Guild Wars 2

From the patch notes:

“Vampiric: This trait now scales up 6 additional points with power for its damage and healing for its healing per attack.”

There is some discussion about this change in the patch notes thread, but no definite conclusions have been reached. I figured I’d start a separate thread for it so we can figure this out, and not have it get lost in the patch notes thread.

My understanding of the wording is that base values will remain the same, and then scale up to 6 additional damage and 6 additional healing based on the amount of Power and Healing Power you have. That being said, I’m at work for another 4 hours and can’t test it. What does everyone else think?

I’m holding out hope that because this article is titled “Traits Preview”, that the information contained in it is in fact just a preview of the Trait changes, and not all of them.

Hopefully this isn’t a complete list of the Trait changes, given how small this list is. It’s likely not since the title of the article is “….: Traits Preview Part Two” . I realize this only covers Traits and not any balance changes to Skills, but still.

Life Siphoning buffs were promised for this patch, weren’t they?

Necro is my 1st and only character, so it’s been a while since I leveled up. IIRC, I went with a minion build and it went pretty well. You’ll hear a lot of people complain about minions (and a good portion of the complaints are valid), but they do bring a number of benefits to the table:

1. They make soloing veterans and most events pretty simple.
2. They don’t benefit from your gear, so you can save a bit of cash that way.
3. This ties in a bit to point 1, but the fact that you create a number of additional targets dramatically cuts down on the amount of damage you take. This helps when you pull more mobs than you had intended, or against very strong mobs.

As for weapons and stats, anything works. I’d probably suggest a power build with Axe/whatever and a Staff. The Axe stacks vulnerability, which does benefit your minions, and the Staff provides them with regeneration (which they don’t naturally have) and some other benefits as well.

Traits are pretty self-explanatory. Your priorities are +50% health and +30% damage. I think that health is better to rush first, but it really doesn’t matter IIRC.

Hope this helps!

Balefire.7592:

Red SuperGiant.8653:

Can’t go wrong with Maw of the kitten .

http://www.guildhead.com/item/25971/maw-of-the kitten of-force#model-viewer

FTFY.

I love that the actual name of an item gets kitten’ed. For those wondering, it’s Maw of the “Danged”

Ilshenar.7142:

While I don’t RP I do like to have my Necromancer look the part so I bought the weapons I like and just keep transmuting them as I level.

Scepter – Zhaitan’s Reach
http://imageshack.us/a/img845/2425/gw1r.jpg

Dagger -Traveler’s Orrian Dagger of Air
http://imageshack.us/a/img443/4352/gw2e.jpg

Axe – Godskull Sickle
http://imageshack.us/a/img441/6246/gw3b.jpg

Focus – Godskull Effigy
http://imageshack.us/a/img823/7766/gw4z.jpg

I also keep transmuting new gear I get into this skin because I think it’s most Necro like, until you get near 80.
http://imageshack.us/a/img805/9929/gw5h.jpg

Those are all pretty nice looking items. I’m with you in that I have no interest in RP’ing, I just like to look good. What armor set is that?

Slalom.3174:

Take a look at Dulfy.net
They have galleries of various weapons (staves, daggers, scepters).

Nice pics and acquisition information as well as Preview Codes.

Nice, thanks!

@Ratphink You’re right, the cold theme can go well with certain builds. None of the builds I use really make use of the various chills we have though, thus it seems out of place.

That is a pretty sweet looking staff. I can upload a picture of my Necro later when I’m not at work :P.

Hey everybody. I’m trying to find some weapons that look good on a Necro. I’m currently using the Kodan weapons. While they’re certainly effective, their ice theme doesn’t go at all with the rest of my Necro’s look. The look my Necro currently has is a robed style with an Acolyte’s mask using an Abyss/Dark Cherry/White color scheme.

I’ll ultimately have to decide what I think looks best, but I’d love to see what kind of choices the rest of you have made. I’m sure there’s something more death/blood/disease themed than ice.

Thanks for the tips guys, very helpful.

I should have been more specific. I have enough gold to buy some starter level 80 gear on the AH for whatever spec I pick – but I won’t have dungeon-level gear. My question is whether or not one of these specs is more dependent on having higher level gear than others.

Something that would help the newer folks, and folks like me who quit and came back, would be to put the descriptions of skills ahead of your evaluations of them. Good site overall though, thank you for your work.

Hey everyone. I’m just getting back into this game…I had stopped shortly after hitting 80 on my Necro. I’ve been doing a lot of reading on various builds and can’t decide which I’d like to pursue. The three builds I’m considering are tank, conditions, and hybrid. They’re all based off of a bunch of videos I watched that were made by Nemesis.

Anyway, I’m wondering how important gear is for these builds to be effective, because I don’t have any. A particular concern is that with the tank build, I’d need to hit a certain threshold of tank gear before the build would become viable.

If anybody would like to give input on the build types, I’d love to hear it. My goal is PvE, starting with dungeons and Fractals.

Thanks in advance for any/all help.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the response. My issue was that I had just completed a zone and then decided to quickly leave before veteran mobs respawned on top of me. When I loaded in to my new zone, the quest screen was gone and I did not receive the reward.

Bump for great justice.

Any updates on this? I experienced the same issue.