Guild Wars 2

what class do you feel like you roam best with when playing your necro
keep the groups 5 or smaller

my best partner is a zerk theif
just have him open up on some then
hit them with a triple proc (air, fire, chill of death) life blast with the staff equip
not many live through that
then the theif effectively support by providing stealth

when moving up to four man group i like to have a warrior, elementalist with my thief
the theif is brought for the same reasons
the ele and the warrior both are very tanky and provide lots of cc

Both instants im a power necro

Honestly, give me a guardian and a ranger and I am good. They are both great at peeling and helping to make some space, whereby I can do a condition dump or burst them down with life blast.

Support guard hands down.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hm--IZqqEs8

My experience as well when it comes to Guard. They provide everything that you don’t usually have access to.

Hmm id have to say either a guard or a very “in your face” warrior. Something that can apply some hard CC while I load a person up with soft CCs.

Ive had some great duo plays with a hambow.

Eles can drop fiery greatsword if you need a quick getaway, also a good all around class.

Warrior, Guardian and Ranger. I prefer not to roam with Thieves or Mesmers unless I’m capable of a quick get away. If I have high mobility, such as a sword/x greatsword Warrior or melee Ranger then I’m okay roaming with Thieves or Mesmers. As a Necromancer, I’m already going to be the primary target, it doesn’t help that my partner is invisible half the time, avoiding damage while I’m struggling to face tank 2 – 4 or how ever many people happen to be attacking us.

Guardians are great to roam with simply for the support they offer. Warriors if they’re aggressive as they tend to keep the attention off of you and allow you to free cast, and Rangers because you’re both going to be dealing extremely high damage in very short periods of time making it overwhelming to deal with for anyone who tries to pick a fight with you. If it’s a group composition, I would say Guardian, Ranger and Thief or Mesmer. Mesmers and Thieves are good for pressuring the weak ones and artificially inflating your numbers, I’d only want them with me if it wasn’t just the two of us.

What you REALLY want is a support mesmer because it provides everything you need. But… people don’t play those.

Army of minions :P

jk ^^

tbh, its hard to tell which is the best roaming partner, if you partner knows how to use their class they are good enough for me.
Friends with whom I am roaming are sometimes thieves, engies, rangers, mesmers, medi guard, burst warrior… and tbh I cant say with whom I had the most success…

Maybe I would say thief because its always nice to know you have Shadow Refuge if big blob is coming and you cant run…

I like running with a zerk mesmer because they can easily keep the troll diamond skin eles that I occasionally bump heads with below 90%, and when things get hairy, they provide some stealth. The biggest reason is that I can often outrun the mesmer by virtue of condi clears and swiftness, so I’m not the one who always dies for being too slow. XD

However, support wise, a thief is slightly better and they also can maintain high burst, but I can’t outrun my thief friends, so I usually end up being the sacrifice to large groups in those situations.

Eurantien.4632:

What you REALLY want is a support mesmer because it provides everything you need. But… people don’t play those.

That 2v2 tourney you won (if I remember correctly) vs. Nos/Backpack when you played the support mesmer and condi survival ranger duo was brilliant!

As you seem to be talking WvW I would agree that guardian stats can be varied better in WvW to make them a fantastic duo partner for necro. I personally would either mix it then with total condi overload (engi, which also lets your team stealth, maybe condi ranger and potentially shout condi warrior, or perplexity interrupt for lulz), or something like thief, cele Ele, cele engi.

That’s all personal taste though!

Siroso.2769:

Eurantien.4632:

What you REALLY want is a support mesmer because it provides everything you need. But… people don’t play those.

That 2v2 tourney you won (if I remember correctly) vs. Nos/Backpack when you played the support mesmer and condi survival ranger duo was brilliant!

As you seem to be talking WvW I would agree that guardian stats can be varied better in WvW to make them a fantastic duo partner for necro. I personally would either mix it then with total condi overload (engi, which also lets your team stealth, maybe condi ranger and potentially shout condi warrior, or perplexity interrupt for lulz), or something like thief, cele Ele, cele engi.

That’s all personal taste though!

Haha yeah, we thought it’d be fun to see what we could do. We didn’t realize we had dethroned the reigning champs until everyone was shocked those guys lost haha.

Eurantien.4632:

Siroso.2769:

Eurantien.4632:

What you REALLY want is a support mesmer because it provides everything you need. But… people don’t play those.

That 2v2 tourney you won (if I remember correctly) vs. Nos/Backpack when you played the support mesmer and condi survival ranger duo was brilliant!

As you seem to be talking WvW I would agree that guardian stats can be varied better in WvW to make them a fantastic duo partner for necro. I personally would either mix it then with total condi overload (engi, which also lets your team stealth, maybe condi ranger and potentially shout condi warrior, or perplexity interrupt for lulz), or something like thief, cele Ele, cele engi.

That’s all personal taste though!

Haha yeah, we thought it’d be fun to see what we could do. We didn’t realize we had dethroned the reigning champs until everyone was shocked those guys lost haha.

Support mesmer with condi survival ranger? That sounds interesting. Any place I could find a recording of that fight?

Condi survival ranger or trapper is great if you got epidemic the amount of conditions built up in 2-3 seconds before the epi is just mindblowing.

In terms of support, i think support mesmer would be good indeed, i mean they can do AOE stunbreak for allies. “Freeing” up 2 utilities for necromancer, that is huge indeed.