Guild Wars 2

I want to start playing the power reaper build from metabattle that nowadays we see everywhere but im totally new at necro and the page doesnt explain it. Can someone detail me our role and how to play this? Thank you guys

I’m not familiar with that spec specifically, but i essentially run a similar build but with wells instead of shouts. You’ll find yourself getting the short end of the focus stick usually so prepared to get targeted out and focused. That aside you’re gonna wanna try and corrupt enemy boons, in the hopes that the now boonless (insert class) can then get focused down by your team ( which may very well leave you hanging). It’s a tough life for necros but i find it fun.

I would recommend looking at the procmancer build as well as much of the play tips can be applied here too. For that matter probably be a good idea just too look at the various builds in general to get an idea of how necros function as a whole if your new to it. Again, it’s gonna be tough if you’re new as it isn’t the most forgiving class at times to play, keep at it though and once you start to figure out the play style and class it begins to be a lot of fun when you can actually get over on someone.

Anyhow someone should be along to give you a better idea(s) of what perhaps you should be looking out for.

Hi there,
There was a necro pvp guide put up in the pvp section of the forum, a couple of days ago.
I put the link here for you.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Necromancer-Ranked-PvP-Guide-Season-5

Hope it will help you.

Good luck

In terms of rotations or where to move:
You never want to 1v1. Poeple have come to understand its a waste to have their support ele stuck in 1v1 and go to swap him out. Necro is the yingyang with ele, just dmg.
Yes youre against new bad players who you can beat 1v1, but this is the general guideline.
You go to big fights with your ele, you down and then you cleave the body to prevent rezz that is main job of necro, then you chase next kill and ele follows shortly to next fight or you retreat back to him.

In terms of how to fight:
Defense – combo/sync you shroud with healer. you cant get healed while in shroud so you cant afford to waste 20k heals…have eye on your ele/druid and exit shroud if you see them go water/blueavatar form to get healed…
Kite- stand behind objects, learn and stand on non teleport spots, fight near ledges to make enemy dodges harder, jump on weird rock spots to make harder to follow you with melee attacks
Attack – necro is a facetanking sponge, where as other classes are more cooldown dependant. A guard may seem full hp after 30s of invulnerable blocks, but if he used everything he will go down in next 5s.
So with necro its mostly how to stay alive long enough – while still doing enough pressure to force cooldowns- , then you just have to prevent escape rather doing an optimal DPS combo.
Make sure your abilities hit, stow weapon if you them blocking, invulning, evading, teleporting out of range etc.

Since noscoc VODs are sub only, i atm recommend you check out ace as one the good EU necros
https://www.twitch.tv/the_ace_is_back/videos/all

Arfilion.2645:

I want to start playing the power reaper build from metabattle that nowadays we see everywhere but im totally new at necro and the page doesnt explain it. Can someone detail me our role and how to play this? Thank you guys

Hey there Arfilion! My name is Divine, I’m the original creator of the Necromancer PvP Guide here in the forums. As for the Power Boonstrip spec, it’s quite easy to play.

Start the game of going to the starting midfight. NEVER go far or capture close. Stay in ranged with staff and build your life force using your marks. NEVER spam your marks in one place at a time and make sure to not use the #4 mark on staff unless you have conditions on you that you need to transfer, as #4 mark is one of your very few condition cleanses.

Swap to your Axe/Warhorn and use the #2 ability on Axe on a enemy that is low on health or that is a squishy class. Before going into Reaper’s Shroud, cast Chill to the Bone and Locust Swarm and try to squeeze in Axe’s #3 ability in there for a double Unholy Feast (another one procs when entering Shroud)

Corrupt Boon is a great boon corrupt to any enemy like a Dragonhunter as its unblockable.

Just keep playing the spec, and you will gradually get better at it. Have fun m8!