Guild Wars 2

Lightsbane.9012:

this reminded me how absurd it is that rangers can use utilities in their avatar state but we can’t touch ours.

Ye but a man can dream right ;^D

Kodama.6453:

What I like:
- the icon (I really love it)
- torch for necromancer
- glyphes changing their ability while in shroud (finally utilities which are able to use in shroud)
- sacrifices (really like this gw1 skill mechanic)

What I don’t like:
- many numbers in the concept are absolutely overpowered (for example: torch 5…. just too much burn application, especially with the condition spam necromancer is able to do)
- celestial concept: it shouldn’t have to do with gravity and the heaven (like druid), at least I think so. That has nothing to do with necromancers. The name fits perfectly, you should get your new power from a dark new realm called the void.
- try to get too much new stuff at once (like reflect, invisibility, condition burst, hard cc), make this spec focus on 1 thing and stay with it
- convert shroud to healing (that’s too much self sustain, necromancer already is hell of a duelist, this would make it completely broken)
- 50% healing in shroud trait: I think the number is too large, mechanic seems like a good idea but I would decrease the percentage

trait suggestion: dealing damage when enemy is moving by force (launch, knockback, fear…)

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Ah yeah, I mainly took inspiration from Liadri the Concealing Dark. That’s kinda why I went with the space theme. The names were really hard for me to think of. And trying to get too much stuff is actually something that I should have thought about. I made a list from everything that Necro actually doesn’t really have and included that in the spec.

I am glad you like the Sacrifice mechanic, friends weren’t all to happy with it.

Hello guys,

I am FQ, I mostly make necro oriented videos (often WvW roaming and sPvP fights). I while back I reached 100 subs and wanted to do something special, I just didn’t know what. Eventually I started working on a project I abandoned in the past; I created a necro elite spec and tried to balance it out the best I can. It might be effected by power creep though, since I tried to scale it with Reaper, Druid and regular necro.

Description:
This elite spec features a new form of shroud, glyphs which work like the druid’s in shroud and have a different effect if you use them in shroud and outside shroud, heavy condition application by torch and a special mechanic called: ‘’sacrifice’’. The so called Voidwalker manipulates the fight with heavy crowd control. The sacrifice mechanic will take a percentage of your maximum health as requirement to activate the spell.

Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSDoS3MeTVk

I will talk here below on why I chose to balance stuff like I did now.

Torch:
Cursed Flames: kinda the same as the ele skill: ‘’Ring Of Fire’’ , just with a shorter field duration but with an CC attached to it.

Immolate: kinda the same as feast of corruption just less damage but more condition application.

Celestial Shroud: A very ranged and crowd control oriented shroud. NOTE: in the video I accidently put the cooldown and the casting time wrong.

Shadowfall: An AOE which deals a lot of damage and has long range, but a slow casting time. It’s a reference to Liadri.

Cosmic Retreat: kinda the same as the Mesmer phantasmal retreat, but instead of summoning a clone you daze your targets.

Rift Ward: You summon an orb which pulls foes to its location, you will gain access to rift break which will destroy your orb dealing small damage and fear people away.

Blackout: You can see this as a damaging condi focused ability for when people caught up to you.

Spacial Rend: Deals a lot of damage and stuns targets. It’s a long casting time so you have to be warry of it and position yourself well.

Glyphs: NOTE: I did give the celestial shroud glyphs and the normal glyphs a different name, my bad.

Glyph of blood: This is your heal skill will heal quite a lot and will heal more if you are below the health threshold. It does have a sacrifice so you can’t use it on the last moment. -Glyph of Enlightment: I thought it was a good but risky way to convert your shroud into healing. Meaning you won’t have access to shroud until your life force is above the activation threshold.

Glyph of Force: I always wanted a really powerfull skill with a major drawback. This skill is the major example of it. You will launch your foe away with a 10 sec cd, but it will take 1/5th of your maximum health. -Glyph of Night a decent stunbreak which also blinds foes, this will give you a bit more time to survive.

Glyph of Gravity: A good cc which keeps people in place to activate your slow skills on, does have a kinda big sacrifice. -Glyph of Magnetism: You will knock everyone down and cripple them, also triggering a blast finisher, also applying a magnetic aura on yourself.

Glyph of Fall: An insta stun on a 10s cooldown with a bigger sacrifice, it will help if you are being comob’d and you have no stunbreak. -Glyph of Equality: A good condi and boon removal with also a stunbreak. I forgot to mention it also applies stab for 1s to make the stunbreak work.

Glyph of Vile: Good immobilize with a decent sacrifice, it will also deal major damage. -Glyph of Janthir: Also forgot to node that the immune to blind is for 3s. Also a stunbreaker.

Glyph of Nova: A huge damage dealer with a big sacrifice, could call it a game changer. -Glyph of Void: You apply camouflage every to yourself until you leave celestial shroud or until you move.

The traits were mostly to counter some of the weakness I saw with this elite specialization. Like the stab on torch skills or causing a blast finisher when you enter celestial shroud. Because sacrifice will take chunks of your health I thought it might be better to give a trait that gives you the ability to be healed in celestial shroud. I also included a populair trait here which applies 10 stacks of confusion for 1 second on cc (ofc with cd). And ofcourse a major damage dealer trait. I also wanted to give it party support with a 15% damage increase against crowed controlled foes. Also making sacrifice less painfull by letting it tap from life force instead.

I really tried making something good and balanced of this video. As final thought some of these look a bit too powerfull, but mostly are in my opinion balanced in comparison to the other elite specs.

I am always up for awnsering questions either in the comment section of the video or up here. (I do look more on the comment section, because I get notified there.)

Spoilers

A really small writing mistake, but in the book: ‘’The Human Gods’’ you get from Zinn’s Print-o-Matic it says: ‘’Upon the defeat of the god of secrets, Dhuum,’’ Dhuum should be Abbadon.

First time I didn’t see any nerfs

Ty Robert, changes look good.

Still Soul Eater still looks a little lackluster compared to Decimating Defenses and Chilling Force.

I can t play any other class than necro xD rip me

Holl.3109:

Lynnie.7213:

Squeezzy.4718:

I’m finally on the forums!!!! yay!!! I laughed so much watching that vid Donee. I also liked how Holts forgot to turn off the sound on his version and you can hear all of you guys talking

Congrats and welcome to the forum!
Could you hear everyone’s voice or only hollts fat fingers smashing the keys? lol

Uhm excuse you, i have skinny fingers :< I just casually assault my keyboard, there is a big difference!

It atcutally sounded worse when we were playing xD

But you got used to it really quickly. Anyway I did.

flow.6043:

Nice. Except you didn’t have enough Charr in your comp

Pfff Hooman master race.

This was actually a really fun project. I keep saying I hope you have less ping next time.

Let them fix the AI first please :/

I quite like this nerf

Robert Gee.9246:

• Shivers of Dread – Fixed a bug which caused this trait not function while downed. Increased chill duration from 5s to 3s.

Euuhm is this a decrease or just a mistake? :P

Anyway thanks alot Robbert, alot of things that were a bit weak about the Reaper are tweaked.

Soul Eater is still a bit bad, because lifestealing just deals too little damage and heals for too little though.

Hello, this is my view about the Reaper specialization + a montage.

I can understand if you can’t take this video seriously because of the voice of Google Translate. So that’s why I also included montages with timestamps with it.

here’s the text for those who don’t want to hear the video: http://pastebin.com/3pEQZb4k

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBGVbyaL9ys&feature=youtu.be

I hope I gave you a better understanding what my view of the Reaper is,

FQ

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

Nice video, always happy to see revenant fighting against skilled opponents. Anguish is such an awesome troll skill against melee opponents.

Regarding conditions, I don’t think you use pain absorption enough in your actual demonstration video. With demonic stance and its self-inflicted blind you’re guaranteed to have 5 or more seconds of resistance. It’ll come in really handy against engi/necro/mesmer where multiple different condis are applied. Though I agree it is hard to use that in the right moment. Each legend are just too specialised in what they do, sometimes I feel that its not exactly balanced in some essentials like stun breakers or condi removal.

I might go for sword/axe + mace/sword, shiro/mallyx with sinister or zerker with devast/corrup/invoc when it comes out. Shiro may provide the stun breaker + evade + CC condi removal you needed, but who knows, we’ll have to see in actual beta testing.

Some improvements that may address condi in traits are cleansing channel, make it remove 2 condi on swap? Or alternatively you can try staff in your second set. Some defense against pew pew rangers and condi cleanse.

We already heard about Shiro and it still lacks the things noted. And sorry I should have been clearer; it lacks condition removal on the other legends, and well you can t always play the resistance game (sadly).

Hello,
And yes I know that I am a bit late.

Anyway here’s a video in my perspective of the Revenant. I mainly looked at the condition side of things. The actual fights start at 7:52 , the ’’start’’ is me explaining what I can see in traits and fun things I found out .

Please keep in mind that these were my first fights with Revenant. And that all players I fought were also starters.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55rPTsctoEU

I am a necromancer mainer, I could see alot of paralels with Revenant and Necromancer.

Anyway I hope I gave some people more insight in the condition part of the class,
FQ

Swiftly.2385:

I wonder if this build would work in WvW roaming? Seems like it might do ok?

Yeah probably, you have to spend alot of time into creating cele though. I think the build will have a bit trouble with juking (like with spectral walk) and fights against a good positioned pew pew ranger. Also medi guards will prob still burst you down fairly quickly and try to play as a condition necro against mesmers.

Dristig.9678:

I don’t fully understand this build it does seem to work but it just feels exhausting in the current burst meta. I acknowledge it is way more survivable than some of the other Necro builds but I don’t feel like I can kill anyone fast enough to make a difference. By the time I get someone low their teammate(s) show up and I’m out of cooldowns.

With the might stacking from all these resources you are still able to put put alot of damage, while maintaining survivability. You will also be able to put quite some damaging conditions on someone.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Ara.4569:

Dark FQ.1038:

I like curses as it a condition damage line, it’s great for condition damage specs and is quite good for cele too (as it also has +condition damage).

Trait lines don’t give stat points anymore, hence the increased numbers on amulets. More freedom. =]

Well, Curses always gives at least 130 condition damage due to Target the Weak. With Celestial, that gets boosted to 201

Yes this is what I meant sorry for the confusion.

Ethereal Nova.3795:

I’m having a fun time with this build as well as having fun messing with tweaks on it. Thanks for sharing!

I am glad you like it

Sigmoid.7082:

Im running a similar build but im messing about with death magic. Its not that bad when i take shrouded removal, deathly strength and Corrupter’s Fervor. Nice 2700 armour or 2850 in shroud, decent protection uptime , -20% condi damage.

Shrouded removal also is pretty good. Need more testing but its fun for sure. Certainly less offensive though.

I like curses as it a condition damage line, it’s great for condition damage specs and is quite good for cele too (as it also has +condition damage).

SupahSpankeh.8452:

I thought geomancy and Doom were incompatible.

Nope as seen in the video; you can use both!

Hello,

This time I show off my celestial Necro build with a little montage. I hope you find it interesting!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDguMa4K5Kc
Build:http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAW4Yjc0QnNWZDO2A/NOwFKYbGALQcrngPgmGlxzC-TZRGwAAOIAg2fowVAgwDAYZZAA

Also my apologies for that explosion sound at the beginning and for some of the overlapped texts, I edited something wrong (again).

Hi guys,

I was in doubt if I should have uploaded this , because Anet already said they are going to do something about conditions. Anyway I still uploaded the video. Also sorry for the video going on after 11:30.

Link: https://youtu.be/H2adrPQ-JkM

If you have any questions , ask them here or on the comment section from yt. (I prefer them asked on the comment section , because I get notified there.

FQ

Evenna.2519:

spoj.9672:

It only nerfed vuln stacking through chilling darkness. The stack cap has no effect on bitter chill.

I can’t get on to test it but have you? Can you stack more then five stacks of Vuln? With bitter chill?

You can.

As I said alot already: the necromancer team has no idea what they are doing with the class. Every patch there are nerfs, while it’s the most lackluster class in 2/3 gamemodes.

Lmfao this team has no idea what they are doing.

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This shows that the Necro design team has absolutely no idea what they are doing with Necro. Lmfao

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-30;3kHFF0p37JkJ0;9;467A;0236158156;43WWFa-H9LPd_LPd_k-kq-7oJ;0P282V6WDXGYL3S4A-WC72o-6;372-w72Em;9m;0C;9;9;9;3V6-7-F5PP

Explanation:
(Video): https://youtu.be/ej-LR7eRiKI

I focus on signets too, alot of might, bitter chill is amazing. Still use plague as it’s really good for stomping. Flesh Golem dies too quickly and has no AI. Lingering Curse because of alot of cripple, bleed and poison uptime. I might run weakening shroud in spvp as it’s better in team fights.

https://youtu.be/D3YlefZBjq4

“Fixes” make me sad

Sylvari’s Vern Hound and Take Root are great skills too!

Rym.1469:

1. That was weird as hell. Reminds me of those weird anime flash games.

2. I didn’t

3. It’s okay

4. I liked the saxophone-like parts at start. Then I turned off the music.

;)

Oh sorry, I always use house as it has the biggest audience (and most people have little to no problem with house).

Zin.6170:

Berry Pun Pup.6904:

Pretty much the same as I figure except with weakening shroud instead of lingering curses, cause 50% uptime on weakness is a really strong defense.

Here is the way I look at that and I may change my mind, but with all the boon conversion we have now and all the might stacking every class has, we should be able to keep weakness up 100% just by converting boons.

Hmmm I don’t know if that’s true. Not everyone is in melee range…

One of the reasons I created an underwater legendary. I love the number 1 skill of Trident and the Death Shroud skills. The 1 skills is a bit broken imo xD

Also I love mobility

Gr8 video Holl!

Hi,

This is my build I am going to run after the patch, it foccusses on condi duration. You might like it!

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-30;3kHFF0p37JkJ0;9;467A;0236158156;43WWFa-H9LPd_LPd_k-kq-7oJ;0P282V6WDXGYL3S4A-WC72o-6;372-w72Em;9m;0C;9;9;9;3V6-7-F5PP

Video with explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej-LR7eRiKI

ManCaptain.3154:

I am honestly surprised people still run necro condi, thought everyone switched to power by now. Condi necro is about on the level of condi mesmer, which is not particularly viable.

The biggest reason I play condi instead of power is that I find the playstyle of condi much more fun.

TumTum.3518:

1. Too much.
2.fine
3.fine.
4.weird.

Great video non the less.

You could have said it ingame too xd

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear (weapons and armor) next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ
(Edited to clarify weapons and armor)

What about giver ascended armor/weapons?

#RevertConsumeConditions

Cecilia.5179:

1. It was kind of overkill, but it didn’t really take from the experience
2. Haven’t watched other videos from you
3. It is cool that you have character art for your character. Not everyone is talented enough to make character art, so it is a nice touch
4. Kuddos to you for using Fire Emblem music. It wasn’t my ideal pick (I prefer classical), but I’m glad it wasn’t dark punk rock with exaggerated screen shakes and screams.

That’s your first time using keybinds? I’m impressed. I started using keybinds while learning ele. It was hell.

Another Fire Emblem fan!

Thanks alot for your comment!

Hi guys,

I actually never post my videos on forums, but this time I would like to have your awnser regarding the questions asked in the video.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n7Z934UV1E

Q:
-What did you think of my character popping in the screen while showing commentary?
- If you watched other videos from me, did you like this video structure or the older ones?
-What did you think of the chat covering banners? (Like style , not too flashy)
-What did you think of the music?

A few notes:
These are the first time I use keybinds, that’s why my gameplay isn’t the ’’best’’. (This video was also made to practice editing and such, hence the questions.)

Thank you,
FQ

The gap is too big now imo
I feel like I have to geargrind my way to ascended now…

1. Will it work like the old lingering curse, so it would stack with other condition duration bonusses?

2. Will the sigils/traits you proc with your scepter skills gain a 100% condi duration too?

For those who don’t understand Q1: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lingering_Curse

I feel famous now hehe jk.

Great video Holl, you make me almost play power necro (almost).

I actually like if they make terror a minor in curses they can even nerf the damage imo.

shadaux.5192:

DID SOMEONE FROM ANET JUST RECCOMEND METABATTLE?!
Jebus digging your own grave just wasn’t enough? Have to buy the coffin jump in it and scoot your way into the grave like a canoe too rofl.

You know they mentioned Mettabattle on the sPvP livestreams too?

Terror , trololol.

Vs a premade , Courtyard + leavers.

MasterElements.5023:

Do you find Terrormancer as underwhelming as people on this forum mention?

Not everyone here finds Terrormancer underwhelming(like me), but some people claim it’s not as powerful as most people think. One of those reasons is that fear is a condition and can be cleansed/coutered by immunities.

I do understand people’s frustration with Terrormancer though, it’s not really contributing to the team fight (sPvP perspective),but for roaming (WvW perspective) it’s just fine

Anyway gratz on your 2K subs Hollts!

I play loads of terrormancer in sPvP (power is boring imo). I made a video how I as condi necro play spvp, most of the tips shown are general. If you want a link to it, just tell!

The biggest tips I can give is that you burst as quick as possible a class down with little to no condi removal (engi,pewpew ranger and mesmer), give priority to the pew pew ranger, above all. Use your chill mark, your fear mark on the ranger (he will prob stunbreak if not land spite) , go into ds use Dark Path , doom , tainted shackles, spam ur marks on him or your scepter skills and keep close to him and los his lb, after dark binding os over it will immo the ranger, you use signet of spite and use your skills on him. If he uses some kind of stab source corrupt it.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

If you completed Story Mode previously to the implementation of PvP Reward tracks, you will need to complete the Story Mode for that particular dungeon again. There is no grandfathering-in for Reward tracks.

Good luck.

Thanks , Now I have to do PvE again ;_;