Guild Wars 2

I levelled an Asura Necro to 80 at least a year ago, probably more. I can remember nothing much about playing it, but it was a staff based MM with basically Cleric gear. In HoT I want to play a reaper and will try it out in the BWE. Is MM still feasible? – (some recent forum comments seem to suggest it is) and if so what build / play would you suggest?
I remember I gave it up during LS2 when it didn’t seem to have the power to solo one of the bosses – a fight I have completed ok with several other characters.

MM in PvE is pretty mediocre. Playable in most cases, but really no point to doing it when other builds do the same content far more efficiently.

With the new rise skill MM can be decent with lots of them running around. Might help reduce enemy aoe dmg, think I’ll try out reaper mm in the bwe. I wish flesh golem was better though, the active skill just doesn’t cut it

Depends on what you’re trying to do. It’s not meta for pvp or pve, but still strong (or at least annoying) in pvp, and not really needed in group PvE content, currently. With some of the trait changes it could be fun though. I hadn’t thought about MM with Reaper but there is a build there. Whether its a good one though, idk.

Here is a quick and dirty build I made for you. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQJAWRnc0Adbid1Au1Ac4gFqBbKEUBmASBgBwwKOEWCThA-TByFwAEuAA0U+ZS9nL6Ckt/AAlgIeCAaN/BA-e

It uses soldiers, but you can change it to a squisher stat if you’re comfortable with that. You could use Valkyries and take the reaper trait that increases crit chance depending on how much vulnerability is on the target (up to 50% chance).

Also I am using Lich for due to the buff today, minions are no longer destroyed on activation! This means you could summon even more minions on lich skill 4, plus have the powerful lich auto attack.

Reaper MM was a blast in Beta, and now with Lich not destroying your minions, I can only imagine how much fun I’m gonna have this weekend <3

Bunnytown.7801:

Here is a quick and dirty build I made for you. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQJAWRnc0Adbid1Au1Ac4gFqBbKEUBmASBgBwwKOEWCThA-TByFwAEuAA0U+ZS9nL6Ckt/AAlgIeCAaN/BA-e

Thanks. I’ll give this one a try

Just poking my head in after almost a year away – did the AI for minions get fixed so they are actually useful now? When I bailed they would stand in one place and hit air half the time….

I went with a vampiric heal minion master on my necro and managed to solo my way through the Orr maze and take on the boss in the middle before the changes. Now, with the new minion AI the maze was a rofl stomp. OMG it is so good!

caelaran.6250:

Just poking my head in after almost a year away – did the AI for minions get fixed so they are actually useful now? When I bailed they would stand in one place and hit air half the time….

Their aggro works basically perfectly now. The only “AI issues” left are just issues with the AI system in general.