Guild Wars 2

We also don’t know what kind of technology is hidden in Rata Novus though. If she’s bringing ommads machine back there...she may be able to redirect the energies of normal and primordus into eachother.

I do not. However. Think that if she does succeed, it will have the desired effect.

It’s a bit large on certain character models. But I like it. I dyed it to match Mesmer powers.

I’ve switched to using mostly marauders/assassins instead of zerker.

You do just slightly less damage. With having 24k health. Allowing for less squish.

Also, as a chrono/Mesmer you are slanted towards support. You aren’t really….needed to dish out tons of damage in pve.

1.) to change Orr would make the entire original story erased or instanced. Which isn’t fun.

2.) people seem to forget jennah is a powerful Mesmer. She wouldn’t be easily assassinated. (If I remember. She can terraform the land itself)

3.) even with all their power. I’m not sure the white mantle that’s being painted by the raids aren’t strong enough to take DR

4.) the gods have been gone long before Arah fell. Before the cataclysm of Orr, before even GW1. I don’t think they would suddenly come back. Even if they did. I don’t think they would directly fight the dragons.

Just my 2 cents. I would much rather fight palawa joko than the elder lizards

Reaper has strong CC inherently built into its shroud and such.

I play a condition hybrid necromancer (viper and sinister stats) and I believe we are considered the Meta in pve, stats wise.

Can pack on tons of conditions and spread them out to enemies, things melt very quickly.

We are good in both raid wings, as well.

Also there are some medic builds on YouTube which do well with healing but those aren’t “focused” healing builds. They mostly augment healing with life steals.

Like others said. Taimi herself believes she has an expiration date potentially.

That and she’s not your average child by any means. I think it’s Zojja who mentions that she is leagues ahead of what any asura child should be and that she is potentially smarter than most adults?

It could also be that she is virtually the only Asura who seems to fully grasp Ley Line science at all beyond waypoints and gates.

I don’t think they’ll ever kill her because….killing a kid changes the teen rating.

But I like her more than Rox the token Charr, or useless meatshield “how did I get this tan” Brahm".

Who is our token sylvari anyways? Canach? I’m fine with him.

Fort aspenwood player here: our match ups finally seem even from my perspective.

Before for almost s year now the other two servers had at least twice the amount of people at all times.

ok so.

I have wvw’d in the top 3 tiers, starting in CD before the guild exodus that left it unpopulated, then tier 1….then tier 2 on Fa where again…there was a guild exodus.

I’m sorry to all of the low tier people who liked the sort of empty small group vibe they had going. And those gvg small servers.

But the majority of the wvw pop seemed to be in the top 4 tiers, and for the majority….I personally feel like these merges were much needed.

Jumping into wvw this week things have felt normal again, and even.

Things have felt tactical and much less like “well the other servers have twice the amount of our population, so we are going to lose again”.

Just my two cents.

Sorry your experience has changed in a way you negatively view it.

Let me give you some perspective from “the other side” as it were.

Once. I was tier 3, crystal desert. It was ok, but suddenly we lostost of our guilds and population. Yaks bend and dragon brand had more than twice our population.

So I moved to Tier 1. This was fun but I didn’t really feel like always being in a blob. So I moved to tier 2, fort aspenwood. It was perfect for awhile….and then once again many Fa guilds left for a higher tier server and for MONTHS fort aspenwood wvw population has been half of the other servers it was paired with.

So while I see you might like roaming, and it’s a shame you fee that’s now gone. Truth is the majority of the wvw population(which is in the top 4 tiers), were so imbalanced population wise that this was desperately needed.

Wvw feels normal again for me.

Bleeds on locust swarm would be nice

I forgot to post what traits I use.

In reaper I use chilling nova(the chill on crit adds more bleed and a burst of flat damage)

Decimate defenses for lots of crit on people. Of course deathly chill

Curses I’m using the duration increases with corruption recharge reduction.

And soul reaping I’m using vulnerable on strike, dhuumfire, and whatever makes shroud last longer

Then on my bad I typically run plague signet, rise, and either BiP or corrupt boon or corrosive poison cloud.

In PvP?

Soul reaping, curses, reaper.

The new deathly chill synergies well with a high crit build because you can stack bleeds far faster than anybody can cleanse them by themselves. Even those bunky cleanse happy chronos.

I use dhuumfire now with it for extra yummy burns.

And you can happily combine an earth sigil and hydromancy for even more bleeds

Honestly. It’s fine.

Condi necro is great in raids and pve, have even been playing with a blood magic like instead of reaper for a condi build+medic that’s been doing well since the changes to life’s steal.

Wvw we are still pretty good.

PvP in still doing just as fine as I was before the nerf. I don’t miss the chill damage because I still have dhuumfire and can stack bleeds with the new deathly chill faster than people can cleanse(every chill, including every frost nova from a crit hits with more bleed. Reaper shroud 5 now acts as a pulsing bleed field technically.)

The only nerf that is really effecting me is the nerf to our stability uptime

As for humans.

Cantha, kryta, elona. Not accounting for the lands to the east of Elona where harpies are from.

Not accounting for the island of Dawn and the continent of Arid(which was presumed to be the Aztec area from the unreleased utopia) which is probably another nation with tons of humans

I don’t think it’s impossible.

The Tengu NPCs in lions arch will tell you upon questioning that they were forced out of their original home and that’s partly why they don’t trust the races of tyria.

The devs said a long time ago they would love to expand into other lands if there was an interest in them.

I think….the only thing really stopping us is the elder dragons.

Will gw2 ever expand beyond the stupid dragon plot being its only thing?

ElOna could only come if we overthrow palawa joko to liberate the nation and bolster our own allies.

Palawa is a better villain than the dragons, but that would be an order of whispers and human based expansion, both of which are the least loved by arenanet save for the charr, tybalt.

Cantha is also trickier….even though the zephyrites went there so maybe a piece of glints legacy is there.

I think we may be more likely to see the island of Dawn or parts of Arid(presumably where doern Velasquez is from) than Cantha.

I’ve been using something similar with domination for the boon stripping

And in pve for the vuln, extra damage on vulnerable targets, and extra shatter damage.

Although chaos is MEGA tempting not over for staff regen but also because bountiful disillusionment is so great with all those boons

so I used to main Mesmer.

I’ve been having a blast on my reaper, but I have bifrost now and I miss my portals and swirly butterflies.

Before, I was a Dire condi Mesmer.

I need tips on a build….the only stipulation being I do nooooot like glassy builds.

It doesn’t have to be a condi chrono, I’m not sure how much I like confuse/torment in pve….but I would prefer a pretty bunkery stay set( high health, some toughness) while still doing good damage.

Thinking a mix of marauders, valk, and Knights with GS/staff ?

More so for pve and very light WvW. I even considered celestial.

Any tips for stat sets/traits that have been working well? I miss my mind wizard

The same could be said of Mesmer staff yet the auto attack on that packs a bunch when it bounces

so I want to start by saying yes I know marks are kitten potent in condition builds.

And that marks 3,4,5 are pretty good with flat damage builds as well.

My question is….

1.) mark of blood, why is the flat damage aspect of it so incredibly low compared?

And 2.) does staff auto attack on necro seem weak to anybody else?

My necro has more power than my ele. And the tooltip says fireball and necrotic have similar damage, but fireball does almost double of necrotic grasp.

It’s incredibly underwhelming compared to most other weapons attacks. Even Mesmer staff.

Is it perhaps just the enemies in attacking with it?

My tempest didn’t change. Chronomancer I don’t really play at all.

My reaper, in my mind was once my Mesmer.

His power shifted to darkness after being revived post-Orr. (He got hit hard).

During this time he focused on curse magic as opposed to straight necromancy, and because I was crafting bifrost in my mind I made it so that when he gained access to the power of the Jotun star, his command over shadow and cold grew.

I’ve been using scholar runes simply for not knowing what runes to get.

For wvw though scrapper runes are looking nice. power/toughness and -7% damage from anything within 600 range.

I’m just not sure though. Without sacrificing ALL my damage, I have around…2700-2800 armor.

o_o I wish enhanced toughness was baseline for shroud

but I’m also using spite tree, because the might is just too good to ignore.

I wish but yeah…..I think it would be too desirable for reaper spec to get both.

ALTHOUGH

I would love to see Increased Toughness become a baseline thing when entering shroud.

From playing yesterday on my reaper, I’m really good at picking people off and herding them into death.

Reaper shroud is no joke, shroud 5 is a stun AND chill, so they’ll probably try to use a stun break, but if you use shroud 4 and are chilling them the entire time(while following) it’s hard for them to escape that damage.
then of course shroud 2 is a good gap closer, and you can shroud 3 for stab and for fearing them, leap to them again…and continue.

I use dagger/warhorn still(GS is not a pvp weapon even though the pull is fun)

if I warhorn 5+4 into reaper shroud 5+4 it’s usually pretty lethal, not many people pack 3 stun breaks.

It’s all about just applying smashy pressure onto them.

Although…it’s kind of HARD to be super tanky on a reaper in wvw due to….if you want sustain you need BB which requires spite, but death magic is where the super tankyness comes from.

RISE is a fantastic skill though, most people will ignore your pets so when those pets are attacking you’re getting a 50% damage redux.

plus 10% reduction from chill.

another 7% reduction if you use scrapper runes.

I see what you’re saying…

I think it should be like how queen jennah’s throne room is still accessable.

but also.

why do you have 9 charr?

no, go home, you’re drunk.
death to the charr
revenge for ascalon
-foams at mouth-

Yeah…the expansion is going to be growing, and evolving, with living world added…with new updates added.

They made 4 armors for release and only 2 full sets were popped out which means another 2 are coming possibly with the introduction of raids.

you can’t say you want an “expansion” like nightfall because nightfall was not an expansion, it was a campaign, each campaign was intended to be a completely stand alone game on its own.

the only expansion GW1 saw was eye of the north, and then you could call “beyond” its version of living world I suppose.

this also isn’t like games like WoW where it’s like “we will drop in an expansion with HUGE ammounts of content…ok now wait for the next expansion for more content”

this is more of a….the expansion will give you this chunk, and then this chunk will continue to grow throughout the year all the way until we’re ready for the next expansion.

They also have some of the most interactive and generally active Developement teams I’ve seen in MMOs….so it’s not something to be super crazy miffed about. get over it.

You’re probably American (and I do love america) but there does tend to be an enhanced sense of “I WANT THIS RIGHT NOW” moreso than where I’m originally from.

tone it down, eat some cactus.

all in all, this expansion felt like an introduction to a new storyline, and not just a huge long stand alone story

I wouldn’t say the pact just went on their merry way.

In the events around that area and in the world itself…sylvari turned, there’s mistrust around the pact.

There are pact members being kidnapped, picked off from camps by saurians and Chak, assaulted by mordrem and Hylek and local fauna, having to fight through the jungle to reunite with other survivors.

basically the entire event structure of verdant brink is you helping small groups of pact members getting together to try to hold down an area.

I also…think the Meta event in Dragon’s stand has you really breaking into where you need to be.

as far as getting to the dragon too easily…you have to remember, Mordremoth is seemingly more intelligent than zhaitan, due to his affinity with mind, the pact is also significantly better at combating dragons than it was while attempting to fight zhaitan, the training and technologies have evolved in the 2 years since the first elder dragon’s death.

But mordremoth is also arrogant, he let you get to him easily because he thought he knew everything about you, he thought he could easily dominate you, hence when he tries to use your past against you in his mind, and he was in the body of trahearne so he definitely DID know a lot of what happened to you.

but that’s just my thought.

I’m sure the exalted will play a larger role in the living world.

I’ve just finished fooling around with another power based that uses knights/soldiers/valk.

with food and stuff (and no spite signet) 25 stacks of might(easily obtained) it caps around 3500 power

that’s…delicious.
with all the might it still does decent ticks from poison as well.

2700 toughness. great crit rate. I’m going to test it in game.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRQQJBIhY5XwiPiRxrIVW4LMsg+SBgPAA-TxhAABYq+zU7PUwJAQNlgA8AAET5X06BCAgAMzyMAeuzdu4Fv4Z36W36W36mUAGqsC-e

Threw this together. It’s by no means OPTIMAL.

but the ammount of poison/burning damage is nice. It has a high health pool which means more time in shroud, and it’s also got toughness so you’re harder to bring down.

not pure condi, has a little bit of power….if you had a weapon with sigil of corruption or bloodlust it would add more damage, and uhhh yeah.

-kitten s out-

Honestly now I’m wondering if my power build is good at all

Apparently….people have been using a few combos.

Chill doing damage or reaper’s onslaught.

dhuumfire

and Soldier’s/valk gear with Sinister trinkets.

I would try this…but sinister trinkets seem really difficult to actually obtain

otherwise the combo seems nicely when:

staff 3 poison field, Reaper shroud 4 spin inside of it, stack 18+ poison, and then swing away to do massive ammounts of burning.

I want to try it…I really do.

alas, I am unable to get a lot of sinister trinkets.

;_; sadness overhwelming.

is there any way to do some sort of hybrid form of it?

I honestly really like power reaper, the way it feels, I like power based builds… I like the feeling of hitting hard without my dps dropping due to duration.?

I know some people are saying dhuumfire is still good even without condi damage built in…

but I feel like tiny bits of +1300 damage isn’t worth it compared to how much you’d get if you actually put in Condi damage.

Although I do see condition damage being utilized with both dhuumfire/spinny attack of doom, especially if inside the staff 3 poison field.

that’s like….18 ish stacks of poison on top of lots of burning which I feel like would hurt an enemy pretty bad.

anybody tried Valk/Sinister?

or even Soldiers/Sinister?

like someone said…everybody’s had a death or something bad happen to them so far.

Trahearne was yours.

also, I like his death, BECAUSE some people care about him.

I liked trahearne.

I had a little moment of NOOOOOOOOOO when I had to kill him.

but….yeah.

and the dragon absorbed PART of mordremoth’s power….but Tarir was designed to help hatch the egg(apparently)

so that was probably to speed along the process.

but the question is….is mordremoth actually dead?

in the story you find out he IS the jungle….he is everything there, so is it possibly we just killed a facet of him, his mind? maybe his body (the jungle) is still him in some form, or soething like that

Reaper also has a trait where if you hit somebody at low health I think it either transfers a condition or like…eats one and heals you?

Mine is mostly Black/red with a high collar, kind of demony/vampire looking with the new bat wings.

I haven’t picked a greatsword or a warhorn.

There’s a trait in death magic where shroud literally eats conditions.

Plague signet will fling all conditions back at an enemy.

Well of Power will convert conditions into Boons (synergy with BB as well.)
I think there’s….a trait in curses or something that will activate plague signet after so many conditions are placed down.

and minions as well now can transfer conditions from you by hitting people.

uhm…ocassionally in HoT areas I’ve had some crashes, but nothing frequent, and nothing crazy.

Today? since the issues last night I played for a bit this morning to do some daily stuff before work, but I didn’t have any supreme issues.

also just a question…but is power Reaper useful without Spite?

Like is…soul reaping/death/reaper or soul reaping/blood/reaper viable? or do they just lack the punch?

Ravezaar.4951:

vicious.5683:

both are mediocre traits for GM tier.

Agree fully atm they both are mediocre yet as Power Specc u have to choose 1

I don’t find them terrible. one is only really good if things are dying
The other is less overpowered because it’s not proccing from other people’s boons…but I think the effect still works.

ohhhhh cool. so I can have pretty endless stab if I’m in the midst of a mass of mobs that are dying quickly?

would that also quickly rechagre my spin of DOOOOM?

and Mister/Miss Halcyon, what would be your suggestions for sigils? o_o I really like bloodlust but I’m wondering if the uhhh….leeching might be good.

I don’t think Toughness actually effects aggro, not enough. it has no proof.

the enemies always seem to go for the zerker characters first whenever I’m in a group, even when I’m in melee.

you have no idea how much I wish there was power+toughness+Ferocity.

I want it so bad

I want it like I want bacon,
or ice cream
or love.

There is certainly NOT a population problem in some of the core tyria maps.

Silverwastes is still poppin’. for exp and materials and karma and stuff.

Orr is busier than it was before due to the map rewards(I expect an increase when more people catch on to the ammount of T6 and other stuff you can get from map rewards)

Cursed Shores and uhhh…the middle Orr map were pretty well populated enough to where events were doing quite well.

Materials YAY.

farmy farmy moldy bags yay!

powerful blood/vicious claws/armored scales= lovely map rewards.

o.O but….Reaper’s onslaught only increases attack speed/recharge…it doesn’t seem to give stability. (am I missing osmething)

and is dhuumfire even worth it AT ALL if I do not utilize condition damage?

I have soldiers/Knights/Valk right now and it’s doing pretty well…

although I also have 92% crit rate while in shroud without fury.
which is 42% outside of shroud without fury…so 62% with fury….

and that’s without any food or outside things effecting me.

I do like the idea of more valk to mix in with the soldiers/knights, I think it can work really well….could push the HP up to like 28k which is godly with all the sustain and bruisery fighting tactics.

Well when using BB, It’s been healing me a little every single time I gain might, which is constantly while in shroud.

There’s also Regen from certain staff skills, and then I think there’s probably some runes somewhere which proc a boon too? o.O not sure.

I’m definitely built for more sustain, and I’m power based…so I’m not sure how well Dhuumfire will actually work, given that I don’t really utilize conditions for damage at all. (I have no condi damage built in whatsoever.)

Although I was tempted at first to do a hybrid, I opted for power instead.

vampire!

vampiiiiire

The Itzel are supposed to be large. Everything in maguuma is large. They’re a large race version of Hylek.

The Nuhoch, some I think are maybe a little too big…but they’re supposed to be large. Maguuma is supposed to be kind of…pre-historic.

you freaking out over giant frogs to me is strange when we have giant beetles, and giant mosqitos and wasps and stuff.

It’s a very primordial area.

buuuuuuut…..Most of the Nuhoch seem to be a size that I would imagine them being, Giant Bull-frog like Hylek people.

The Norn are still large by tyrian standards…there is no part in the lore whatsoever that describes norns as “the largest race that exists in the world”, or the charr as “huge towering beings”…Charr vary in size, they’re big cats.

Norn are giant compared to humans, sure…but the Jotun are giants, and larger than Norn…and then there’s the ACTUAL giants who are just immense.

Just my thought. (I do not think that itzel should be the size of skritt, given that they ARE supposed to be quite large in comparison to normal little hylek)

^ Your summary of Prophecies isn’t exactly…thorough nor is it fully correct in sequence of the events.

Basically, the charr performed “the searing” (rain of fire and crystals) on Ascalon, basically wrecking it. Prince rurik lead refugees across the shiverpeaks where he was killed.

Kryta took in the thing and the White mantle(people in power) would ocassionally take chosen to “train”. These chosen were actually being sacrificed on the bloodstone(an ancient stone that holds magic inside of it) to the Mursaat, who are an ancient race of spellcasters also known as the ‘unseen ones’.

The player, with the assistance of the shining blade, discovers these sacrifices and stops the White Mantle/ Mursaat, this in turn releases the titans(big bad guys who taught the charr how to do the searing) from their prison. [woopsies. you caused an ouchy]

Eventually you kill the titans, AFTER they’re released by stopping the mursaat.

Around the time also Vizier Khilbron used a forbidden scroll to sink Orr into the ocean to prevent it from being taken by the charr.

King Adelbern of ascalon used the spell “foefire” to decimate the charr in ascalon which also killed everybody in the city and turned them into ghosts.

That’s a bit of a summary about prophecy based stuff. (It’s called prophecies because your journey is part of the “flameseeker prophecies” spoken by the dragon prophet Glint.

but again I would suggest just reading the wiki. lots of details.

RNGesus is a cruel god, and he hates me so.

I heard maybe they changed the levels at which they drop?

sooooo.

Very simple post, for a very simple question.

Using Spite/Soul Reaping

Reapers Onslaught orrrrr Blighter’s Boon?

I’ve been hearing both.

(I’m a rather tanky mix of knights/Soldier/Marauders)

Edit: I also have around 92% crit rate in shroud without the use of fury.

is there a power+toughness+Ferocity stat set that might be a little better to use than some of the precision I have?

is Toughness possibly a little more useful in maguuma than my ferocity will be?

I’m at 190% crit multiplier with scholar runes…should I use scrapper runes to boost toughness/ -7% from anything within 600 range? that might synergize well with anything chilled doing -10% damage, which means it’d be a total of -17% if something was close to me and chilled.

I’m wondering….always wondering.
bloop.

also what food should I use? something with ferocity? something with lifesteal on crit?
I have Force and Fire on my staff and Force/Bloodlust on my GS right now, and then I also have dagger/warhorn…the warhorn having bloodlust and the dagger currently having an open slot I might put the leeching into.

halp