Guild Wars 2

Hey there everyone!
I’m a returning player as of about three weeks ago, Decided to delete all of my characters and start afresh on a new server. Got a mesmer to 80 and completed one HoT Map, but was not happy with my character so over the last two weeks i have been trying to decide on what profession to play.

A little bit of backstory and effort I have put in so far. Used to play Necromancer around about a year ago which was 80 and quite fun being a 20/20/0/0/30 deathshroud WvW roamer. That was alot of fun, but as you can tell alot has changed since then! Before that I played Mesmer but was put off due to the lack of mobility when just running from point to point, which was deleted shortly after the Runes of the Traveler where released and i could not afford them due to gold burning that hole in my pocket!

Since i have returned i tried out mesmer again, This time Chronomancer, which was very fun and fixed what I disliked about mesmer, but something did not feel right still. After that a revenant was chosen but I did not enjoy the play style of swaping utilities though it is a awesome mechanic. I have also tried out a theif, Mainly in spvp with a Staff dodgey build which aslong as it wasn’t 1v1 was great fun, not to mention mobile!

And that is where i’m left at currently.

I’m looking for people’s oppinion on classes, due to what i am currently looking for. Which i will lay out in the following:

- Suitable Mobility: 25% movement speed and maybe a port or leap is very much plenty. E.G Chronomancer minor trait and Blink.
- Sustainability for 1v1: Nothing insane but better than my glaring flaw in the theif, Not enough buffs to help itself.
- Ability to be used in multiple areas of the game simultainiously: I Realy would like to do a fractal one minute then be able to jump into WvW or Spvp the next. I don’t mind holding extra gear sets. Not sure if this is an issue anymore though? (As when i played necro they where not welcome in 5 player PvE)

That is pretty much everything, Thank you for taking the time to read and comment!

Hey everyone, It has been a long time since I last played GW2 and have been leveling up a new Necromancer as I deleted all my previous characters. (Wanted to start up again from scratch, though was a pain after I found out WvW exp is account bound now…)

Enough of that though here is the spec I am thinking about:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQRBHbhG2IHNt02ajxNc4mAXog8NDgIDhTg624MeWA-TlyDgAKHEgYVYU3fgX5nr6DFnBAAzfe6HQUCG8AAIFQELjA-w

My theories behind this are to enable my Necro to be able to switch quite quickly between zerg running and Roaming whilst in WvW. This is done with the following skill and trait switch:

Zerging -> Roaming
Focused Rituals -> Banshee’s Wail
Well of Corruption -> Spectral Grasp

This enables basically perma-swiftness to be applied when roaming and nice bits of AoE when running with a zerg.

The weapon thoughts are due to Dagger and Warhorn being suitably strong in melee and if a little (abeit not alot) range is needed switch to Axe and Focus.

Thank you for taking the time to look at the spec and thank you for any feedback! I would have testing to offer but still only rocking level 48!

Thanks Again!

Just an idea, running on the same prospect of chaos armor. Not sure what to call it.
Xxxx : for the next 10 seconds every time you take damage a fast moving clone spawns( like sword from ileap) travels to source and shatters. 90 sec cooldown 1 second ICD.

Ahh wonderful didn’t do too much research when creating these, just put them together. I will have a look at your build Pyro, see how it works in comparison.

Currently testing will update on my results soon.

I have a current idea for a phantasm roaming spec. Not very accustomed to making a build but this is what I have come up with.

Build

The idea behind this is to have a bit of passive defense when mainly solo or small group roaming in WvW. Without dismissing too much damage from Phantasms.

Focus is there mainly for pulls and swiftness, and exchanged for sword/sword if needed.

Not using many condition removal is the reasoning behind the runes and food. Which originally i had seen the idea in one of Osicats shatter builds.

I havn’t had time to test this or attempt it as I am at uni but will be later on this evening.

Also am tempted in keeping the same traits but replacing Portal for Mantra of Resolve or Phantasmal Disenchanter as another for of Condi Removal, With this replacing the rune for Travelers, and the focus for a sword. This is shown below.
Updated Build

Any critisism would be greatly appriciated. Thank you for your time.

Edit: Added second idea with advice from a friend

Taking into account for the idea that has been stated GS is bad DPS therefore in PvE it is a ‘bad’ weapon, With the choice of taking it due to range benefits and the fact you are out of the melee ‘fray’ because the player isn’t confident and not accustomed it. Inevitably dieing a lot in melee and a dead player is no damage. Does that make them a bad player? Fair enough they have a weakness of not being confident in melee, but to make the conscious decision to stand back allows him to be effective, though maybe, not giving everything that is possible. To be honest in my group I would prefer someone to do 1000 dps over 2 minutes than 5000 dps over 10 seconds.

Not stating any preference of weapon or its quality, just wanted to state a thought process of a player in reasoning for choice of not having a min maxing weaponset. To me the thought of the player choosing to notice their own weakness and compensate makes them a lot better player than one that picks up the very best but cannot accommodate the difficulty when playing that.

Yet that still does not give me the right to call them bad. Only thing I can contribute to them is advice and hopefully learn something myself in the process.

Thank you for taking the time to read my opinion.

Just a quick statement of thanks. Just recently had the gold together to afford the rabid gear to give this a try! Even with rare trinkets, the build is strong and incredibly fun to play around with. Still slowly getting the hang of it, it takes me a while to kill things, but have no problem with soloing camps in WvW.

Defiantly a nice change from running my old 20/20/0/30/0 Phantasm reflect build, and much more survival and escape tactics.

Again great build and thank you!

- Islyi Lyssa

Sounds Great!
Name: Islyi Lyssa
Server: Ring of Fire (EU)
Playstyle: Pretty much a bit of everything, running in a small guild with friends currently.
Role: Scholar – Would love to learn more about the class and hopefully improve and maybe teach and test in the future.
Playtime: Dots around mostly, averaging 10:00-14:00, 19:00+ Will be changing when i start uni again at the end of next month.