Guild Wars 2

Nice vids.

What’s your build (traits)?

Is there a particular rotation that I need to use with this build, as in staff skills to axe for vulnerability to signets to reverse conditions, to ds for defence? It seems a lot less structured that an ele rotation, but that’s because I’m not sure how to play necro yet!

Mystogan, thanks for doing all of this – making, testing and writing up the build. Much more than I could ever have expected. A lot of the terms are a little unclear but I will ok them up and see what’s what. I think the hardest thing about necro are the abilities to strip boons and reverse conditions, because they have to be timed just right, and I’;m not sure when the right time is…I guess when I am loaded with conditions, which means having to constantly keep an eye out on the flashing icons at the bottom of the screen!> That’s hard in the middle of a fight. With d/d ele, you just hit them as hard as you can constantly, and try and hang on. This feels much more like a war of attrition, and getting the balance right between using condi and crit on the one hand, and using strange and wonderful skills like consume conditions is going to be really hard.

Also, he just feels a lot slower than the ele, and this isn’t helped by not having a speed buff anywhere, unless I wither stick a sigil of the locust (?) on or use horn.

Anyway, thanks again. Will try it out on some test dummies before going in to a PvP match.

Thanks for all the replies guys – psygate – thanks for such a detailed guide. I will try.

OK – so I watched Nemesis’ video. It looks like an incredible build, but he uses it in PvE. I say this only because whereas he is able (somehow) to get his condi duration up to 70%, I can get nowhere near this in PvP. I’m assuming he gets this stat (as well as many others) from his accessories, because I have the same armour and runes as him and I am at 30 per cent only in PvP. I have to switch in PvP to runes of Lyssa or Nightmare to get to 45%, still a long way off him. But for this build to work (stacking bleeds), obviously you need to make those stacks last as long as possible. I cant get near that in PvP, so I wonder whether it is a viable build. Forgive me if I haven’t understood.

The other thing about it is that there does not seem to be a stun breaker or condi cleanser. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks again.

Thank you for clarifying, I’ll take a look.

I played d/d ele before, so kinda different!

OK.

I am looking to get into a team. I like staff skills on the necro, and I like axe/dagger skills. That’s why I was thinking hybrid. I am new-ish to pvp, so i dont want to go glass canon because I am not good enough to sustain myself and be useful. I’m not sure what else I should/can say

Thanks Mystogan.

I’ve tried looking for ‘nem’ – cant find him. Does he have a fuller name? I’ll try your build out tonight and see if I survive!

Hiya

Whilst not new to the game, I am new to the class and very new to PvP. But now I have discovered PvP, I love it, and I love the potential of the Necro too.

My trouble is, I don’t know what the best build is, for team based play. I have started by just running around with tonnes of minions, but that seems to generate a lot of hatred, both from people I kill and from people on my own team. Not sure why, but I guess there’s a sense that little skill is required. Don’t know.

Anyway, from what I have read here and elsewhere, I either need to be going full power or hybrid. My instinct tells me to go hybrid, since I can support with condi and take points with crit, but I don’t know.

Any advice would be much appreciated – I don’t expect a build from you, but just your suggestions about which avenue to take would be really helpful.

Many thanks.

A scrub.

I just want to ask – is it a normal feeling to feel utterly desolate in the MMO world? I mean, like no-one knows or cares who you are, don’t want to help, and you are left to do pretty much everything by yourself?

I ask because I am totally new to MMOs – I have only ever played FPS games. And whilst the community in FPS games is not too great, at least you don’t get time to feel utterly alone. This game however, is so enormous and overwhelming – I love it all. But not the feeling of being the only person in my playing experience.

For a start I think I have screwed up my chat settings – I keep writing to the general chat thing ingame but noone ever responds. I mark that I am LFG but noone ever invites. Just to play alongside another person, make decisions together, instead of the constant drudge of doing things alone. It’s desolate. I am on Far Shiverpeaks server and nobody seems to want to play as a team…literally, a DE happens, 20 people rush to kill whatever it is, and then they all leave to pursue their own lines.

Am I appoaching this all the wrong way? Is this what an MMO is? All that talk about community, is it just advertising? Like I say, this is my first MMO so perhaps I am just not ‘getting it’. Sometimes I find the challenges very hard, but no one is around or wants to pitch in to complete them, so I just end up dying, alone, in the snow, my face all smashed in. It’s a sad, sad story.

I love the game. It is astonishing, and so different from what I am used to. But the lonliness is pretty grim.

What are your experiences?