Necromancer for WvW
Asking people here is going to get roughly the same answers as metabattle, FWIW.
Anyway, you should play whatever you know better and/or enjoy more, really. It doesn’t matter that much.
Thanks for the response! I ended up gearing up my necro with dire gear and the elite spec and….oh boy it’s fun haha. I’m thinking of trying out Carrion gear to see about getting more use out of the reaper shroud. Don’t know yet but it’s a lot of fun.
MetaBattle and IntoTheMists are two pretty nice resources when it comes to builds.
I use carrion on my necro/reaper, and it needs a lot of work. Many people recommend viper, but I’m just now building up a second necro to find out how well it works. I primarily play PvE, so I’m not nearly as interested in WvW specs. But, one obvious problem is that many of the skills for reaper simply don’t exist in WvW, like all reaper shroud skills.
But, one obvious problem is that many of the skills for reaper simply don’t exist in WvW, like all reaper shroud skills.
By “simply don’t exist” I assume you actually mean “are not used”, because otherwise this is … rather wrong.
Also, at least the ice field / whirl combo for throwing around bleeds is definitely used it WvW, verifiable by looking for the complaints about how overpowered it is. Beyond that, I routinely see (and use) reaper shroud skills in WvW.
So … while you might not use them, it is not the case that they “do not exist”, or that they cannot be used effectively.
But, one obvious problem is that many of the skills for reaper simply don’t exist in WvW, like all reaper shroud skills.
By “simply don’t exist” I assume you actually mean “are not used”, because otherwise this is … rather wrong.
Also, at least the ice field / whirl combo for throwing around bleeds is definitely used it WvW, verifiable by looking for the complaints about how overpowered it is. Beyond that, I routinely see (and use) reaper shroud skills in WvW.
So … while you might not use them, it is not the case that they “do not exist”, or that they cannot be used effectively.
No, I mean they don’t exist. Hit F1. The skills are not reaper skills, they’re necro skills.
On my engineer, if I equip a mace, I have no weapon skills at all.
Now, maybe I’m missing something in how to make them work, but having skills 1-5 being completely blank qualifies as “do not exist”.
WvW has its own saved set of traits, by default the Elite spec line isn’t slotted. Thus you Reaper is just a Necro (ergo: base shroud skills) and your Scrapper is just an Engie and can’t wield hammer. (No engie can wield mace).
Look through your specializations – you’ll want them differently from PvE anyway!
Sorry, I meant hammer. Same thing, just smaller?
You may be right. I just assumed they came with.
Just like the skill bar is saved separately with a default starting build (often containing racial skills, and sometimes duplicate skills for some reason) the traitsvare also saved separately with a default build.
Sorry, I meant hammer. Same thing, just smaller?
You may be right. I just assumed they came with.
I tried using the reaper trait, and it worked. So, I was wrong above.
Glad that ended well. It’s definitely not the most … intuitive interface, for sure! At least I have another way people might talk about this problem to pattern match next time.