Guild Wars 2

Hey all, not sure which forum to post this in as its a general question (but doesn’t really fit in the general forums imo). Anyways, since my necromancer has 90 bugs and as more get fixed the more becomes broken. For instance, since the last patch our vampiric traits steal health from enemies and heal us (sure) but now they steal health, and they actually heal the enemies (tested and confirmed). This is confirmed with wells as well. Anyways I’m just fed up with the class, I can’t go minionmaster (ai is garbage) power builds are slightly lacking and not my playstyle same goes for conditions,(while good not my kind of play) and now the healthstealing bunker style that I was enjoying heals my enemies wohoo…
My question -
Which prof, in your opinion, does the best support. Water ele, engi, or gaurdian. I play mostly WVWVW.

Thanks all!
Necrohnomicon – 64 necro: SHELVED.

Yeah, unfortunately, despite the cool idea, necro is somewhat of a crap class. Can’t blame you for picking it, it looks cool, but you got suckered, I think. Even without bugs, it still is down the middle for both damage and survivability, so you won’t be able to enjoy either aspect completely. I’ve never run into any major problems when fighting a necro as either my Ranger or my Guardian.

As far as the best support, I would say Guardian. I have a level 80 full exotic with a healing/vit/tough build. I’m definitely a bunker/healer. I can take 4 or 5 enemies in wvw and survive long enough to get out or get help. Also with a simple skill swap i become a healer.

I can show you my build more extensively later. It’s a simple one. Doesn’t rely on skills or utility, just pure stats. I stacked Vit/Toughness/Healing Power and got some Power on the side from my weapons. I win 90% of 1v1s as long as the enemy doesn’t immediately run away. When they run, it’s a little tougher seeing as Guardians have no viable ranged damage.

My build:

Full TA Exotic Magi’s set (Healing Power/Precision/Vitality)
AC Exotic Soldier Weapons (Power/Toughness/Vit)
Combination of Sapphire/Beryl Jewels (Beryl Amulet, Beryl Ring, Beryl Earring, Sapphire Ring, Sapphire Earring) I chose a combination of two jewel types because I didn’t want to stack vit at the expense of toughness or vice versa.
Dolyak Runes (50 Vit, 165 Toughness, Passive Regen)
Traits: 30 Vit/Healing, 30 Toughness/Crit Damage, 10 Power/Condition Duration

If you’re looking for versatile, then an Engineer has a lot of options through their various Kit utility skills (which effectively give you an environmental weapon). Also they get bonus skill slots to make up for the potentially lost skill slots that your Kit weapons could occupy.

On a personal note, my greatest joy of the Engineer is that your racial choice really matters since your bonus skill slots are based on your slotted Utility and Healing slot skills. By slotting a Racial skill in one of those standard slots, you’ll also get access to a unique bonus skill that only an Engineer of that race can access.

For WvW, Engineers tend to swear by an offensive AoE damage spec using the Grenade Kit weapon (which can tear apart seige equipment using its Trait increased 1,500 range). Or for a more defensive / support build, many WvW people swear by using the Elixer Gun kit for AoE condition removal and healing.

I rather like guardian for supporting, since I can still get in the thick of things if I want to and starting swinging large bits of metal around.

Elementalist is somewhat fun if you like healing but since it needs a little help from other people to get the biggest effect, and some of the people out in the game world are braindead (OMG IT’S A KITTENING COMBO FIELD USE IT), I personally get a little disappointed with it. Whereas, with guardian, I feel like I can just wade in there and the skills I normally use to bash things will also give everyone sweet boons like aegis and might so hey that’s cool.

Akhet.6527:

I rather like guardian for supporting, since I can still get in the thick of things if I want to and starting swinging large bits of metal around.

Elementalist is somewhat fun if you like healing but since it needs a little help from other people to get the biggest effect, and some of the people out in the game world are braindead (OMG IT’S A KITTENING COMBO FIELD USE IT), I personally get a little disappointed with it. Whereas, with guardian, I feel like I can just wade in there and the skills I normally use to bash things will also give everyone sweet boons like aegis and might so hey that’s cool.

Exactly why I like my Guardian.

My typical fight:

Oh there’s two of us just running around trolling and I see a group of five enemies?

HURR DURR COME HERE -pulls all five to me with my GS elite- -spin around- -tank- -about to die- -heal- -kill two enemies, collect loot- -run like hell- -survive-

Ya, thanks for the imput guys! My guild stacks on themselves in big wvwvw fights so the combofields shouldn’t be a problem (all you hear on vent/ts is blast finish kitten blast finishers now! :p). I’m more looking for the biggest green numbers I can find ^^ my main preference would be ele but I heard the guardian staff got buffed a bit so I’m torn. The guild is calling for support guardys so… Hmmm.

Guardians also have an epic elite skill that lets them cast some epic support skills. AOE heals and all that. I don’t use it much myself, but it helps a lot in large fights.