Guild Wars 2

They need to add stability, a lil faster AA, lower cds on 4 n 5, and make powerful GM traits. Currently reaper has some nice variations, and dmg on chill us just too good to miss out on a condi pvp build. Reaper shroud also has more combos/utility going on, tho partly for being melee centric.

Raids are hard in a sense that u need 10 good ppl. Once u got that all u need is to set up a time every week where u do em, a decent run shouldnt take more than 2 hrs, ive been doing that for weeks and it feels casual to me, and thats how it should be once u nail it all down.
Raids feels harder if u dont have this privelige, so i understand why many feels frustrated and left out. However they can do something about it, its just a new type of challenge they havent overcome before.

Bristlebacks dmg is through the roof with its f2, esp as u channel AF #5 or with sword AAs with torch burn ticking. If u can lock down a target for two brief secs with its f2 its gg. Sure its strong and maybe op, but so much stuff is this patch. I wouldnt mind its dmg toned a bit down tho as it really is an instagib mechanic, where the opponent also has to use his cds vs the ranger itself.

Just finished nevermore after some intense hunting^^

I dont come here very often so idk if it has been brought up before, but having played som necro, where theres always situations in pvp where u have to 1v1, ive noticed it can be night and day between starting % life force. Starting with 0 life force can often result in death/having to withdraw vs competent player, whereas having 5k+ can result in the opposit/u can old it till help arrives.
Since our class mechanics revolves around life force play, would it be wrong to start with 10% life force (when out of combat and below the threshold, lowest lf is reset to 10%).
At times in leagues it has been a little frustrating when u have to go for home at start, and met by class X on your 0 life force.

What is your take on this?

Daym son, respct

It seemes to spawn every hr. I got it today first try by being afk where he spawns on my minion master necro as i was at the store. Came back and found it added to the checklist

It spawns to the right of ruined city ascalon wp, u can also guest two other servers.

Yes, that is cheaper. The other method is a nice gold sink for the ignorant.

I tried using my Meter leg scepter but i just cant use it From distance it feels like a giant ice cream, and the theme doesnt fit my reaper theme sadly. When i get nevermore ill get the howler and try to pair it with another non leg scepter skin :/

There r many guildies across the guilds im in, as with me, that exp this. Must be server side

switched beteween cele tempest cele druid cele/carrion reaper, basically anything ur good at and pref something that can carry

Nova Stiker.8396:

You actually think Legendary means anything?

It does in many cases and should be

Sweal.4659:

Thaddeus.4891:

Sweal.4659:

Hi,

I find very disturbing that Ascended and Legendary weapons have same stats. When i make sword that costs over 3000 golds and takes a lot of my time to make and then i see sword thats worth around 50g and week of playing with exactly same result… I don’t have legendary myself but i think it’s quite unfair. Legendary should’nt have same value as Ascended beause its LEGENDARY.

Thanks.

You are completely right if you trash most of what Gw2 stand for.

Then why not make all legendaries acc bound. You would recognize people who truly did something to have that legendary.

Legendaries are account bound, and u can transmute the skin on other same types. Gw2 is a pretty game and it gets that with a legendary’s visual effects. Currently my necro feels naked, but when it gets nevermore with flying ravens around ill be stoked to play it more. And it feels great beating a player knowing u didnt outgear him with stats, while having nice combat animations

BannokFace.8264:

So I bought GW2 at launch and played it for like 2 days before putting it down. To be honest, the only reason why I put the game down was because I was already running a guild in SW:TOR and was fairly committed to that game. However, I recently picked GW2 back up after bouncing back and fourth from WoW and SW:TOR. I have to commend the dev team over hear at areananet. I am absolutely loving this game, I play strictly PVP and have been a pvp player in ever mmo that I have played.

The thing that bugs me is today’s generation of spoiled MMO gamers. Coming from a pvp perspective, GW2 offers gamers one of the best PvP experiences you can get in an MMO. Yet, when I come to the forums for tips and whatnot, all i see is moaning and complaining. And most of the complaints are not even valid.

I understand that the forums if a place where people come to give suggestions and ideas about how to make the game better. But, the truth here is that every time
I come to the forums I feel like I’m wasting my time playing some trash mmo. At least that is how GW2 forum community makes it seem. Thats the end of my little rant, I just wish people would be a little more accepting of the game that the developers have created, BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME!

Take hostility with a grain of salt, and everything the individual reacts to is subjective. If only u were a longtime vet with adept game insight, then u would have experienced the frustrating road we’ve had the last 4 yrs, and why things are a stalemate, core basic things a newcomer like u wouldnt grasp. So really, it is you who should be more tolerant and understanding, and praise be the vets for keeping the front heated as pitchforks are needed to keep devs somewhat in check.

Why would anyone click ur dodgy link? Nice ad try though

Whats interesting is that the scrapper playstyle is a bruiser that doesnt really need stealth in its rotation, it has so much sustain going for it outside this, and then suddenly it has a 40 sec cd ondemand aoe stealth, which even gives him a free getaway in most cases.

thunderfall.8095:

I haven’t played either very much, but Necro has more survivability, but less build diversity. Guard has less survivability but more options for your build.

This is false, and as you said you never played both very much. Nothing is ever black and white, theres always a middle ground in guild wars as the philosophy is that you can build your character to do anything, while the class theme can set limitations/benefits. I would advise OP to just look on youtube for each class and see how they play out, more specifically “Reaper” and “Dragonhunter” which are their elite specs, and elite specs are superior to core specs (even though they werent meant to be).

I would switch around what the guy above said regarding the two classes, mainly from a roaming/pvp perspective. Necro can and has survivability, but that comes mainly from the shroud ability which is sort of a second health bar, but you use this resource in your playstyle so relaying in it purely for defense is not the way it’s played. Besides, when those “o chit” moments happens, extra health bar will not save you vs the competent player(s). You are still stuck in the situation, whereas on the dragon hunter you can have more raw damage block skills, denying damage, with possible getaways such as stealth on traps if you have the runes. I am not saying reaper cannot do some of this, but you should take a closer look at the class traitlines and weapon/utility skills to get a grasp of what their offensives/defensives are all about.

Dragonhunter is easier to pick up and play well, but it can also be easily shut down by reflect which is something many classes have now. You have traps that does a lot of damage, but good players will know how to avoid/mitigate them.
Both classes are good 1v1, but I personally prefer reaper as I can provide more often range aoe damage when I decide to join a zerg. And then you have the class themes, light vs darkness.

But to sum it up, go check on youtube, and possibly make each class and go to Heart of the Mists where you can go through all the data you need.

samuel.1836:

thx for the answers. but thaddeus, why you guild continue doing raid, when you have completen all the first wing ? worth follow raiding for the gold when you have all the achievements of the raid ? no is more beneficial get the gold farming for the map ?

The raid gives u two currencies, one which u can buy items from vendors (like infusions that makes ur char get a ghostly aura and ascended items), the other currency is for crafting the legendary armor. Currently we dont know how much of both we need, so some keep raiding cuz of that. The bosses can also drop some pretty rare and great loot.

This is an old thread but I have a similiar issue. Basically Im standing infront of the shrine in Lornars and kneeling, but this quest wont update. I dont have the egg physically in my inventory, could that be the reason (even though I have its collection unlocked)?

EDIT: apparently the egg can drop from a skelk in wayfarer, as I had done the heart quest earlier, and now it worked. Fixed!

If u are a player that can handle doing a few things at the same time, react quickly, while playing your role mediocre to optimal, then raids are doable for you. They oppose a challenge, as much as the challenge is to find 9 other good players carrying their own weight. Raids are being pugged daily, my friends do and i pug too. Once you are familiar with the encounters start adding the good pugs to friends/make a network and eventually you too will have a group to ask.

Raids are super fun if you can dance and have good dance partner. Without that it can be a frustrating experience for the one who individually can progress in raids.

Allison The Strange.4519:

Evan Lesh.3295:

That player must be pretty dedicated to get to rank 20 and Ruby division in 2 days.

There is an upcoming change that will help with the problem described.

1. Rank 20 is easy, I did it on an alt account already and it didn’t even take the full two days. Also he started 2 days prior so it was his third day of pvp.

2. He was emrald.

3. He was solo queued.

4. Fix your game.

4. Was a kitten move by you, i hope u stay in ruby as i can sense ur the mapchat hero.

Ur way of describing necros condi application and mechanics are quite vague, as if spoken by someone watching from the outside without knowing whats inside

Now that Anet has been updating some of the older legendaries, I was wondering if anyone knew what updates the howler got. More specifically, if a main hand isnt legendary, will howler have more effects like footfalls? Youtube doesnt have any updated info apparently.

edit: i just checked the wiki n the page was updated, it does have footfalls, however are they easy to see?

Stitch.1794:

Ravens are considered psychopomps in some cultures – guides who lead the newly deceased into the afterlife. That would certainly fit with a necromancer.

Thank you! Yeah I had such a feeling too about ravens, but great to have confirmation

When Im dressing my characters im always kinda trying to fit it with the class theme. I was thinking about nevermore, could it lore wise fit a necromancer theme? From a visual pov I may not like the bright blue when unsheated, but I guess I could live with it (and the scythe graphic that comes from the top when using skills paired with blue raven spirit).

nearlight.3064:

Well, reapers will be able to just press 1 a bunch of times to convert resistance to chill and proceed to sit on mallyx’s face, so yeah.

yes cuz standing still and converting a boon every 2 1/2 sec will win u games, god forbid if the target is doing any form of action

If u r a solo player with t3 in diamond then ud have to be more lucky than skilled to make it legendary before 26th jan. U only need to climb 10 divisions across this year, so ur in a good spot, u dont need legendary no. Yes it all resets between leagues, but not your accomplished and ongoing achievements. You have a year on you across maybe 3 more league seasons.

Ulion.5476:

For Ley Crystals, I go to TD 30min before the meta and stay 30min after the meta when all events are done. After that I leave because that’s the best time to farm map currency. The vendor after Chak Gerent sells vial of chak acid cheaper than the other vendors so only by from him. Near the flax farm on TD you will find 3 chest one on the updraft tree and 2 by the platform before the flax farm they will give you 5-10 ley crystal per alt. Should not worry much about auric dust or airship oil those are to common. Ley sparks are harder to get than any of the other items.

thank you, this was very informative!

Surely it must be better to buy the pod keys in TD than only doing meta? Ive done the meta a few times and my ley line income isnt that great alone.

Also, should I open the small chests (do they have lower droprate) after AB meta or only the moderate+ ones?

Im sitting on 300+ Airship oil, 191 auric dust, 91 ley line sparks, and 400 crystalline ore. Each map currency I have around 1k of each. How do i best spend my time in getting 250 of each based on my map currencies?
Should I buy specific pod keys for AB and TD so that I can get those currencies faster up, is going for DS only good if you need all 3 (or 4 counting crystalline ore).

Rednik.3809:

Because its fast and convenient. Don’t want to do it? Make your own group.

Fractals is such old content, the same maps, nd anets retweak only added more lvls, its hard to take it srsly so ppl just want to be done with it fast. I vote for poledancing too.

Daddar.5971:

Can’t people just have their little duels in a guild arena now? That would fix the problem with holding a ‘private event’ in a RvR map.

And how does one find other ppl to duel on demand? Out in the open where ppl come to these known spots.

Varezenem.2813:

I’ve read a few of your other posts and I have to say to you please read a basic guide on GW2 mechanics and the tooltips on your skills…

I agree. The guy has been ranting in a few posts bout how much anet fails n that he has uninstalled and want others to do the same, only to come back days after necro buffs/ele nerf.

Mist form counts as a block?

If u claim it to b the best 1v1 for condi we’d like to see vids so we can tell by ur opponents skill lvl

Crinn.7864:

Please no, I already had my last game’s pvp ruined by the addition of tdm arenas. They are cancer, they lead to stagnated metas and stratagies, and they suppress build diversity.

No.

Diversity. This same attitude can be seen by those who deny us dueling in segregated areas in open world, cuz apparently itll only hurt the playerbase. What are people so afraid of, conquest is stale and its nearly been 4 yrs, and we only have 1 new map in ranked with “retweaked” pvp systems all over as with the rest of the game?

Kayberz.5346:

ZilentNight.5089:

Kayberz.5346:

Primordial legend title is for the FIRST season only, next season will have its own unique title

The titles are a way to display which season you have obtained legendary in and gives people who already have gotten to legendary in past seasons incentive to attempt it again for the new title

This is absolutely false information, do not listen to such players who have no basis behind these statements.

Except for the part where the devs when they started talking about leagues said that league divisions would reset every season but that you can receive a UNIQUE title for each season if you reach legendary division

Do you know what primordial means? It implies FIRST which totally makes sense with it being the title for the first season

Idk if they changed the wording, but in the first iteration of the achi it also ended with ‘…in the first season’. So u r most def onto something. My only gripe is that some exploited their way to it, which dimishes the value of this title. As someone having spent a great deal of time as soloq to legendary im quite upset with anet on not being able to predict match manipulation.

LordOtto.2650:

I had a 3 day break, I even deleted the game, came back, got to diamond division in 2 days I got from 17 pips to 30 with DH, solo… what made me come back, seeing the new changes; made me so happy.
It is normal that a thief could kill you fast … it was not normal that mesmer, ele could tank 2 players, sometimes 3
DH’s are like this, good dmg, bad sustain, just the greatest DH’s survive in high divisions, and why, because of mesmers, and eles, they don’t die, and even support god likely the others… now it will change, halleluia

Your name is as funny as seeing u previously and continously pop up in threads saying how fail anet is and how happy you are quitting for good. And here you are back again, happy as ever, little hypocrite lol.

I wonder if theyll add this geartype in pve

bunkers will still exist, it may be some more room for both. Too early to tell.

why do u need stability against air/ligh attunement? or is it for the aura after? It hits like a truck so best avoid it. If u meant use fear against it, then many tend to get the trait that gives 1 stab on overcharge.

I actually have full zealot on my druid, would it be possible with zealot on a venomshare build? Would the healing on all scale based on my healin power? If so i could come on my thief, with zerk offset if needed

hurrado.2346:

foste.3098:

This skill is broken period. This was in pvp and and it was just 1 hit. Remember that this kitten has a 2 sec cd, and dont even bring up energy cost because it might as well not have any

If you have trouble with hammer revenants in pvp you must be really bad. Power rev is rarely, if ever played in higher tiered pvp.

And in high tier play they often try to use builds that complete the team. Hammer rev has little utility in that regard, but that doesnt mean its bad, and its not like the rev sits in hammer all the time. Sword shield hammer is a good 1v1 build, which is most likely what the first guy is complaining about, and it is not true calling somone ‘really bad’ for it.

Blaeys.3102:

Its been more than 2 years since we’ve had new guild missions. Its been a year since new fractals. One new dungeon in three years. It will (most likely) be more than 5 months before the next open world map. One new pvp map in years. And Im sure Im forgetting something.

Those are the things they need to be focused on – not raiding, which, by their own admission is designed for a smaller percentage of the game population.

I know I will probably catch hell for saying it from some of the more vocal members on the forums, but raiding, while it can be part of the mix, cannot take precedence over any of these things. As soon as it does, the game is no longer GW2.

What u bring up is the reason i made the thread. Anet is creating content at such a slow rate, and now they say theyll be adding more ‘depth’ to existing systems. Like the shatterer, but in reality theyre using the few resources they have on fixing old stuff,, but that too also takes long time, it must be well over one and a half yr since they updated tequatl.

They get away with it tho cuz gw is a pretty game with good combat. Had we only had more rapid content releases through better decision making.

Rome.3192:

Way too many. More than there should be. Most you come across in legend play like rubies.

Yes because u have all the answers right. Or maybe try and understand that for many leg is the goal, after that its just catching up on other class achis one may not play so well, or maybe it isnt their day, so many variables. Ill take a so called bad player any day in leg than a bad mouth in chat, but we have dif pref

In the end of the day, soloq is the monster

Would be great if i could get some tips on gear for an allround wvw/solo pve/dueling gear n rune choice for condi. I was considering some viper tho need more asc first. Is Carrion an ok middle ground on a signet reaper build, with maybe some power tough on offsets? Or mercenary like stats, as the new amu? Id like to do nearly as much dmg possible but with some survivability in mind.

But everyone needs a slice of the cake

Doon.2364:

Remix.2086:

This happened to me today lol.

I’m the thief in Saph.

editted photo to keep names out.

I think the system decided that some member of your group needs to lose so their winrate would be around 50% and it decide to put a saphire thief in there to ensure a lost. lol

Working as intended!

Thats part of the bitter taste as soloq, u never know what u get, and it hurts if u dont bring lube

Aktium.9506:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Top of the list? No. But yes, res mechanics were broken (not Chrono’s fault), Chrono bunker is a tough nut (but hardly the toughest), and the problems in PvP are many.

Top of the list is Bunker Tempest, hands down.

As much as I dislike Diamond Skin, I even main a Necro so any enmity you might feel for that trait I feel twice as much. But I have to say that Tempest doesn’t have such a severe impact on PvP as Chrono. I can deal with Chronobunks relatively easy as far as its 1v1, but that’s hardly where their power lies. No class nor build is even close to being as obnoxious in a teamfight as Chrono. When the Chrono shows up to a fight the fun simply stops and it becomes a slog. And yeah, this is mostly because of ress/stomp mechanics, but Mesmer is the class that could abuse them to their fullest extent so it is Chrono’s fault. There’s also the part where some comp teams have gotten away with stacking nothing but Revs and Chronos with satisfactory results.

I agree with this, when a chrono is present the group fight gets stale and annoying due to their utilities and cc. Never liked chrono mechanics, but thats me