is it over? I cannot longer see my demo chars.
what female characters skimpy armor?
there is none that skimpy to be called like that.
What about no?
It does nothing for raid builds. If they are changing the trait it should be for something similar, to increase your damage either condi or power.
No, Reaper’s Onslaught is the DPS trait for Grandmasters. They should make this trait good. 2 Grandmaster traits doing the same thing is a bad idea.
yeah but indirectly nerfed with VP nerf.
And barely an increase in DPS for power builds.
Deathly Chill -Has a 1 sec ICD.
da kitten???
What about no?
It does nothing for raid builds. If they are changing the trait it should be for something similar, to increase your damage either condi or power.
how would you increase the Reaper’s effectiveness for raid content?
I think OP have some serious L2P issues. Asking for nerfs without any analysis, numbers or evidence, just proves how inexperienced he is. This is more a cry post than a constructive discussion.
Maybe scourge is stronger than reaper, but that could mean the latter needs buffs, not the other way around.
Necro with guns is an absolute must-have.
you really know how to bring the dead back to front page.
So people already started crying about necro nerfs? how original.
Bleeding is a better option. C’mon! It’s a dagger, daggers make people bleed, right?
you mean Bard like LOTRO Minstrel ?
like ad&d bard.
As necromancer, you are REALLY good at non-competitive non-rewarding PVE.
Please no. Deathly chill was a mess because it was incompatible with any other chill source. Then it was a mess because they turned it into weak-kitten bleed to fix previous mess. Now it is cancer because to fix previous mess they turned it into 3 bleeds, and suddenly stupidly standing in ice field hoping enemy doesn’t move or your ele won’t override it became a thing. kitten this. Leave damage to damaging condis.
They designed Deathly Chill to compensate necromancer for their stupid useless field combos.
The forums use proprietary software by a firm with which ANet no longer does business. Whatever needs to be done to update them would require replacing the system. Since the forums work and nearly all the bugs can be worked around easily, it seems like a needless expense.
It doesn’t have a night mode, which is pathetic in current times.
It doesn’t have an entire host of things that seem basic in 2017. That doesn’t change the economics that (at least as of recently), it wasn’t a good use of limited resources to replace the forums with new software.
limited resources? How many man-hours do you think it takes to change the kittening colors?
well at the very least players will stop demanding necro be bad damage, as the excuse, ‘it has two hp bars it would be op’ will go away. So I’m hopefully it will be balanced to be competitive damage in realistic scenarios.
That’s a bad excuse, that “second hp bar” (which is not) is THE only form of survivability necromancers have. It’s like saying “ele can’t have high damage because they have a lot of mobility and invulns” it doesn’t make any sense.
The forums use proprietary software by a firm with which ANet no longer does business. Whatever needs to be done to update them would require replacing the system. Since the forums work and nearly all the bugs can be worked around easily, it seems like a needless expense.
It doesn’t have a night mode, which is pathetic in current times.
Perma swiftness is sooo sweet I’m not even mad about this change.
Creative raid builds hah. Joke of the week.
Glad to make your day
I didn’t mean to sound insulting. Sorry if I was but raiding is very much the least creative area of gw2.
Np i wasn’t insulted
That may be so if you want to complete a raid as fast as possible.
But what about just completing a raid while having fun in a possible way, instead of the best way.
- raid
- fun
- creative build
Pick two.
I couldn’t care less about minions.
Of all our problems, this one is the most irrelevant.
But what if I want to run reaper? What about f2p players? Are we not as important?
Necromancers as a whole are not importan to Anet. It’s common knowledge and you must be new.
People need to stop with these stupid comments or stuff like “no one at A.Net plays Necromancer” in their puddle of self-pity. You can apply and read these comments to EVERY profession, in each sub-forum when stuff got nerfed.
That being said: I agree with the general disappointment nontheless. Whenever I used Soul Reaping, Vital Persistence was a nobrainer to pick.
@spectral mastery: I assume they nerfed the 50% duration increase because they increased the duration of the skills themselves.
Well, with this recent buff to LF decay, Anet proved me right. They had to listen to this community because they know kitten about balance, quod erat demonstrandum.
These comments are not stupid, we are just asking for fair balance to this class, because we love it and a lot of people here will leave the game before re rolling an Ele.
I think at this point they’re used to seeing the overblown exaggerated “YOU KILLED MY CLASS FOREVER AND EVER AND EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE!” responses that flood those forums with literally every skill change update. That is until people find out they can just kind of…adapt a little bit and nine times out of ten, they realize that nothing was “OMG RUINED” and quiet down again. Until the next skill update.
you say that because you clearly don’t have a clue of what a HUGE nerf necros received.
you should see what they did to necromancers…
I wouldn’t rather say that devs are bad or so. I think they know what they do.
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great joke, mate!
Shroud ends faster, and you have to wait longer to use it again…yea thanks anet.
Reduced survivability and same old (and lame) dps.
Don’t pick necromancer nor revenant. Those are trash tier in every game mode.
Trash
Necromancer
That won’t ever change it seems.
But what if I want to run reaper? What about f2p players? Are we not as important?
Necromancers as a whole are not importan to Anet. It’s common knowledge and you must be new.
Yeah I guess I have to agree with you on that one mate. But I’ve gotten a lot of success with necromancers in PvP by staying in shroud. Now I not only suck in all areas of PvE, I also suck at PVP. It’s almost as if the devs thought to themselves “Guys, necros are officially the deprived child nobody wants in PvE. How do we make it worse?” It makes me wonder if engis are also still on the same boat with us.
Either way, it’s still infuriating when they nerf the hell out of necromancers and come up with the most shallow rationales for doing so. Jesus Anet, just say necromancers have never been a priority
Let’s imagine Anet realizes they kittened up, it will take half a year to revert this nerf.
But what if I want to run reaper? What about f2p players? Are we not as important?
Necromancers as a whole are not importan to Anet. It’s common knowledge and you must be new.
Life Force stays, but Shroud does not. The new F2-F5 skills cost Life Force to use.
F5 actually is a sand shroud you enter for 7s and that will trigger all shroud traits that rely on entering/being in shroud. You dont use life force as hp though
Except its on a 20s cd, which kinda guts the “on entering shroud” traits -.-
Trait synergy have never been a thing among necromancers.
They always say necromancers can’t have anything nice because “second life bar”.
So Anet decided to take away that and give absolutely nothing of what this community have asked for years, in exchange.
gliders, the only reason I bought it.
ANet said years ago that they tried to get capes in, but apparently they clashed with Charr animations.
So you can cross that one off your list.
We could get cultural armor skins, whose shoulders are capes. Limited to human, plants, rats (maybe) and norns.
hahahah did you really expect some love for necros? If so, you don’t know Arena Net at all.
My immersion is also broken by how the second-most simplest weapon mankind has to offer, after the wooden club, the spear somehow doesn’t exist, but we made the mental leap to harpoons somehow…
the kitten are you talking about?
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spear
Increase personal DPS or add some form of dps increase for the party.
thx for your answer!
and I agree, this forum sucks big time.
why are so many people calling them shards instead of shades?
Not sure if this is the right place, but whatever.
Is there any way to put this site in Night Mode? I mean, with a dark background and white letters. This almost white screen is really uncomfortable for the eyes.
Change this. Scourge is an extremely strong healer that also fills a PS role.
So you think it will be like this: 2x Scourge > PS+Real Healer ?
I don’t mind that you are nerfing conditions and boon duration. Except that you have built the Elite Spec Scourge to be boon corruption and condition damage. So effectively you have nerfed us before its even out.
this post is hilarious because it’s true!
WP mentioned that Anet was going to change reaper so that it would be a power spec. What do you think will be changed? I love my condi reaper, don’t really want it taken away.
They’re gonna make Reaper a power spec by nerfing its condi portion, not by buffing the power aspects.
lol. eles are not rangers.
another failed attempt to fix raid necromancers…. I’m just kidding, they are not even trying.
I’m honestly prepared to laugh my ass off on Tuesday when the announcement disproves a lot of the supposedly leaked information.
Loooool, you must feel really dumb right now.
I also think ANet will not add either a new profession or race, not just now, but going forward. I don’t care, either, as long as any Elite Specs offer new ways to play. As to the OP’s desire for Dervish, I’d be fine with a scythe weapon being added and made part of an Elite Spec that offered a similar “feel” to the Dervish Class from Nightfall.
Reaper Shroud is the closest we’ll get to Dervish class.
no, necromancers are supposed to be completely useless in raids.
nop
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Why do you need swimsuits when we have buttcapes?
lol? no one dodged that ice field. they deserve to die.