Guild Wars 2

Well I am not new to the game, or to PvP for that matter. But I havent play too much Condition builds in PvP in a while and today I noticed when an ele and I fought a necro … Instead of helping my fellow Ele I just made the necro more powerfull with my conditions so I ran away in the end to let them have a 1vs1 and pof the Ele won.

I want to ask now, I know some classes are made to kill some classes but I want to be able to handle a Necro like that if I happen to end up 1vs1 the necro and had to defend that point. I play a “homemade” bomb engineer and it works fantastic exept against some Eles and Necros. Any good advices?

Condi transfers got much better this patch for Necros.

Don’t throw conditions on a Necro you can’t handle yourself, you’ll get them back.

Necros are designed to bring some chaos to the condi-meta.

Also, if you’re finding them too tanky (which many necro builds are being design around now), it’s probably a tank build (duh) which means their dmg really won’t be too worrisome. Bunker builds are a battle of attrition – and sometimes it’s better to just peace out and find a different target.

I think one thing you could possibly try is using light conditions on them first to test and see if they have auto plague signet. 3 conditions and wait for them to attack, so maybe something like vuln, cripple and one bleed should do it. If they instantly fall off and onto you/a friend, congratulations, you now have 24 seconds to go nuts on them with CC and all. If you do see they have plague signet, then be wary and try and bait the condi transfers/boon rips. outside that, its honestly the toughest fight you will have in the game at the moment. In some cases, its just not worth the effort for an engineer.

Those are general things to be wary of; passive plague signet, signet of spite and normal plague signet can all ruin your day along with their dagger 4 (its fast, green and looks like a projectile but its has some blackness to it unlike life blast.) as condition.