Guild Wars 2

Please add this one to the Spvp/tpvp guides
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqC6stI8_08

Shroudstomp and Plaguestomp guide will follow

Please add this shroudstomp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd-PBnRWmic

Hello Nemesis,

I must confess that at first I didn’t thought the necromancer profession would be something I would enjoy, but after watching your video’s I decided to give it a try.
I must say that I’m loving every minute of my necromancer, espacialy because I could start with a clear understanding of what it was capable off.
Also your tutorials gave me a much better insight in the build system, and that is something that stays the same for every profession.

So what I want to say is: thank you for showing me a great profession and for all the hard work you put in your past and future video’s and tutorials.

Keep up the good work, and I’m looking forward to the next content that you’ll be posting.

Just wanted to pop into this thread long enough to say hello and thank Nemesis. I like to change my builds fairly frequently and a lot of the builds that I’ve arrived at as useful have consistently been within a point or two of the ones you’ve come up with. It’s also really nice to see someone not falling victim to the “necros only have three builds” trap that I hear a lot of people use to bash necros. And while I agree that written tutorials would be helpful, the videos are always clearly explained and well put together. The zerker/rabid hybrid is still one of my faves.

I think its time for me to pay my respects to Nemesis—

He puts an enormous amount of time into providing these resources for new and old players alike, and gives his unbiased input on why his builds work.

I learn things from this guy every time i peek into the forums.

Cheers!

Quick question on your WvW Nemesis. Smaller group is my WvW style preference, but I don’t have the funds/time to grind out ascended gear for a second character.

How well does your build function with just exotics, or is it one of those “razor’s edge” things where it really needs full ascended or don’t even bother?

EDIT: I spazzed for a second and wrote celestial instead of ascended. I meant ascended. >_>

Nemesis at the moment the Spiteful Talisman trait (II in the spite line) seems bugged and actually halves the amount of health regen on Focus 4 (1081 to 541 by erroneously halving the duration of the regen itself rather than just reducing the ability’s cooldown by 20% which you are traiting for). This is obviously a bug as you wouldn’t spend a trait to reduce the CD only to have the regen halved…traiting for diminished ability???? I am using your build at the moment but not that trait till it is fixed.

Edit: when playing around with the maths including the increased area and the reduced CD, the normalised regen comparison on the traited F4 is marginally ahead ….but only marginally. The trait does little when comparing the normalised outcome. The opportunity cost of using the trait for an extra few% regen over the untraited F4 might not be worth sacrificing another trait for it.

Well apparently anyone who speaks out against blatant problems with the game gets their threads de-stickied now… but this deserves to still be at the top so hopefully these guides can help any poor souls that need it.

to be fair warrior’s and engi’s equivalent threads in their forums were also de-stickied.

maybe they did it because it was not up to date or they just didnt like Nemesis’s latest released vid speaking of their last balance patch. but the later would just sound childish and not something a developer would do to their players

Too bad. I started playing a Necro when I bumped into these videos on Youtube. It was only after I started playing that I realized I could have just looked at the first pinned forum thread. I wish they’d re-pin it.

bump to the top for all to see.

bump again for all to see…

Here is his video on the Dec 10 update, for those of you that hasn’t seen it.

I totally agree with Nemesis.

Necromancer also need skills that help more to the team, you simply can’t buff your team being a necro.

I am just curious, since it is 8 months since the original post was edited. Are the guides still beneficial/viable?

ps: I am about to dig myself in-depth on the Necromancer and dont fancy spending hours and hours on off-par information ^^

Nemesis did update his berserker, condimancer and hybrid build guides for both PVE and PVP/WvW purposes post dhuumfire patch update so they should still be pretty viable except the nerf to one trait which is weakening shroud in Curses trait line. However he did not update some other builds like minion master, juggernaut etc.

check his YouTube channel to see for yourself. His guides are the best imho for our class.

Great! Thanks for the info Oslaf

It brings me great joy every time i read a form of appreciation or positive feedback on this thread, i don’t answer most of the time because i didn’t want this thread to have 100 pages, since people sometimes ask questions here… and i tend to answer…

I want to thank all of you for what you have done… especially lately
I admit that with the lack of something to do PvE wise, i tried my best to aim for PvP… and with the recent developments i was unable to find enjoyment there either… That combined with real life problems have made me lose contact with the game, and those who have followed me.

The fact that my thread has been unpinned can be a result of the video posted above, where i criticize what ArenaNet has done to the necromancer class PvP wise. I understand that i might have went overboard… some would say not overboard enough, yet i understand that they can not have the person with pinned 100.000+ views guides on top of the forum talking bad about their decisions… even if they would agree with me.
I like to think the fact that they unpinned me is because of a marketing decision and not as a “come back”.

As Oslaf said… i have redone the videos for the glass cannon berserker, the hybrid, the conditionmancer, the WvW conditionmancer for roaming, the WvW class cannon for zerging… so they are up to date…

I didn’t redo the bunker and minionmaster builds because they haven’t changed… they got buffed but not altered…
The one thing that needs to be… not redone… but there is a better alternative since the weakness patch, is the support-healing build… you can make one better now.

In closing… what i actually wanted to say is that… i came back to these forums only to see that people keep bumping my thread.
I may have fallen out with the game, or not find anything else to contribute extra to the necromancer class (since the lack of a new level cap that would come with an expansion… except for a new command build, maybe the new support build if people would be interested in playing support)… but people haven’t forgotten me and my hard work.

Thank you, really…

Maybe it also was unpinned because the OP says “last time edited 8 months ago”. So some moderator happened to see that, thought those videos are probably outdated and unpinned it.

While already posting here anyway, I want to use the opportunity to thank you as well for your many great guides, Nemesis. I always enjoyed watching them (and of course I still do when I see you’ve made a new one).

Thank you Nemesis for posting such detailed videos they have really helped me understand necros better. I’m currently running with the glass cannon build after using your hybrid for a long time. I’m looking forward to hearing what you have to say after the upcoming changes.

I will redo the parts in every video that dealt with gear, runes and sigils when the patch hits.

Nemesis.8593:

I will redo the parts in every video that dealt with gear, runes and sigils when the patch hits.

Thanks!!! Especially the traits.

Nemesis.8593:

I will redo the parts in every video that dealt with gear, runes and sigils when the patch hits.

This still a plan. I’ve made attempts to salvage what I could of the hybrid but It still feels lots weaker. I’ll be starting from scratch seeing what I can come up with but interested in what you could come up with.

Your videos were one of the reasons why I kept playing my necromancer and decided to not delete it(eventhough it were my first 80 and full map completion).

Your videos are not only informative with regards to playing the necromancer, it also gave me insight and understanding to game mechanics.

So, even if it’s quite a long shot for me to ask you this, please continue making vids.