Guild Wars 2

Goldrock.9076:

raids just adds more flavor for people who want to take that extra step and that extra challenge.

And the only way to get legendary armor. I hate raids since wow, I wont do ’em here, that means no way to have some new shiny armor skins coz some ppl are real fans of old and boring raid-oriented gameplay

Pretty Pixie.8603:

Pistol/pistol Kit engineer – Sinister stats

- Highest dps in fights over 10s;
- Deadly at all ranges, lots of AoE;
-Easy access to perma swiftness through trait;
-Statset covers both direct damage and conditions, meaning you only need one set;
-Engineer is a Jack of all Trades, kinda like a Bard;
-Easy to start playing, challenging to master;
-Good support options through water/fire fields.

…and horrible looking kits in u hands 90% of time T_T

Answers:
1) For pve – try to change them for pure dps stats depending on u build, one-two item(-s) per step to get used for “fast and squishy” gameplay
2) Are Soldier stats
a) for pve – nope, tough and vit are good in pvp/wvw, remember that more tough means more chances to grab agro from monsters
b) as newbie pve stats, see answers 1 and 2a
c) begginers, tanky-builds and pvp/wvw
3) all depends on time/money u can spent for game, more chars require more “resurces”, so…decide yourself depending on real life situation
4) decide build u wanna use, then think about stats. For example ele is very versale class, u can play power dps, condi or support…

If u like solo, good group utility and smth new player friendly try to pick up revenant. It is quite easy one to play, has a lot of mobility – good mass CC via elite in Shiro stance – healing and versality in dmg type (power or condi). Stay away from ele and engi, they can be a bit complicated due to mechanics. All others are quite nice, but remember one more – necro is the king of solo play, but its group utility isnt so cool, quite a selfish class or can be outperformed by other classes.

It’ll be nice to get Wrath of cooperation and Total make over kit ^.^ EU server
If any kind stranger decides to help me, keep in mind I’ll gladly compensate spent gems in 2 weeks since today.

Leodon.1564:

Toughness would benefit a melee weapon/class more than it would a ranged weapon/class. With that in mind, I would think Warrior Sword would be a good choice since the majority of its damage comes from close range bleeds.

However, you may want to save it for HoT instead if you plan on playing a Revenant since that class seems to be about tanking and dishing out conditions from what I hear. (Also, the black/shadowy appearance of the weapon would go great with the Revenant class.)

I’ll doubt that. Necro has same base HP as warr, but basicly better cnd clean (and Vit as stat works passively as defense against condi dmg like Tough works against direct “Power” dmg). But as Necro u have two more tricks: Death Shroud and Plague (that rockets up Vit and Tough). So it will work very nice for class and not worse then for warrior. If we talk about wvw/pvp.

Condinecro is nice for wvw-pvp, in open world pve condi dmg hits like a truck when stucked, but it isnt good build for dung/fractals.

Dawnbreaker.6215:

How would you make use of all the precision? Are there any traits that trigger abilities on critical hits, or perhaps some sigils with interesting effects on criticals for this?

Bkeeding on crit from sigil and traits

Traditional necro build, condimaster. Tough+Prec+Condi dmg stats, runes of Undead (the ones u mentioned converting Tough into cnd dmg). Scepter+dagger/staff, Consume Conditions, Blood is power, Epidemic, 1 skill of choice (signet for movement speed as option), elite – Plague

For pve u can try s/s assassin+zerker build. Smth like 6/4/0/0/4. There u can use s/f as offhand and get some mobility from #4.
Or try GS shatterer build.
Best runes for pve power builds – Strenght. But they are expensive. For s/s u can try Ranger ones. Or Scholar.
imho

It becomes more and more annoying. 1st were in-game lags for about a month, now login error 42…not a single good word about game support

Thx insaneseagull.7063!
But that wasnt about answering me personally. There are so many topics about ppl havung same trouble and no one has answer from support so all community can see it. I’m glad they do something, but the way they inform us or just tell about trying to solve problem would be nice. Not someone posting his personal answer from Anet supp.

Same problem. It’s a shame we have to use vpn to play game we’ve already bought and many of us spent money in-game too. Anet support is one of the worste I’ve ever seen. A lot of ppl having lags and no single replay from support. Lazy or useless, idk. But that is not the way to work with clients. Dissapointed completely.

BoogerSammich.7189:

Why I wanted to have Dhuum with staff is becouse of AoE procing from marks ^ ^

From the dhuumfire wiki page:
Notes
Only affects one target at each 10 second cycle, even if more than one target is hit with a critical hit.
In PvP, the burning only lasts for 2 seconds.

As an aside, you can spread it with epidemic, but epi has a 1s cast time. So even if you’re REALLY fast, best case scenario is you get a ~1s bleed on 5 targets every 10 sec in PVP. In PVE it’s a bit better, but really to trait and gear for Dhuumfire, IMHO requires a ton of condi duration to make it worth while.

Oh, I get that. So it is quite useless trait for PvP, unfortunatly. Anyway it seems the thing that I missed ^ ^

BoogerSammich.7189:

Dis.1092:

I have 50% crit chance. 19% – crt dmg.
Why I wanted to have Dhuum with staff is becouse of AoE procing from marks ^ ^

Def 20% crit chance, think maybe you gave the wrong link.

I just havent placed equipment in that build only runes( anyway I`ll post screenshot here with my stats to make it clear

I have 50% crit chance. 19% – crt dmg.
Why I wanted to have Dhuum with staff is becouse of AoE procing from marks ^ ^

Hi all.
I was thinking about some “new” build for my necro for WvW, havent played for some time and decided to make a new build (as for me it is new). But I can miss some information about traits, skills and how they work now, so the idea is: post build here and with help of others understand can it work or it`s useless.
What I wanted:
-staff build
-condition oriented
-some survivability
-dhuumfire trait

What I get after some tries – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBmWDbkRLdvcTZjfPhIp4aeGoHvnuAiRKIGjB-TkAimUN5ay0ksJbTDCWVsFB

Now I have stats:
Power 1401
Tough 1754
Crit 50%
Con dmg 1284
20958 HP

I switch utility skills sometimes, often from Cloud to Epidemic\Spectral wall.
After a few hours testing in WvW cant say it is bad, but anyway have a feeling something may be missing.
If u need any other info – ask and I`ll answer here.
Apologize for my poor English

1. Cond cap
2. DS ui
3. Minion AI
Without that…patch looks like giving a spoon to man without hands

Topic is useless. U dont like necro – delete it and dont play. U like necro – play the class u`re given. “I`d prefer any other class…” – go and do it. Necro-players wont even notice that u prefer others. The idea is simple – we all have free choice, and no matter how many “haters” are here – coz u dont even change anything in gameplay ^ ^

I see your point, but…
1. I’m tired of being tank in pve, so I wanna to have less tough then in cond build, as I know it is one of aspects in agro-generation mechanics. So i cant see a lot of use in death magic traits and especially in 5% tough -> power. Just a little tough not to be full glass canon, nothing more.
2. I like idea of dropping off 15% dagger speed. And idea of 5% dmg when hp is above 90% too. So 20 points in blood for wells cd.
3. I really hate necro traits tree. Idk what`s the use of going into curses and DS except crit and crit dmg. But I need them for power build >_< I dont feel like hybrid build, I dont wanna use cond dmg at all in this build (BiP only for might).

Axe isnt best dmg weapon at all, but it has good use as secondary-support weapon to stack vuln and being away from enemy, but not far. For power build it is much more usefull to run with dagger as MH and focus/dagger as OH. Dagger will give much more dmg than axe, coz it’s #1 skill is much faster and a little stronger. U’ll have good dmg and heal skill #2 and immob skill #3, so u can keep distance to heal through #2 or just run away. Burst dmg – Lich form, just spam #1 and u get quite strong dmg. And I found quite usefull to trait DS, skills #1 and 4 make good dmg, and of course extra HP will save u many times.

Hi all. I’ve been playing cond build and now I’m thinking about trying out some power build for dual daggers, mainly for pve game. So here what I’ve done http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQEQNAoYWjMap7VaiaM8JgpHZPO3wH2lmh7lD;TgAKnMOJcy6kzJpTDCmQA
Any ideas, suggestions about it?
By the way about equipment. I thought to combine 2 zerker armor pieces with 3 knight ones and zerker jewelery. Will be glad to hear about that too.