Guild Wars 2

In Wednesday’s Podcast we are going to talk to Khalifa who is the one of the top Necromancers in the NA tournaments. He also runs a power build and wrote a guide for tournament play as a necromancer at guildwars2guru.com.

He and Zombify are going both going to be able to meet and record tonight. I would love to get some questions from the Necro community that you would like us to go over with him.

Currently Khalif’s record in tournaments 1987 wins and 379 losses as of last night. We are pumped to have him on the podcast this week.

Please post your questions and we will try to get some of them answered.

Still accepting requests to join BoC?

The guild is always accepting requests, at least until we max out at 500.

1) What made you pick powermancer over conditionmancer or hybrids?

2) What’s the #1 advantage a necro have in 1 vs 1?

3) What’s the #1 disadvantage a necro have in 1 vs 1?

4) If Anet lets you pick one major change for the necro, which change would you want?

Same question from me as last time in terms of pvp, how much is the lack of non-transformation stability hurting necros?

Would you pick certain utilities for certain maps? ie Swapping in Spectral Grasp for Spirit Watch to pull orb runners back.

We have gone over a few of those, the podcast is up and running. Unfortunately, I posted this a bit late, but we will have him back on, and we are still trying to get Zombify locked down as well.

CHIPS.6018:

1) What made you pick powermancer over conditionmancer or hybrids?

2) What’s the #1 advantage a necro have in 1 vs 1?

3) What’s the #1 disadvantage a necro have in 1 vs 1?

4) If Anet lets you pick one major change for the necro, which change would you want?

I can touch on these real quick.

1) Powermancer is probably the most fun thing to play in this game imo, conditions while in certain situations can be more effective it’s pretty boring to play imo. I feel like a turret I just sit there and spam condi’s.

2) I would say some of biggest advantages necro’s have in 1v1 is the ability to absorb damage with DS, and control conditions. Being able to let you enemy stack condi’s on you just to send them right back is awesome.

3) The biggest disadvantage we have I would say is probably lack of mobility. If you aren’t running with foot in the grave for stability and you time a dodge badly it can be pretty harmful.

4) If Anet would let me change one thing it would certainly be how life siphon works and scales. Right now it’s down right pathetic and I wish it would actually function like it’s supposed to. Right now the healing you get couldn’t keep you topped off with just a few condi’s on you.

Andele.1306:

Same question from me as last time in terms of pvp, how much is the lack of non-transformation stability hurting necros?

I take foot in the grave in my condi build so it’s not so bad I have pretty good access to stability. That being said if you are running a build without 30 in SR it can be pretty tough to kill classes like ele, engi, guard etc.

unexiist.8167:

Would you pick certain utilities for certain maps? ie Swapping in Spectral Grasp for Spirit Watch to pull orb runners back.

I tend to just swap utilities depending on the build I play, speaking from experience spectral grasp is garbage and almost never worth putting on my bar.

Sorry i wasn’t there last night guys. I literally stepped out for a tiny bit after being on all day and ironically that’s when everyone jumped on haha. Anyway ill catch next cast if Khalifa didn’t get to cover something.

-Zombify

Trust me, there is a lot more to talk about in tournaments than we could cover in an hour.