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You know what's Fun?

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Running a fractal with two warriors and two guardians then finding out you have the highest dps…..

So earlier I was in a fractal 32 with two warrs and two guards. Last fractal before the boss and we got dredge. At the mining suit portion I was the one pulling the lava.

We went around maybe 2 or 3 times and then his health was at about 1/4.
At this point I get down pop well of suffering and lich form…. I look at his health bar my attacks are the ONLY ones significantly dropping the bosses health…. I drop him in about 20s of lich form.

Ironically at the beginning of the fractals another warrior asked me to bring a warrior because necro dps sucks. I said I don’t have one but I can assure you my dps doesn’t suck…. All in all it was just funny because at the end of the dredge I asked to see gear pings because I was curious… everyone was running soldier zerker mix… >.<

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[PvP] Revert Power Block.

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This isn’t an issue of individual skill…. also if you face a team that has more than one thieves it turns into liability.
Two players of the same skill one mesmer one (insert class for role here) will not perform exactly the same… usually the other class will perform the role better than the mesmer. Mesmer was my main for over a year I know the class inside and out.

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Patch Notes

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This bug they fix fast, huh?

Meanwhile our other bugs go untouched… /cry

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Mesmer want next winning button ? Dont be silly

yes because mesmers are sooo over powered in tournament pvp…..

……

……….oh wait that’s right they aren’t.

Mesmers are awesome in tPvP; what do you mean? You want mesmers to be overpowered? There fine where they are; L2P issues detected.

At what point does a competitive team choose to bring a mesmer over another profession? What at current does a Mesmer offer other than Portal that another class does not provide more proficiency in?

Thiefs are brought for Bursts and Roaming to quickly finish fights.
Guards for bunkers and team support.
Warriors for Sustain and high CC upkeep.
Necros for Conditions and Fear.
Engies for their high sustain and CC’s.

Where does Mesmer fit in, in a world that all about staying inside a tiny circle and surviving.

A good player is always welcomed in a team, regardless of the class he plays.
Unless you are talking about VERY high end tpvp, in which case I can assure you that the competition in this game has pretty much disappeared one year ago, so it would be pointless to talk about it.
If you’re good, you will be useful. If you’re bad, you will be carried. If you’re bad, but are using a hambow/mm necro/condi engi/spirit ranger, then stop telling your mates that they are the reason because you lose everytime.

So, basically, you have no refute and decided to side-step the question?

The Mesmer is objectively inferior and lacking a place in tPvP. No-one looking to optimize their team’s efficiency is going to take a Mesmer over a Thief. This sugary, ignorance is bliss, “Anything can work if you put in the effort,” rubbish is exactly that.

Sure, it can work, but for twice the effort and half the reward. You can be the most passionate and dedicate player on your team, but an equally skilled Thief will still hard-counter you. You’ll still die to any equally skilled condi bunker. Etc, etc.

People that are against this particular Power Block proposition are justified in being so, but don’t try and justify it by saying the Mesmer is in a good place.

^Exactly this mesmer has suffered so many nerfs mainly based off the QQ of the forum over the last year and mesmer players have been screaming that it will remove the class from the competitive scene well it has; everyone’s condition application has gotten a buff the only “real” buff to mesmer condition removal was moving some traits down. We can’t clear conditions every 2 seconds like eles can now. We have no condition clear in a weapon unless traited (in which case we lose all usefulness to a team because it relies on us taking shattered concentration.) Our “interrupt/lockdown” builds are subpar compared to a warrior who can spam it as well as a decap engi.

So when it comes to roles in tPvp

Bunker-Mesmer has never been able to do this.
Roamer- Portal gives it some leeway for roaming between home and mid every 90 seconds but thief and even ele can do it better other wise.
CC- Warrior, Engineer, Necro anyone?
Burst- Thief, Ele, and with the buff to runes of strength and intro of sigil of paralyzation warriors are even more bursty than before.
Condition- Necros, engineers, rangers all do this easily with little to no effort compared to a mesmer…..

So I will believe people saying mesmer is in a good spot when they give me one role mesmer can do better than other classes.

Johnny The Gray
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flamethrower is crazy bugged

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125,340 damage is poor?

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Diamond Skin is impenetrable now

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Yes, that was my point.

well if they don’t nerf cleansing water again i say just remove diamond skin. Eles have enough tools against condis now.

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Mesmer want next winning button ? Dont be silly

yes because mesmers are sooo over powered in tournament pvp…..

……

……….oh wait that’s right they aren’t.

Johnny The Gray
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Diamond Skin is impenetrable now

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I think the better way to make elementalists counter condition spam is a trait like Cleansing Water. That requires some active play because the cleanse is attached to regeneration. And it even involves some group play.

yeah except remember when cleansing water was nerfed into the ground

the only reason you see eles in pvp now is the undoing of that nerf

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Diamond Skin is impenetrable now

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take flesh golem, his auto attacks will take the ele out of diamond skin in 2 hits, or use the charge skill to instantly get him down around 20% so you can spam your mindless fear chains.

or just go in deathshroud, even with condi specs it only takes afew hits for life blast to take that puny 2k hp away.

sorry but i dont feel much empathy when it comes to terrormancers and the one thing that they can’t fear to death.

I appreciate the advice, but I tried both of these ideas before making this thread. Life Blast is not enough, unfortunately. (It used to be, though.) And flesh golem just isn’t reliable enough, but it’s probably the best option at this point.

Here’s a thought…. Power…necro… say it with me….

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nerf mesmers!!!

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Lol this thread got resurrected?

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PVP Class: New Player

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Hmm Elementalist…admittedly I read somewhere that they were very squishy and moved past them. I’d rather keep this to a single thread, so…

Would someone mind telling me more about the profession for PVP?

:)

A good build right now would be 0/2/0/6/6 with runes of strength and a celestial amulet. You are kind of good at everything. Also sigil of battle and bloodlust or another stacking sigil… You aren’t as squishy as you once were on an ele

The big thing stopping them was a nerf to cleansing water over a year ago. It has since been undone… So now for the most part eles are back in full force.

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PVP Class: New Player

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Hi there Lewisk!

If you want high mobility and survivability I would go ele.
The standard build (thanks to the reverted nerf) is 0/2/0/6/6 with triple cantrips and as much condition removal as you can pack. I would recommend starting as a full cleric, then maybe going on to valk or celestial. A good rune set would be strength, and sigils are strength and battle.

For ease of play I would also recommend a bunker guardian.
The most straight forward class in the game would have to be guardian, after that I would say warrior, and ranger. Ele, engineer, mesmer and necro have several different builds however because of the heavy condition application mesmers have the hardest time in pvp.
Try out the classes see what kind of play style works for you!

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

The Scoreboard is Really Messed Up

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This is why I laugh everytime someone tells me to go check them on the leaderboards. The number one guy has 14 games total and the number two guy has 10 games total… This is a joke, MMR starts off way too inflated and if you win just a few games you are automatically skyrocketed on the leaderboards.

In short this leaderboard is too volatile, starts you off too high, and doesn’t even out to actually equal a show of skill in game.

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Considering Quiting after this Patch

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I keep saying this about condition application. It has seriously chronic/toxic issues with balance -

4) Classes like necromancer, mesmer, ranger thief, ele and engineer all have better access to condition clearance, condition mitigation and application than Guardians and Warriors. In the case of Mesmer and thief their access to stealth mechanics makes it alot harder for them to be hit with these projectiles.

Look at what I bolded… If you think mesmer has better condition clearance than warriors and guards you clearly don’t know how to play a warrior and guard. While conditions are imbalanced you are lumping condition appliers in with the best condition cleansers. Engineer is now much weaker to conditions thanks to the AR nerf. Ranger has always been weak to conditions without empathetic bond, thief got hit hardest with the lyssa nerf.

When it comes to condition clearance warriors, guardians, and I’d say eles are top condition clearers right now… Hands down.

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Arah Path Armor Box(Answered)

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@jportell You can get 10-20 minute runs in other dungeons though, which is were the problem lies. If you want the armor set, it’s easier to earn it in PvE than in PvP :/

This is true. And it speaks volumes to how imbalanced the rewards are in this game. If people in PvP care ONLY about skins the amount of time ti takes to get said skins should take slightly less time than pve considering there is no real in game bonus for these skins like stats or the ability to swap stats. … pvp legendaries should take very little time to acquire compared to pve however this “skin” will not have any legendary stats should the player play pve. And they can work something out to upgrade it if the player actually did pve…. However it seems that a legendary is going to be easier to acquire in pve still. ..

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Patch Summary

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So is it safe to assume I shouldn’t undust my mesmer this patch? Ugh my favorite class but it never works right.

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Arah Path Armor Box(Answered)

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Hey everyone,

This is a wording bug not a content issue. The design behind the dungeon tracks was that players would need to run the track multiple times to get the entire set of weapons and armor.

19 – weapons
18 – pieces of armor (6 light, 6 medium, and 6 heavy)

Upon completing a track you will get 3 weapons and 1 piece of armor all your choice including stat combo. Upon running the track multiple times you are able to either save tokens for legendary or use tokens to speed the process up of getting the full weapons/armor set you are working towards.

The fact the text says “set” is a mistake that we are going to update soon. Any other questions just let me know.

Is it intended to take anywhere from 40-70 hours to get a full set of the armor, especially when comparing it with the relative ease of acquiring it in PvE?

Assuming 10-20 minute runs, it takes only about 5-6 hours in PvE to acquire the set using the daily reward bonus.

10-20 Minute arah runs? O.o That is likely best case scenario experienced zerker speed clear groups with 2 warrs 2 eles and one mes…..

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Stop it with the toxic attidude to newcomers

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Well you know what OP… go back to pve!!!!!noob

^This guy… I like him. Lol

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Interrupts shouldn't damage

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This post is just… Wut? lol No interrupt mesmer is one of the highest skill cap builds in the game hands down….

Johnny The Gray
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Runes of Balthazar?

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Elephant in the room or….?

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GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Unranked Queue!

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Please for the love of god, put a rank limit on ranked solo queue. No ranked queues before rank 30.

Remove hotjoin, or make the rewards even smaller.

Add a casual unranked queue which you can play in solo or with a party but uses a hidden MMR.

doesn’t ranked play already use a hidden MMR? and you’re matched with ppl near your mmr anyways, if you’re getting a ton of baddies, it’s because your mmr is supposividely low.

However this is wrong. People who have never entered tournament que before start with a 100% MMR and if they lose it goes down. So basically if you have a higher than average MMR because you are a good player you are likely going to continuously get matched against players that have never entered a ranked match before. And the brand new players that start off with winning streaks likely get them because they got matched with such high players that carried them or the other team just had so many more new players.

In short players STARTING with a 100% MMR is toxic and bad. If you are going to match players based solely on MMR then I suggest a minimum number of tournament games played before you actually are matched against players based on MMR. That way new players will be matched against new players because they have absolutely no MMR.

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

to many noobs in tourneys

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I’ve played over 900 hours and rank 25 in PvP and you guys just want to win for points. You kitten everybody when you don’t win.
Since the patch i’ve been in loosing team and there’s always someone who kitten about ‘noobs’ and rage about something.

Go in team arena and tournaments if you want stiffer competition. Anybody can run serious tournaments with custom arenas.

But you wouldn’t want to loose there either. If you want to win, help your fellow team mate instead of raging and kittening.

Wow… I’m sorry but r 25 isn’t the most difficult thing in the world….. and I agree on helping teammates out. However the middle of a rated match is not the time to type a long thoughtful explanation about where to rotate and when, which points are more important in context of the map (mid on foefire, sides on nilfhel, etc.). About the only thing you have time for is one or two words and maybe some exclamation points.

Also being r25 doesn’t make you an uber elite pro on soloque I’m rank 74 and have 4/8 champion titles and would not claim to be a godly expert on tPvp tactics but it’s safe to say I know more than the people that are flooding solo que. Also for those that think soloque=spvp no. Soloque=solo TOURNAMENT pvp and team que= team TOURNAMENT pvp so stop calling soloque spvp. Spvp is hotjoins.

People need to listen to the guy shouting at the beginning of the match “hold on to your points seize theirs.” It doesn’t say “zerg around off point and focus on your own score and kills.” The game mode is conquest….. not TDM

Johnny The Gray
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stuns removing daze effect?

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This is nowhere near a bug. All it means is you should watch your opponents to see if they have any stuns or dazes on them before you go spamming more on them.

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

to many noobs in tourneys

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Only rank 10+ should be able to do tourney’s IMO.

Rank 10 may be too low. However it would be a start.

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to many noobs in tourneys

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i would rather have more players in pvp which have fun even when they are noobs than you toxic guys posting in this tread here

when you think you should get better teammates than you have now you should play better to get higher MMR – when you can´t than this people are exact like you

have a nice day

See the thing is people start out with a high MMR. And THEN it goes down when they start losing. Don’t believe me? Look at the top of the leaderboards. The highest person had something like 13 wins and 6 losses…. Yeah that’s pro…. The MMR is broken and will continue to be broken until there is some barrier to entry to soloques such as a minimum rank.

i know this – people start with to high MMR and this need to be fixed BUT than you guys should write this

and not call new players noobs – this is not what we need

We also don’t need people that have never ever played any pvp outside of wvw zergfest/roaming (and that is not as hard as people think), in ranked solo tournaments with people that are actually trying to enjoy the game. However the game is very difficult to enjoy when you are in what should be a ranked match and the people on your team ALL go to home at the same time and then all subsequently leave home just to be backcapped…. And they wonder why they lost when “we got so many points I scored so many more points than these people!” Meaning they clearly don’t get where the points come from. And it is not something that should be explained IN THE MIDDLE OF A RANKED MATCH!

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to many noobs in tourneys

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i would rather have more players in pvp which have fun even when they are noobs than you toxic guys posting in this tread here

when you think you should get better teammates than you have now you should play better to get higher MMR – when you can´t than this people are exact like you

have a nice day

See the thing is people start out with a high MMR. And THEN it goes down when they start losing. Don’t believe me? Look at the top of the leaderboards. The highest person had something like 13 wins and 6 losses…. Yeah that’s pro…. The MMR is broken and will continue to be broken until there is some barrier to entry to soloques such as a minimum rank.

Johnny The Gray
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to many noobs in tourneys

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I’ve never seen so many PU mesmers though.

That’s because someone heard that it was good for capturing the point. Oh wait.

Johnny The Gray
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to many noobs in tourneys

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^This.
I have four champ titles and have never seen so much well….noobness in pvp up until now.

Johnny The Gray
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Going for Champ Magus

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Yeah, it’s viable.

Do it quick before ANet nerfs it again!

Until a thief spots you. Then… not so much.

In a team fight yeah a thief hurts. But I’ve run into the same thief off node in a 1v1… And he can’t out sustain me… It was the standard 2/6/0/0/6 build.

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Going for Champ Magus

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So i’m going for champ magus now (have illusionist, genius, paragon, phantom.)

Now that cleansing water has been reverted I was thinking
0/2/0/6/6 Runes of strength with celestial ammy energy+battle sigils. Would it work?
I do more soloque than team que. In team que I’d play something else

Kthxbai!

Johnny The Gray
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Time to master another profession.

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If you want to re-roll, play necromancer as everyone seems to be rolling engineer now and necros destroy then without effort.

I don’t think I want to fall into the category of conditions. I still enjoy power so i’ll see if I can find something a little more fun.

Power necro is always fun.

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Does banning a class improve quality of life?

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I say in party chat “Am I the only DPS….I was out DPS’ing three of you with staff
One ele says “I was doing heals”… -_- you take that for what you will…
Another ele says “I’m DPS” This ele was S/d so it is believable based off weapon choice.

Staff necro. You deserve your fate.

Okay jack hole in this boss fight staff is the only ranged weapon i had besides axe. It’s not exactly safe trying to melee the firestorm while your party SHOULD be taking out the berserker.
And I say again with my staff (yes i know the DPS blows but I had no other options at the time.) I was out DPSing two eles and two guards. So my fate was to be stuck with so called “meta” classes that suck at life. Get over yourself. Meta classes have nothing to do with it it’s people running kitten low dps builds.

It’s not about being necro. It’s about using subpar weapons for your class. If those 2 guards were not dps you should be able to tell pretty fast, way before last fractal. Not many “support” guards with gs+s/f. Staff, mace, scepter are always a red flag. With ele is pretty easy to tell if they do a might rotation or just randomly press buttons.

Also this is the risk of not gearchecking and not paying attention during the run.
If you’re ok with them not running dps then maybe ask them to kite firestorm while you dps berserker? Although kiting is a bad strategy.

Oh no I knew that DPS was missing somewhere. The only fractals where I DON’T use dagger/x the entire time is ascalon for the burning oil and molten facility just because I’m not as comfortable with myself in melee on the bosses there. I can time the jumps if I am not right up close. But the point I am trying to make here….

Class isn’t the only determining factor in a “bad” run…. people running non-dps builds are a bigger problem.

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Does banning a class improve quality of life?

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I say in party chat “Am I the only DPS….I was out DPS’ing three of you with staff
One ele says “I was doing heals”… -_- you take that for what you will…
Another ele says “I’m DPS” This ele was S/d so it is believable based off weapon choice.

Staff necro. You deserve your fate.

Okay jack hole in this boss fight staff is the only ranged weapon i had besides axe. It’s not exactly safe trying to melee the firestorm while your party SHOULD be taking out the berserker.
And I say again with my staff (yes i know the DPS blows but I had no other options at the time.) I was out DPSing two eles and two guards. So my fate was to be stuck with so called “meta” classes that suck at life. Get over yourself. Meta classes have nothing to do with it it’s people running kitten low dps builds.

Johnny The Gray
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Something I noticed when I see AR.

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Or it could just be Transmute messing with you.

But it doesn’t go from cripple>swiftness. It just says “immune” without transmute changing the condition to a boon (they never got swiftness.)

Johnny The Gray
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Something I noticed when I see AR.

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When I see engineers run automated response I notice something else when they are above a health threshold (75% I think), they are immune to soft CC (immob, cripple, chill). Has anyone noticed this when running AR? Is it a bug? Will this be changed tomorrow with the (unwarranted) AR change?

This isn’t a QQ post, just wondering if anyone has noticed this.

Johnny The Gray
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I would like a LFG filter plz

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The LFG’s don’t allow you to post for a group above the level that you are in. I don’t see why it would let you join a group doing a dungeon above your level.

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Idea: Dungeon Vanquishes

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Would be an interesting mechanic for sure. I think It would be cool. However this would make most dungeons take much much longer than anyone is willing to tolerate. The mobs damage and health would need adjusted to go with this change.

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Im coming back!

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If i go Necro does that mean i HAVE to use the pets??? Cuz id like to make a necro but i dont want to run with all those things around me

There are some very viable power necro builds.
In pve people run 30/25/0/0/15 dagger focus/warhorn (or w.e)
In wvw I run 30/10/0/0/30 wells with deathshroud=50% increase in crit chance and it melts blobs.

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Almost Racist

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Solution: 7 80s. (Sorry, necromancer. .. you belong in pvp hehehe)

You will always have the class for the job!

Or make your own group.

Lol… Just no… Necros are better in Pve than any people give credit. And often much more skilled than those “awesome” warriors, or eles that wind up telling you they are healing spec… haha

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Does banning a class improve quality of life?

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Yeah however this^ can be pretty far from the truth… Just finished a fractal 14 (PRL is 39) with a full pug. On cliffside everyone AOE’d down all the chanters… We wiped on the final boss with me and one other guard being the last two standing.

On the molten facility bosses (zerker+firestorm) I was keeping the firestorm busy while I thought the other 4 people were killing the zerker. I look at the party UI to see that not only is one other guardian dead but I am actually DPS’ing down the firestorm faster than the three remaining players are DPS’ing down the berserker…. I finally switch over and the berserker is dead about 20s later (both were at 25% health when I switched).

I say in party chat “Am I the only DPS….I was out DPS’ing three of you with staff
One ele says “I was doing heals”… -_- you take that for what you will…
Another ele says “I’m DPS” This ele was S/d so it is believable based off weapon choice.
Noone else in the party answers.

So in this fractal run I was the only one playing a “bad” class (necro) but I was the only one that apparently had DPS. And I was also dodging better than the rest of the people in my group. Most of it felt like a 2-3 person fractal.

So I think class banning is silly.

Also @Konrad for as many condi necros and bear bow rangers that I have come across in dungeons I have come across just as many 5 signet warriors, triple meditation and/or altruistic healing bunker guardians, PU condi mesmers (-_-), and “healer” eles who contribute almost nothing to a group.

So this banning of a class is ridiculous. It should be more geared toward’s builds and not classes.

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Almost Racist

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because it is easier to be bad on warrior and guardian.

This is the closest thing to truth I have seen. A good necro/thief/engi etc bring just as much in terms of DPS as a guardian or warrior. And often times a good necro can outlast both classes and still do tons of damage.
Most people think necro or engi=Condi damage and they subsequently think Condi in dungeons is bad (true) so they therefore think necro or engi=bad because there is no such thing as a power necro or engi which is so far from true.

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

[PvX] Life Siphon is unreliable

in Profession Balance

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

Two words Dark Pact. Between that and the amazing Auto attack… Main hand dagger is fine.

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Meta builds, which classes have best DPS?

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

So sad that everyone thinks necros DPS sucks….
They also think necros group utility sucks….
Dredge=well of corruption… Just saying….

Necro DPS does suck compared to elementalists and thieves. Necro utility does suck compared to every other class. . Well of corruption can remove a maximum of 25 boons per 40 seconds. A mesmer can remove a maximum of 73 boons per 40 seconds for the same amount of utilities (sword AA + null field).

They can remove boons but they can’t change em to conditions…. Lets just say dredge on my necro is easier than dredge on my mesmer….

Don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure that the damage dredge take from their reflected attacks is much higher than whatever damage the conditions from WoC could do.

It’s not really the conditions that kill them… I’m not a condi necro…. but it turns might to weakness… Which is pretty awesome… You guys can hate necros all you want but I have seen some very good necros in dungeons.

Define good. It doesn’t matter if I’m playing with the best necro in the world. Hes still less effective than a better than average elementalist.

And i see so many eles running healing builds in dungeons… yay for them right?

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Meta builds, which classes have best DPS?

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

So sad that everyone thinks necros DPS sucks….
They also think necros group utility sucks….
Dredge=well of corruption… Just saying….

Necro DPS does suck compared to elementalists and thieves. Necro utility does suck compared to every other class. . Well of corruption can remove a maximum of 25 boons per 40 seconds. A mesmer can remove a maximum of 73 boons per 40 seconds for the same amount of utilities (sword AA + null field).

They can remove boons but they can’t change em to conditions…. Lets just say dredge on my necro is easier than dredge on my mesmer….

Don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure that the damage dredge take from their reflected attacks is much higher than whatever damage the conditions from WoC could do.

It’s not really the conditions that kill them… I’m not a condi necro…. but it turns might to weakness… Which is pretty awesome… You guys can hate necros all you want but I have seen some very good necros in dungeons.

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Meta builds, which classes have best DPS?

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

So sad that everyone thinks necros DPS sucks….
They also think necros group utility sucks….
Dredge=well of corruption… Just saying….

Necro DPS does suck compared to elementalists and thieves. Necro utility does suck compared to every other class. . Well of corruption can remove a maximum of 25 boons per 40 seconds. A mesmer can remove a maximum of 73 boons per 40 seconds for the same amount of utilities (sword AA + null field).

They can remove boons but they can’t change em to conditions…. Lets just say dredge on my necro is easier than dredge on my mesmer….

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Meta builds, which classes have best DPS?

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

So sad that everyone thinks necros DPS sucks….
They also think necros group utility sucks….
Dredge=well of corruption… Just saying….

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Does banning a class improve quality of life?

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

I think it would be more efficient to just ban none zerkers, seeing as all zerkers bring something to the table…

except necro’s, they don’t.

Necros have some mighty strong autos, but they don’t cleave. :<

My necro DS pierces (you’d be surprised how often mobs line up for that), I bring aoe blind a chill. My well of suffering+death shroud combo wrecks entire groups of trash mobs more so than the warriors and add to that boon corrupting with corrupt boon+well of corruption makes the dredge fractal that much more bearable.

Necros bring great things to groups. Either people play crappy builds or they haven’t played a necro and they misunderstand the class.
In short Necros are great in dungeons they bring good group utility and good damage.

Nothing that any other class does easier with more DPS in the same gear. Necro was supposed to be condition heavy build since condition damage nets u no loot and since other people’s stacks interferes with yours….

This is why I run a zerker necro in dungeons I get great loot and have great dps…. like I said necro’s are misunderstood when it comes to running dungeons

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Does banning a class improve quality of life?

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

I think it would be more efficient to just ban none zerkers, seeing as all zerkers bring something to the table…

except necro’s, they don’t.

Necros have some mighty strong autos, but they don’t cleave. :<

My necro DS pierces (you’d be surprised how often mobs line up for that), I bring aoe blind a chill. My well of suffering+death shroud combo wrecks entire groups of trash mobs more so than the warriors and add to that boon corrupting with corrupt boon+well of corruption makes the dredge fractal that much more bearable.

Necros bring great things to groups. Either people play crappy builds or they haven’t played a necro and they misunderstand the class.
In short Necros are great in dungeons they bring good group utility and good damage.

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Necromancer are not really desirable in PvE/PvP/WvW...

in Necromancer

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

Well a buff would be nice at the very least it might change how other players see necros, which frankly is my biggest issue of late far more so than the actual performance of my necro.

^This right here. I was hitting 85k life blasts in the dredge fractal on my necro, and at the end of the fractals run I get a whisper from someone in the party saying they were trying to kick me for being a necro and zerker necros suck…. In my build life blast is pretty much infinite…. so why kick someone that is doing the highest DPS I asked… Apparently its because necros can’t do power for jack… Just O.o

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer

Will feature patch fix decap engineers?

in PvP

Posted by: jportell.2197

jportell.2197

No. There was a forum posting a while back by ANET asking about the main problem with decap engies. Most people said it was AR. I can’t wait for all of them to be proven wrong.

Yup AR was never the problem with decap engis.

Johnny The Gray
GASM’s Bunker Mesmer