Guild Wars 2

Otaur.9268:

@Kurow funny you haven’t seen Steal-CnD-BS combo in 2.5 – 3 months because game has only been out 3 months. Stop defending a broken class. Armor / Toughness does nothing to mitigate the damage and I know this for a fact. I have experimented with builds on my ele ranging from 2k armor to 3k armor. Steal still does around 4k dmg, CnD around 4k and backstab ranges between 4k-11k. You are spending so much time trying to defend the class and refusing to see how broken it actually is. No one should be able to go invisible and then unexpectedly unleash 20k+ dmg in 3 buttons and be able to shadowstep away and go invisible and run far enough away to never worry about being caught.

Even regen thieves have a 4k dmg steal, which makes bunker ele’s dmg useless. You can unload all you want onto a regen thief he will just stealth and regen full while just using steal / cluster bomb / trick shot until you are dead.

Quoted for great justice. “Armor/toughness does nothing to mitigate the damage and I know this for a fact.” Seriously. Seriously dude? This word does not mean what you think it means.

Found what I was looking for. Here it is, so anybody else can have a look.

It’s a staff protection/regen build. Weakness can be gotten from other sources, or from weapon swap if absolutely necessary.

http://tinyurl.com/c9weqxw

So I wanted to make a supporty character. I looked around at the various professions and didn’t find what I was looking for. Mesmers can do great things with conditions, guardians can do great things with heals and a tiny dose boons. But it was necromancer that seemed to give me everything I wanted.

Which was, in descending order of importance: weakness, protection, cripple/blindness, regen, high survivability and low threat.

I’m used to playing a cheesy GS warrior, you see, and I want to see the direct opposite side of the game. But I’m trying to settle on a build, and I’m having difficulty. It’s ending up just looking like a scepter/dagger condition damage build, but with spectral wall and well of blood. And then, since I’ll be building condition/toughness/precision, I find myself thinking “well I might as well go blood is power, it’s SO good…” and on and on. And now I’m just looking at a condition build. Has anyone seen a support-y necro build before? They seem like they would make any pve content an absolute breeze. But nobody seems to talk about it or think of them in that way.

Nerror.1504:

I got his data is from around the halloween event, where I made and salvaged a lot of rares:

18164 rares salvaged with the Mystic Salvage kit gave 16030 ectos. That’s 0.8825 ectos per rare. Even with that amount there were good and bad days which would affect the ratio noticably, but it seemed to hover around 0.88 ecto/rare using that 25% kit.

We’re meant to believe that, as a conservative example, for two weeks solid you salvaged rares. Every day. You salvaged 65 of them per hour for these two weeks. For 20 hours per day. If you make the numbers any less extreme than that (maybe you slept for more than 4 hours a day and left your house at some point during that time), the figures get even more ludicrous. 8 hours a day for 21 days? 108 per hour.

You’re a funny guy, guy.

Yeah, please don’t try to directly sell it. There’s no way somebody is going to mail you 250g, and sending someone a precursor with no payment is…ludicrous. I would only trust a close real-life friend with something that significant, and I’m a trusting person.

Even if it did go off without a hitch, you’d both be so silly that you wouldn’t deserve it. One of those ‘positive result doesn’t mean the decision was sound’ situations.

It goes

50 Large Fangs
1 Vicious Fang
5 Crystalline Dust
5 Philo Stones

Order does matter

What’s a pretty common dungeon setup for utilities? Including the heal? I’m hitting the point where I’m transitioning off a deep strikes axe build into the zerker gs build I’ll be running at 80, and I’m unsure what to pick up. FGJ is a no-brainer, and then I assume I’ll need at least one slot for signet of stamina/balance stance/endure pain depending on the fight.

The heal, 3rd utility, and elite then are what? I’m thinking signet of regen, banner of discipline, and signet of rage. But all three are up in the air, as I know a direct heal, banner elite, and a different utility or banner can be more useful.