Guild Wars 2

Just out of interest to see what builds are working for people.

Random.4691:

Edit: for the record this thread does not break any TOS or rules so for you trigger happy mods, think twice because I’ve copied and pasted and will repost.

Wow!!
No Mod is a match for this mans clipboard.

Some of us have very slow connections.
Wouldn’t it be wise to allow people to pre-download the expansion before release time?

Haven’t seen anything of the like mentioned from Arenanet so I thought I’d ask if there are plans for this.

Thanks.

Is there a simpler condi rotation that won’t make me feel like I’m an imbecile?

What build are you using?

SolarDragon.7063:

Well either they’re hacking or something else weird is going on, since I’m seeing multiple scrappers that are basically doing shadowstep and return. And no it is NOT the hammer leaps.

Pretty sure it’s the drugs.
They taste great but kitten up your eyesight.

Hammer is great fun. Gyros are completely useless compared to other choices.

style.6173:

Nekrothaft.6390:

sorrychief.2563:

Engineers are the strongest faceroll class in the game, it’s how I got to rank 2 in soloq some time ago.

Yeah well I heard turret spam doesn’t work anymore

and before that the knockback engi. Engi actually requires skill now.

Yup. I’m not very experienced with Engi in sPvP and I tried this nice condi build yesterday. Got rekt so hard by everyone I forgot my name.
Will keep on practising though!
:)

sorrychief.2563:

Engineers are the strongest faceroll class in the game, it’s how I got to rank 2 in soloq some time ago.

Yeah well I heard turret spam doesn’t work anymore

Charr if you like big hulking furry beasts with technological toys.

Asura if you like small fast blip blop creatures that bamboozel their enemies.

I’ve gone for Asura because I just love their animations.

I’ll take number 3 please

Even if it’s good and the basic stuff doesn’t change, EVERY SINGLE NECRO will be running the same build.

Necroclones everywhere.

MAN.9046:

An issue of L2P? Maybe, maybe not.

So just because you didn’t know that every single class is better than us, you think all these necros who talk about the shortcomings of our profession, don’t know how to play?

Really?

spoj.9672:

Im sure with more inhouse popularity, better arguements and persuasion could be made to the balance team leads to allow certain changes. So the problem probably comes from both problems.

The problem is beyond bandaid fixing with an elite spec. The base class needs work aswell.

Do they even have a balance team? It seems that there’s 1-2 guys “balancing” when they’re not working on some other part of the game.

Also they’ve done their work on Necros, what they showed us what’s in store for HoT.

If history is anything to go by, they’re not going to make an extra effort to redesign core Necro mechanics.

Pretty sure most Necros will just move on to Revenants and be done with it anyway.

Sorry but, according to Arenanet, Necros are in a good spot right now.

Has there been an Arenanet response to this effort?

CodeHavoc.7926:

nearlight.3064:

Targuil.3741:

Take a look at the front page. As it stands, there’s little hope for core necromancer profession. Elite specialisation may be salvageable.

That bad huh? I guess I’d probably get a more satisfactory PvE MMO experience from sticking to xenoblade chronicles and its upcoming sequel then..

I wouldn’t say it’s all doom and gloom for the necro, but Anet is being really hard headed right now when it comes to changes and suggestions even when it’s thrown right on thier desk. I have little hopes for specializations, but it can’t really get any worse than it is now.

TBH if you were going to be doomy and gloomy about the Necro, there isn’t a more perfect time to do that than now. I mean Arenanet is actually reworking/balancing classes after so many years and they’ve utterly failed on what they’ve shown us about the Necro. Pretty much the vast majority of necro players agree on this.

The only time more perfect to be doomy and gloomy would be after they show us our specialization and it sucks as much as our trait re-balancing.

There’s been SO MUCH feedback about these changes and absolutely ZERO response from Arenanet. It makes absolutely zero sense for them to remain silent yet here we are, with not a single re-assuring dev post that they actually give a kitten about necros (instead of just stealing ideas from the necro subforum to make the revenant profession.)

I don’t think Arenanet even knows there’s a Necro subforum.
Someone call them and let them know please.

Celestina.2894:

Honestly, this is part of why I moved to FF14. The balance there is SO MUCH BETTER. Every class does it’s thing in different ways, and yet they are all desired for various reasons.

Many games do balance better. GW2 is still a very fun game…

Jekkt.6045:

so maybe now is the time to give all your feedback (maybe best in the necro forum) and hope that the gee guy will listen.

Does it seem like they listen?
How many years of feedback do they need?

There’s plenty of people on the subforum that know what needs to be done.
Arenanet should hire one of them and stop pretending they care about or even play the Necro class.

The changes Necros got compared to other classes like Engi, is a slap in the face.

“Necros are in a good spot”… are you kitten kidding me?

I’ve noticed more than half the times that my downed fear won’t interrupt (no blinds or stab)

Getting ping ponged as a Necro is way too common in sPvP now.
I was so frustrated yesterday I rolled a turret engi to see what all the fuss was about.

I solo-queued and my team won 17/18 games I played.
With minimal skill and minimal experience.

It really shouldn’t be like this.

ronpierce.2760:

Karl has been playing on his necromancer recently. Maybe he’ll see how bad it is and give us love? :P

Go Karl!

Who’s Karl and how do you know he’s been playing Necro (and why does it matter?).

I use this forum and reddit for GW2 information, do the devs post somewhere else?

There’s nothing in the class subforums about possible balancing or whatnot.

Oslaf Beinir.5842:

250 tomes ready to level multiple Revs

Come on man, this isn’t LA map chat ;/

I’ve noticed no difference to the Flesh Golem…. but I’ve learnt to just ignore what he does, so maybe I wasn’t paying attention.

I also came back to find Necro in it’s current state.
Sadly I missed the era they were apparently strong (then got nerfed).

I’m still maining Necro and hoping for HoT to give us something to bring to groups.
Leveling an elementalist however is getting dangerously fun.

Yeah, not keeping my hopes up but I am hoping.
If that makes any sense.

Wow, that’s great information!

Thank you very much!

spoj.9672:

Soloing is about adapting. Go into any dungeon that can be solo’d (doesnt have player number requirements like cof p1) and just try things. A true soloer shouldnt be asking how to do it.

Oh I’m a “soloer” per se, just have an absolute lack of experience on dungeons.

spoj.9672:

You should be testing and discovering what works on your own. Starting point for a soloer is a high damage build of some sort though. So thats either condi or power for necro. But it really depends if you want to go fast or not. I mean you could probably go full nomads and faceroll solo most content if you wanted. x)

Heh ok, I’ll try out a few things.. just wanted to avoid banging myself against the wall for hours on end when someone has already found an unlocked door I haven’t noticed

Could you share a build and which dungeons are soloable as a Necro please?
I’d love to try some.

I know ele and theif are good at soloing numerous dungeons/paths, but can a Necro solo any?

Zera Allimatti.2541:

kitten RNG. The expansion is going to be a godsend with it’s ability to acquire precursors in a way other than being at the mercy of RNG.

This x1000

After returning to my necro from a long break from the game, I too have to agree with Sorudo.
It’s utterly depressing that Arenanet still hasn’t been able to give Necro a place in efficient dungeon running.

Well I’m trying but there’s a ridiculous amount of update notes… was hoping for a sum-up..
Also.. what’s ascended gear?

Haven’t played in 4 months… any changes to the game I should know?

Last I checked my Necro was at 80 farming something in cursed shore…
Any new stuff to do at lvl80 or should I continue leveling my ele?
Any changes to WvW ?

Terok.7315:

Can I get some opinions from other necro’s as to the state of the minion AI? It seems to be 75% more responsive — but I’m worried about a placebo effect, lol.

Flesh Golem is still attacking random people though.

how the hell did you get the 75% ?
come on

no necro changes are mentioned in today’s patch notes!?…. strange..

spoink.8240:

Yes, I am level 80.

Yes, I am aware of some traits that don’t work and some other bugs.

Yes, I absolutely love this class.

PvE, SPvP, and WvW. Doesn’t matter what aspect of the game I am playing, I still love my necro.

While I am in Orr I thoroughly enjoy rounding up 5 or more mobs at a time and watching them all explode.

In WvW I absolutely love spreading 15+ stacks of bleed and other conditions to masses of enemies. Did you know our aoe abilities hit the tops of tower walls? Did you also know Epidemic doesn’t need line of sight to spread the conditions?

In closing: cheer up, emo kids! Necro isn’t that bad, really!

I love this class. <3

sigh, ignorant people like you are part of the problem.

Yes you are the only person you likes the Necromancer even though it has problems.
Yes you are the only person who has tried to kill 5+ mobs in Orr and succeeded.
Yes you are the only person who thought of hitting enemies on walls with marks.
and yes you are the only person who’s cast Epidemic on enemies out of the LOS.

Bravo, in a game of millions of people you are very very unique.

Roll a necro.

heh.. yeah that would work
Have you seen how broken that profession is?

Arcane.4950:

Elementalist 10k base
Necro 18k base

Err, you what?!

You obviously have no idea how broken necros are do you?
At least you didn’t complain about the health they get from DS though.

TemperHoof.6438:

But I can’t stand how every other class just does what they can do, but do it better.

Hi, I’m a necromancer and you sir, disgust me.

They just need to make some of the abilities worth using and fix traits that don’t work properly.

I hope for nothing.
I fear nothing.
I am free.

Why are these threads constantly popping up?… there’s already many others that talk about this. Arenanet doesn’t listen… or is slow in responding (aka hasn’t responded yet).
etc etc etc

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It wasn’t a whine, it was a rant, if you’d bother reading to the end of the HUGE amount of text I layed out for you.

Also, you’ve obviously never played a necro seriously.
You also seem to take Jon’s words as gospel.
Again, also, there’s loads of players who HAVE mastered the necro and these are the people who come here to complain about the profession.

We aren’t unplayable but we’re right down there in the end of the profession list as far as playability is concerned.

Jon can’t see us, hence he can’t fix us.
There’s no other explanation as to why every other class gets fixes and necros don’t
Also explains how the developers are completely oblivious to our blatant weaknesses in every aspect of the game when compared to any other class.

/just a small friendly non-constructive rant

Boomshakaboom.5403:

viable for 5vs5 & 8vs8….running the same condition spam build is mind-numbing you play a class experiment & have fun! You will realise there are several ways to play each profession very well!

I’d love to live in the world you live in but sadly I don’t.
There is only one viable build and it’s name is Conditionmaster.
It’s also sab par than the majority of other classes’ builds.

Necrotic grasp hardly ever hits, was trying it for about an hour in WvW

How does the Rampager fare in event farming?.. does it really make a bigger difference?
It probably has something like 100 more power than my MH set.