Guild Wars 2

Hey guys!
I just made a montage playing my power necro who is by far my favourite to play in PvP (I have close to 2000 games on it out of 2500 total lol)

Anyway thats about it for intros. Hope you enjoy the video and I plan on making more PvP Videos/Montages even WvW Roaming in the future.

If people also have questions about my build or anything I’ll probably post a link to a build creator or just whisper me in game.

Hope you like it and enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oM_R_iOIMw

Here’s a link to the build used (I might also put it up on MetaBattle and see how it is rated)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQRBIbdG2IHNl32YjnNc4mAXogeBCgWIqPg62IMeWA-TpBBwAfeAAdOIAAOBAF3fYzRAocZAA

Bhawb.7408:

Aseity.9152:

Other than Blood Magic, I really don’t see much- especially with Necromancer’s mobility, axe issues, and amongst many other things. There were also unnecessary changes made, something the community never asked for and is now dealt with frustration.

Necromancer mobility will never change.

What we did get:
Axe’s trait got fixed as we wanted it to
Terror and LC no longer conflict
Curses now has use to non-condi builds
MM builds have a straight line through DM
DM also has another non-MM trait like we wanted
Blood magic has better support and a vampiric group buff
Plague was made a corruption and lich was a spectral
Signets had their CDs lowered
Staff now only has one trait and had a lot rolled into its baseline
Bloodthirst became baseline

And that doesn’t include the things that were already answered like we asked for in the first set of core specialization changes. I probably missed something in that as well.

I’d say quite a bit was responded to.

A lot was responded to yes, but the problem isn’t the amount of things they responded to, its HOW they responded to it. For example, yes for the most part people wanted Plague to be a corruption and Lich to be Spectral, but why do they inherently have to come with nerfs?

They shaved 5 seconds off of Lich form and gave it 15% life force once you exit but most of the time if you go into Lich you get focused down and die unless you kill the other side first. They basically made it so that if you take Lich you’d want to take Spectral Mastery to bring the duration to the same amount as it was before but Vital Persistence is a trait that’s just too good to pass since the decay rate of DS being slowed is extremely useful.

We did also ask for them to fix the axe trait and they did, but we also asked them and keep on asking them to fix the weapon itself but they haven’t.

Signets had their cooldowns lowered but their effects were reduced as well. Like for Plague Signet. The patch will introduce new conditions like slow making the amount of conditions that can be stacked on a person higher, but they instead reduce the number of transferable conditions to 5 at a time. Same treatment that Corrupt Boon got way back when. I don’t see Anet doing the same thing for things like say Guardian’s Contemplation of Purity. That skill is a stunbreaker, it heals, AND converts absolutely all conditions on the guardian to boons, yet we can only convert 5 boons to conditions, or transfer 5 conditions at a time. These comparisons show that something is wrong with how they balance us vs everyone else.

Sure Necros will probably be in a better spot come the new patch relative to themselves, but so will every other class, and we have to compare how much we get with this patch compared to everyone else and then we’ll really see that we’re being gutted…yet again.

Nilkemia.8507:

Well, that was amusing.

I hope reaper’s really good. But if not, will you show a video for that too?

Sure, why not =)

Lynnie.7213:

This doesn’t look like a nerf to me. More like a fix. And the increase healing is very welcome!

Lol “doesn’t seem like a nerf*”. Yes removing the only way we could get support from allies as a necro while in shroud isn’t a nerf but a fix instead.

Necros have been asking for heals in shroud since release, we finally get it through this trait in a heavily gated way behind boons and its removed 5 days after the expansion launch. There wasn’t even substantial time for people to settle with it and immediately its considered “too strong.”

It was our only pseudo scaling defence and it was removed already. The entire point is its not just about this trait, its about what is in store for necros in the future and with this it just seems like necro will always be unable to be supported while in shroud.

But this time the video is called “How to: Outplay Lich with every class.”
Since the first video was well received and I got asked to make a version showing how Lich can not only be trolled, but can also be mechanically outplayed I used the remaining footage I had of exactly these types of scenarios and made this

Compared to the satirical Lich OP video this one is meant to show how other classes can handle Lich with relative ease while taking minimal damage.

In the end its why in my opinion this Elite is lackluster and either needs buffs (especially with the 5 sec duration nerf) or a complete rework. Plague is also in the same boat.

Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOoFJnbz8TM&feature=youtu.be

Anyhow, hope you like and I’m always open to comments, suggestions, criticisms etc. =)

- Edelweíss