my necromancer is using full Viper’s. I am in the process of turning my last 3 berserker items(gloves,boots, spear) into vipers ascended. my accessories are all exotic viper’s atm. weapons to use are Scepter/Dagger and Greatsword. for utilities Blood Fiend, Bone Fiend, Blood is Power, Optional, and Lich Form/Chilled to the Bone/ Golem. elite cooldowns are needing some heavy cooldown reductions cause 2-3minute cooldowns is insane.
from what i can tell, every necromancer is running a condition build for open world pve,raids, fractals, and dungeons. power builds are great but they wont do much at the end like a condi build will.
Clearly tons of people left because anet needed to appeal to esports which was understandable but they did not really divide the skills therefor alienating different kinds of players. Esports pvp killed build diversity period, now I know elite classes did not but they could of easily been fixed.
Believe it or not most mmorpg players these days need and want build diversity.
this is so true. my complaint is how certain gear is locked behind raids and it turns me away from this game. i play necro and want viper accessories but cant get them due to that. people who play now and want to get to that point in the game have a hard time finding groups because those groups are full of veterans looking for more veteran players that are geared up and know the mechanics.
You can get viper stat accessories in bloodstone fen and bitterfrost frontier mate.
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If you want both to be infused and attuned you need one from each map.
have not played in a while so this is good news. use to be locked behind the raids in HoT
Clearly tons of people left because anet needed to appeal to esports which was understandable but they did not really divide the skills therefor alienating different kinds of players. Esports pvp killed build diversity period, now I know elite classes did not but they could of easily been fixed.
Believe it or not most mmorpg players these days need and want build diversity.
this is so true. my complaint is how certain gear is locked behind raids and it turns me away from this game. i play necro and want viper accessories but cant get them due to that. people who play now and want to get to that point in the game have a hard time finding groups because those groups are full of veterans looking for more veteran players that are geared up and know the mechanics.
Such a shame too, my warrior is my oldest character and she is sitting on a bench waiting to be played. Went from warrior to Revenant due to so much survival, boons, and damage in the jungle. they really need to rework the Warrior. I love how Berserker plays but you get rolled so quickly by monsters/players.
i go zerker in dungeons or run a condition build for high level fractals due to toughness scaling. right now people are farming open world for masteries. the build i posted works for it and is a lot of fun. on metabattle there is a Vipers(not updated on armor as it still uses sinister still) A/T Condi Ranger. that is the one that is meta.
try this. your survival is very high and you can dish out so many bleeds/burns. once you get the rotations down you can pop 15-25 bleeds at the start of a fight AND maintain them. i have gotten and maintained 35-38 stacks and have reached 45 stacks when i dont have to kite. seen bleeds reach 4-6k and burns 3-5k per second.
not sure how i would feel switching to Vipers set due to the loss of Toughness. mobs in HoT will truck you if you are not careful in glassy gear.
i only had to go through it for the one. the other was no prob. btw Tigs. ty for keeping it clean unlike some others. i only get trolly when someone else gets trolly.
i am having a good laugh at the attacks you are all doing to the people who reply to your whining. having a great laugh at how this ONE pet is holding you back? most of the current builds use dogs for fear/knockdowns for pvp/wvw or Cats/Birds for pve. just work for it and enjoy it when you finally get it..you know soon as you get off the forums and do the event.
does not matter if they had unique abilities or not. the idea is to earn the pet. i had fun unlocking my pets. it was more rewarding than most of these pets that you can just run up to and cap it.
Have any of you people ever played Guild Wars 1? Did you know that our Black Widow was in Underworld and took a long time to get due to all the quest and keeping the reapers alive. How about that Phoenix that was not possible to get until you killed Shiro Tagachi? How about that Rainbow Phoenix that required you get to get so many titles, HoM, etc? How about them special Wintersday Pets that you had to complete quest line in order to unlock and tame? earn this pet and stop acting like you should have everything handed to you on a silver platter. i think it is more of a rewarding feeling when you can complete something and get the pet as part of the reward.
i think warriors are in a great spot atm. my main is one and ranger is second. when you look at warrior they have high health, high armor, and great damage. most classes that try to get all 3 end up with sub par damage or if they focus on glass they usually can only take 1-2 hits before being downed. warriors dont have to worry about that issue.
think about it like this, we are opposite of thief. they stealth when close and then burst moments later. ranger stealths when close then burst when at a decent range.
nothing OP about it, l2dodge rapid fire. also go read the the patch notes on our elite, they reduced the cooldown but they also reduced the duration of said elite to 5s from 20s.
im sitting at 65 crit chance atm(missing 1 ascended accessory). with fury i will have 85. add in banners and consumables i would have even more. once i get my Althea’s Ashes i will have 3 more crit chance. using Longbow (air / accuracy sigils) and Sword/Warhorn. something you could do is get a perception sigil which at 25 stacks gives 250 precision(12 crit chance).
necromancer should of boon stripped you then blind/fear spam and condition you to death. if your using condition reduction food and runes of melandru, that necromancer is screwed lol
i can agree that ele was tuned down to much. there are many ways to counter a hammer warrior just like in GW1. people cried about how hammer warriors were downright op cause of stunlock when all you needed was a stability skill, blind, and/or enchant removal.
thief was spamming heartseeker hoping to win. agree with what Jetwing said in the post above me about that thief.
ps how long is the stun/knockdown only 1-3 seconds so that = 1-2 auto attacks that can crit. want to be serious in WvW bring some blind and enchant removals most people roaming will carry these.
run stun breakers and some stability problem solved. warriors in WvW are running what the above person said. S+H/Shield & hammer are used for zerg busting mainly. i play said build and only run around with zergs and or split groups for taking camps,checkpoints,yaks, sometimes towers, and to stall a group/mini zerg while the main body comes in from behind to wipe them. if you were initiating on said group of warriors, shame on you.
ps: WvW is not based on solo fights. if your roaming your suppose to be taking out yaks,check points, killing players who fall behind the zergs, spying on the zerg and giving its locations out, and possibly taking supply camps.
i thought people could dodge through spectral wall? i had a ranger use lightning reflex to go through my wall and a s/d thief did his evade skill through it. i would think you could dodge through it. must be bugged then if you can not. i would not call thief OP as i have one at lvl 80 and know how to counter stealth users(Stealth traps and AoE people, L2 use it).
@ OP : stop crying about players going into other classes forums. its not just thiefs doing it. it is every class.
if you dont go to GW2guru, you wont understand the joke of the video. its pointing out that our damage sucks and that using conjurs/banners does more damage than our weapons. i find it hilarious and sad at same time.
ps: stop taking things seriously and understand the sarcasm behind it.
i agree with Andele. necromancers have no sustain or real escape. so hopefully we might see some sustain in next patch or one after. i am pretty sure they will tweak(nerf/buff) some things in next patch though to have less crying(some of it is justified) on the forums. what is unjustified is people coming to necromancer forums saying that we are so OP(some THIEVES!!) that they make joke/troll threads about running around with no amulet in PvP when most other classes can do the same thing.
necromancers are not exactly Overpowered. but they are extremely close. lets say they gave us a boost in defense and left our offense as is. then we would be Overpowered. necromancers are most likely getting some slight nerfs next patch i think. i hope that it wont be to drastic of nerfs and that they split the nerfs between pve/wvw/pvp this time around…. especially after what they just did to rangers…
wonder if it is possible for devs to put in a timer indicator on traits that go on CD. would make it easier to know when 15 seconds is up on Weakening Shroud and other skills that have a cooldown over 10 seconds.
@ towelie: you apparently dont understand how powerful conditions are in WvW. you can pop all your staff skills and your now on CD. while that is going you should be stacking conditions with your S/D(do you know S/D has secondary affects on some skills also?). combine all that with epidmic and watch as peoples HP melts before your very eyes. the build im using is what a lot of necromancers are using because of how strong(close to OP) it is. you can effectivily kill 1v1,1v2, and 1v3(if your good).
another thing is to run around in full zerker with the commander/zergs so you dont get instagibbed by roamers. you can try bunker builds(i dont know any builds sadly) and roam but the nerfs the ranger community has received was really harsh. all these nerfs were cause of sPvP and until the company starts splitting balance of pvp/wvw/pve. nerfs will keep hurting us all.
they also clearly skipped the pet question that was asked from what i heard. i mained ranger and monk in gw1 and loved the diversity, as someone mentioned earlier, that rangers had. hopefully they will give us some love in the next patch or one after. in the mean time, i am gona keep playing my necromancer and warrior
build i use and that someone on forum gave to me. the build reallly hurts and if you get 25 stacks on the sigil with no Might. your bleeds will be ticking for 140 per sec. i use the cheaper food item instead of the better one. i just put best food incase you wanted know.
