I agree scourge is powerful right now with the right builds but let’s atleast be constructive about it. Can’t have group support and condi damage at the same time? That logic is pretty ridiculous, take a look at condi chrono or mallyx revenant. Both of those have great condi burst and tons of group support that people actually want, not to mention they both have tons of mobility and survivability which scourge does not.
because we are not all Necro Mains like you. But we will be!
Hi, I would like to share with you a build with which I am finally having good results!
1st Weapon set: Dagger/Axe
sigils: Revocation, Absorption
2nd Weapon set: Mace/Dagger
sigils: Fallibility, Absorption
Demolisher Amulet/Rune of Lyssa
skills: Mending – optional – Balanced Stance – Featherfoot Grace – optional elite
optional skills: doylak signet (vs bursty composition), signet of stamina (vs. scourges hate), other
optional elite skill: signet of rage (with lyssa runes), winds
Traits:
Discipline: 2-3-1
Defense: 2-3-2; traits can be changed depending on the situation
Spellbreaker: 2-2-2; traits can be changed depending on the situation
With this setup, I have great amount of conditions clear, stability, swiftness (mobility) and even burst damage together with blocks and stun/interrupts. Quickness from Axe 4th is great in combination with leap skills.
It mostly comes to the weapon skills and the way I’ve combined them. In each, there is a burst damage skill and mobility while also defense, block or stun. Very balanced on offense and defense!
I do not enjoy Endure pain, it takes away utility and trait slot, I would rather have 20% stun increase (the answer on why I am using Fallibility sigil) and one extra utility slot to counter enemy composition.
For that reason, and the reason that burst damage is very high atm, I take Demolisher Amulet which can be combined with Doylak Signet for extra Toughness and stability. Rousing Resilience can also be taken against bursty composition instead of Cleansing Ire.
It all depends on who is your enemy and with this setup I have options against both conds or burst dmg.
That being said, this is just what works for me atm, I am looking forward to your builds!
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for the first time in 5 years, I will main Necro and I will get to Legendary rank as the worst PvP player you have ever seen while barely doing anything. Maybe I will even eat sandwich while fighting people
Yeah, at its current state it is very OP, so OP that it makes me main it even tho I never ever wanted to play Necro. But you got me, I would be crazy not to play it
#Scourge – HowToGetNecroMains101
Ok.
Here’s the preliminary feedback for evening 1 of the demo weekend.
Spellbreaker is bland, boring, low mobility, low sustain and low damage spec.
All it can really do is remove boons, but that doesn’t stop the train of damage comming your way.
I am terribly disappointed. Especially when I looked to other specs like Deadeye.Thank you ArenaNet for allowing us to have this demo weekend that way we can know weather to buy the expansion or not. And it’s the later for me.
LOL! Awww man. You actually cause a metaphorical tear to fall from eye with the contrast from ur OP. Felt like seeing a kid see his hero irl for the first time, and getting kittened on with every conceivable reality of the world.
I’d give you a hug if I could. I’d even put on a fluffy furry costume and give you a hug if it would help
Life leets you done sometimes, huh.
Holosmith srsly was swwwwwwweeeeeet tho when i tried it. It sucks we gotta relearn an entire new class and synergy but….its an option (so long as we get past the adventure box theme)!
why are you provoking other people?
I’m not? Why are you misinterpreting things in such a negative way?
Are you trying to provoke me? I srsly would feel inclined to give him/her a hug if I could…..the contrast and disappointment I felt between their posts really made me feel bad for them.
sry but I don’t think any word you have just written is honest. I do not like sarcasm for no reason. Keep civil discussion
Ok.
Here’s the preliminary feedback for evening 1 of the demo weekend.
Spellbreaker is bland, boring, low mobility, low sustain and low damage spec.
All it can really do is remove boons, but that doesn’t stop the train of damage comming your way.
I am terribly disappointed. Especially when I looked to other specs like Deadeye.Thank you ArenaNet for allowing us to have this demo weekend that way we can know weather to buy the expansion or not. And it’s the later for me.
LOL! Awww man. You actually cause a metaphorical tear to fall from eye with the contrast from ur OP. Felt like seeing a kid see his hero irl for the first time, and getting kittened on with every conceivable reality of the world.
I’d give you a hug if I could. I’d even put on a fluffy furry costume and give you a hug if it would help
Life leets you done sometimes, huh.
Holosmith srsly was swwwwwwweeeeeet tho when i tried it. It sucks we gotta relearn an entire new class and synergy but….its an option (so long as we get past the adventure box theme)!
why are you provoking other people?
Btw check the mantras cast time
ummm yeah….check Quickness, I mean, just read the description
Which new maps and how much currency I could get in an hour? I need more information. Can I get enough currency within 2 days to get one ascended ring? Or do I get like 10-20 currency per day so I would need 10-15 days just for one ascended ring?
Can I get full ascended trinket gear in 10 days, playing 2 hours per day on those maps? I need some real insight
I haven’t played actively for quite a few months, just doing LW story with some side fun. I didn’t get high into fractals or raids.
Now I see that in order to get new stat combos in HoT and LS3 I cannot get most of the trinkets with Laurels merchants.
So my question is, in order to get full ascended or exotic gear with e.g. Seraph stats, the best way would be to get items with selectable stats, right?
For ascended gear, I thought to play WvW and get Armor pieces that way, while for Weapons I would do PvP league. I am not sure for trinkets tho, it seems like PvE maps are quite a farm and it needs a long time to get enough materials! How viable is crafting? Can trinkets be crafted at all?
I need your help because I’ve only cared about the Berserker stat which has plenty ways to get it from, so I am lost in how to acquire gear with new stats.
If you are to gear up your character with Seraph’s or Viper’s gear, how would you do it? (not including Raids and High Fractals).
I would like to be prepared until the expansion comes, so we are looking a period of a month time to gear up.
Thanks in advance!
yess!! that’s the one! It made me so hyped about guardian class and wvw
Thank you a lot!
Well, as always, everything story-wise is rushed… Too many things, for a really short time happen. That is something you guys should work on, on making a pace that feels like a natural progression!
From the point of a story, I liked it a lot, twists, a lot of lore got covered (!), many things I, as a gw1 player since 2005, wondered about the “gw1” universe since it stopped getting updates.
The map is fine! Very creative, it feels fresh but still has a bit of older vibe, and it’s huuuuge in verticality! I like seeing NPC workers doing all kind of works and telling their stories, even more, when you can enter the prison near Risen Lowlands (too funny xD) – little things like this make me explore more and really be thankful for your time and passion you are putting into the game, even if I do not like a lot of things you are doing with the pacing of a story, it has been a huge problem for me since the HoT release!
A lot of caverns and little places on a map, it has that mysterious feeling – I just like the overall design of a map, even tho I will never really like events and meta events on them, it’s just a one-time thing for me, sadly.
I’ve enjoyed jumping puzzle a lot and I got scared haha, I would say it was my best experience in gw2 in last 10 months!
And even tho I do like map design, I must tell you that you should be careful of overusing updrafts! I hope expansion map doesn’t have them that many because it is kinda annoying, it breaks immersion a lot for me. For some maps and parts, I can understand updrafts, but not in such a huge number! You guys are creative, don’t use it up on updrafts! It really makes me lazy, I do not explore as much because of it, gliding is just too awesome… xD
I did like story puzzles, even tho I needed some time to understand the tricks. I am all for puzzles, I love them, but I do feel that there were too many for such a short playtime, gotta balance it a bit more! This is after all MMORPG, not a puzzle game. Better focus on more storytelling, a better pace, than on mechanics.
I did like how you’ve used “radio” to give us more lore answers, interactions like that are really nice, even more, when you are playing “filler events” to progress the story – it makes them so much more interesting and they actually feel like a part of a story and not just a trick to make people play the events on a map!
Legendary weapons are great, you made me think twice which legendary sword will I go for, Bolt still wins in my eyes in terms of the design, even tho new legendary sword has a real story behind it! THAT is a great step forward for legendary items! Connecting them to the story and the lore!
Ending cinematic was very well done, it has an epic feeling, energy, and emotions behind it! With it, you set a bar for 2nd expansion a bit higher than I’ve wanted! It doesn’t mean I am more hyped, it is just that I know that you can do great story telling, cinematic scenes and more serious/dangerous atmosphere that you’ve shown us with HoT and LS3. Be careful of story pacing, it needs to be an adventure, fully immersive, not just shortcuts on shortcuts!
I can’t wait for the Prophecy of Forgotten expansion reveal! finally!
It is just for a nostalgia trip because that video made me choose Guardian as the main class.
It’s a video from years ago, I think 2012 or 2013, WvW Guardian Outnumbered (those videos were cool because not many of us knew how to build characters at all).
One of the songs on that video is “I need a hero”, a player is playing Guardian with a hammer and a legendary greatsword, with divinity runes, and if I remember correctly, it is an AH build.
If anyone remembers it and can find the video I would be very thankful
My first Raid run made me think why should I even bother with it.
After I’ve seen Ghostly infusions I’ve decided to give Raids a try, so I wrote this in LFG:
" LF training guild for raids "
a few moments later I was invited to a squad party, where they’ve said I will do VG with them and that I do not worry, they will explain me all.
fast forward first 2 small bosses, we group up for the last one. Then the comments come:
“if you plan to do raids, don’t play a Guardian”
I said, “umm…oke?”
the vote to start the last boss started, I was instant killed. Some laughed, and some said: why did you stay outside the boundaries. Then after me saying I do not know what happened, they’ve explained that you get instantly killed if you aren’t within a circle, ending with “haha, now you know”.
I mean okay…let them have some fun, I guess…
Ok, boss started, first part till 66% was all good, 2nd part started, VG got out of a group somewhere ahead of us, 6 of them got instantly downed, I died on purpose also cuz it’s “/gg” right?
After it they started asking me what was my toughness, like 2-3 times in a row in a second, I answered 1000 toughness. And I was kicked.
I have exactly build from here, full ascended, runes, sigils, food: http://qtfy.eu/build/guardian – Scepter/Torch + Greatsword Guardian build
…and I am following the rotation explained there
…and yet I get comments like why am I playing a guardian, then a blame for their mistake (but I guess they had to blame someone) and just completely rude experience even when I was only looking for a raid guild to teach me raids.
If you guys are like this, I do not want to be part of it.
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almost isn’t the same as it was true so I don’t care. I predict next 2 dragons are destroyed. I also like to play games of predictions, so I will make thread where I will state if my prediction was good!
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The second reason, which is all connected to the AH, is the fact that you can’t really farm materials. Let’s do it on legendary weapon as example. When you just look at them, the way to get them, is really okay! You need 100% map completion, wvw, 250 of these materials, 250 of those…
But the materials aren’t really farmed. Farming materials got nerfed. Penalties for staying too long in one map and farming them got high. AH was and is FULL of materials. Yeah, you can’t really farm them quickly on your own, you need a lot of time, but the playerbase, yeah, when 1000s of players get loot drops and put them into AH to sell them, AH gets full. Then next wave of loot drop nerfs come! Now you can’t really farm materials at all, why bother with all those nerfs? (and even at the start, farming mats wasn’t so easy, but now it became horrible).
Just buy everything in AH! What do you need for it? Gold. Gold, gold and gold.
And quickly, game became the “What is the fastest way to farm gold?” Because all you needed was gold. And the game became unrewarding. Loot drops were horrible, penalties for staying too much in one map were too high. Champion train farm got nerfed times and times again. Soon even dungeons got nerfed!
When Ascended gear came, it was the 1st offender, and the first real factor which said Anet made a mistake with the AH. Ascnded gear came with account bounded items. Ascended gear came with time sink, ot better, time gated system.
You want to craft ascended gear? Oh well, you can’t get all the materials from AH anymore, you gotta farm them yourself, or craft them, but then you have time gated system! Have fun!
And most of the content after it became time gated, or account bound. Instead of it feeling rewarding, it became a tedious task. All because of the AH system GW2 has.
The number two factor which proves my point are the AH players. Players which get rich playing the AH, not playing the game.
You see, in a world without the AH system, things would work like this:
You farm materials you need to craft something, let’s say, again, legendary weapon.
You farm for 250 Elaborate Totems. You focus just on that!
Other person farm 250 Powerful Venom Sacs! He focuses just on farming that material because he exactly knows how to get them, how to fight those monsters and he/she enjoys farming in that place!
Now, person one need 250 Powerful Venom Sacs and has 300 Elaborate Totems. Person starts looking for someone who he could trade his Elaborate Totems for the Powerful Venom Sacs. And thus, two players are trading face-to-face, they quickly realize that they can trade again and become each other’s customer! And maybe later, even friends!
You see, AH system is the poor system. Even tho it does help someone buy and sell things faster, without the need to have conversation with others and spend too much time in towns waiting…it also can became the number one reason for the game to feel unrewarding and tedious.
In a world without AH, there maybe wouldn’t even be badly design time sinks, gold sinks, time gated content, and the game would feel more rewarding.
Now, with this AH system, game feels unrewarding – because it is! Loot drops are horrible, farming is horrible, time-gated items, and account bound items, are quickly becoming too many. Currency system unique to every map! Just for people to start farming maps and not buy everything from AH.
Why all the new content has so much currencies? Because of the AH and the importance of just farming gold!
So, here is the reason why game is unrewarding, because it is, and with each day, it’s becoming more horrible!
But all is not lost! Now that you know the reason, now you can really just have fun in the game! Accept it is how it is, and play around it, do some silly stuff, silly builds. You can get most of the things very fast, even ascended gear with pvp (the fastest way to get it). Then go play fractals, get agony infusions, get to 100 level of fractals, start doing raids, all the pve story content. Get legendary weapon, start toward legendary armor. Plenty of things to do!
Yep, it will not feel rewarding because loot drops are horrible, time and gold sinks are there, time gated system also!
But if you ignore it, you can find your fun
Also, I must tell you, stats are just stats, it itself shouldn’t feel all-or-nothing for you. Game does feel unrewarding because it would feel much better without the system we have now, but I don’t agree with your need to have even stronger gear. It’s not needed, at all. But game does feel unrewarding, but for the things I’ve told you
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It’s so great how we people are different, and look at the same thing with different eyes! I do have 100% map completion so I’ve been everywhere, and I still stand at game having great environment design.
One user mentioned scaling in the game, and that could be totally true! Even tho some places look big, they still feel small. Orr seems like the best designed map regarding scaling, I do not really have issue there.
Even tho some maps feel large, some meshes, or building, are just too small, or better, out of the scale, now I know that’s the real reason I can’t feel the environment! Thanks Leo G. !
Yeah, music doesn’t always fit the game, I even dare to say that soundtracks from GW1 (even tho they are awesome and work greatly for it, and nostalgia hits me over) doesn’t really fit the design of GW2. But as few of you said, you can always listen to other music.
I would say lightning still needs better work, to better feel it, shadows, light and dark places, reflections! I hope second expansion will do a bit better work (even tho one has to be careful with it, game optimization is still priority).
Yep, armors aren’t really such great design. I must say I am very impressed by the Bless Online’s armor design, it feels so good! I wish more armor designs are made that way, but we all know how much problems Anet has with creating armors, so I will hold my breathe in that department…
Yep, I think I now understand the problem I have with not feeling the environment, it’s mostly the scaling of meshes and landscape (with lightning), it’s out of proportion and not really fit!
I still enjoy playing this game, I have lots of things to do, and now that I know what is the problem for me, I can better control my feelings towards it
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First I was Warrior main, got 100% map completion, did every story till today, but I’ve never shacked a feeling that I find it’s utility skills so boring, and weapon skills in particular. I do have Guardian and now with Dragonhunter unlocked I have a blast! That’s kinda class I enjoy play, utility skills, nice damage, blocks, protection – much more active gameplay and teamplay focused then Warrior! So, Guardian is my main atm
What I do want to ask, which class would be as great as guardian in terms of damage, team utility, some tricks and more ways to go about using different utility skills and weapons?
I am asking this cuz much have changed since HoT and elite specializations release, and I did have a break about year and a half.
Guardian is here for all my PvE content, fractals, maybe even raids, wvw; but I do want another fun class, maybe even one that is a bit on a stronger side of 1vs1 for some wvw roaming!
Thank you in advance for insights!
yeah, after today’s day I am convinced that all you have to do is just play! everything comes from everywhere and there is multiple way to get something ^^ that makes it so much easier!