Guild Wars 2

To break up the complaints of the new elite specs in every class forum, here’s a question for you:

How viable is GS in PvE? (mostly open world, dungeons and raids)

I love the GS, I love the legendaries and I just want to smack kitten with a big sword.

However, for condi Sword/Torch seems to be the build to go, while nobody really tries power as everyone thinks it’s overnerfed. Are those assumptions valid or did I just not dig deep enough find a viable GS build?

Jahromi.2079:

Substatic.6958:

Can you link those builds.

Here’s one example from another player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC0Gs6ejJyc
The idea is that you don’t want to overcap your bleed duration, which qtfy’s build does by quite a bit making it pretty inefficient. You have several options, such as swapping some equipment out for sinister giving a sizeable boost to condi damage like in the video. Another option is to go for the overall condi duration as opposed to just bleed duration, using a combination of runes like trapper and nightmare. If you do it right you can get +25% condi duration from just runes, which effects not only bleed (and caps it with food), but burn, poison, and torment you inflict as well, dealing 10-15% more damage in those departments.

Looks very interesting, thank you for sharing.

Shadow Fiend is interesting, I wondered why no one seemed to try it after the large scale buff to it.

Zoltreez.6435:

you wanted to say Sand summoning shaman ?
yes necros new elite sepc turns them into bassicaly shamans lol ( lame )

btw if Devs actualy listened this time reaper will get enough rework to turn it into a WORKING and Viable Power build while gutting Reapers condi Part to the ground….

at least thats their plan…. still waiting to happen tough x.x

Scourge WILL be a better condi Necro tough thats im 100% sure…

Yeah shamans, my bad.

But see, this confuses me so much. RIGHT NOW, condi Reaper is far superior to power reaper, that’s the way most people play the spec I’d argue. Yet we basically know for a fact that Scourge will outclass Reaper in condi damage, however there are zero buffs for power Reaper on the horizon.

So for a player like me, who just loves greatswords and wants to play Reaper even when the expansion drops, I’m taking a huge gamble if ANY Reaper build will actually be viable at all or if Anet “conveniantly” forgets to buff power Necro, so we’re all forced to play Scourge.

That really sucks, I was looking forward to craft my first legendary (I want the Dusk blade), but I have no idea if Reaper is even useable in PoF…

Returning Necro here:

While everyone’s busy figuring out the most optimal build for our new Scourge spec, I just want to know if Condi Reaper is still viable or if Anet gutted the condi part for Scourge. With “viable” I mean in group play for normal raids or dungeons, NOT the 0.1% perfectly optimized world first guilds.

Apparently we’re getting another balance patch before the expansion hits, so I know we can only speculate at this point, but I’m still interested, as I really love the greatsword reaper fantasy, while I’m still not sold on the sand summoning warlock fantasy.

Hey guys.

I’m a fresh Lvl 80 Engineer and I’m looking for some dungeon build advices, as all build I’ve seen so far didn’t really convince me.

I leveled with Dual Pistols, as well as the Elixier Gun and some Elixiers. It was easy to level, but I’m not sure what I want to play in dungeons. Is the Engineer really “just” a Support / Heal class, or can we provide an acceptable amount of damage?

Ideally, I want to play something that does damage, but I think Support will do too, since there are like a bazillion of Warriors anyway.

I’d be really thankful for any builds or advices, since I’m not really sure about the role of an Engineer in a Dungeon group.

Have you tried using Death Shroud properly?

Awwww Yeah, that’s much better

So you use double dagger and enter Death Shroud as often as possible?
Guess that sounds good, I’ll give it a shot, thanks for sharing

Sorry mate, your link doesn’t work

Hi everyone,

as the title says, I’m searching a viable build for dungeons, because that’s what I do most of the time with my necro.

So far, I’ve tried many builds, from D/D to Scepter/D till my current weapon set: Scepter/Warhorn.

Here’s my current build

I’m doing fine in dungeons, but I always have that feeling that there’s much space to improve my damage or my support function.

What are good, viable dungeon builds these days?
I read a alot about D/D, but isn’t it… dangerous to go into melee range as a light armor wearer?

I wish I never read the forums and stayed in blissful ignorance:)

Exactly my thoughts. I actually like my necomancer, but I always thought that my skills work as intended and my traits are well balanced. Of course I saw that my damage is absolutely laughable compared to all other classes, but I thought that will work out if I ugrade my gear from yellow to orange.

Now that I know that half the things I specced are for nothing, it leaves me with a very bad feeling. Maybe I reroll another class, like most necromancers do at the moment.