Guild Wars 2

I was thinking about this question a few days earlier and realized it’s really hard to answer this one. Most people like a class because they like the class mechanics, how skills interact with each other or certain weapon sets and traits.

Because your favorite skill is such an isolated object, it might not even be from your favorite class. I can imagine people love Corrupt Boon but not the necro class in general.

For me; it’s Heartseeker. I love the feeling of hunting my target down with executing damage that gets higher as my target gets lower. The ultimate assassinating move in my opinion. Dat feel when it doesn’t crit 3 times in a row tho.

So what’s yours?

vinceftw.5086:

I was thinking about this question a few days earlier and realized it’s really hard to answer this one. Most people like a class because they like the class mechanics, how skills interact with each other or certain weapon sets and traits.

Because your favorite skill is such an isolated object, it might not even be from your favorite class. I can imagine people love Corrupt Boon but not the necro class in general.

For me; it’s Heartseeker. I love the feeling of hunting my target down with executing damage that gets higher as my target gets lower. The ultimate assassinating move in my opinion. Dat feel when it doesn’t crit 3 times in a row tho.

So what’s yours?

hs spammer detected!

anyway, spectral walk ftw~

I auto in between HS 90% of the times

Fiery greats… nevermind.

I’m tied between traited steal and corrupt boon. Anything that control boons, really.

Box of Parana’s

The engineers underwater tool kit skill.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Box_of_Piranhas

Epidemic

I just love the way it looks when it goes off, and who doesn’t love spreading all your conditions to everyone

“Tremor” on Warriors offhand mace skill #5

Corrupt Boon.

Oh the delicious agony of boon focused builds. I love when I face an elementalist (think it’s dagger dagger, they have boons up nearly 24/7, sorry don’t play ele) and see all those nice boons, them dodging and ducking all over the place. I use signet of spite, along with my marks and scepter abilities to force out their condition cleanse then follow with corrupt boon, then usually it’s just a matter of time until they keel over from all the conditions they have.

A thought provoking query, but there’s only one skill..that takes me back…

Magnet Pull Oh the times we have had.

I just can’t help being attracted to you.

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ice drake venom

Epidemic, no doubt.
The effect, the sound and cool, unique thing this skill does make it #1 for me forever in this game. That’s the sole reason why I made my Necromancer after launch and fell in fool’s love. I wish I could use it more in PvP and PvE apart from open world.

Second comes Death Shroud. It’s effect on Charr Necromancer is outstanding. Brilliant profession mechanic which should’ve been expanded and more fluid in gameplay, but nevertheless, cool thing.

Third ? Skull Crack/Kill Shot. I don’t know why, but landing these skills just feels so right and rewarding.

Epidemic. Because Sharing is Caring. Why should one poor fool be the only one to enjoy what you have to offer?

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Epidemic. Because Sharing is Caring. Why should one poor fool be the only one to enjoy what you have to offer?

i like the way u put it

entangle for playing on my ranger but moa morph is fun no matter who you are.

11111111111111111 oh wait…

Phoenix, hands down. Looks cool, sounds cool, and combines so much functionality in one skill.

Favorite
Asura guardian hammer #2 – somersault SMASH (with bonus shiny sfx!)

Honorable mention
Corrupt Boon on a guardian who just popped his Save Yourselves imawin button. Priceless.

I am rather fond of Blink…for the pure reason that I get to blink forward and when I arrive, pink butterflies fly off into the air. Those stupid butterfly effects are one of the reasons I love the mesmer profession so much.

Elixir gun kit acid bomb cause it catapults you to safety and leaves a nasty puddle of unblockable aoe behind that does decent damage, got a short cooldown and is a blast finisher. Used in a combo field it gives the team and yourself some boons and damages the enemie while you can retreat for a short moment to heal up or assist a ranged weapon user behind you. I just love this skill.

Honorable mention: Healing turret

Underwater: Frozen Abyss
Land: Glyph of Storms

Meteor Shower. It’s the only skill in the game that truly makes me feel powerful.

The long cast time. The animation (Mine is a charr so I point to the sky and look like I’m literally PULLING the meteors down in a very tribal shaman kind of way). The death that comes down in many flaming rocks that crash into the ground. The damage output against a group is also incredible. Definitely worth that cast time.

I’m starting to lean towards Throw Mine/Mine Field on Engi just due to how much it screws over Thieves.

• Think you’re about to get ambushed? Throw the main skill at your feet and they’ll miss their Baskstab or w/e else they were planning.

• Trying to wuss out by using Shadow Refuge? Throw it in the middle and knock them out of it.

• Use Overcharged Shot + Magnet Pull + Mine Field and and basically seal their doom if they’ve used their stun break.

• Hell, drop the Mine Field and kite around them with evades that spawn bombs and kill them while not taking any damage.

Close second is Skull Crack, leaving someone stunned for up to 3.75 seconds is always fun.

Bone minions. Because shredding a thief that just basilisk venomed you never fealt so good.

Fiery Rush.

RIP my beloved.

Swoop when attacking. Close second is counter attack. Both are ranger GS but the animations when using a Human female are superb.

Another for Throw Mine/Minefield here – it’s just a very useful pair of skills, offering control, boon-stripping and pretty good damage, and they even synergize with each other fairly well. On top of that, both have short cooldowns, making them excellent for extended engagements, as well as skirmishes.

I’ve always like Judge’s Intervention because its sheer usefulness in so many situations:

1. Mobility – Guards have access to so little, so every small bit of mobility is like gold dust.
2. Escape – Guards have even less methods of escape, and this is one of them provided you have a handy bunny rabbit to port to.
3. Combos – As it’s instant cast it can be chained together with many other skills to help deliver CC and burst to your targets. Without any access to soft-cc conditions you have to rely on this to inflict any kind of meaningful damage to more mobile professions. Works well with the hammer, gs, mace and sword.
4. Sneak up on unsuspecting enemies ( especially when they think they are safe on structures above you )
5. For when you are stuck in terrain, and you want out.
6. Survive infinite fall damage.
7. It does reasonable damage and inflicts burning ( so it’ll tear down Aegis before you begin your burst rotation )

Hundred Blades – when one blade is not enough

kill shot, because its hilarious baiting people into it.

Blink <3~ <3~ <3~

Signet of dolyak

Fear Me. Says it all.

Signet of earth, I love the long range immobs in wvw, great for bring those pesky warriors back into the fight, or snagging someone out of an enemy zerg running by. Can’t wait for the buff ^^

Signet of Vampirism. It’s hilarious.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Signet of Vampirism. It’s hilarious.

How bad it is…

An Ode to Daggerstorm.

There’s something insanely awesome about daggerstorm because it’s directly opposite of everything else the thief ever does. Normally we’re attempting to avoid notice, doing these little hit and run tactics, lurking on the fringe of fights, dancing cautiously with our opponents. Then comes daggerstorm.

Daggerstorm is like opening a window in a dark room, instantly your thief goes from a skirmisher selectively picking at single targets to a whirling engine of destruction with a big flashy effect that says “LOOK AT ME I WILL KILL ALL THE THINGS!” as if, for a brief moment, he forgot everything he knows about the world and just said “kitten it, I’ll just flip out now”

Sure other classes have flashy “mode switch” elites like tornado or juggernaut or that awesome cloud thing that necro do that I can’t remember the name of, but they aways feel like bigger versions of what the class already does to me. Daggerstorm is different because it looks at its class and says “you know what? screw all that, I’m gonna spin in circles and attack everything at once because I’m daggerstorm. Say something about it”

Pile on mad king runes and signet of malice, and daggerstorm becomes even more awesome, summoning a flock of white birds at his brief moment of invincible glory like the living embodiment of every John Woo movie (do it with a P/P build and wear a trenchcoat for maximum cinematic effect)

For eight seconds I am invincible. I am immortal. I am something greater than I was. For eight seconds I am free. For eight seconds I kiss the face of the divine. And then it’s over. The skill ends or my boons are stripped and I am once again that fragile scrapper, evading or being mercilessly beaten to death. You allowed me to taste a glory for that short time dagger storm.

I love you.

PopeUrban.2578:

Daggerstorm.

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you just reminded me why i stuck with a daggerstorm + signet of malice build for so long. low on health, surrounded and outmanned? DAGGERSTORM, NOW I’M AT FULL HEALTH AND EVERYONE IS BLEEDING TO DEATH.

Empower! Why? Because ever since I started playing mmos I wanted to be able to tank with a staff like Gandalf in the frontlines of war. And now I can finally do that while full healing with stability in the middle of a zerg clash. Now if this question was best trait then that would have to be Altruistic Healing of course.

Daggerstorm. It’s just a dream

(Secound one: Stomp)

ricky.2679:

Empower! Why? Because ever since I started playing mmos I wanted to be able to tank with a staff like Gandalf in the frontlines of war. And now I can finally do that while full healing with stability in the middle of a zerg clash. Now if this question was best trait then that would have to be Altruistic Healing of course.

gandalf defeated the balrog by using line of warding. true story.

Lightning Flash

There’s something just very satisfying about using Earthshaker.

My favourite skill used to be the hammerstun, back then… but after all the nerfs I didn’t really use it anymore.

Now it’s the Rocket Boots.

Big Ol’ Bomb.

There’s something about seeing mobs flying into the air, might-assisted burning into dust that most other skills don’t really replicate even if they do more damage.

Phase Retreat

Has to be Savage Leap for me. That skill is pure Parkour.

Oh all the times with my warrior, my sword and savage leap on top of buildings I shouldn’t be. Just flying around, parkouring in GW2.

Very tough question!
Final Thrust is certainly high on the list,
But favourite of all skills would have to be Lich Form!
As a power necro it pretty much personifies Oppenheimer’s famous quote
“Now I become death, destroyer of Worlds.”

Spamming out colossal crits on anything unfortunate enough to be in your way

Decoy (for its many possible applications) shortly followed by Blink

Animation-wise, Empower with a little cute asura beats all.

PopeUrban.2578:

An Ode to Daggerstorm.

I love you.

<3 both of you, Daggerstorm for all the reasons you listed and you for wording it so nicely.