Guild Wars 2

One of the regular forum poster had a great idea to help better the Necro community. So I figured I would go ahead and start it by hosting a dungeon run a day all three paths, and then post on here our experiences. I can’t be on until around 7pm PST, so if you would like to join me please post on here. Here are the current days and the runs I have setup. All Times are Pacific Standard Time. Please state what time you are in when setting up your own run.

Thursday – Feb 14 – CoF – Completed – Dominated P1 and P2. Took a bit of time to get started, so late start.

Friday – Feb 15 – out of town
Saturday – Feb 16 – out of town
Sunday – Feb 17 9pm start – AC
Monday – Feb 18 – CM
Tuesday – Feb 19 – TA
Wednesday – Feb 20 – SE
Thursday – Feb 21 – CoE
Friday – Sunday – out of town
Monday – Feb 25 – HoTW
Tuesday – Feb 26 – Arah

I don’t think I missed any. If you would like to take part in any of them, please let me know either in game or via posting what day you can go with me. Plus it will be a chance to get to know everyone, and to get tips and tricks. If you want to run your own feel free to post it on here.

I’ll be free friday night the 15th if anyone is interested in 5 man theorydrafting. I’ll be on most of the day as well looking for fellow necros to party with. This a great idea!

Couple things:

Which time zone are you in?

And Arah might be better on a weekend…

Fantastic idea though. I’ll be sure to look you up in-game if I’m on over the next few weeks!

Haha great catch with the time zone.

Day 1 – CoF phase 1 and 2 completed.

Walk through in the park met a few new Necro’s but Bwahb and Lettuce rolled up with me. We 3 manned the first pulls in P1 until Bwahb woke up. After that it was clear selling. I went down exactly 5 times over both runs, and 3 of those times were do to the fact that I decided not to dodge haha.

We only had 1 total death, and that was on phase 2 other than that it was what we like to call a walk in the dead park. We had 1 full condimancer, 1 MM, 1 hybrid, and 1 dagger/well guy. Half the fights were done so fast we were waiting on the NPC or game to catch up to us.

It was a blast testing healing and seeing how the different builds interracted and getting a good feel of how much damage we could deal with the group. Every pull started off a bit slow, but once conditions were up health dropped like a lamp, all 5 of us took turns holding threat for a little bit.

Needless to say, one of our new Necro buddies was so excited to walk through P2 without a problem. He even said, not sure we can do P2 it’s hard since the change. He did a great job, and we crushed it.

We didn’t try p3 because half the guys had to leave

I’ll have to look into this. One-Profession-Only runs sound really funny to me.

All necro groups, besides being tons of fun, are incredibly safe for Dungeons. Mass AoE damage, permanent 25 stacks of vuln/bleed, perma poison, multiple fear chains, and tons of other conditions all stack on top of each other to make damage output incredibly high. Plus, every single person in your group can pretty easily take aggro for prolonged periods of time no problem.

Sunday – Feb 17 9pm start – AC

I’m in for that. I’m eastern so that’s 12AM for me. Also i’m a level 41 necro RIGHT now (might be 48 or so in a couple days.) that’s completely new to dungeons, hopefully you guys or someone will show me your ways soon.

Ooh – this sounds like a brilliant plan! An all Necro team! Not sure when I will be online and available to run a dungeon though. If you need one more for any dungeon, simply add me to your contact list and whisper me in-game!

What a great initiative for the Necromancer community!

I will do February 17th’s AC run with you guys. Add me in game

i guess this sint on european servers?

on a site note: necro-teams are awesome. just did my fractal daily with 1 mesmer, 4 necros. was easy as kitten, at some point we all switched to minions cause it looked awesome to completely overrun the enemies

Totally cool idea. Love to run in a group where someone else can pull agro!!

You guys should post a video of this. I am looking forward to watching it. Since those are weekdays. I probably have work and wouldn’t be able to come.

So a video would be nice.

I’ll be out of town this weekend too but I’d love to get in on some of these. I should be able to make the AC one. PM me or send me a game mail or something with the times you have planned and I should be able to go no most of these.

Looks like we got four for the AC one. I will do my best to be back to start it up. I will be coming in from out of town on Sat or Sunday. If I can’t make it, there is a good friend of mine who plays Necro, and he will start it up.

As for posting a video. I have no idea how to do that, if someone has a good program to use than let me know. My computer can handle it. I just have never attempted to do it.

I will say that when two of us were in DS hittnig Life transfer one after the other it was the funniest things to watch people swooping in and out completely dark with green bubbles everywhere!!!

We had two plague users which was hilarious to watch them. I don’t think anyone brought Lich Form. Having more than one Lich Form would be the height of hilarious watching them all try to kill at the same time.

RashanDale.3609:

i guess this sint on european servers?

on a site note: necro-teams are awesome. just did my fractal daily with 1 mesmer, 4 necros. was easy as kitten, at some point we all switched to minions cause it looked awesome to completely overrun the enemies

It’s not on European Servers, but that doesn’t mean someone else can’t start one on there. You can post it, as the Euro-Necro run!

I will come as long as i’m the only necromancer in the group, if I am, the other 4 will be useless.

Softspoken.2410:

Daecollo.9578:

I will come as long as i’m the only necromancer in the group, if I am, the other 4 will be useless.

Not sure if serious.

I’d have the bleed cap, poison cap, weakness cap… don’t know why you would need any other necromancers.

Why not make this as a guild so necros could see who’s online and use chat to organise events as well as this page,it would then be easier to keep track of who’s who and make it easier to organise and you could make it so that you only had to represent when you are available for it. I’d definetly join, there is something very similar at the moment for rangers and it seems to be working well there

Daecollo.9578:

I will come as long as i’m the only necromancer in the group, if I am, the other 4 will be useless.

haha, that would make a lot of sense on an All-Necro run wouldn’t it?

Actually, we never really had cap issues. Though I stopped using any chill skills, because someone kept chill constantly on the target. You realize there are other necro builds – dagger well – hybrid – condi-mancer – MM – DS Centric. Not to mention the odd thing bwahb runs.

Last night we had the following and it tore through everything

MM – Bas
Hybrid – Bhawb
Condi – Lettuce or that new guy
Staff well – ozy
Dagger/Well – Bhaur

considering we had only one full condition mancer who was using epidemic we rolled through everything. You do realize you can change your utilities so you don’t cap out all the conditons. You could add in something that would benefit team play.

TheRatso.2956:

Why not make this as a guild so necros could see who’s online and use chat to organise events as well as this page,it would then be easier to keep track of who’s who and make it easier to organise and you could make it so that you only had to represent when you are available for it. I’d definetly join, there is something very similar at the moment for rangers and it seems to be working well there

Haha, I was thinking of doing that exact thing. I have a personal guild that I don’t actually use. I could dump it and change the name. I will set it up later today, and see if I can invite a few necro’s so they can invite others while I am away.

You are right this would help with the East Coast/West Coast guys.

Invite me to this all-necro guild and post the name here. If anyone wants to run AC today as well i’m down. I need a soldiers set. Glad to see this ball rolling. Suggestions for a cool necrocentric guild name? Academy of Necromantics? University of Necromancy? Take My Minion Please? Minion Lovers Anonymous? I have more.

Post those names on his other thread, drainbamaged, just so its all in one spot.

Drainbamaged.1062:

Invite me to this all-necro guild and post the name here. If anyone wants to run AC today as well i’m down. I need a soldiers set. Glad to see this ball rolling. Suggestions for a cool necrocentric guild name? Academy of Necromantics? University of Necromancy? Take My Minion Please? Minion Lovers Anonymous? I have more.

I started a thread for this, but those are aweome as well.

Bas.7406:

Daecollo.9578:

I will come as long as i’m the only necromancer in the group, if I am, the other 4 will be useless.

haha, that would make a lot of sense on an All-Necro run wouldn’t it?

Actually, we never really had cap issues. Though I stopped using any chill skills, because someone kept chill constantly on the target. You realize there are other necro builds – dagger well – hybrid – condi-mancer – MM – DS Centric. Not to mention the odd thing bwahb runs.

Last night we had the following and it tore through everything

MM – Bas
Hybrid – Bhawb
Condi – Lettuce or that new guy
Staff well – ozy
Dagger/Well – Bhaur

considering we had only one full condition mancer who was using epidemic we rolled through everything. You do realize you can change your utilities so you don’t cap out all the conditons. You could add in something that would benefit team play.

My necro is a staff/well/cond basicly all of them rolled up in 1, wells don’t stack with eachother, and necromancers don’t have any projectile finishers or blast finishers besides staff auto-attack and chillbanes.

Basicly, it would be 100 times better to have a Necro and 4 warriors or guardians.

You’re missing the point Dae – they’re running dungeons with all-necro parties for novelty and to see how they perform. Obviously there are probably better party compositions, but with different builds present, an all necro party is still a force to be reckoned with.

Daecollo.9578:

My necro is a staff/well/cond basicly all of them rolled up in 1, wells don’t stack with eachother, and necromancers don’t have any projectile finishers or blast finishers besides staff auto-attack and chillbanes.

Basicly, it would be 100 times better to have a Necro and 4 warriors or guardians.

You have one person run full conditions with epidemic, they will pretty easily keep us up in bleeds/poison. You don’t want much more because you don’t want to cap out on bleeds and start wasting damage. Everyone else can do whatever they want, so long as it isn’t focused on stacking bleeds; this can mean MMs, wells, staves, various power builds, etc.

Also, its for fun. We aren’t trying to break records for fastest dungeon clears.

Daecollo.9578:

Softspoken.2410:

Daecollo.9578:

I will come as long as i’m the only necromancer in the group, if I am, the other 4 will be useless.

Not sure if serious.

I’d have the bleed cap, poison cap, weakness cap… don’t know why you would need any other necromancers.

I deleted that post because I figured it was kind of rude and content-less, and also because I guessed I was misunderstanding your post in some way.

But as others have said: insisting on being the only Necromancer in the group for these runs isn’t just missing the point, it’s full scale against it.

5 fleshies rotating knockbacks would rock!

DrXer.2918:

5 fleshies rotating knockbacks would rock!

I really want to try 5 Minion masters in a run or 5 Lich Form bombers and have them all pop on a single fight haha.

Also Does anyone know of a good video recording program. I should probably ask Nemesis haha.

4x Lich + Time Warp should be in our dreams.
and all MM xD

This sounds extremely fun! If there’s space I’d love to take part!

For the video record I know lots of people don’t like xfire, but the quality isn’t too bad and not 100% sure on the max duration of the video allowed, but that’s a viable free option if we don’t have someone with paid fraps or something similar.

I would be interested in testing an all-Necro dungeon run. Any dungeon. I mostly focus on power builds rather than conditions.

Would the all-Necro “But of Corpse” guild be running this? Would make it easier to have us all consolidated. Message me anytime.

We have already done one all necro run, we’ll be doing more.

ReMortis.4287:

I would be interested in testing an all-Necro dungeon run. Any dungeon. I mostly focus on power builds rather than conditions.

Would the all-Necro “But of Corpse” guild be running this? Would make it easier to have us all consolidated. Message me anytime.

Yes but of corpse is sponsoring this, but anyone can do it. We are just headlining it. What I would like to do is have a day set aside for specific dungeons, and then multiple teams running that dungeon. Along with tPvP all necro attempts.

Bhawb.7408:

We have already done one all necro run, we’ll be doing more.

How did it go? Did anyone get a vid? …. would love to see it.

We didn’t get a video, I don’t think most of us have video software (btw, if anyone does know of decent free or cheap software let me know). However it went fine, we pretty easily cleared CoF p1 and p2, only one person died that I know of, and only a few downs throughout the runs. Even the crazy part where you need to defend Magg as he sets up went pretty well.

Well, we played through and cleared Sorrow’s Embrace, path 1 tonight. It took us a little while and a couple wipes (Dredge Personnel Carrier has way too much health) but that is literally the first time I have done a full and legitimate clear of a Sorrow’s Embrace path. And I’m wearing two exotics from that dungeon.

I was with them on today’s Sorrow’s Embrace. It was my first time there, but we killed everything there and done everything legit. (No shortcuts and exploits)

I was able to join on the last path of AC and it was awesome. Everything died so fast. We killed all the Breeder tunnels including all the mobs and it didn’t take much time at all. I thought burrows are going to be a problem but we destroyed them so fast there were always a few seconds where we were just standing around and waiting for the next burrow to show up.

Everything went better than expected (except the fire rings around the minions in SE’s) And we got way too confident on Collossus Rumblus, fighting it when there’s still breeders around. But other than that, all necro run was really good.

The AC run went excellent we even have a video of phase 2. The se path 3 run went really well except for a few minor hiccups in communication that caused a few wipes. That plus the minions doubling up the damage on us on a particular boss.

Bas.7406:

The AC run went excellent we even have a video of phase 2. The se path 3 run went really well except for a few minor hiccups in communication that caused a few wipes. That plus the minions doubling up the damage on us on a particular boss.

I actually have an idea now for the Armored Dredge Carrier: it involves running in circles from the tank up the ramp to the top, then jumping down and making the dredge run back to you while you hit the tank. Get overwhelmed? Run back to the top and hit it from range until they start chasing you down again.

The problem, of course, is the dredge with ranged attacks.

Mostly I bring this up because: thinking about fights in new ways! An unexpected bonus of gimmick runs!

Oh, this seems really fun. I’d be very interested in joining in. I also have fraps, so I can record if I get in on a dungeon. However, I’ve run a grand total of two dungeons so I’m pretty new to it and wouldn’t have any idea what was going on.

Unless they have changed the dredge area (its been 2 months since I played it), you can just sit on top of the carrier, or in a little nook near it, and take no damage that entire fight.

Bhawb.7408:

Unless they have changed the dredge area (its been 2 months since I played it), you can just sit on top of the carrier, or in a little nook near it, and take no damage that entire fight.

They haven’t changed it, that hiding nook still exists. It just feels like cheese to sit in there though. (For some reason running all the dredge back and forth because they can’t quiiite catch you feels less cheesy to me.)

Softspoken.2410:

They haven’t changed it, that hiding nook still exists. It just feels like cheese to sit in there though. (For some reason running all the dredge back and forth because they can’t quiiite catch you feels less cheesy to me.)

Oh I agree, it totally feels cheesy to just sit there spamming 1 a lot, but I really don’t play dungeons for the challenge, its more for the rewards; because lets be honest, dungeons are either really easy (when you have a decent group) or impossible (when you don’t).

Bhawb.7408:

Softspoken.2410:

They haven’t changed it, that hiding nook still exists. It just feels like cheese to sit in there though. (For some reason running all the dredge back and forth because they can’t quiiite catch you feels less cheesy to me.)

Oh I agree, it totally feels cheesy to just sit there spamming 1 a lot, but I really don’t play dungeons for the challenge, its more for the rewards; because lets be honest, dungeons are either really easy (when you have a decent group) or impossible (when you don’t).

It was ridiculously easy except for the first two boss fights. The first guy, my minions got us killed twice thanks to the fire spreading boom circles that they were collecting and running through us to attack the boss. Once we realized that was the issue, I swapped the minions out for BiP, and two wells, and we rolled it up.

The dredge carrier it was the first time any of us had ever attempted to do it without cheesing it so it led to one wipe, and one almost wipe where one guy rezzed everyone slowly while dodging and using consumables to stealth. I was suitably impressed.

I will say it’s much faster with 1 epidemic conditionmancers, 2 power mancers, 1 hybrid, and 1 MM or well tank guy.

I think that seems to move the fastest, but 3 Lich forms is hilariously funny on bosses. I am all for trying to run 5xMM for hilarious hijinks in CM tonight.

I did get a video of path 2 AC, but it’s choppy. I’m gonna work on it some today and after I get home this evening I’ll try to post it for everyone. Btw that run was freaking amazing! lol

DarkniteJ.8053:

I was with them on today’s Sorrow’s Embrace. It was my first time there, but we killed everything there and done everything legit. (No shortcuts and exploits)

I was able to join on the last path of AC and it was awesome. Everything died so fast. We killed all the Breeder tunnels including all the mobs and it didn’t take much time at all. I thought burrows are going to be a problem but we destroyed them so fast there were always a few seconds where we were just standing around and waiting for the next burrow to show up.

Everything went better than expected (except the fire rings around the minions in SE’s) And we got way too confident on Collossus Rumblus, fighting it when there’s still breeders around. that one was my fault sorry lol But other than that, all necro run was really good.

It was by far the most fun I have ever had running AC, hands down. And we still did an epic team recovery on Rumblus, got everyone back on their feet and within a minute or two he was toast. Excellent job everyone!

I might have to get in on one of these, sounds fun!

ok so apparently I fail at embedding youtube vids directly to the forums lol, but here is part 1 of the AC path 2 run. I had to split it up due to technical issues. Not the smoothest vid in the world, but I’ll try to make better ones in the future:
http://youtu.be/1v2xVBTFlEw