Guild Wars 2

I play both Necro (Terror Condi 0/30/10/10/20) and Power Ranger (20/20/30/0/0) and enjoy both deeply, but find my self stomped as I attempt to build my Necro specifically to counter my Ranger, I just can not do it for WvW.

Here is a link to my Ranger post/build:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/My-WvW-Power-Ranger-Build/first#post2339064

I have gone up against many Necros after the patch and since I play one its easy for me to read what the other guy is trying to do and counter fear wall, torment and most burst with Ranger knock backs, daze, stun as necro tend to lack stability I know how and when to exploit that.

You grow to ridiculous sizes and keep them apart so they can’t call the Megazord.

In all seriousness, though, your best options are weakness and snares. Tainted Shackles is actually a wonderful response, since the torment ticks harder on the mobile ranger (but doesn’t tick so hard that losing it to the passive condition cleanses really hurts) and the immobilize can’t be dodged to my knowledge. Corrosive Poison Cloud can pretty much deny melee effectiveness as well as reduce the healing.

Other than that, watch for the periodic condition cleanses and time your strong stuff for the 10 second window between them. Chills and weakness are very good for these windows. The ranger build actually doesn’t have much in the way of interrupts (one really useable on each weapon), so the necro stability lack shouldn’t be a huge issue.

My typical condition build should be able to handle the Ranger, honestly. (0/30/20/0/20) Scepter/dagger and Staff. Consume Conditions for the heal, Spectral Wall, Epidemic (target the pet), and Signet of the Locust as utilities, and Plague as the elite. Ranger pops Rampage as One? Pop Plague #2 and make him waste it.

I ran into some rangers this morning that had frequent cleanses. They only got the better of me when they would run into their camps.

I ran 30/20/10/10/0, staff, scepter/dagger and signet of spite, corrupt boon and epidemic.

Spam scepter 1 as much as possible, then save staff 4/dagger 4 for when you get root/immobilized.

How do yo gear?

Stop them from calling the Megazord.