Guild Wars 2

Decided I finally like my gearing enough to post it. Its simple stuff and its strong for simple people like me ;-)

6/6/2
signet mastery/eagle eye/read the wind
sharpened edges/quick draw/trap potency
wilderness knowledge

healing spring/flame trap/signet of the wild/signet of stone/entangle

longbow, air/fire sigils
great sword, hydromancy/leeching (hydromancy will trigger leeching sigil if foe is in range)

rune of the madking. The hawks can trigger sharpened edge trait and the hawks channel on 3 foes within ~ entangle range for ~2-3k dmg.

I guess the build is pretty generic but it is a stepping stone away from pewpewpew build I see a lot..

I prefer owl for the long chill and it hits reliably. On swap im still trying to figure it out but as a camp flipper you best use a pet that has some poison like marsh drake, any spider, carrior devourer or even murellow. Ive run drake but spider is pretty good against other roamers aswell with its range. Devourer and murellow are probably stepping stone pets as they are horrid in dueling players but they do have an on demand poison that is 5target cap instead of 3target cap like spider/marsh drake.

With a little more practice I can wipe the npcs within 30 seconds (before swords). Its a lot harder stacking a camp fast with a pet ;-( At the moment in certain camps (nnc & nwc) I pick off a couple of the wing npcs first.

You wont win 1v3+ or anything obscene but you can defend camps against a few depending on certain elements naturally. Ive taken camps with “experienced” players (silver/gold ranks) in them so its not horridly bad nor meta.

It may seem weird taking trait for traps on a zerker build or even using a trap at all. I guess its optional but I find flame trap a strong skill for good tics against somewhat bunker builds and more dmg tics to help counter blackpowder in camps. Not forgetting fire aura ofcoarse ;-)

Bleeding is secondary but with +30% from traits and +40% from madking runes bleeding stack very fast and very heavy. With no condi dmg the bleed/poison/fire tics are strong still.

Lure them in with the bow, then signet up and dump all that beautiful aoe on them with flame trap/barrage/entangle(hawks)[swap] hydromancy+leeching/hiltbash/maul ;-) don’t forget to pickup loot bag ;-) AND NEVER FORGET YOUR PETS’ F2 SKILLS !

GL & HF

okies added some gameplay of ganking/camp&tower defending/1v1/1v2/and some more ganking lol, Couple of deaths too so im being more genuine then the misleading “I win everytime” montages. Second vid ever made so its a cut a little weird. Slow night so a lot of the enemy are repeats.

more fun lastnight. Probably last bump for this thread. Will decide if I want to make more vids on weekly/monthly setup and what kind of content. Im not an spvp type person and its hard to find 1v1 in wvw as many like to run in teams of 2+ for safety.

A lot of my roaming is flipping camps with all npcs dead before swords (or close) so I don’t get many visitors trying to stop a flip. And then I get guards for yaks to make the camp harder for solo roamers to flip or at minimum more time for me to get there and defend.

I wouldn’t mind some tips on my LB use as I feel im a bit clunky with how I am blowing pbs and hunters shot. Should I engage from hunter shot stealth? Do I need to pbs for my hunter shot to land?

Ty

Hi, liked your build, with the addition of mad king rune, fire trap and sharpened edges you make some realy nice combos. I dont like the way you are using your utiliteis, it looks like potion drinking in diablo 2, OMG OMG OMG press press press. Meny times you use SoS before even using HS why? you use sotw while standing still or taking damage for no good reason. You use SICe’m at the start of the combat, while u dont realy have to cus your RP follows your target anyway. I think the skill “clicking” its what limiting your ability to land pbs, try key binding so u’ll be able to look up the screen more and find an opening. Dont get me wrong, i realy liked your video and your twist to the LB build.

potion drinking ;-)

so when do I use SoS and SotW?

Btw sic em really shouldn’t be on bar. Its old habbit when seeing thieves and I will refrain from doing so in future. Kiting around my flame trap should be good enough tell for a stalking thief ;-)

The only aswer i can give you is when its absolutely necessary. With your armor rating SoS passive will give you like 7% damage reduction, thats abig deal. If you got stunned and going to eat full duration of Hundred Blades, by all means, use it.
About sotw, the passive with no healing power is ok but not huge. BUT your build lack travel speed and stun defecne, use SOTW when you need the sstability or the extra speed. your damage is so high it shouldnt be a priority.
I also think you should take wolf over bird with jungle spider and malicious training(over sigent mastery). Also for non condi damage users, viper nest actually does more damage than fire trap.

Who would roam without Sic Em?

GOSU.9574:

Who would roam without Sic Em?

Its a great skill, IF you even find a thief to use it on and IF you see them first and are able to swap it in. A trap will “reveal” them just the same and is useful otherwise.

If I continue to use spider then there is no point in taking poison trap. It applies long duration poison on 3 targets as well.

I use bird cause it can reliably land hits. I love dogs but beyond the rare kd and howl skills they are meh. I might try the krytan hound again though as an immobilize aoe could be more useful then birds single target chill.

I think I’ve seen you in-game before, or someone who uses that outfit. Also what bow is that? it’s huge! also, you really need to not click abilities, it’s really bad.

its zodiac and indeed its HUGE ;-)

K I think im going to test the following changes throughout week.

-keep owl as main pet, swap spider for wolf
-Change Signet mastery for malicious training (50% condi duration for pet)
-Change quick draw (20% bow recharge) for trappers expertise (throw traps/radius)
-Swap Signet of the Wild for Poison trap
-Swap Signet of Stone for “Protect Me”

I don’t really need to throw any traps for camp flipping but being able to would be much better for any other roamers I encounter and I don’t really need -20% bow recharge.

signet of the wild I miss-use horribly and it indeed looks like potion drinking on review of my vids.

since im dumping sotw I can pickup poison trap and that will let me dump spider and pickup the wolf again.

also if im dumping signet mastery im going to change SoS for “protect me” for -20sec cd aswell as a stun break. I may or may not keep this depending on how the change feels.

I do have keybinds but I think they are not easy ones for me so I am adjusting a few of them.

@Justine.6351
Hi m8, cool to see you’r open minded for changes.
The Protect Me actually sounds very nice due to the stun break benefit.
I think 2 trap and trappers expertise are an over kill for a non trapper build. The Poison trap alone is giving so much value with your setpp up, in aaddition to the over 20sec poison up time and weakness on swoop, its the only trap that triggers physical damageX3, each trigger can crit and activate sharpened edges. Take the spider not for the poison, unless its a “forest spider” the poison arch attack on spiders is very unreliable vs other playes. Take jungle spider for the double immob(crazzy good with malicious training) , it can win you the duel, you can chain spider immob with your elitle to secure the hit(same goes for wolf fear). Another benefit of the spider is that he’s not moving so much which is good due to your pet lack of speed bonus. For the extra trait take somthing defensive like SoS LR, SoR or stick with SOTW.

I decided pretty fast that “protect me” was not the skill to use. Pet just gets crushed cause im zerker. Im staying with signet mastery+ sos. Im keeping wolf on swap.

Being able to throw my traps sooo much fun ;-) Fire trap may not deal super damage but its very good for flipping camps fast as its a short cd and 5 target cap.

I got accused of hacking tonight. I was “teleporting around and using necro skills”. Lol, must be doing something right. Had 6-7 of them camping my spawn area (sw corner) for an hour cause they were mad. I dueled one and after he downed I moved away so friend could rez him. Then they both come at me and spike. Probably figured I was hacking again. God I love this game ;-)

ima add the vid for that duel, just so you can see how petty they were, it was hilarious. will link tomorrow after upload to youtube.

Justine.6351:

I decided pretty fast that “protect me” was not the skill to use. Pet just gets crushed cause im zerker. Im staying with signet mastery+ sos. Im keeping wolf on swap.

Being able to throw my traps sooo much fun ;-) Fire trap may not deal super damage but its very good for flipping camps fast as its a short cd and 5 target cap.

I got accused of hacking tonight. I was “teleporting around and using necro skills”. Lol, must be doing something right. Had 6-7 of them camping my spawn area (sw corner) for an hour cause they were mad. I dueled one and after he downed I moved away so friend could rez him. Then they both come at me and spike. Probably figured I was hacking again. God I love this game ;-)

ima add the vid for that duel, just so you can see how petty they were, it was hilarious. will link tomorrow after upload to youtube.

That’s how People are ^^ noone could ever possibly be better then them, so there HAS to be another reason.
Besides that, you should really consider packing some condi removal other than HS, either y slotting SoR or probably by changing Fire sigil to generosity/purity and mybe leeching sigil for sigil of cleansing because right now i can’t see you being able to survive a battle with a conditionbombing class (maybe i’m wrong, but that’s just what i see =) )

You are not wrong. Necro destroy me so hard. Im going to keep build as is for the moment and work on playing better with skills I have (gs/lb) and my new key binds. In the vid im uploading atm I still see myself sometimes clicking SoS and entangle. The traps I seem to be using keybinds very well. I think you will like this vid. Its high quality resolution just cause it was so sad. I didn’t realize just how sad until I reviewed some of my shadowplay 5min clips.

Will post it here in ~ 20hrs when im home from work. I think it will give all zerker and non-zerker rangers something to giggle about for a moment anyhow ;-)

I’d bet, you should start Screening Chat logs. It’s just hilarious if you step over them after a few months x). Anyways, since necros aren’t exactly the most mobile class you can swap the second trap for SoR when you Encounter one, it can be live saving if they manage to land a bomb on you and HS is on CD

Justine.6351:

GOSU.9574:

Who would roam without Sic Em?

Its a great skill, IF you even find a thief to use it on and IF you see them first and are able to swap it in. A trap will “reveal” them just the same and is useful otherwise.

If I continue to use spider then there is no point in taking poison trap. It applies long duration poison on 3 targets as well.

I use bird cause it can reliably land hits. I love dogs but beyond the rare kd and howl skills they are meh. I might try the krytan hound again though as an immobilize aoe could be more useful then birds single target chill.

You must play on a low wvw pop server if you rarely see a thief when roaming. I play on a T1 and thieves are a constant encounter.

However traps and torch can be useful, as can a stealth disabler. To each their own.

5min of fighting first him + ranger up on hill overlooking swc. then 2 1v1s.

The first one is him running away just as I down from pewpew ranger ;-(
The second is straight up 1v1 and him running away again ;-(
The third is him fighting till down ;-)

Note his food/utility and full stacks. Then look at my buffs and laugh ;-)

After that he interrupts a duel between ranger and I cause reasons or something. I can post that vid if anyone really wants to see me get ganked.

lol that guard got sheit on