Guild Wars 2

You have a lot of extra health that is “wasted” when other classes can survive with low Health.

Your DPS is low and your support is low. Your skill cool downs are really high.

The class is really fun, but only a couple of gimmicks keep it barely alive in PvE.

In pvp, the situation is better, but you still rotate very slow have terrible ranged fighting and are hard countered close by meta classes. You are pretty godly in stronghold however.

The reason to take lich form is for the #4 minions. They provide much of your condition/raid DPS.

You shouldn’t be taking Lich form to WvW unless you are planning to 1v1 (even then, a skilled opponent will never get hit by your #1 or #5).

The #2 is way too weak now that everybody in every profession poops out vulnerability. It could use a damage increase and be the AOE damage skill of the form.

Your point about the #3 animation/actual hitting is valid.

I think as long as you don’t increase the damage on #1, pvp will not complain about other buffs. And as long as you don’t touch the lifespan or bleeds on the #4 critters, PvE will not care. Those #4 minions are the only thing keeping Reapers from being forbidden from raiding.

Anet, add some WvW achievements related to the desert borderland already.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Hey guys, below is a list of upcoming polls you are likely to see, in roughly the order you are likely to see them.

• Mixed Borderlands – Do you want a mix of Alpine/Desert Borderlands maps?
• World Linking Schedule – How often should we relink worlds?
• Deployable Mortars – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Mortars?
• Deployable Cannons – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Cannons?
• Repair Hammer – Do you want to be able to spend supply to repair siege?

Special Mention

• WvW Priorities – What do you want the WvW team to prioritize next?
  • We’ll run this poll after completing major milestones with whatever feature last won the Prioritization vote. So in this case: Scoring Improvements.

Dont mix borderlands until there is a third map. Rotate them every 3 months.
Relink every 8 weeks.
Not on alpine, maybe on desert
Not on alpine, maybe on desert
I think the ability to repair Siege will unbalance Trebuchets

I want desert borderlands mechanics related achievements when desert borderland returns. They don’t necessarily have to be Grindy but WvW should have gotten some new achievements when HOT launched.

Tossing 4 t5 stones forges into Amalgamated a Gemstones at a surprisingly high rate.

The method generates not just the T6 gemstones but the finished Amalgamated Gemstone.

This method is profitable, even though t5 stones now trade at 3x vendor. It’s probably the cheapest method of generating Amalgamated a Gemstones.

So just mine a lot of T5 materials and spend a day at the forge.

Just add the marionette to the world boss list, & re add the tower of nightmares as a 10 person raid.

Consider bringing back the Battle for Lion’s arch as festival content along with Queen’s pavilion and festival of 4 winds.

The rest of season 1 can’t or shouldn’t be brought back.

How did anet ignore focus when addressing anti-boon spam? The weapon is underpowered and already had an anti-boon theme that is now obsolete.

We will see, but I don’t think so.

HOT boon spam was out of control, and nobody, even necromancer, had enough boon removal for it. Every class now poops out boons for doing nothing, and then there’s glint reverents who do this passively.

Dagger 3 and 5 are on long cool downs, and corrupt boon was actually needed. Scepter is still a very weak and slow single target weapon.

Spiteful Spirit still isn’t good.

Some of the new corrupts will replace old corrupts in builds resulting in less power creep than you’d think. Will the new builds have as many corrupts as D/Wh + Staff Signet necromancers? Probably not. These changes were well thought out.

Scepter skills aren’t going to be improved ever.

Anet has stated that they are very cautious about buffing ranged skills with no ranged projectile, that “just hit.”. Scepter Fire 1 and Air 1, qualify (as do skills like air 2+3, Earth 2, and others). Similar skills like Necromancer Axe 1+2 are among the worst skills in the game. Anet fears that a viable skill with this mechanic unbalances the game.

Scepter Water and Earth skills are already really strong paired with focus.

So in conclusion.

Fire: Can’t get a buff
water: doesn’t need a buff
Air: Can’t get a buff
Earth: Doesn’t need a buff

Fire: Can’t be buffed

Zerk necros and Shiro Revenants

Hammer Warriors and Decap Engineers.

(Also try to get your various Dragonhunter and Zerk Bearbow teammates to swap classes before the game starts to something that isn’t hard countered)

Well of corruption is a laughably bad skill.

Boon hate in this game needs to be buffed if anet is just going to let Revenants crap out boons & let Tempests spam unstrippable Auras and diamond skin.

Just remove MMR altogether and do everything by tiers.

Let results show skill

2 pip losses in stronghold shouldn’t be a thing. The match is very different than conquest and the scores are usually lopsided compared to conquest.

This achievement is a high support of frustration for me.

Every time I get to high Ruby, I get matched with low diamond teammates who are grinding out achievements on classes that they are bad at (because they can’t lose pips). This means I have to either carry my higher ranked teammates against higher ranked opponents, or I lose.

I’m stuck in 50% hell.

MMR needs to be turned off while Divisions are a thing. I’m either better than ruby in which casevU shoud get a chance to advance, or I’m not and I shouldn’t.

The snowmen and gift quaggans currently in the Pvp lobby.

All of the statues that spawn when u defeat a world boss.

A Wintersday gift tree (similar to home instance one, rewards actual gifts)

More launching pads

Whoever created website like gw2crafts.net needs to put out a guide for leveling scribing.

The discoveries are in the API now, so the guides should be written.

We should have actual numbers when we talk about scribing. I think people will not really understand how scribingvs, until they see those numbers.

Since you have what appears to be a private instance, I’m fairly sure that anybody can score higher than that if they get their own private instance.

A private instance is an instance that doesn’t kick you when the timer ends because “map full.”. You can farm in there basically forever.

The lifesteal is pathetic. It was pathetic in beta and now it’s worse.

However, the Recharge reduction is good & technically this trait is best in slot for DPS.

Dadnir.5038:

I would agree on anything that would get us rid of this trait as it is right now…

It’s not that the concept is bad in itself but :
- It does not fit the “blood magic” thematic since it doesn’t have any relationship with blood.
- It’s weak to the point that it would be worth Master at best if not Adept.

If it was me (so that’s my personal opinion on the matter), I would :

1st step : swap it with parasitic contagion

2nd step : add an LF generation on corruption use

3rd step : Change parasitic contagion into blood contagion healing allies around you for a percentage of the bleeding damage you do.

It could be merged with Parasitic Contagion.

First of all, Reapers are fantastic & possibly an A+ class in Stronghold.

You’ve got durability damage and CC in pretty much any build. That means you’re an ideal class for defense (killing door breakers while outnumbered, CCing bosses, & winning channel fights) and summoning bosses.

I’m less impressed with Reapers in Conquest. Anybody with a ranged weapon has a big advantage over you & you not have enough damage to overtake the top bunkers plus Diamond skin & Mallyx are a problem.

(I’d like to see anet finally buff focus boon removals & change diamond skin from a flat effect to an effect that produces resistances)

But this is a team, not 1v1, game and if you get paired with an Aura share tempest (and the tempest on meta battle is not an aura share tempest), then you will wreck face even outnumbered.

These should exist.

I’m thanking anet for making everybody buy up runes of Snowfall.

I was buying them at 7 copper and intending to sell them at 26 copper before this even hit. A stack now goes for 50 silver… Turning 18 silver to 125 gold! And even though I unloaded most of my 10-15 stacks at 10 silver, I’ve still got 2 stacks left.

7 copper to 50 silver is an impressive return.

PS

Buying up your Wintersday shoulders with karma isn’t that expensive, so you may get your shoulders too by avoiding the initial rush.

Napkin math for a karma buyout

10,000 gifts times 0.9 gifts per box == 45ish stacks of gifts needed.

3850 karma (+1 snowflake) for 10 gifts.

1125 snowflakes and 4,331,250 karma needed for a full buyout.
Doable!

But again, you can buy 100 cheaper gifts for karma every day, you can do the orphan run to fund your karma (and a lot of the events will give back karma) and the event lasts 5 weeks, and once you do the achiements, you’ll find that you dont need 44 Starks, but some lesser number like 30 stacks. (if you do Pvp, the reward track is great for Wintersday gifts).

This fast method also completes the Peppermint Achievement and sweet tooth title for you AND gives you a lot of the new foods which sell for a decent amount of money.

The fastest way is to buy up gifts with karma (and snowflakes)

I think it can be done for about 3.4 million karma (and 4 stacks of snowflakes) after the easy achievement rewards are done & the cheap 100 karma gifts are bought up daily.

Not too expensive either.

I noticed that I’m not able to finish the achievement for crossing 2 divisions in this season, even tho that has happened. The achievement wants me to do that twice!

Which means that the 4/4 achievement in the 4th tier requires that you do this (cross 4 divisions and get diamond) 4 times!

That’s ridiculous.

Given how hard it is to win 60% of games with lost pips on losses, even getting diamond once is a major accomplishment.

The whole point of the leagues and achievements is to reward players for playing Pvp & if players say “too grindy/impossible,” then they’ll quit. Which means back to long queues.

Anet please fix this. The other achievements require a lot of participation. This one is just grindy overkill.

Wait for the February arena for Chinese new year.

That’s death match

It’s supposed to be a rare and valuable cosmetic item.

But what about 150 games of snowball mayhem, 210 complete bell songs, 150 rounds of toypacalypse, 75 successful jump puzzles?

Those achievements are ridiculous. Doesn’t anet know that there is also a very grindy Pvp league going right me too?

They need some sort of power weapon.

Staff doesnt cut it, and if anet is unwilling to buff axe because of counter play issues, the necromancer should get a new weapon.

But, more than that, boon spam is out of control and the game, not just necromancers but the entire game balance, need the anti boon capabilities on necromancer weapons to be buffed.

nacario.9417:

Ruby in one season is needed for leg backitem?

You need 125 tokens. Ruby gets you 55 tokens.

That means you can do it in 3 seasons & you only need to get emerald in those seasons.

If you only get Emerald (35 tokens) it will take 4 seasons..

Is OP trying to queue for stronghold while stronghold is disabled?

Locking basic mechanics behind costly guild mechanics is behind stupid.

People have been complaining about maps, but we haven’t been able to even use use the maps the way they were intended to be played because anet decided to make WvW upgrades so expensive.

OP, as a former fractals player, you’ll have Raids to get into.

They are tweaking fractals right now. The new system is great (it’s a lot more casual) but the 50-100 levels feel like a beta.

WvW is a mess. Mostly because the part time WvWers are playing new PvE content (and the new Pvp progression system is a blast) & because they didn’t add rewards to WvW (new loot, achievements). But they said its the top priority & I’m sure it will be fine,

If you were WvW and fractals before, then you probably weren’t a casual. The expansion added a lot of stuff for hardcore players but isn’t very casual compared to vanilla GW2.

Last night I used thief teleport to stomp an Elementalist who tried to get away with his mist form.

After the successful stomp I was stuck & unable to move in the wall next to the bridge (Shine/Ice point on Silent Storm)

What am I supposed to do next? Relogging forfeits the game for myself and my teammates.

In any case, I did nothing and my teammates played well but lost by almost 200 points.

After the game, the elementalist said he didn’t move to the spot on purpose but was aware of what might happen & also he told his teammates not to try to kill me as they ran past me all game.

My teams never know what to do on Nifhel. They always seem to rush the creature with at least two players.

By the time they get to midpoint, their teammates at midpoint are dead and the point advantage they gained from the creature is gone.

Honestly, I don’t think people are mass tossing games… I think they are just over rated.

A huge majority of players have a lower rating than somebody with zero games played. That’s just how ELO based systems work. So average, and even good players are going to be ranked below first timers.

All of the unranked heroes, recent free to play players, and achievement farmers will have zero or few ranked games prior to the start of this season & they all have to lose matches to achieve their proper rating.

This means that some players lost a lot of matches before they started to win.

Stronghold has been a blast. Maybe when it returns we can get some stronghold related achievements? (winning ranked games, unlocking mist ham pions, etc….)

60 day timegate on the Pvp back.

Fractal back is a 42 day timegate for the precursor and the rest is unknown by me.

Maybe the NYC will tell you what your next step for the fractal back is once you complete the precursor? And how are you a week ahead of everybody on the fractal precursor anyways?

Sounds like you’ll have to grind out a reward track or avhievement by winning games in ranked arena and you will have to do this for a few different seasons.

If that’s right, then you can grind it out solo.

& it’s a good incentive for players to play ranked and lower queues for everybody.

We need a repeatable reward track with HoT stuff in it, similar to the Maguuma wastes track

It should have map currencies, map chest loot, and proof of heroics at the end.

Story mode final boss was easiest for me on Revenant

There should be a lot more HoT related pvp rewards.

A one time reward track doesn’t cut it.

All of those mats drop in high quantities. Just play the game and you’ll have plenty of all.

Dust — champ bags
Empyreal Stars — WvW camps, dungeons, fractals, jump puzzles
Dragonite Ore — World bosses, WvW keeps
Augur’s Stone — Bought from vendor next to forge.

In addition large quantities of all drop from SW chest farm.

1. I’ve gotten 3 ascended chests from pvp since the update. Pvp tracks give you ascended mats too.

2. Silverwastes is a good ounce for everything.

3. Yes some recipes need laurels. There is a mystic forge recipe for you to change stats however. So buy the recipe for your ascended zerker pants, and if you need to change the stats there is a recipe for that.

The main thing to do is get your crafting to 500 and craft the daily time gated materials. Thats your main focus. Once you have the materials, craft the rest.

Lobby anet to get Superior Runes of Resistence added to Pvp.

Edit:

All sorts of potentially helpful runes and amulets are being held back from necromancers in Pvp. Let us test them out in live gameplay already!

It’s weak.

For reaper its terrible. Necromancer could afford the bad damage to get the utility, because necromancer has life blast.

Reaper has no such luxury. You are better off using axe (still the worst weapon in the game) because axe gives you more damage and let’s you use Warhorn.

You shouldn’t be solo roaming on either a necromancer or a reaper because you are slow and have few escapes.

But the reaper is additionally screwed against anybody with a ranged weapon.

I moved one of my mining alts from the flax farm to the quartz crystal in Dry Top.

The flax farm is more profitable for now at current prices (37s vs 32s), but flax prices keep falling and quartz prices keep rising (and I have a bunch of extra frost bitten picks that I would like to burn).

The trebuchet is the difference between good teams and bad teams.

Trebs 2 shot door breakers. One trebuchet can quickly erase an entire assault.

When you organize your team, make sure somebody get on your trebuchet, and somebody is ready to rush and destroy the enemy trebuchet.

Other than that, commit at least 3 to offense at the start, one to defense, and your fastest landspeed character to roaming. The less amount of time that you spend gathering supply and summoning door breakers, the more likely ou are to win.

Load up on CC to win hero channels (support with the treb helps).

Oh, and avoid using Nika. She dies too quickly.

Me. And I actually like the new maps.

But I’m chasing achievement points and Anet didn’t add any for WvW. I would have thought that they would have added some to introduce the new map mechanics (similar to EoTM), but they didn’t.

(And no new achievements for stronghold either, another disappointment).

HoT isn’t very casual.

All of the new zones require map completion plus 100% to give out half decent rewards. That’s a ninety minute time commitment & anet sets the schedule on its own timers. If you try to play on your own schedule or don’t have hours to play the new pvE is frustrating.

The worst is tangled Depths, which requires you to complete events and get your participation up for events that take 20 minutes then wait another 2 hours to get your rewards.

The new classes are gated by hero points which the selves may require masteries or grouping.

The new WvW maps are linear and require time investment to get into. God forbid you show up on your own time, catching up to the remainder of the group is frustrating.

The most casual thing in HoT is Pvp, but even stronghold has its own learning curve.

My games aren’t starting any quicker