Guild Wars 2

Ok, so I did the work-around that KarlusDavius posted, and Inspector is still standing there. Must be a bug, unless all 5 of us don’t understand what he posted lol.

Hi there, my name is Lohkan, I am an ex Top 10 US WoW Raider that recently picked up Guild Wars. I am a level 80 Necro and in the week or so I’ve been playing I have become very attached to my Necro and all forms of PvE. Though, I have not really had a chance to try PvP or WvW, so far I’m enjoying PvE very much.

The word “potential” might scare some of you higher end people away, but I’ve been playing this game for just over a week now and I’ve done my research into lots of different Necro play-styles and currently I’m gearing pretty much for Fractals. I’m currently working on a mostly Rabid set (Precision, Toughness, Condition Damage) with a few Rampager’s pieces thrown in there. (Side note: I’m willing to gear whatever is preferred of the guild).

I know that WoW PvE and GW2 PvE aren’t the same kind of world, but in the couple fractals I did, it felt like I actually had to have awareness and I love that. I’m not sure if there are exclusively high-end PvE guilds out there, so I’m just kinda taking a shot in the dark with this one.

I am on the server Northern Shiverpeaks, but if I heard correctly, you can join guilds cross-server. I’d rather not transfer servers at this time, due to having friends on this realm, but I will if required or find exactly what I’m looking for.. If anyone might be interesting in what I can do, send me a PM or message me in game.

Ok, cool. Thanks for the advice and clarification. Appreciate it.

Ok, I kinda figured that I only got the damage from my own applied bleeds, but had to ask to make sure. I’m kind of worried about using a dagger, since melee range is usually not the safest place to be more often than not, especially in fractals. I was thinking of using an axe in that situation, since it applies the vulnerability with the autoattack and probably a dagger in offhand for the blind and weakness.

Something else I forgot to ask. If I use Blood is Power and halfway through the self-bleed, use Deathly Swarm from the dagger off-hand, does it apply that bleed to the target at full duration (10 sec) or just apply it as it was on me and last for 5 sec?

So, I just got this game a week or so ago and I’ve taken a liking to the Necro class. I especially like the bleed build. I’ve just been wondering some things about how bleeds work that I can’t find on the wiki anywhere.

So, I know how bleeds duration works (I think): So, lets just say I start with http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blood_is_Power this puts up 2 stacks of bleeding for 30 seconds. Next, I hit twice with the scepter, which attacks 1 and 2 put up a single stack of bleeding (assuming I didn’t crit) for 4 seconds. Now, I stop attacking. In 4 seconds, I will lose 2 stacks of bleeding but keep the other 2 stacks from my start with blood is power, but the duration of those 2 stacks wouldn’t have been increased with the application of scepter hits 1 and 2. I believe this is how bleed stacking works, correct me if I’m wrong in this.

Now, on to what I’ve been thinking about. So, a Ranger uses http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Entangle and puts up 20 stacks of bleeding. As he does that, I attack twice with scepter hits 1 and 2 and crit with both, so now I’ve applied 4 stacks of bleeding to make almost a full 25 stack. Since I’ve applied stacks to his 20 stack, do I only get the damage ticks from my 4, or do I benefit from the damage of all 24 stacks of bleed?

Any comments / discussion would be greatly appreciated. Any tips experienced bleed condition necros can shoot out that I might not know yet would be cool too.