Guild Wars 2

I agree with the thinking that the aa scepter corrupt isn’t such a big bonus since you can rarely afford to just auto and it’s single target too. I’d actually much rather have it on #2 so you could direct your corruption a bit more and it would be aoe, but my perspective is as mostly a WvW player, so probably biased in some ways.

In the olden days of WvW, wells necro was brought mostly for boon corruption. We used to call out ‘boon strip’, then it just became ‘wells down’. Scepter isn’t a wells build weapon, but maybe it’s time to check out a Curses, chilling darkness based build again, maybe s/d & staff…

It really depends on what you’re looking to do. PvE in general? Raids? WvW? Here’s a fairly generic power Reaper build. Select utilities specific to what you’re after. If in WvW, I’d select Well of Corruption and Suffering and either a stun break or Rise for tankiness.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQJARWnMbCN3gt0AebC0bilfBjaL8FCWxHxo4VEKpFA+AA-TFTBAB3qEUjLAwCHBgEM9dj6PoorZjHAACmBA4QAUkyAa2f4IlekCIidWA-w

Glad to hear you’re working on it — we have the same issues. Our barrier is up and we can’t lower it either, along with not being able to place decorations.

Well 23 days later this still broken. I can’t lower or raise the barrier either, curious how it worked for Kraag. Considering what we paid to unlock this arena and how useless it is for GvGs, it would sure be nice to at least be able to set it up for some fun guild games.

+1 also, great post!

Hi Nekomi, sounds interesting, I’ll try to contact you in game.

Will you be doing raids? I’d love to find an organized group for that.

I appreciate that you don’t push people to use TeamSpeak, but is it an option? I enjoy it myself, and for raids I’d guess it will help a lot. Also can bring a nice social aspect to the game.

Cephas.4293:

Cogbyrn is right about finding ways to utilize the strengths of the class. Spike / burst damage is the key to generating downs. A glassy Reaper hybrid appears to be very good at this. Too many people tend to focus on overall / sustained damage. Not to mention those might stacks / vulnerability / chills and what it does for our marks/well bombs, and it is so amazingly fun to play.

Here is a video of some of my first hours as a Reaper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M1UlvZRITo

#adapt

*dedicated to FIERCE for the salt

Cephas, thanks for the video, looks like fun and a lot like current Necro plus RS…? I do notice you pushing out front of tag a lot, then falling back, which reminds me of the old chilling darkness gameplay. Mind posting a link to your build?

A couple quick questions: Why do you slot Spectral Wall? I don’t see that much in wvw builds, just curious. Don’t you miss not having a stun break? Also, I see you using Plague for elite — I used that in the chilling darkness days, do you spec into chill on blind? Or use this more defensively?

Well, blew off work to try raids this morning and it was a lot of fun! It is tough with pugs and little foreknowledge of the mechanics, but that also made it interesting. We managed to get to stage 3 of the boss, but never finished. Anyone complete it? Is phase 3 the last?

I’m enjoying masteries and have basic gliding and bouncing mushrooms unlocked without any feel of grinding, just playing the maps, exploring and doing some events. It does seem the mastery points (the ones on the maps) are disabled or something, which would have been really nice to just get a little more of a boost.

I do really like that masteries are account-wide. I think they’ll be a great way to keep progressing without grinding.

Sarevok.2638:

Running away from a point close to base while it is white – Disadvantage

Would this depend on the circumstances? If you can’t win the point before 2 enemies would arrive, would you still recommend to stay?

I did duck out of one recently because 3 were coming before I could have capped it and I’m sure I would have just died quickly. I went around to far (quarry to waterfall) instead and got a free cap (I think them sending 3 was probably a mistake, right?). When I went past mid, I figured 1-2 enemies and up to 4 allies, so went on to far, which was vacant. This was soloq, btw, no real coordination.

I’m still learning rotations, so any tips are appreciated!

Loboling.5293:

Basically, if your conditions get applied to an ally. When that ally goes down, you rally if you were also in the downed state. So a necro redirecting conditions has to be sure to kill the guy he took the conditions from before killing the person he cast the conditions on. This obviously doesn’t affect 1v1, but its about team fights.

Wow, really? If I’m running plague signet, I take conditions from my allies, am I really able to even know where those conditions came from? Is there a way to even know this, let alone be able to track it in combat? I’m pretty new to pvp and been playing signet necro — is this having a big impact on my teams?

This was fun for about an hour but is hell for a whole week. Pretty tough to figure out the thinking behind this, assuming there was any. If this is what ANet thinks WvW needs it really shows how out of touch they are. Hoping Crow Fall comes together as well as it seems to be and provides a truly excellent large scale PvP combat experience.

Always love a good fight and we really appreciate when you guys come at us! (Cake guns and all…) Thanks for the fights, hope we get in a few more. It’s all about having fun, right? Who wants to hang out in WvW babysitting a keep all night… let’s rumble!

Agree 100% and more. Even followers can see your status, so if you haven’t accepted them as friends, they can still know you’re online and where you are.

I can’t understand why this works like this. When you’re in offline mode, anyone can see you changing maps and know you’re online. You’ll also generate a game message to friends and followers as soon as you open the character select screen.

Just a couple of changes would sure help:

• Always invisible and offline in character select screen
• Appear (offline) in friend/follower list if in offline mode – no map updates
• If logging in invisible, don’t update guild roster

I can’t see how these changes would be construed as negative. If we have an ‘offline’ option at all, just make it actually useful. If it isn’t useful, remove it so people don’t think it’s doing something it isn’t, namely, providing some level of privacy.

I’ve been on Eredon Terrace since I signed up and love it! I play mostly WvW and really like being able to do most any play style: you can run in a large group at least a few times a week, or you can join up with smaller, skills-oriented teams, or you can roam with a few fun people capping camps or smaller objectives. There’s always something to do and you feel like your presence in WvW is making a real difference.

Turkadactyl.5308:

Eredon Terrace is still recruiting individuals and guilds, and we would love to have you join our community! Yes, YOU! Ok, sure, we’ll take the guy wearing a horse mask too.

Can confirm.

So nice to play on a server where you feel like you really make a difference!

Oh, and the great peoples!

Highly recommended. Would play again.

I’m a noob at Mesmer, but loving it so far. But I’ve played Necro quite a bit, mostly wvw, with a power wells build, and I’m wondering what I should be binding for faceroll?

Is it a general feeling that Necro can faceroll (some/any/all classes)?

Or maybe it’s for a condi build?

Thanks Kalasyra, Palefinger, Dano & skyhawk. Coincidentally just after I logged in yesterday someone advertised for Emperors of Eredon, which I guess is new and smallish guild. I went ahead and joined and did some WvW and had a great time. I think mostly I was another body, but tried to do as the commander asked, e.g. Build or hit the gate, etc.

I’ve only played one other MMO for any length of time and it only allowed you to be in one guild. I’m curious here what the general practice is — do you tend to settle on one guild or do people join several and participate in whichever is particularly active when they’re online? I don’t want to be annoying people by joining and not repping or whatever.

I did send my ‘application’ in for the ET site at enjin and had a look around, hope to participate there as well. Thanks again for the info and welcome!

Hi all, glad I stumbled on this thread! I’m a new player, with my first character at level 80. I’ve only been in WvW once for any length of time, but would like to play more. Unfortunately the guild I’m in isn’t based on ET, so I can’t play with them. Is there an ET-based guild that is noobie-friendly that I can learn with?

I’d also like to do guild missions and dungeons and whatever else and am mature (aka, old) and would prefer a guild with zero drama.

Thx!

Howdy, 53 here, good to see I’m not the only one.

Every once in a while I get the ‘man, you old’ thing, but the kiddos don’t realize we were the ones playing D&D at their age, which paved the way for all these glorious pixels. I used to dream about just making a random monster generator to make encounters go a little quicker.