Guild Wars 2

Now not even warriors berserker stance can stop them!

You thought it was just scepter getting boon corrupt? HA

Still won’t be as OP as Dhummfire meta, that kitten was NUTZ.

As a necromancer main who is currently loving revenant, I have one thing and one thing only to say.

May Grenth have mercy on our souls.

Most of these buffs aren’t tied to Spite but Curses instead which means less burst damage and different playstyle/build.

But still it looks quite decent. Everything is up to Thieves now.

Hmm, choices, choices, choices. Condi Necros we’re op? Lol, 2-3 Condis now? They’re absolutely going to wreck-en-mass now. Cheers, for the update, but god is the qq going to be awful against us now.

I’ll have to test things out later. But… there seems to be no reason to play power reaper or use GS at all now. If you go power, dagger will be unconditionally better due to dark pact.

Boon Corruption, when its in smaller bursts of 1 or 2 boons is heavily dependent on RNG in how much pressure it applies. I’m excited to see where it leads, even though I really don’t want to play this game that much anymore since getting involved in other game’s scenes, but I do feel like I owe it to after all the thousands of hours spent on this game.

Besides that I’ll be testing out mender’s tempest with fresh air, and some cancer condi mes build.

If you have a good thief on your team, having more than one necro facing you will be easy to deal with. I think necros are going to be a serious threat now, but we still have the tools to deal with them, unlike chronobunkers.

That Diamond skin nerf will help necros a lot. like, a lot!

nearlight.3064:

I’ll have to test things out later. But… there seems to be no reason to play power reaper or use GS at all now. If you go power, dagger will be unconditionally better due to dark pact.

GS was never a good choice, since reaper shroud is melee. I think an axe build with Paladin amulet will be a fun choice (for more Blighter’s Boon procs with Sigil of Strength). But yeah, condi is more than ever the way to go on necro.

All hail the Reaper.

I say one thing: What necro can do for team? some conditions/condition damage ( up to enemy comp and “focus necro tactic” conditions removals and other defensive skills makes necro do low overall damage. so this and remove/corrupt boons.

What are some/most classes can do for team? high damage, high teamfight survivability, high mobility, boon spamming and healing allies.

Just play one instead of whine and enjoy getting zerged by a whole team of boon spammers

Given the patch notes I guess it was intentional.
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It’s funny to me that the most imaginative thing ANET can come up with is make Necros gods in their balancing approach.

Man, you guys wasted no time at all declaring Necros OP. >. <

Shaogin.2679:

Man, you guys wasted no time at all declaring Necros OP. >. <

It’s hard not too thieves are the only ones with a chance against them.

Someone at ArenaNet REALLY needs to get fired.

How they dare now we need some skill and thinking to kill necromancer! nerf fast?!

Lol bro so I have this skill called balanced stance on a 40sec cd that gives me Stability swiftness and vigor, but this guy just pressed 1 skill and wrecked my stability ):

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

Now that I have boon corrupt on literally every skill its time to start the fear spam.

They should at least reduce the chill damage now that they have so much boon corruption

2 years of maining a Necromancer… Nearly 3k hours logged… Stuck with it through all the down times…

I will have absolutely no mercy on the souls of my victims. Run or be harvested for your skin and blood.

Psyth.7605:

Hmm, choices, choices, choices. Condi Necros we’re op? Lol, 2-3 Condis now? They’re absolutely going to wreck-en-mass now. Cheers, for the update, but god is the qq going to be awful against us now.

what choices you got dont even need to bother with choice to make you can get both power and condi dps while being a fortress thanks to Mercenary amulet

1k power and condi and 560 toughness and vit
combine this with your 50% crit chance on shroud and rip people apart lol

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAoYWnMbClbid2AebC0biliBLeHOETiUPhpwtKKA8tKAA-TpxFwAC3fIxhAYwJAAwDA4wRAoZZAA

Pretty fun Mercenary build speaking of. Probably not optimal, but certainly deadly enough with a fair amount of ease.

Hail Necro! Hail Conditions!
All Mighty Necro, please spare our mortal lives!

ronpierce.2760:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAoYWnMbClbid2AebC0biliBLeHOETiUPhpwtKKA8tKAA-TpxFwAC3fIxhAYwJAAwDA4wRAoZZAA

Pretty fun Mercenary build speaking of. Probably not optimal, but certainly deadly enough with a fair amount of ease.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAoYWnc0Al3gF3A22A0biF2hiKASgzMaej0HN+9r/9H-TpxFwAC3fAwDAYwJAoZZgDHBgEHCAA

seems a better choice if you’re going for a hybrid build with Power focus with Mercenary ammulet

Rezzet.3614:

ronpierce.2760:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAoYWnMbClbid2AebC0biliBLeHOETiUPhpwtKKA8tKAA-TpxFwAC3fIxhAYwJAAwDA4wRAoZZAA

Pretty fun Mercenary build speaking of. Probably not optimal, but certainly deadly enough with a fair amount of ease.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAoYWnc0Al3gF3A22A0biF2hiKASgzMaej0HN+9r/9H-TpxFwAC3fAwDAYwJAoZZgDHBgEHCAA

seems a better choice if you’re going for a hybrid build with Power focus with Mercenary ammulet

Not sure about some of those choices. Just saying, don’t knock it til you try it.

Have had no issues with thieves and Engineers even so far.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

2 years of maining a Necromancer… Nearly 3k hours logged… Stuck with it through all the down times…

I will have absolutely no mercy on the souls of my victims. Run or be harvested for your skin and blood.

YYYYYYYYYESS!
I too have been maining necromancer since launch. Besides ranger mains, no other profession mains can understand our years long struggle!

and the op necro starts 26/01/2016 xD
They have Damage
They have survavility
They have critical *
Guess what’s i will go for now.

Foggy.9213:

and the op necro starts 26/01/2016 xD
They have Damage
They have survavility
They have damage
Guess what’s i will go for now.

They have survability?are we playing same game?
Il better look at theyfs who can oneshot almost every class now and they have kittened mobility too.

Rezzet.3614:

Psyth.7605:

Hmm, choices, choices, choices. Condi Necros we’re op? Lol, 2-3 Condis now? They’re absolutely going to wreck-en-mass now. Cheers, for the update, but god is the qq going to be awful against us now.

what choices you got dont even need to bother with choice to make you can get both power and condi dps while being a fortress thanks to Mercenary amulet

1k power and condi and 560 toughness and vit
combine this with your 50% crit chance on shroud and rip people apart lol

Mercenary is just a Carrion amulet with toughness at the cost of condi power and vit.

Tell me how many Health does a necro has with Reaper form and with condi builds you can get tons of armor to so plz tell me they dont have survavility

vlad.4871:

Foggy.9213:

and the op necro starts 26/01/2016 xD
They have Damage
They have survavility
They have damage
Guess what’s i will go for now.

They have survability?are we playing same game?
Il better look at theyfs who can oneshot almost every class now and they have kittened mobility too.

You mean 50k health is not survivability. It seems that you are not playing the same game.

Necromancer have about 19-25k health. What game do you play where necromancer have 50k health i want to play it now.

Necromancer still have the same big weakness. focus fire survivability/low-med mobility/no buff/heal allies.

Foggy.9213:

Tell me how many Health does a necro has with Reaper form and with condi builds you can get tons of armor to so plz tell me they dont have survavility

PAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Pahaha? You did the funny thing, cause im sure you dont know the same game we are playing, since necro’s have no survivability right?

Necro has 19-25k Plus Reaper Shroud 20k + – wich makes it 40-55k Health yea..
Doesnt need any mobility the dodges are enough (cause 50k Health), it has buff’s enough for it to stay alive, why he would heal allies and how’s that count has necro own survability?

bigmonto.4215:

You mean 50k health is not survivability. It seems that you are not playing the same game.

Even counting full life force necro’s don’t have 50k HP.

Besides HP isn’t survivability. HP just acts as a temporary damage sponge. To have sustained survivability you need lots of healing, or moderate healing pair with mitigation.
Necros have moderate healing and little to no mitigation.

Please play necromancer before posting as im sure you don’t know what you are talking about and just post useless whine.

@ron
i went with something like this:http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAoYWnc0Al3gF3A22A0biF2hiKASgzMaej0HN+9r/9H-TpxFwAC3fAwDAYwJAoZZgDHBgEHCAA

because i lack critical for weakening shroud and it takes time to land. Spiteful spirit is instant and does almost the same thing but provides retaliation which is very interesting i find.Also we bleed and cripple and weaken enough so criple as a cover condi when not running sceptar is nice. Also generate more might and vulnerability this way too.

Sigmoid.7082:

@ron
i went with something like this:http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAoYWnc0Al3gF3A22A0biF2hiKASgzMaej0HN+9r/9H-TpxFwAC3fAwDAYwJAoZZgDHBgEHCAA

because i lack critical for weakening shroud and it takes time to land. Spiteful spirit is instant and does almost the same thing but provides retaliation which is very interesting i find.Also we bleed and cripple and weaken enough so criple as a cover condi when not running sceptar is nice. Also generate more might and vulnerability this way too.

You can also use Viper with my build. I was considering changing to Deathly precision or maybe intelligence instead of Fragile (I used it just as a cover condition). Not sure yet, I might have to test it. The proc isn’t a big deal though, the weakening shroud itself is good enough for me. From experience it’s great as shown above. Killed daredevils, Eles, and scrappers fairly easily.

I also run dagger/dagger so I like the frequent chill from the trait now that it’s better. I don’t like Plague Sending without the signet trait. This build already has good (and controlled) removal from Plague signet, shouts, staff 4, dagger 4. So, I mean. It’s not an issue. I took the chill for pressure and damage.

I’ll have to toy with some other stuff but I’m pretty confident in this build because it has TONS of removal, transfer, boon corruption and effective coverage. I do think that intelligence might be slightly more useful than Fragil though to force weakness procs.

What would you say about this build? I tried it in a couple of matches so far and it went pretty well against both power and condi builds.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBmWD7kZTozGsoGw8GgeTsEMYRJgAQDg6KsF6VxDxlYUE-TJxFwAI3fwZZgEXEAAPAAA

Amulet is Mercenary’s and the sigil on scepter is Superior Sigil of Speed (quickness+swiftness, mostly for quick reaper shroud combos).