Help with weapon choose

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Posted by: Condutas.3580

Condutas.3580

Hello there misters and ladies!

At the moment, I have :

guardian power + vitality + thougness with greatsword / Scepter + Focus.

ranger zerker with greatsword / longbow

necro viper’s with scepter + Focus / Staff.

Ok, this is the deal: I want to do a raid char, based in condition damage, which will definately be my necro. I want to have him using scepter + dagger (and not focus) / greatsword (and not staff).

Its my plan too remove the greatsword from my guardian or ranger and give to my necro, changing the stats.

This is what I want to know: I want both my ranger and my guardian too use something diferent then greatsword, soo that I will only have one necro in my account using a greatsword weapon and no one else.

Which others weapons are nice for a pvt guardian and a zerker ranger, besides the greatsword?

Thank you for reading all this text, hoping for answers

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Posted by: Sigfodr.9576

Sigfodr.9576

Not sure why you only want 1 class with gs, but thats your choice

You use your guard for wvw? if so hammer is a good pick.

Your ranger prob sword+axe or warhorn. You might have played with main hand sword earlier and did not like it. Give it another chance, it was changed and feels really nice now.

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Posted by: azureai.9764

azureai.9764

Not sure what you mean by “pvt guardian”, but sword w/shield is a nice damage balance, and sword w/torch is good damage overall on guardians.

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Posted by: Khailyn.6248

Khailyn.6248

for guardian and ranger, if not greatsword , use sword. would still work perfectly fine with focus and axe offhands.

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Posted by: TheSwede.9512

TheSwede.9512

Scepter/Dagger + GS is a horrible combo for Necro and you’ll struggle greatly to find a squad that’ll take you along. Reason for that is that Scepter/Dagger is a good Condi set-up, but GS is a Power weapon through and through. It’s absolutely atrocious for a Condi Build. Even with Deathly Chill, its extremely slow AA doesn’t even hold a candle to the Bleed Stacks Scepter tosses out.

There are some decent Power Reaper builds with GS far as I know (Check out Brazil on Youtube for that) but I can’t recall how useful those are after the last patch.

Bottomline is: If you wanna go GS for Reaper, power build all the way. You wanna go Scepter, then it’s Condi. Don’t go both, it won’t work out.

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Posted by: Condutas.3580

Condutas.3580

First…

Thanks you All for the comments, really apreaciate.

Let me rephrase everything: I have a ranger zerk, a guardian PVT (power vitality thougness) and a necro with sinister status (mainly condition damage power precision).

Soo, since I wanted a raid based
char out of this 3… I searched around and decided that my necro was the one closest to a raid possibility.

At the moment, my necro have 5 “Viper” acessories, one “sinister” backpiece. My armor were changed recently to “Viper”.

I need Too be 100% sure of this next step: which weapons are used in a necro condition damage ready for raid?

Please help me here with explanations of which weapon and why…

Apreaciate ????????

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Posted by: Sigfodr.9576

Sigfodr.9576

I need Too be 100% sure of this next step: which weapons are used in a necro condition damage ready for raid?

Please help me here with explanations of which weapon and why…

Apreaciate ????

Ok, it depends abit. There are generally 2 condi builds for necro (reaper) atm, the difference between the 2 are the weapons they use, the traits, the utilitys and the “goal”.

The DAMAGE build: This is a new build that popped up after last patch, it use sceper/dagger + GS (for build see here: http://qtfy.eu/build/necromancer , small differences can be made to utilitys, and for instance elite golem can be helpful for CC if the group need it)

The SUPPORT (with abit of dmg): is the “old” blood something build (for build see here http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQRBLRtG2JNiQ1NYnNg5mA7NYpYwiCADgEw0KYGEDi3hFxkIA-TxhHQBA4kAQO9DZUJIBV+RP1fq1TAoc7PQKgFVWB-e)

Why use 1 over the other?

Benefit of the DPS build, more dps.. doohh alot more dmg, and can be used on all bosses if you know how to use it.

Benefit of the support build, this can transfer conditions away from your team, and therefore save people that othervise will die or have problems due to these conditions. Mainly usefull at sloth and mathias. Besides that it can “pull” downed people over to the necro with “soul spiral” so if someone go down in a poison pool or another bad place, you can save them.

As you can see on the builds, its mainly 1 weapon thats the difference (you can just use 1 scepter in the blood build), so it is possible to have/use both, depending on your groups needs or the boss. The main thing is to learn the build, learn the skills. ALL the skills and learn the rotation (mainly of the dps build).

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Posted by: SlippyCheeze.5483

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Scepter/Dagger + GS is a horrible combo for Necro and you’ll struggle greatly to find a squad that’ll take you along. Reason for that is that Scepter/Dagger is a good Condi set-up, but GS is a Power weapon through and through. It’s absolutely atrocious for a Condi Build. Even with Deathly Chill, its extremely slow AA doesn’t even hold a candle to the Bleed Stacks Scepter tosses out.

cough the condition “meta” builds use it right now. it’s definitely only briefly used, but it brings a bunch to the table in pve with whirl finishers, the grab/chill, etc, coupled with the reaper shroud.

It’s not the thing to camp, but it’s definitely worth having. Not to mention that the “best” condition gear, vipers, brings plenty of power to the table, so GS AA is good for old-world objects that don’t take conditions, etc.

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Posted by: TheSwede.9512

TheSwede.9512

Scepter/Dagger + GS is a horrible combo for Necro and you’ll struggle greatly to find a squad that’ll take you along. Reason for that is that Scepter/Dagger is a good Condi set-up, but GS is a Power weapon through and through. It’s absolutely atrocious for a Condi Build. Even with Deathly Chill, its extremely slow AA doesn’t even hold a candle to the Bleed Stacks Scepter tosses out.

cough the condition “meta” builds use it right now. it’s definitely only briefly used, but it brings a bunch to the table in pve with whirl finishers, the grab/chill, etc, coupled with the reaper shroud.

It’s not the thing to camp, but it’s definitely worth having. Not to mention that the “best” condition gear, vipers, brings plenty of power to the table, so GS AA is good for old-world objects that don’t take conditions, etc.

Well, look at that! I stand corrected, seems I was stuck in an old mindset. Nevermine my post.

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