There was some build over Ranger forum about Front line Ranger with deflects, was quite fun to watch.
Aphotecary rangers are rly good in wvw (roaming), dont go full zerker for ZvZ u gona kill yourself as soon as u use Barrage.
Eles can also bring lots of boons, Engis can might stack and they have stealth too.
Necros bring more “utility” than suport, they spread conditions, can aoe blind and chill at the same time and can turn conditions into boons.
But yea some classes bring more to the table than others.
One reason it’s entirely based on luck is because if it wasn’t, the games economy would be destroyed. Ascended weapons would sell for cheaper than level 20 weapons. If all you had to do was kill BOSS X to get an ascended weapon, people would line up for hours and farm Boss X. Within a day, ascended weapons would be cheaper than level 20 weapons. ANet would most likely react by putting up a time gate on BOSS X which would start a whine fest like never seen before here. That is why ascended weapons are RNG based.
Considering the weapons are account bound, I’m not really sure what you’re getting at.
The reason Ascended takes so many resources is because it’s supposed to be the end-all to character stat progression. There was an interview with the game director in which he stated that players crashed into the power plateau much faster than anyone had anticipated. The new crafting system is made to be a way to progress your character over a period of time. Crafting and acquiring the necessary materials is the progression.
Ascended weapons, and soon armor, by design, are long term goals and players are getting frustrated because they’re dumping loads of gold into the process expecting to be finished everything as fast as other content can be completed. Granted, the option is available for players who have excessive amounts of gold to unload and make the weapon in a day, but this is also working as the intended gold sink.
The best advice you can get in terms of ascended crafting is to take your time. There is NO content in which the weapons are absolutely required at the moment, and it doesn’t look like there will be any time soon. Fractals were being done at high levels without them for almost a year as well.
The real problem is that you NEED to craft to get them, i dont like to be told how to play a game and thats wat they doing, " u want BiS item? well u has to craft!"
This is wat i got so far, didnt have a chance to test it waiting for reset to do so.
Im not sure about Epidemic, i love that skill is one of the reasons i always go back to my necro but as it is now is so hard to land it that, was thinking on spectral wall or walk to have at least 1 stunbraker.
Knight is always good on necro since we have around 18k base hp, you can mix zerker and cavalier trinkets to get some crit dmg w/o loosing too much armor (that u need in wvw).
Full power items with all points into spite using minions as utilitys and axe/warhorn-staff.
Forget about precision, power/vit items are better for that lvl.
Double pistols:
#1 Spirit shoot: 1 hit vuln, second hit X% life force gain.
#2 Chilling shoot: shoot a haunting ghost that stays around your enemy causing chill for X seconds
#3 Death chain: (chargable) hold down the key to drain your Life Force and unleash a powerfull shoot at your enemys
1 stage (10% LF used): deals dmg and inmobilze for X seconds
2 stage (20% LF used): Fires 2 shoots dealing chilling with the first and poison with the second for X seconds
3 Stage (30% LF used): Fires 1 big green bullet dealing X dmg based on LF and returning X% of dmg as health.
(each stage could be charged for lets say 1 sec each with a teait to reduce the charge time)
#4 Grim Reaper: Channeling the force of death shoot repeatedly at your target dealing dmg and stealing some life.
#5 Haunting shoot: fire at your target gaining life force and causing fear for X seconds depending on range.
Something like that could be fun to play, using life force as “fuel” for bullets.
I dont have any problems with ascended items, i do have a problem with crafting being the only way to get them (and dont tell me u can loot 1 from pve or wvw cause its not only hard as kitten but u get random stats and u can only choose weapon type), crafting should be faster since u spend money and time on it but we should be able to get ascended weps and armors doing fotm/guild missons or even dungeons (hardmode maybe).
We all should be able to get the best items doing what we enjoy the most and not been forced to do things that we hate, after all u play a game to have fun not to work.
I run a full zerker staff ele in wvw for zerging and i wanted to change my build cause im a little bored, so i was reading about D/D builds and such and i found that the best item setup right now is full Celestial, since i dont have the time to farm for a celestial full set i was thinking in going 0/10/0/30/30 knight armors/zerker daggers/ celestial acc, with 2 monk 2 water and 2 divnity.
Could this work (wvw) ? i think with this setup im near 2.4k armor and 500 healing, could this be enough or do i need more armor and healing ?
Thers a simple explantion to this nerfs, Anet is lazy so instead of taking the time to find the boters on CS that farmed events they just nerf the event and kitten on the rest of the players that found fun in farming these.
I’d prefer terror fear damage not getting neglected by stability and I could live without burning then. Outside of bleeding our other possible damage condition is basically terror fear and it actually does a very good chunk of damage. I’m using a build where I have the terror from DS #3 and staff #5 have a duration of 1,7 seconds and they manage to tick twice dealing 1,1 k+ damage each tick which is very nice for condi bursting. Basically terror is our unique class theme damaging condition but it gets neglected by stability that is supposed to be only protecting from CC. Make it so the damage doesn’t get neglected and it would improve terror by a LOT on top of getting rid of this unique interaction between terror fear and stability.
Burning does 800-1kdmg and has longer duration, ofc fear is a CC too but still u have to fully spec to be able to get 2 ticks of fear, engi just can use burning w/o having to use runes+matesries to get the dmg done.
I still think it would be kinda OP to gives us burning, imagine a Terrro build+burning.
Maybe a Trait to transform poison into a condition that does more dmg+has the poison debuff on it.
I still think we need another condition to do dmg, bleed is k when u can stack 10+, poison is more of an utility condition.
I end up using Pain Inverter with my asura necro to 1v1 ;x, too bad it got nerfed with the confusion nerf.
Axe is a good wep vs thief, it gives you an easy criple and ret and a hard hiting channeled skill that counters stealth since if you cast it before a thief goes into steal it still gona hit it, same with DS #4 and dagger #2, Wells also help.
1- Give us a new condi that hits hard like Burning.
2- Change Scpeter #3 to stack with condi dmg or to do dmg based on a % of condi dmg dealt.
3- Increase range on Epi and lower the cast time.
I didnt paly my ranger for like 2 weeks, came back today and i feel weaker, my LB ikittening for max 3k on autos (pve) and i use to hit for like 3.7 4k at max range.
Same with wvw use to hit for 3k+ now is 2k-2.5k idk if its that ppl are geting more toughness or what but i feel weaker.
Hi there mesmers, i come here to ask for some help deciding wich my 4 alt is gona be, i have a condinecro (main), wvw ele and a ranger. I started lvling a thief cause i wanted a change from having 0 movility with my necro to a more agile class. So i got him to 30 went to WvW to do some tests (D/D) and kinda liked it since it has nice burst and is rly easy to escape zergs, etc.
But then i started lvling a mesmer that i had at lvl 15 and got it to 30 after some rly boring and slow lvling process, did some wvw but was not as effectiv as a low lvl thief (hited 6k BS on a 80 guardian).
So what im rly want to know before sepending gold and tokens and laurels to equip and lvl my 4 alt i want to be 100% sure that i pick the class that im gona have the most fun with, so here are my questions.
1- Is the movility of a mesmer that bad? when i was lvling i had almost no way to get switfness only with focuse and took me ages to get to dieferent places, and i felt like i was a little like my necro in terms of movility.
2- In Zerg vs Zerg wich does better? Thief have poison fields, aoe dmg and if i need to burst someone i can swith to D/P and steal or use #3 to get close, in the other hand Mesmers look like they can only use staff, or GS for AoE and i have to use Blink or Sword #3 to get close to a target if i want to burst someone.
3- Wich is in your personal opinion more fun to play?
DH are u trying to get QL again? cause last 4 times u guys zerged it and got 2 walls down with 50+ ppl u all wiped vs 10 of us ;x, better get some moar next timez.
First of all im glad for all the feedback and i agree that power necro is kinda bad for wvw but im just so bored of going condi in wvw, with all the condi remov and the crap conditions that deal dmg necros have ( talking about the ones we have bleed, poison, not the ones we can get with corrupt boons or combo fields).
The thing is i dont feel a big diference in having 2.4k armor or having 1.8k, maybe is just me but when i go condi i have almost 3k armor and i still get hited for 7k-8k, maybe thats normal but it kitten es me off that im playing a tanky build im geting hit for that much and it takes me double the efort to stack bleeds to get them cleansed so easily.
I dont want to make this a QQ thread cause is not my style so ignore me lol im just mad today.
Thanks again for all the feedback im gona still try to make a knight/zerker necro and see how it goes in wvw, sorry if i made any grammar mistakes english is not my native lenaguage.
This new AC dmg and range is kitten lol had to go rambo so many times to get them down at SM, destroyed 3 of them but took me like 30 death to get them.
Still gj DH in holding us for that long, guess AC are thw way to go now.
Think i found what i was looking, decent crit dmg and rate, almost 2.4k armor and 20k hp.
I wish we necros had a long range power weapon( staff dosent count ;3) like GS or Rifle shooting soul bullets.
First of all thanks for all the help, didnt know about internal cd on sigils guess ill go for force then.
I gona give a try to Knight armor + zerker acc probly gona get some valk ring to get some hp up, the thing is im looking to have at least 90% crit dmg with 2400 or more armor and 20k+ hp, gona have to try soulreaping to see if i can get that crit dmg up.
After farming arah for like 3 weeks for equiping a ranger i decided to make my main (necro) a power-necro so i was playing with build and come up with this:
I tried to balance stats with the items i have but still im not sure if its worth to spend all my tokens and relics to gear up, so my questions are :
1-Does anyone play this or a similar build, and if so its viable in wvw/pve?
2-If you play this build or similar whats your view in terms of dmg/surv, are they balanced or dmg/surv is crap compared to other classes similar builds?
Im not expecting to do the dmg a warrior or a thief can do since i know its imposible with a necro aiming for knights.
This is wat i use on WvW: semi glass cannon since im gona be using DS a lot casue it hits like a truck and gives me the surv i need if i get jumped by a D/D thief.
I take Chill of Death cause it gives me the final burst i need to take someone down rly quick when they get low since its instant cast and dosent share cd with the focuse skill, hits from 3k to 6k dependning on enemy buffs, i also testing Spectral Grasp in wvw and its rly fun to pull someone at 50% hp and burst him down with DaggerChill of the Dead.
This is not for solo roaming its more 10-15 man group, sometimes i change staff for axe/dagger to aply vuln switch to dagger pull someone and burst him down.
Change scepter #3 to do consume conditions on enemy doing % dmg based on total dmg done by the conditions (scales with condition dmg like fear) not the stupid 700 dmg skill we have that only gives 3% life force, that will gives use a way to burst someone when we want, since evry time im in a 1v1 duel with a conditionmancer when i get the enemy low they just can run away cleansing bleeds and chill and criple since we are slow as snails with a turtle in their back.
Mesmer, they bring a lot more suport/dmg to a group.
In wvw you gona have a lot more fun playing a mesmer, portal bombs, confusion bomb, etc, all a necro can do is put some marks, miss epidemic cause dodge roll, block or range.
Necros have almost no ways to escape a zerg, if u get stuned, chilled u gona die.
The only good thing necros have is wells, but due to 5cap aoe in a 40 man zerg puting a well to hit 5 ppl means close to nothing.
Hello daphoenix i was wondering is full power prec crit dmg armor and wep + Vit crit dmg accs (currently 16k hp) viable for D/D build (lvl 17+ fractals)? Do you really need toughness that much?
