Guild Wars 2

Hey Lopez.
Did you take your guides down or is your site just not working at the moment? The links in your first post don’t seem to work for me.

Hey Lopez, I’ve got a question.
What is your take on getting 100% condition during with a givers dagger in offhand and 2 runes of the mad king + 2 runes of Lyssa.
The lower condition damage would be me more than made up for with the extra dmg tick form all conditions.

Also I was wondering if you’d upload your guide for fractals again – it would be a huge help for me as I’ve just started running those.

Most of the time for the past week I haven’t been able to log in at all. I get an error message saying that I can’t get a connection to the log-in server.
Berfor you say it’s my connection – this happens while my husbands sits 2 feet away from me doing his dailies with no problems whatsoever.

When I finally do get online I get thrown of the game to the log in screen at random times (most often when I portal somewhere) or even worse I get a message saying there has been a critical error and the whole game shuts down throwing me to the desktop.

I have done a google search and found similar posts from 3-4 months ago.

Is anyone having this problem and if so is there anything I can do or is it an Anet thing?

Thanks

I have salvaged 4 rabid exotics now with Black lion salvage kits and have not gotten the inscription….
This is just way to expensive, why can’t get get the recipe and craft them like any other inscription?

BUMP
We are still looking for more nice and friendly people to join our ranks.

Hi White Knight,

we are looking for mroe players. Have a look at our recruitment port here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/EU-Vulcan-VLCN-is-recruiting-1/first#post2467075

Let me know if you are interested.

Hi Waylander,

We are recruiting. Have a look at our recruitment post here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/EU-Vulcan-VLCN-is-recruiting-1/first#post2467075

you can contact me here or in game if you have more questions or are interested in an invite.

Regards,

Caris

We are still looking for more players. We do one weekly bounty and several trainings, as well as Guild Rush and Challenges with our allies from MooN.

Vulcan [VLCN] is a small-medium PvE guild on Whitesite Ridge looking for more active players to join our ranks. We have XX active members and we aim at a maximum of 50 members. We feel that this is the right amount of players to be able to do PvE content like missions, dungeons, fractals at a regular basis without losing the personal, casual, family feel we all enjoy.

While we have some more or less “hardcore” players doing fractals 36+, we do not care about your profession and spec, as long as you enjoy playing it and you can follow the tactics. You will not be declined a spot in a group because you do not play “the right class”. We also don’t require or force you do attend to missions or dungeons as we can appreciate that there might be other stuff you’d rather be doing or some RL stuff preventing you from playing all together. We are much more interested in the person behind the screen and having fun together than your long time history playing MMO’s.

We do not have a website, TS or similar things. We use the guild message to plan activities and we use guild- or party-chat to organize runs. We feel that a requirement to join a website or TS is against the casual feel we like to keep in the guild and as of now we haven’t been missing it. Also our Guild-Leader likes to keep his/her gender a mystery and being on TS or other voice chat would kill the mystery

We can offer you Bounty Hunts (gathering more influence for the next step), Dungeon runs, Fractal runs and much more. If there is a dungeon you need to farm for some reason or other or you want to become Dungeon Master, we will provide the help. Always wanted to become a quaggan, but don’t know how? We have an expert who can help! Maybe a skill-challenge is blocked by a champion? We can come and help clear the path, or die trying! Are you bored with your natural skin color? We know how to change it to green, blue, orange, red or yellow. Jumping puzzles are boring or hard to be done alone? We can make them more fun together.

We also have an alliance with MooN, and help each other with missions. MooN has unlocked Guild Rush and Guild Challenge, which we attend to once a week.

While we have a good amount of activity in the weekends, our peak hours still are during the week in the evenings from around 7pm to 1am (UK-times). Of course right now we have a little less activity due to vacation.
So if you feel a guild with 20-50 members with the above description first your play style please contact me here or in game.

Regards,
Caris

I’d like to bump this, we are still looking for more active players to join our ranks. Please contact either of us in game for more info.

We are still looking for more active players to join us. At the moment we need another 30.000 influence to be able to do guild bounty hunts, so our focus is events and dungeon run in the evening.
You name the dungeon you need to farm and we set up a group during the week. There is usually always one group doing a dungeon on a weekday.

Please contact me in game.

We are a newly created PvE guild on Whiteside Ridge, that is looking for new players to join our ranks and help us building this community. Our focus is PvE, farm Meta events, level, map completion, dungeon progression, guild missions.
We are a casual gaming community and will never cause trouble if you have to place your kids, spouse, real-life or other obligation above your game time.
Our peak hours are ranging from 7pm to 2am GMT and there is usually no problem getting a group for dungeon runs in the evening.

We don’t care more about the person behind the screen than how much game experience you have or if you run a cookie-cutter build. It’s all about having fun and helping each-other.

Right now we are still in the process of building the guild, which is why we can’t offer much in case og guild bounty, forums, teamspeak and such. We need more members to get the right amount of influence to get things started.

So if you are looking for a guild that is friendly and casual we are the right place to come. Please contact either me, Dromar.2857 or Roger.2108

Thank you all for the suggestions. And thanks Bhawb for testing the runes for me/us, I think I will go for ranger runes in my gear.

@The demonic spirit – Thanks for posting you build. I’m not a huge fan of daggers. I like the range of the axe and the vunerability stacking so my minions do more dmg.

@Sheobix – interesting choice to make a hybrid condition build. It’s possible my personal dmg will be higher, but I’m not sure it will maxamize my overall dmg (including minions dmg) as I’d lose vunerbility and thus the minions would do less dmg.

@Bas – I’m not sure I quite catch what you are saying. So sigil of bloodlust for the axe and sigil of strength for focus? Wouldn’t it make more sense to take perception for more critchance and strength then?

I see.

What about weapon sigils? I was thinking of the Sigil of Force for the flat dmg bonus, but saw someone somewhere talk about sigil of perception, so maybe that would be a better choice?

Yes, sorry I’m talking about PvE.
So precision/critdmg over power/critdmg. I had the impression that Power was the go to stat?

I play a MM build and I’m quite happy with it but I’m at a loss about my gear.
My build is 30/0/20/20/0 as I don’t find the last trait options in Death og Blood magic very beneficial, so I’m going with more axe damage to improve my personal dmg.
I’ve also taken Reaper’s might and I’m trying toget used to using is more often.

I use Bone Minions for burst dmg and. Since I find the Fiend rather useless, I use Signet of the locus or Blood is Power when I farm/play alone and usually switch to Flesh Wurm for stationary fights/dungeons.

I hit 80 not that long ago, but I can soon craft exotic gear and before I start gathering mats I’d like to hear others opinions on it.
I think I’m pretty set on using Bezerker weapons/offhand and accessories unless someone can convince me of something better. I use a staff on switch.

What I would like to know is what gear my fellow MM-Necros use and why. Are you full Bezerker or Knight or Valkery or a combination of those and why?
Also what runes do people use? I’m leaning towards Scholar atm, but I’m not sure.

Right now I have a mix of bezerker and Soldiers but (again) not sure is that’s the way to go.

So what are the pros and cons?

Thanks in advance.

Bas.7406:

Caris.1594:

TL;DR – I like my minions, but I want them to regen between fight and/or be able to dismiss/resummon.

Oddly enough from beta to live they nerfed the health of minions by a significant portion because they were incredibly powerful in pvp.

There are multiple ways to regen your minions health, but I really don’t see a need to as I prefer them to die for Death Nova of it just doesn’t matter all that much since 24-32 seconds later I get them back. 30 seconds in a dungeon is nothing.

The ways you can heal your minions are as follows. Staff 2, Focus 4 (unreliable), Transfusion (life transfer healing), and Well of Blood. If you are running with a guardian who has symbolic heals (they all should :P), shout heals (that’s annoying to your teammates), and elementalist regen.

I ran with Del Onasi and Nay who were running full Necro support builds, and they were able to keep a constant state of protection as well as heals going and I did not lose a single minion during the run until the final boss.

As for the dismissal, I wholeheartedly agree I would love to just get rid of them and resummon them.

I don’t have Death Nova yet, but plan to try it out and that might change my mind about them not regen their health.

Also, I’m abit at a loss as to what stats to go for. I’ve searched the forum and came up with power/toughness/vita. Is that prefered for a MM?

I picked a necromancer because I like to play with pets/minions/whatever you like to call them. That is in games like these when I don’t have the option to play a fulltime healer.

I’m only around lvl 50 atm, so I don’t the full view of all the possible builds and such, but I doubt that I’ll play a necro without pets at any point. I’d rather play another profession then, as pets for me are the core of being a necromancer.
I do like them, but there are some flaws wich already are very annoying to me.

The fact that they don’t regen life between combat;
It’s annoying but not a feature I’d rage quit over. However that coupled with the fact they I can’t dismiss and resummon is just really kittenty design imo.
So they don’t regen, I have no means of healing them other than staff 2 (which has a short radius and thus only heals melee pets) and I can’t dismiss/resummon at any point even though I can see they have less than 10% health and will die in seconds next fight….. That is annoying like hell.

I’ve only tried 2 dungeons at this point so I can’t really say alot about that, but I trust people here who say that they are viable.

TL;DR – I like my minions, but I want them to regen between fight and/or be able to dismiss/resummon.

Thanks for the link and the new video.
In what situations do you use Plague form?

And I was wondering if Blood is power would be viable instead of Signet of locust? It’s another source for might and it works well with consume condition.

That looks nice – I might try that.
Few things though – the link you put to the skill calculator is just a link to the skill calculatior and not the build….
And I thought spiteful talisman is bugged?

Also I’m still leveling my necro, so any suggestion as to what traits to get first?

I see. Or rather I don’t as I’m very new to this. I rolled the necromancer to have pets, but the further I get into the game the more unsure I get about having pets in my build.
Guess I just have to find my personal playstyle yet.

@Moonrabbit – let me know what you find out. I’m toying with the might-stacking option atm, but can’t quite get it to work right.

Thanks for that. That is a conditionmaster build not?
I’m new to this game and Necro is my first class, so still trying to find out what’s what atm.

Moonrabbit.1543:

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I am now lvl 50 ankittenhinking of changing my traits to 20 (XI, IX)/0/20 (III, X), 0/0. Transfusion is nice, but the range is very limited. In ranged battles where I am forced to use staff instead of axe/focus, I am only able to rely on mark of blood to keep up my minions. Overall, I think might stacking, and especially the 30% increased minion damage, would be more useful.

How do you get XI, which is axe training while only having 20 points investet? Or did you mean VI which is Reaper’s might?

@ Bhawb – any chance you can post a link to your PVE build, I would be really interested.