Guild Wars 2

mazut.4296:

Glott.7239:

mazut.4296:

Good catch, but I still think its better to have good LF gain then larger LF pool.

I feel like you didn’t get what he was saying. Larger LF pool, EQUALS larger LF gain, because you always get a percentage of you maximum. 1% of 20k is more then 1% of 15k.

That’s not new, we all know that already.

but the LF skill cost is new. and doesnt scale with LF pool.

Glott.7239:

mazut.4296:

Good catch, but I still think its better to have good LF gain then larger LF pool.

I feel like you didn’t get what he was saying. Larger LF pool, EQUALS larger LF gain, because you always get a percentage of you maximum. 1% of 20k is more then 1% of 15k.

you said it in far fewer words than I did. well said.

mazut.4296:

Good catch, but I still think its better to have good LF gain then larger LF pool.

I agree, but having both is ideal.

my build from memory.
Carrion amulet – balth runes.

curses – 222
soulreaping – 223
scourge – 312

staff, scepter / torch.
new heal, spectral walk, spectral armor, flesh worm + new elite.
no issues with LF, and high health pool to deal with condi bombs.

Something I thought was useful, definitely changed my experience with scourge when i realised.

(this is probably MORE useful for PvP than PvE, but still worth knowing)

Shroud isn’t hard to come by as scourge if you build for it.
But it isnt obvious when creating and testing scourge for the 1st time that the life force cost of skills doesnt increase when you have more vitality.

I’ll try explain.
F5 skill costs 5k life force (example).
No vitality amulet, you get maybe 15k life force = using F5 skill uses a third of your life force pool.
with carrion amulet you get about 23k life force = using F5 skill uses close to a fifth of your life force pool.
The life force cost of F2-F5 skills stays the same regardless of you maximum life force capacity.
Skill cost doesn’t increase with higher vitality.

what does this mean?
You get a better return for your life force generation (10% life force generation = 10% of max life force pool),
You are also ‘punished’ less for activating your F2-F5 skills, as you have more life force available and gain more when you generate life force.

I wouldnt advise spamming your F2-F5 skills on cooldown, but with a high life force generating build, and an amulet with vitality, it is certainly an option to do so.

Hi all,
I’ve heard about dragons stand but have never managed to find it…
Any tips on how to get there?

Maybe after 800ish hours on necro the general slow pace of the class is catching up with me.
I will continue to play reaper, but im excited to play more of other classes.

Since the expansion, reaper has been great, the reaper specialisation answered most of the core necro issues, even going so far as to give us a couple of combo finishers .

However, i find myself getting tired of it, the combos we can pull off are very repetitive (RS #5/corrosive poison cloud + RS #4 etc) and i am just going through the motions when playing reaper.

I love reaper, necro is my main afterall, but i find myself spending alot of time looking for diff ways to play it when they simply arent there.

My builds vary all the time but i find im playing with mostly the same utilities (YSIM, Suffer,epidemic, corrosive poison cloud, signet of locust, chilled to the bone and wells when power oriented) and im trying very hard to enjoy GS power builds.

I play both condi and power reaper in pve and pvp.

Is it just me? Or are others looking to other elite specs to make the game more interesting?

P.s. im only mastery level 22 so not spent a tonne of time in HoT and this is my experience.

I personally had a bit of a shock on launch day when running full zerker in verdant brink, mobs hits hard and i thought that running full zerk was too risky.
So i switched to my rabbid set and enjoyed that for a few days…
I have since swapped back to full zerk and am having NO troubles with survivability.
Things die so fast they cant do enough pressure to warrant changing sets.

For info im running standard spite/SR/reaper (no blighters boon)

Is anyone else playing full squish? And enjoying it?
Im curious if anyone else has experienced something similar?

Thanks both! Any more suggestions from others are of course welcome.

I have my own ideas on what to do and how to build, but i like seeing what other people try and how they perform.

I like the video you linked – very helpful.

Hi all,
I main necro, but enjoy thief and want to get better at playing daredevil,
There are tonnes of necro youtubers out there but i am struggling to find any thief/daredevil youtubers.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Primarily looking for diff ideas on how to play my daredevil in both PvE and PvP (not at a high level – just for fun)

Thanks in advance

This change was great for bunker builds
I was playing around with a cleric blood/death/reaper last night and could sustain incredibly well.
2.8k heal leaving shroud, 300+ heaal in shroud with unholy sanctuary, with our shroud 3 pulsing stability i was able to heal 500/600 hp every second whilst in shroud, clearing condis every 3 seconds, etc etc. It was very strong.
I think blighters boon was healing for 215 with a cleric amulet per boon applied.
Very strong.
I was running d/wh and staff. Shout heal, suffer, spectral armor, locust signet and chilled to the bone.
Alot of fun to sustain in fights.
U dont NEED spite for blighters boon to be useful – tho it certainly helps.

https://youtu.be/h7OvnyNVttI

I uploaded a fun/sloppy rotation to show off some bleed stacking in action for some of the new necros out there.

Shiki.7148:

Axelwarrior.9084:

Bull Zooker.1672:

If they change corruption skills to use life force instead of applying condis to us, not only will we not be able to use our class mechanic at the start of a pvp match, but we will also be unable to use our utility skills.
While i can see that a change would be appreciated, i do not like this siggestion at all.

I quite like corruption skills at present. Gives me a good way to stack condi pressure with 1 skill and a transfer.

They could just make them consume HP when your life force pool is empty.

+1

It is already doing that, by applying conditions to us on use. Except conditions can be used to our advantage and we cant transfer a hp cost…

If they change corruption skills to use life force instead of applying condis to us, not only will we not be able to use our class mechanic at the start of a pvp match, but we will also be unable to use our utility skills.
While i can see that a change would be appreciated, i do not like this siggestion at all.

I quite like corruption skills at present. Gives me a good way to stack condi pressure with 1 skill and a transfer.

Captain Unusual.9163:

Does anyone know if the attack from Geomancy sigil blocks projectiles like the Ele skill it copies?

For some stupid reason, I crammed sigils of torment into my ascended scepter, and I’m trying to justify getting rid of that waste of 14g.

I havent tested geomancy but im pretty sure it doesnt work like that Cap’n, however the torment sigil is great, its good to have lots of diff condis, aswell as high stacking ones.

Wondrouswall.7169:

Here’s a screenshot against the Champion Vile Thrasher solo. I will note that I left out dodge rolling for Mark of Blood during this. The spike was very short-lived, but hey, the thread asked how high can we go, right?

Love this! nice work man, very impressed.

not sure why everyone’s getting so technical,

the initial sentence was ‘fairly simple thread’,

I’ve attempted to attach a screen shot to this – for some reason it won’t allow me to,

just AA, I have found it fairly easy to reach 20 stacks and just bobble around about 17-18 if I don’t get earth and barbed precision procs, also without using other skills and without condi duration food.
I don’t think its completely unreasonable to suggest someone getting 16 stacks or so with food in the PvE setting.

that said, I would like to see a screenshot of the numbers achieved after a tasty epidemic!

Wondrouswall.7169:

42 Bleeds was the highest I have ever done on a Champion Thrasher in SW. Mostly average around 34 Bleeds.

Thats huge!
I reckon i could hit similar numbers in PvE, with the right runes and food etc.
Nice work

DEATHsCLAW.1978:

@bull what rotation do you use to permanently get 25 bleeds?

I normally get like 8-15 permanent in pvp games but I’m not investing anything in duration stuff bc of cleanses

Hey man,
It was more of a PvE rotation but i have been able to get 15-20 stacks on bad players… which doesnt really say much if you play at any sort of level.
Also bear in mind i wasnt playing with optimal runes etc for survivability, was just curious regarding bleed stacking.
So, taking that into consideration my build is as follows-
Blood (mark on dodge =2 bleeds)
Curses, middle, up, down,
Spite, middle, up, up

Amulet – rabbid
Scepter dagger with earth and torment sigils (i didnt swap sets but i guess a 2nd dagger with geomancy would have helped)
Krait runes for 45% bleed duration.
Blood is power + plague signet + sognet of spite
Scepter #2, dagger #5, dodge onto target and use DS #2 and DS#5,
Spam 1 until stuff comes off cooldown.
Pretty simple really.
Not always easy when you have a moving target, but in PvE its good enough for tanky stuff – in PvE recently ive been running epidemic over spite signet to share the condis around.

Hello all,
Fairly simple thread, i was curious how many bleed stacks it is possible for a single necro to stack on a target.

I have managed 32 on the indestructible golem in pvp, averaging about 25 at any time, and this also included 5-6 stacks of torment and a few other condi’s.
How high have you all gone?

In PvP and in PvE?

I’m aware other classes do condi damage better than us due to burning application etc. This isn’t about that.
Looking forward to hearing from you all!

I’d love to see our ‘mark of blood’ be an ‘activatable’ (is that even a word?!) skill that is a teleport… i’d like to see that.
Not saying it would be balanced at all.

Maybe double up our #5 fear mark as a teleport if we activate it, as it is a higher cooldown, and means saving it for the right moments is more of a play/skill cap thing, rather than spamming for terror procs.

I put together a reaper cele signet build that played a lot like the core cele signet build, it just benefitted from reaper shroud (I was also testing out chill duration runes and the 2 chill shouts – D/F and staff).

SR, Reaper and Spite, faired pretty well and really love the new reaper shroud and necro ‘mobility’ it provides.

note, I didn’t play at any high level pvp but can see a necro pro doing very well with something similar to what I was running.

I take my hat off to you jebro. this build performs better than I expected/remember. good to see someone actually enjoying themselves in pvp without spamming conditions.

in my opinion, it is not good practice to rely on wells for damage/mitigation as I find them (after alot of time using them) lack luster in comparison to other skills.

when you blow your wells, you’re then kittened if you cant survive until they come off cooldown again.

my necro bunkers rely heavily on spectral skills and where possible the soul reaping line.

I have 2 builds I enjoy using to just be a nuisance, both make use of spectral skills and never any wells.

I always use spectral armor (traited duration), generally with earth or grove runes, this alone gives about 12s of protection which is close to what you get from all your wells, from 1 utility. I generally pop spectral armor before hopping into DS. makes you indestructible for about 8s. then your DS will start to degenerate.

anyways, imo wells are bad.

Leeto showed me in one of his videos and maybe a post on here, if you are relying on your opponents being bad to make the most of your utilities then you are gimping yourself. as you can be knocked out of a well or opponents can run out of them I find them to be less than optimal.

apologies if this post is a bit disorganised, had multiple brain farts whilst typing.

Good evening,

I have been thinking about trying a rampager engineer after my success with rampager necromancer and was wondering whether anyone has any suggestions as to what traits / kits I could run with it?

I would like to use either bombs or nades (or both) with the elixir gun,

probably balthazaar runes too as the burning duration and burn on heal is quite strong, unless anyone has any other suggestions…

this is mostly for PvE and WvW, though I would like to try this in PvP too, I mainly PvP on necro,

peace.

love the video as usual man, top stuff!

bumped into Leeto a few times in WvW, he’s always mid stomp when I see him.

Very good power necro ^^

I tested a bit with other combo’s of weapons and trinkets and liked this set up the best.
I haven’t tried cavalier dagger/focus yet (I think this may be a better option than knights for burst), but zerker was too squishy in 2v1 situations for my liking.

thanks for the feedback

I have had alot of success with this build in small scale WvW and dueling.
I have won quite a few 2v1’s which I usually struggle with on necromancer. This is due to the high CC and high mobility (for necro) that my weapon and utilities allow for, also a secure (but fiddly) way to secure stomps in 2v1 situation through the wurm / walk combo is great.
What do you guys think of it?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQAQRArY4djc00Xb5NG3webCB6RugLgYMjjJYoP4OA-zEDBYghGLMQEFgUFwk0Ak3QJnFRjt0qIasqaBRdDTBLy6YoAA-w

after the feature pack I will likely run 30/30/0/0/10 and pick up the new 2 boon corruption trait for more fears.

Looking forward to trying 30/30/0/0/10 condi build, the trait for dark path made my day. also excited to try 0/0/30/30/10, looks like high sustain.
I almost want to say ‘Thank you’ to the devs.

Almost.

MOA KIT!!!!!!!

Tool Tip:
Immediately learn primal Moa instincts and peck the face off everyone and everything

Then die instantly.

IT IS YOUR DESTINY

I would like to see 15 in spite (death into life) be switched with the trait for retal when entering DS.
That would be a good buff.

Thank you both for your answers.

additional points I’d like to add.
I have 3 ways of securing a stomp in this build.
some are more reliable than others.
1 being quickness,
2 being stealth (securing or denying stomps)
3 being invulnerability.

I am unsure as to whether hoelbrack runes are better than undead runes?
obviously the might duration is nice. but would the much higher condi damage when running undead runes make up for lack of might duration?

Is carrion better than rabbid for HGH builds?

Hi all,

Just looking for some constructive feedback or suggestions on the build I came up with last night. (This may be a very popular build I’m not sure)

20/20/0/30/0

cripple foes at 50% health and burn on crit.
pistol recharge and pistol range.
elixir recharge, elixirs remove conditions and elixirs grant might.

I used elixir heal, the elixir that grants might retal and fury, elixir that grants quickness (for the toolbelt skill), and elixir S.

I played this in hot joins and even in the LA events and had great success.
plenty of condi clears and lots of utility.

I used a rabbid jewel in pvp and carrion armor with rabbid trinkets in pve.
hoelbrack runes with torment sigil and earth sigil.

any thoughts?

Hi,

I am seeking an effective bunker engie build (possibly something like the decap engie build) to play in WvW and Spvp,

I have played a lot of Engie (not my main) and am fairly competent when playing one, I am just looking for something super trollish and fun to play.
I’m not really interested in being able to kill players, just don’t want to die when under ALOT of pressure,
There’s something very rewarding to me about being able to run circles around a few enemies, outnumbered and trolling with tons of CC.

Can anyone help?

maybe a link?

my hope/thoughts exactly! probably dagger/horn and either axe/dagger or staff.

I would play around with probably my favourite build – 0/30/10/0/30

High power and 71% fury uptime with 40% crit with fury up (sigil of accuracy in there too)
dagger/warhorn and axe/dagger.
weakening shroud, banshees wail, spectral attunement, shrouded removal, spectral mastery, DS recharge and stability on DS.

I play this with P/V/T armor and a mix of accessories (mostly zerk) though the above stats are for full P/V/T set up (what I have in pvp).

Consume conditions, Spectral Armor, Spectral Walk, either Spectral Wall or Grasp and then your pick of elites.

flash DS and smack people in the face with dagger and horn.
Strip boons and transfer conditions with axe and dagger off hand.

Enjoy

Does anyone run full sentinel set in WvW? I imagine it to be strong there? (Zerging)

Is it fun to play? Also would you recommend investing in a full set?

I’m curious as to how it plays when specced for sustain, and high LF regen.
Any comments?
(I’m aware the damage will be terrible)

I currently have 2 necro’s, an asura for condition specs, a charr for power and tanky specs but I am tempted to level a norn necro (making it as big as possible) and spec this one for pure sustain/tank purposes.
This ^^ is the reason for this post.

It will likely be played nowhere but WvW.
HOPEFULLY so I can troll people by being near impossible to kill.

play a glass cannon necro, see how fast your DS is taken from you, then complain about them being invincible.

warriors are OP.

how their current state got through testing is beyond me.

good sustain with great survivability.

when I see a warrior in pvp I get blown away by there sustain and damage, baring in mind I play necro the class thats meant to be aattrition based class, how am I getting ‘out attritioned’ ‘out damaged’ and ‘out everything else’ by a warrior?

^^ this.

if you mess up your timing on leaving DS and have 10’s to stall till your heal is up (when you desperately need it) you are in deep poop.

flow.6043:

Definitely hybrid, it would easily take the crown over going pure condi or power.

Not sure if an all-trait necro would be the best class, but it would certainly not be last.

would you run celestial gear?

I’m crafting ascended armor at the moment but can’t decide on stats. In a 30/30/30/30/30 build I can see celestial being BOSS for most specs (power/condi/tank/support)?

Avigrus.2871:

People will just complain about anything – it doesn’t matter…. if people are dying they will come on to the forum to complain

Warhorn skill 5 is so overpowered… it shoots locusts man, LOCUSTS!!

This made me laugh.

It’s funny because it’s true.

Why I bite I don’t know.

Forum fun eh.

if necro power specs get nerfed, you’ll only see more condi dhuumfire and terror fear spamming necros which are much more effective (higher DPS) than what you are complaining about.

displacedTitan.6897:

I would just like to post and say… thank you, this build has totally been what I was looking for in WvW! It gives me some actual game against the Thieves and Mesmers that are everywhere.

I am not sure which build I like more at this point and I will need lots of practice either way, the 0/30/10/0/30 or the 10/20/20/0/20 build.

Hey man, just a note to say both of these builds (although both heavily focused on LF generation) play quite differently.

The OP’s build is more of a ‘sit in DS and out last the damage’ playstyle where as my build 0/30/10/0/30 is more of a flashing DS until you really need it, getting your damage from high fury uptime and disrupting your opponents play via lots of CC.

so when trying to decide which build you prefer, make sure you’re playing it to its full potential

If A-net let its players have unlimited traits for a day/week, which profession would be most OP?
Imo Guardian and Warrior would be unstoppable.

also, would you run power or condi specs on your necro?

this was inspired by the comments on the forums talking about the new 30/30/30/30/30 meta

simply curious as to what you guys would run.

Of course man, not sure I deserve credit formit as you were using it anyways but I’m happy either way.

maybe add me in game and we’ll do some tourneys/hot joins on this spec for your video?

4 utility slots on this spec would be incredible haha

I agree wall is probably a better survival tool, I just like pulling and pushing people about with grasp

I’m not great at this kind of thing, but I’d call it something like , ‘Shadow Bruiser’ or ‘Spectral Soldier’.

A video would be great! Wish I could record and post some of my specs and pvp bouts.

I’ll keep an eye open for the video if it does get posted!

it works just fine (as intended) for me.

Its a good build for team fights and strong 1v1,
I run it in WvW aswell as PvP, except in WvW I have a lot more crit chance and crit damage as all my accessories are zerk,

@Mindx I think you will enjoy the build as your play style is similar to mine (from what I can see in your video) and I love it.
It’s a real bruiser spec, applies decent pressure and has very good staying power.
I hope you enjoy your testing.

@Stand The Wall, I like the thought of going zerk in this spec as I think it would work, I was running 20/20/0/0/30 (zerk) previously and thought I’d try out something a bit more tanky/bruiser’ish and this is what I came up with.

I like spectral grasp with spectral attunement as I get 20% LF, a good pull and an interrupt, that is of course my personal preference and the reason I take it over wall.
When I’m beaten down to 0% LF, I can pop grasp and then immediately re-enter DS in a pinch. Good for clutch stomps etc.

I have said enough… I’m rambling