Confusion builds weren’t used in SPvP for a reason, they’re not going to be used in WvW where you can get more of every stat if its got the damage of SPvP

I also find it quite hilarious that they removed Reveal from 4 seconds in World vs World, while leaving it in SPvP

Either you copy all of the stuff in SPvP, or none..

Pedra.4381:

Chopps.5047:

Well, my man, you dont like slowing enemy for pet to use sick ’em and the cheese build you popularized was nerfed. That sucks.

Chopps, I’m just amazed (stunned actually) to see you admit that something was nerfed.

rofl, I’m kind of surprised he thinks it was a cheese build more ;o)

don’t really have issues with my Pet not being able to get to and away from a target (unless he gets rooted) he certainly doesn’t moon walk in place like the Flesh Golem does.

Spirits are awful though, but that’s less to do with Pathing Issues (they don’t have any Issues) and more to them being just awful.

and My videos weren’t meant to be a Humorous take on Minions in WvW (though Scarecrow Army kind of is)…

I don’t find how minions are in World vs World humorous at all.

Pathing issue we’re better off then Necromancers

utility wise Necromancers are better off then rangers

Though this patch has gone a long way to helping some some of the issues pets do have, Guard for example is almost perma Protection on the Pet.

Bas.7406:

Oldbugga.7029:

C’mon Bas…people are allowed to express themselves and I certainly don’t think any other poster should be trying to censor that expression….whether it ruffles the feathers or not.

The devs have to know how their player base is really feeling…not some filtered “we mustn’t upset their sensibilities” version. It is just this sort of cow-towing to devs that gives them the “approval” to keep treating player’s views as an “irritation”.

AND we should not be “punished” by the devs by keeping us out in the cold just for expressing disappointments in their implementation of the game.

I do agree that the necro forum has calmed down of late and that those you mentioned have significantly contributed to that BUT I don’t see any change in THEIR forum behaviour of late (how many posts compared to the other professions) nor any indication that player views are even significantly registering with them.

Personal opinion…I have always been a strong advocate for expressing genuine views.

Genuine views are fine. Ridiculing someone or something with the claim that you are trying to help is not genuine. Rennoko and CHIPs regularly post their outrage on a topic with well-thought out intelligent rants designed to expose and issue that also shows a way to fix it.

Dredlord regularly dropkicks me about minions with his usual humor. I have debated with countless players over the past few months about minions, and I am fine with an honest and open debate about it. If you watched his videos, than you would see no desire for a debate simple a snarky ridicule of the mechanics with no attempt to benefit.

Now if he had done a humorous look at minions, I would be fine, there are many funny videos that people posted that greatly point out the brutal responses of Flesh Golem, Shadow Fiend, and Bone Minions and I have always been fine even when I disagreed. This wasn’t even an attempt at humor and that was what upset me.

I like Xsorus. I highly respect his ranger play, but his past few forum threads and posts have been nothing but angry vitrol designed at ridiculing and mocking on a class he has a more limited experience with.

Ehh, the only forum threads I’ve made are my 2 videos and one asking about Cleric Armor for minion master.

I didn’t notice anything really insulting of other posters in those threads.

I do agree with the angry vitrol mocking developers though, cause thats what i intended with the movies, to Mock the developers.

Oldbugga.7029:

C’mon Bas…people are allowed to express themselves and I certainly don’t think any other poster should be trying to censor that expression….whether it ruffles the feathers or not.

The devs have to know how their player base is really feeling…not some filtered “we mustn’t upset their sensibilities” version. It is just this sort of cow-towing to devs that gives them the “approval” to keep treating player’s views as an “irritation”.

AND we should not be “punished” by the devs by keeping us out in the cold just for expressing disappointments in their implementation of the game.

I do agree that the necro forum has calmed down of late and that those you mentioned have significantly contributed to that BUT I don’t see any change in THEIR (devs) forum behaviour of late (how many posts compared to the other professions) nor any indication that player views are even significantly registering with them.

Personal opinion…I have always been a strong advocate for expressing genuine views.

He’s not censoring me, If I didn’t respect him I’d simply ignore his comments, But since he’s played the class longer then me its only respectful that I honor his wishes of not hurting the Developers feelings with Movies that I make in regards to the Necromancer (However I reserve the right to bash the living hell out of the Developers concerning Rangers).

Bas.7406:

Xsorus.2507:

You’ve seem to taken that little comment a little more harshly than I intended.
But if you don’t want me to make any more movies on the Necro I won’t, Lord knows i don’t want to offend the developers that have been posting so much on the Necromancer forums and working with you to fix your bugs with the class you’ve played so much.

I was simply responding to the last few threads you ahve made that have done nothing but ridicule and mock minions along with very dismissive of other players attempts to help you.

We have talked before, and you know I respect your opinion on a lot of things. I wholeheartedly agree that as of right now, minions are horrible for wvwvw. They are decent in tournament play, and strong in dungeons.

I respect your opinion, just not the way you go about expressing it. There is no way a dev would take a video like yours seriously. There was no education behind it, no desire to help improve, nothing but mocking and ridicule. I have never found in any form of work for that to ever make someone notice issues. It only makes it worse.

If your videos were instructional with notes to the devs on ways to fix the pathing issues instead of cries of LOOK AT HOW BAD YOU A JOB YOU DID YOU NITWITS. There is a huge difference between exposing an issue with a desire to fix it, and exposing an issue with a desire to humiliate and ridicule anyone who disagrees with you.

Oh, so you want me to offer them instructions on how to fix their pathing issues in the game they made in any future movies I may or may not do.

I’ll try and remember that next time I make a video (Which i probably won’t, as I don’t want to go against your wishes of making videos showing myself playing a Necromancer Minion Master in World vs World)

Anyway enjoy the Necromancer Minions.

Guard doesn’t work on well still, I checked after they changed Search and Rescue to see if they changed it back

Bas.7406:

Xsorus.2507:

I noticed some people kept saying that Bone Fiend was always attacked cause it did the most DPS, I disagree, It just happens to be the only pet that’s actually attacking the target

This is incorrect, and easily tested and proven to be false. It hits the hardest out of the standard minions it also has the highest toughness and lowest health from what has been seen.

Your experiences in wvwvw, which is notorious for just about every single pathing ability in the game. If you don’t believe it look for videos of ele’s RTLing in single spots in WvWvW. Watch some of the pathing skills miss completely even though there is nothing visible between you and the target.

Giving examples of worst case scenarios is easy. If I wanted to paint the Minions as perfect I would use only single target attacks and play in the mists. I didn’t i took them into an open world environment and ran them through a gamut of tests.

WvWvW is notorious for pathing issues, bugged events, and in general having abilities operate completely differently than they do in every other facet of the game. I know you value your opinion with your less than 100 hours of active Minonmaster gameplay, but for those of us who have put in close to 1000 hours playing 80 percent of the time of a MM please stop posting your opinions in a biased arrogrant like attitude.

You only serve to further push the Necromancer away from being listened to as a class. Your ridiculous videos are nothing more than a detriment to a community that has come a long way in a short time. Videos and opinions phrased in the way are the reason that the devs avoided the Necromancer forums until recently. Please don’t try to bring back the past method of doing things when Rennoko, Kravick, Myself, Bhawb, Nay, Nemesis, and many others (Maybe even dredlord) have tried so hard to keep presenting things in a rational and positive manner.

You’ve seem to taken that little comment a little more harshly than I intended.
But if you don’t want me to make any more movies on the Necro I won’t, Lord knows i don’t want to offend the developers that have been posting so much on the Necromancer forums and working with you to fix your bugs with the class you’ve played so much.

Thieves being able to strip that buff would be a major bug with that ability.

Trolls Urgent is not a Regen, unless you’re referring to the one from Dywana’s

Shiren.9532:

jewishjoyride.4693:

Oh man. Gonna try this on lupi too.

I think the way it works is that the pet will only aggro the person it hits. If you send it in to attack Lupicus you will probably see it get face stomped. It still draws aggro from targets it damages.

Correct

I should probably clear that up..

If you attack for example a Veteran guard in a camp, it’ll aggression them all, If you attack the Dolyak, it’ll only do the Dolyak.

If you attack a Player, the Guards won’t defend that player.

I used it to kill an AFK Thief earlier, thought that was pretty funny

Yeap, They basically killed Condition Mesmer’s in PvP

Scepter is dead as a weapon.

Really the most over handed nerf i’ve seen in an MMO in a long time.

I’m still of the opinion that Spirits need a flat out redesign, Putting Duck Tape on a failing building is not going to fix the problem

Durzlla.6295:

The confusion nerf saddens me because i feel that confusion in sPvP (and now WvW) just isn’t very threatening… but oh well, what can you do?

Yea, like I said, I lose some of my offensive power with the change, But I’m not completely destroyed as a class, Condition Mesmer’s are basically dead now.

Chopps.5047:

Well, my man, you dont like slowing enemy for pet to use sick ’em and the cheese build you popularized was nerfed. That sucks. Now go find another build to popularize; clearly, you have the wherewithall to handle it. If not, roll your thief or whatever. Good luck in the future, take care.

It only really hurts me in 1vsX where I need the burst to take down multiple targets with Bonfire and Entangle, I’ll take a hit there fairly hard.

You can try Sic’Em in PvP, its not super effective (because certain abilities cause the pet to just drop it completely)

Lightning Reflex is probably the best bet. which is why I switched to it.

I do feel bad for Mesmer’s and Engineer’s though, cause this change basically gutted large portions of both of those classes..

Your pet won’t aggression mobs unless you’re near them.

Which means if you have someone hiding in a Supply Camp standing next to the guards, You can send your pet in and your pet will not be attacked by guards while he beats on that said person.

you can also use this to kill Dolyaks as well next to guards in the Supply Camp.

I noticed some people kept saying that Bone Fiend was always attacked cause it did the most DPS, I disagree, It just happens to be the only pet that’s actually attacking the target

Think top end damage I have now with PI is 548 damage, Which is actually less then my Burn damage.

I don’t imagine Mesmer’s and Engineer’s will enjoy that nerf as Anet basically killed 2 builds in World vs World for them as well (esp Scepter for Mesmer’s, which is basically gone as a weapon now)

I ended up replacing PI with Lightning Reflexes, though Signet of the Stone wouldn’t be bad for the 180 toughness now.

Some might ask, why not run Sic’Em, and my answer is, Sic’Em is unreliable against anyone with half a brain.

Septic.4869:

Search and Rescue doesn’t revive downed allies.
Wtf is the point in using the skill anymore?
Pretty boss unjustified nerf.

Maybe they made it so Guard can go in keep again (since that was the main problem, It ressing Mesmer’s)