Guild Wars 2

Yeah, I was messing around in Gendarran when I noticed this too.

Anet, finish what you started. You decided that stun duration =/= fear duration. Clearly, you’ve missed some spots.

you don’t have escapes outside of a few cheesy tricks. necros don’t run, they commit to the gruesome end 9 times out of 10. so choose your fights wisely.

the good news is that necros have an abundance of chill. learn every single chill you have and take as many as possible. you may not be able to run from a fight, but you can make sure that the enemy can’t run either.

War Mourner makes a good point that the necro has some impressive burst potential, which, in my experience, enemies often seem unaware of or unprepared for. one fun little infonugget is that the necro’s dagger autoattack has higher base damage than the thief’s. if you’re ballsy enough to go glass, you will enjoy bursty life blast spam at 900 range. i’m usually more satisfied roaming with some type of power build (whether soldier or zerker) rather than condi.

“unless you have a photographic memory”

otherwise known as the screenshot key :P

i do a similar thing though, my alts mostly have 1 gear set each, while my main has 3. i tend to pick my alts’ sets for the long haul, so the alts usually aren’t min/maxed or completely optimized. they take more rounded builds, whereas my main is more min/max, because if i ever want a rounded build on my main, i can just mix and match different parts of her sets.

but that’s too much gear to keep in your bags, so it’s not like you can change on a whim. gotta hit a bank and find a trait npc and junk. that does get annoying sometimes.

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it works well with the clunky trumpets since it’s a slow song with long notes. i tried to do the cavalry charge, but the trumpets aren’t nearly fast enough for that.

it’s not that hard. i grabbed a completely random pug, wiped 1 time and then won. my party typed a total of about 5 lines. it was a really forgettable experience.

i agree, but i guess if it’s any consolation, it’s only a 1 room “dungeon” with a pretty simple fight inside, so, there’s not much there to experience anyway, whether alone or grouped. idk why they made a single player dungeon. i’m not powerfully against it or anything, i just don’t see the point. kinda how i felt when running a lot of my personal story quests, although at least you can drag people with you into those.

i think it is true that most socializing happens in private channels here. i wish public chat were livelier but i think the players are too spread out into different parts of the game. there is not much motivation to revisit most maps once you’re done with them. i was never a big fan of sitting in town doing nothing, so i don’t usually join the lion’s arch hangouts where people lay fun boxes and screw around in costumes. pve, especially pre-80, feels like a single player game all too often, i agree.

personally i think wvw is the best social scene we’ve got. it’s where i get random party invites if i’m solo, chat with people at the supply depot, or find a random person to flip camps with. the downside is that wvw is active at some times of day and dead at others :T but it manages to funnel a lot of players into one place, give them similar goals, and put them in situations where more communication is better

@ dark saviour, the “facebook friends” analogy is so accurate when you join a large guild.

yea, there are a ton of thieves in all black….that’s why my thief alt wears pink and orange :>

don’t forget all the human female thieves wearing underboob shirts, too.

i like my Distinction in Applied Jumping on my main. it either impresses people when i flawlessly run the lazers in CoE, or else it gets a huge laugh when i fail the lazers repeatedly. o_o

the video gives some good evidence with a solid method behind it. thank you for your work. Anet really needs to give this issue a more serious look.

in pve/wvw, i started the game as a mesmer and mained it for a while, but i retired it months ago and have been altoholic ever since. gradually, the necro has accumulated the most playtime out of my active chars, though it is still about equal with the dead mesmer’s playtime.

in pvp, i’m only rank 12, and virtually all of those matches were played back when i first started the game. haven’t done much since, though i’ve been thinking about it lately. anyways, my most played classes back then were necro, engi, ranger and guardian.

juggermancer was the build that made me main necro. it’s so solid. i use 30-0-25-15-0, and in WvW i’ve started swapping the focus and staff cooldowns for retaliation on heal/death shroud. i could work pain inverter in there too, since i’m master race but even without it, it’s very useful having some retal for tactical moments when you sense incoming burst or lots of hits, like a p/d thief’s stealth shot, quickness, whirling wrath, etc. the retal on shroud works well with the whole idea of using shroud to soak burst.

yerp, i agree. this is one of my biggest annoyances as necro. can’t do anything to keep from being tossed around like a rag doll. if you’re power, you need the utility slots for wells and can only afford 1 stunbreak. yet you’re also frequently at close-range, facing a lot of CC. it can feel frustrating at times.

the thing you might be missing, unless you already knew – death shroud is used to soak burst damage when you’re rendered helpless by CC. a blinding well can also help a lot if you think you are about to be hit with some kind of CC → burst combo.

unfortunately, we are just balls at stomping.

necro seems designed to lock into a fight and not back down. they are better at slowing the enemy down and advancing forward rather than speeding themselves up and running away. and this kind of playstyle begs for stability….but no x_x there is no easy way to get it, you have to go 30 into soul reaping or blow an elite form. (heh)

i’m not sure why. perhaps there are builds which would become too powerful with easier access to stability. or, perhaps necros are just overlooked. choose your own adventure.

Yesterday I jumped into sPvP for the first time in months to try PvPing with an elementalist for the first time ever. I’ve levelled one to 31 in PvE, and I’ve fought my share of d/d eles in WvW, so I already knew their general attack patterns. It was cake. On a necro, you can really screw yourself over if you mismanage your life force or pick a stupid time/place to drop a well. On an ele, I could bungle my rotation and still win against guildies with months more PvP experience than me. And I could regen like I was the friggin Wolverine. Impunity is the best way to describe it.

Although it’s true that d/d are so predictable, you can easily avoid their worst attacks. It’s been a long time since I got hit with a churning earth, and my messing around with d/d yesterday taught me to pay more attention to drake’s breath → fire grab as well.

i defended from the beginning of that whole KBL garrison fiesta funtimes. it really did last hours. now my eyes and my brain feel like smoldering, smoking pieces of charcoal.

oop, forgot to check on this thread. yeah, through forum searching i’ve found posts about this issue going back by like 3 or 4 months, so it’s been around a while. it doesn’t happen in every instance of Cliffside, and to date it’s only happened to me that one time. i don’t know what causes it. i sure hope Anet might!

if memory serves me, whenever i moused over the bugged cages, the cursor had that gear/cog graphic, like when you mouseover a siege weapon. & that doesn’t happen when they’re normal.

That is so cool that the guy who designed it goes spelunking. He did a great job getting that feeling down. First time I ran Troll’s End I was actually reminded of the 1 time I went spelunking as a kid. Awesome!!

it reflects that the wearer enjoys jumping puzzles! seeing as there’s a clear divide in the community between those who do and don’t enjoy this incredibly controversial activity, it’s a nice way to meet others who feel the same as you! that’s how i plan to use it, anyway.

for the sake of your argument, i’ll just add “and if there was no title”

and, yes. i played through it before i even bothered to find out what baubles were actually for. if there were no rewards, i wouldn’t be RE-playing it, because i know it already. so now, i’m just replaying for the title. don’t want skins.

Sometimes the cages at the Cliffside final boss fight are unbreakable. If it happens, it happens to every cage. Today I was in a group that dissolved because of it. Since the boss puts people in cages frequently while at low health, it’s likely that your entire party could get stuck, and in that case your fractal run is completely borked.

I found it immensely frustrating when it happened to my party. What’s the status on this bug, Anet? Do you all know about it? Are you working on it?

Breaking Bad.6241:

Koptev in SE p3 saying “NO NO NO We should go to the armory. That’s where Zadorojny is likely to be” several times in a row. I find it funny every time I run that path.

i once had a pug where all 5 of us ran back and forth over the patch of ground that triggered it so he just kept going NONONONONONONONONO into infinity. best pug.

i also like when you level up and your character raises their weapon triumphantly and never puts it down. he’s just gonna savor this moment as long as possible. little longer….not done yet….nope, still savoring.

i have most of my fun in wvw, whether solo or with the guild. when i don’t feel like wvw, i hit a dungeon for extra money. i have to remind myself more gold is never a bad thing. especially since i’m altoholic, so i always have some new character to work on. lately, leveling alts is all i do. otherwise, wvw and dungeons.

this post inspires me to level my new guardian alt even harder! o_o even though i can only afford to do 3 crafting disciplines, it will still save a lot of time. plus, i usually have a good supply of t1 mats accumulated from all my alts, so i can pick up a couple spare levels just by refining those. hooray crafting!

mine are all based on the scenery and looks, cause this game is preeeeeeeeettyyyyy

best!
1. Timberline Falls – oh my god this entire place is gorgeous. just run from top to bottom and take it all in, i never get tired of this map in any way.
2. Kessex Hills – aside from the centaur areas, it’s like you might as well frolic through it singing the hills are alive with the sound of music, it’s like a postcard of some idyllic countryside.
3. Frostgorge Sound – i like winter scenery and the kodan. the water here is extremely deep, too, it is neat to dive down so far.

worst? well, it’s more like the vanilla stripe of Neapolitan ice cream. it’s not exactly bad, it’s just that the others are better.
1. Southsun Cove – Skipping Stones is its only saving grace. i just don’t like the aesthetic of the karka or their caves/nests. i might like the map more if it ever had daylight, but i assume it doesn’t since it’s always nighttime when i go.
2. Brisban Wildlands – it has Skrittsburgh, which is a major plus, but nothing else impressed me. bandits aren’t interesting.
3. Plains of Ashford – for being the least memorable starter zone. feels like reaching, though, since i still somewhat like it.

here’s one with a s/d thief that throws himself into a 1v2 for 9 minutes before dying. it’s vs. a hammer warrior and d/d thief, pretty entertaining. skip ahead 6 mins for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Siqrr3YBVY

the 2nd character i ever leveled to 80 was a femcharr thief, but i only recently gave her proper equips and started playing her often. the femcharr voice is one of my favorites, i always thought it fit really well. LONG LIVE THE IMPERATOR

and i lovelovelove her lines when you pick up a rare item:
“And I deserve it, too.”
“OH yeah, that’s MY loot!”

ever since i started playing her again, i go to the black citadel once a day to stare at my dream cultural set. minus the shoulder part, it will be around 6 gold for the set and 7 gold to transmute. i’m flat broke from equipping her, so for now all i can do is make my daily visit to stare at the beauty of a thief in this set:

don’t use music that sounds like you spend your free time at warehouse raves accepting mystery pills from people named Sparkles.

i think it’s easier to do in low tier servers, because their generally spottier coverage means you can hop on a karma train and take a bunch of camps and towers without meeting any resistance. while this is bad for the concept of wvw, it is amazing for your exp.

I made a charr named Oscar Wildebeest. Nobody in-game has ever gotten it.

I technically started with a mesmer, but I switched to necro. Here are some pics of me at levels 6, 45, and 80! D’aww, she’s all grown up now.

yea, you don’t have escape skills, but you have mad survivability. in WvW, the best i can do when i want to flee an enemy zerg is to kite and tank them while inching towards the nearest friendly structure. with all the chill and fear, consume conditions being the best heal in the game + locust signet’s massive heal, it’s not uncommon to lead 5+ people on a wild goose chase all the way to a tower or keep.

yeah, the bay in KBL was a fiesta tonight. i haven’t had this much fun since we first crawled out of T8. finally had to log cause my eyes kept closing while taking a camp. but i can already tell i’m gonna be hitting WvW a lot more this week than the last few.

This is a good thread. You raise a lot of solid points, and you mention some issues that I’ve also thought while playing the game. I think your strongest point is the armor bias – there is really not enough armor unique to the sylvari or asura. The norn get some good heavy armor options that make them look like vikings, but they could probably use more furs and pelts on medium and light armors. IMO, because the charr are more utilitarian, it makes sense that their aesthetic can overlap with humans’ a bit better than the other races – they took the humans’ land and weapons, why not their armor too? But it would still be nice if they had a more distinct aesthetic, so that you’d look at a set and know for sure it was charr armor. The best example of this that I can think of is their heavy cultural 3, it’s really mean looking and the spikes suit them well. I just realized that’s also the set Rytlock wears, lmao.

Anyways, I think the issue about human bias is more in the aesthetic than in technical issues like cutting. The human race just feels more fully developed than the others. I think the races with the least to show for themselves are asura and sylvari. They have very distinct aesthetics, yet there’s almost no armor outside of the cultural sets that really fits them. They also have the fewest maps. I remember being floored by Metrica Province when I started, but then when I looked at the world map for the first time, I was completely let down. I thought I was going to be able to do most of my levels in asuran territory, but it really only goes till, what, level 25 in Brisban? The poor sylvari only have Caledon. I get that they’re a new race, but still, you ought to be able to stretch the suspension of disbelief to give them more territory. It’s not nuts to think that in 25 years they could have expanded further than Caledon.

I’ve got an asura bias, myself, since I main one :P so I will just end by saying that I really want more outfits that were specifically designed for a 3 foot tall mad scientist.

sounds like ranger stealth, “Hide in Plain Sight”

a social game, asocial players.

remove borderlands lake and quaggan nodes and replace it with a shallow death pit that players can drop into but can’t get out of. in the center of the death pit, there is the revamped orb on its altar. this time, it is stationary. instead of moving the orb, the team controlling the death pit tags the orb to gain its bonuses, which only apply to that map. tagging the orb involves a channeling animation similar to the one used for skill points, perhaps a bit longer. stealthed characters are unable to interact with the orb and thus cannot tag it. siege cannot be built in or around the death pit. the death pit has a large diameter, about the same as the lake’s.

the death pit itself is designed to look like a dried-up lake bed. the dirt has patterns of large cracks running all through it, with some greenery poking through the cracks here and there. there are skeletons of aquatic animals stuck into the lake bed, including krait skeletons. at the foot of the altar is a single quaggan skeleton. whatever the heck that looks like.

i picked up the greatsword for the first time yesterday and used it when we capped a camp together, 3 or 4 of us. it was actually pretty good. i only have a low level ele so i had never used the GS until then.

sitting outside Langor watching a sub-80 run up to me and just stand there. i’m pretty sure he was new to WvW and trying to chat with me, apparently unaware that a) we were enemies and supposed to be killing each other, and b) i can’t hear his chat. then he ran around back of the tower to gather some food. then he ran around front and got curbstomped by the guards. i politely /cry’d over his body.

Even more confetti on Quip! I will push my engi from 11 to 80 just so I have a reason to get it, I swear.

quaggans are both fight and flight. they have their hulk mode where they are competent fighters, but they also consider it embarrassing and impolite to use. so they tend to flee a lot, relocating to quiet waters with fewer predators. but you see it in the story a lot that they will fight when they absolutely have no option to flee. there’s also more than a few quaggan who reject their society’s norms and decide that it’s ok to hulk out. so there are more aggressive quaggan around, although they are social outcasts for being that way.

well! with that Anet butt mark we can call it a hybrid of the two. the running rainbow trail is too RUA to ignore, as is the butt mark too MLP to ignore. it’s clearly a hybrid unicorn that Anet created to bring world peace and joy to all.

i wish that when you fired Dreamer it started playing the RUA song, but that would ofc be too much for some players to handle. there would be complaints of too much love and harmony in the game.

FBT.6024:

ndrangles.5183:

i maintain the belief that Dreamer is a reference to Robot Unicorn Attack..

This.

So mad. I got the bow because of the rainbow and because it reminded me of Robot Unicorn Attack.

Making it a brony bow is just stupid >:( The stupid butt tattoo pushed it from meh to FML. I’m embarrassed to use it now.

I regret getting this legendary now, should have gone with kudzu.

:o but i thought the update made it look even more like RUA! a running unicorn with a rainbow trail behind it!

anyways, i just made it to the end of the patch notes, and even though i own no legendaries, i am vicariously happy to see that Quip was improved a bit.

i maintain the belief that Dreamer is a reference to Robot Unicorn Attack.

any new stuff for Quip? i have no pistol users, but Quip is quite possibly the only legendary i like.

i avoided it as long as possible but eventually farmed it for a couple weeks because i wanted the extra stats. it was fun at first, but then got annoying as i had to grind for the pristine relics. so, pretty much what i expected from it. i got 2 characters to fractal level 10, and then after that i just did two level 10 runs per day. i will not be going any higher if i don’t have to. i think it’s a good idea to add ascended gear outside fractals.

each fractal stopped being fun at around level 7, at which point most people have played every fractal at least once, and a few of them you’ve played several times. i had a weird twist of luck where i never got a volcanic fractal until level 9. at that point, i remember i was glad to finally get it because i was bored of the others.

pls make a bet on your prediction so i can make some money?

i’m gonna use guesting to find Final Rest farmers at Zho’Qafa. idk anyone doing it on my server. as a necro main, it is highly relevant to my interests.

DaedalusDragon.3754:

So imagine you are watching your favorite sport and your favorite team is playing. Now imagine something big is about to happen that decides the outcome of the game that others might (depending on how it turns out) be talking about for some time. Now imagine that your cable company shuts down their network to update or some such right then.

Just about the same thing happening here.

the only way in which that metaphor would be accurate is if Anet’s servers exploded some time today.

i think you’re looking for the ol’ juggermancer.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Juggermancer-Final-Blog-Link/first

it was designed for WvW and does great in both small-scale and large-scale fights.

just to make a final point about Adrenal Implant, Engis have at least 2 ways of getting a decent vigor uptime, each for only 20 points. Alchemy I + Firearms III for crit build, Alchemy I + Tools VI for kit build. Either way, you get an overall endurance regen comparable to AI while saving yourself 10 points and avoiding a bunch of useless Tools traits.

stof.9341:

You want ANet to just delete all traits and skills and weapons and make all classes warriors maybe?

Look closer….so close, it’s almost as if it’s right above you