Deadly strength should be 10%. Just like other classes dmg mod 5pt minors. Its an alright trait but it needs to be buffed to be on par with what other classes have. Which I have been saying for a long time. Same goes for Blood to power.
I think you mixed something up deadly strength is already 10%…
You probably meant strenght of undeath.
Strength of undeath should be 10%. Just like other classes dmg mod 5pt minors. Its an alright trait but it needs to be buffed to be on par with what other classes have. Which I have been saying for a long time. Same goes for Blood to power.
Yeah they dont really make sense. The 5pt minor isnt bad though. The 15pt is kind of useless for every build that goes into spite. And the 25pt minor is one of the worst and most useless traits in the game, its not even worthy of a 5pt minor.
Its kind of always been that way. But we didnt realise. Weve been camping gs for a while in solos because weve found it to yield better results(assumed because of the might and vuln and also using 100b and ww on cd). But it turns out even without the might and vuln being a factor the ability to 100b and ww on cd is much better than switching to axe for the better auto. The gs auto really isnt as bad as people made it out to be and it never was. So essentially recent ingame testing has changed people opinions on it, thats all.
I believe it can.
Warrior balanced stance provides 8 seconds stability and swiftness. Hold the line provides stability and retaliation. It is not unheard of for stability related skills to also have major other benefits that coincide.
Except Spectral Armor doesn’t ONLY provide protection. It provides protection and LF, while being able to be used in DS effectively negating any burst for the duration. Stability would never be added on top of that, it’d be strictly better than armor of earth in every way.
True and thats the only issue i see. However armour of earth isnt even that strong. People never took it when the cooldown was 90 seconds and its still pretty unpopular with a 75 second cd. Personally I would be ok with spectral armour becoming prot+stab on a 90 second cooldown.
The key point is we need a more accessible form of stability other than an elite transform or a grandmaster trait. Being stunlocked into oblivion by warriors in tpvp or wvw is incredibly frustrating and having 2 stunbreaks wont save you against a decent warrior. Im sure you’ve experienced this aswell.
And thats what they will do. I was kind of hoping for new weapons with the feature patch. Instead we got a load of grandmasters which are pretty much useless in pve (for every class). I can only hope new weapons is the next thing on the list. Utilities would be good aswell, but the classes will continue to become more and more stale until they give more weapon options to every class.
Publicly appealing wont help anyone. You will more likely cause more problems. Just leave it to him to sort out. Im sure they will give him a rollback. He just needs to be patient and ask politely. Everyone is entitled to one rollback.
Anyway I may have had my differences with nemesis. And I certainly didnt appreciate the video he made about about the meta where he publicly made me a target. But I wouldnt wish this kind of thing to happen to anyone. So I hope he gets things sorted soon.
Ok, instead of always assuming warlord is wrong, I tried to replicate some of his tests too. We are both really sure on the test being good, I think and I just got slightly other results than he did. Video evidence: http://youtu.be/-vg1YQu2KoI
So are we in an agreement that 10% speed boots equals a .1 of a second within a small margin of error. Because I didn’t really understand your test.
Oh man dont get me started on how much utility other classes have compared to necro. Its a terrible joke. Thankfully i play all classes so I dont have to deal with having a useless and poorly designed main.
Can i ask why you write pre instead of per? It doesnt make sense. Pre means before so it doesnt fit. And i always assume you actually mean per when you write it. It kind of irritates me when I see it. xD
Yeah I just watched the video. While I do feel sorry for him because I would hate that to happen to me. I cant help but feel like justice has been served. Also he started claiming he was more important than other people at the end of the video. That certainly reduced my sympathy for his situation.
Armour of Earth on ele provides stability and prot for 6 seconds. Id like to see stability on Spectral armour, but if thats not possible then I hope to see it on a new utility slot eventually. Anets current design philosophy is really hurting the necro atm, no access to many things every class needs and has except for the necro.
Yeah strength runes are fairly decent in solo/pug situations if you cant stay above 90% hp. But thats only because necro can generate a decent amount of selfish might. In groups scholar is always better. As far as i can tell scholar is also better solo, but if you have trouble staying above 90% then strength is a very strong alternative to increase your might uptime from BiP.
It may be our single best defensive utility. But it is by no means overpowered or even that good lol. Id take stability instead of prot anyday.
The only reason to slot a spectral would be for the stunbreak. And if I want a stunbreak ill take spectral walk as it has the same cooldown + swiftness and the ability to teleport. Which is far more useful than 6 secs of prot which you can get from other sources. If spectral armour was a stunbreak + stab then there would be a genuine reason to take it in pve, pvp and wvw.
Its simply because the whole loot system in gw2 is complete crap. Even boss and chest loot is terrible. And magic find doesnt even effect chests. No chance for decent special rewards means that the only real reward is the guaranteed gold at the end of the path. This is why people will skip trash and bosses even in really casual runs.
Both axe 1 and 2 should get a damage buff. 2 is really low dps considering the channel time.
Either that or they should increase it to 2000 range so its current damage reflects its distance from danger. In all seriousness 900/1200 range is the kind of distance i expect to have on a weapon with the axes lvl of dps.
Highest dps would be 3 eles, 1 war and 1 ranger. But if you decide you need more frostbows/fgs’s for encounters then you could replace the warrior and ranger for more eles so you have higher dps throughout the run (perma frostbow/fgs). But for a single encounter 3 eles, 1 war and 1 ranger is the highest dps.
Obviously as others have said sometimes utility is more important to speed a path up. Which is why some dungeons its much faster to take a thief or mesmer.
Most people who think the axe warrior build is boring probably haven’t played it. Doing the proper rotation is a bit more challenging than the gs+axe build and it’s significantly more active, especially the EA build that Eviscerates as part of the rotation.
I feel like I’m surrounded by crybaby carebear casuals. “waaaa I wanna use my twilight waaaaa I don’t care if its 10% less dps” is no different than “waaaa I like my celestial gear because I play how I want.”
Well atleast there was some weapon swapping there. How do you feel about GS-camping being the best DPS option now? As boring as only-axe in my opinion.
The only fun part about playing warrior is seeing big numbers. GS camping allows maximum viewing of big numbers. Therefore it is more fun than pure axe!
Ascended armour is only needed for high level fractals. So for that reason I would recommend berserker. It will be account bound so you can use it on ele/mesmer aswell. The only other option would be rabid but I really dont think thats worth going ascended on.
Also you mentioned you like having a bit more range. You can still use axe or staff on my build if thats what you are more comfortable with. My build is more of the most optimal traits, weapons dont matter too much.
You could use gwscr as a reference. Not many records have been updated since the april 15th patch yet. But you can still check the all time records and the forums.
FPS games are pretty much nothing but active defenses, and they still manage to deliver a radically different role experience from Medic to Assault to Sniper.
You’ve got to be able to segregate the simple application of buffs and debuffs from actual-honest-to-god support and control roles.
The game already does this pretty well. But most of the playerbase doesnt understand the game and likes to complain. There deffo needs to be some improvements. But thats more to do with class balance and improving condition damage roles in pve.
As you may know we updated the TA Up record the other day. So we decided to do TA Forward aswell. The run wasnt perfect but theres really not much change since the patch since all bosses die in roughly the same speed. Final time is 6:37. Enjoy.
I remember when I first started playing GW2 the concept of combo fields/finishers was lost on me for the longest time mainly because I was playing Necro.
I had the same problem. I didnt learn about them until i started aspiring to speedclear and started leveling other classes. Then again, guardian and mesmer arent good for teaching you about combos either (etheral and light fields op!) so I didnt learn until i made my 4th character.
deSade should mention his evil plan which led to me spending 140g on more tormented weapons. My ele now has the staff, the scepter and the dagger. I have no gold. :<
Hes referring to the fact that colossus rumblus doesnt spawn trash mobs. Thats the howling king. And the howling king doesnt spam knockdowns. So you’ve essentually combined howling king and rumblus together.
Invulns dont work on the orb. But defiant stance does, you also ooc for a few seconds with it and regen to full hp. You can run 90% of the distance with it. If you trait for shoutheals you can fully solo it. But then you have to go retrait quickly.
They would nerf it and remove the blast most likely. Although Id love to have a 7-10 cd blast on DS flash. Would be amazing with a staff ele if you dont have a second LH ele xD.
Well ran some tests with some friends and will have to say MMs are very nice in Fractals. Had no AR on her at all but her Minions didn’t even take any damage from Agony it seems. If it did it wasn’t noticeable.
Ah yes I forgot. Minions use to scale AR with the player. But when they did the fractured patch they made all non player npc’s immune to agony (to fix mimic abuse). This i believe effects minions and pets. So agony is no longer an issue for minions no matter how much AR you have.
Enfeebling blood – blast
Unholy feast – blast
Deathly swarm – 100% projectile
Reapers Touch – 100% projectile
Wail of Doom – blast
Spectral Grasp – 100% projectile
Putrid mark – fix to trigger combos out of combat or allow players to manually detonate to trigger the blast when no enemies are present (might, stealth, swiftness stacking).
I did some pvp with some guildmates a few weeks back. Some of us havent touched pvp much at all and hadnt done it for months. We didnt know the meta or anything yet we were able to stomp so many teams that we got put up against really good teams pretty fast.
Being a good pve player teaches you to read animations, understand class synergy and most importantly not to waste active defense. Yes ai can be beaten just by practise and it never varies much. But the average pvp player is beyond dumb so its not hard for someone who understands when to dodge to win just by copy and pasting a build.
Also look at it this way. I dont know of a single top pvp player who can solo lupi and other challenging bosses. But I know there are quite a few players in the top pve guilds who are top 100 pvp players aswell.
