Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, returning player here seeking some advice on a profession. I’ve noticed many things have changed and I’m wanting to get a fresh start here.

What I’m looking for:
All PvE oriented, including dungeons.
DPS output on single and aoe targets to be at least mid range or higher (I don’t have to top charts or anything but do like to hold my own)
Ranged or Melee is fine
Iffy on pets, don’t really feel like micro managing other things
Not overly complicated, but not to easy either
I love being able to survive out in the world by myself, so survivability is a must. I know most profs can do so but would like one that is a bit more then average
All profs are open for consideration

Thanks for reading and your advice!

Thanks for the reply!

Ok so I took another go at the build with your suggestions and I’m a tad less confused then before but I still feel like my brain is going to explode What does pvt stand for? From looking at the major traits I’m assuming AH stands for the Altruistic Healing but how am I applying boons to allies and then healing me if I’m normally by myself and if I only use signets or the meditations?

I’m still very confused about Guardian builds even after looking at this stuff most of the day. Can anyone put this in like a Guardians for Dummy type of thing please? lol

Hi Made a similar post in a thread I created in Players helping Players but thought I should post here to. So I’m new to Guardians and I’m having a hard time trying to come up with a decent build for what I want to do and hoping someone here can help point me in the right direction.

What I’m looking for is something I can basically solo the map with while leveling and for at level 80. Good survivability and decent damage. The Great Sword seems pretty neat and the Torch is pretty wicked with the flame stuff! For utilities I was sorta hoping I could just use signets. And for gear I was thinking the Clerics would work because of the healing?

Any suggestions or pointers to a few different builds would be appreciated! Thanks

Thanks guys I think I will be going with the Guardian! Now I have another problem though lol. I’ve been looking a site calculator and feel sorta overwhelmed with the choices in awesome weapons and which build to even go with! Not to mention I’ll later to have to choose gear lol. Would anyone be able to direct me to a few different builds that would be viable for what I’m wanting? Thanks!

My reason for leaving in the first place was a lil bit of a few things. I was getting slightly bored because my friends had left to go back to WoW and then eventually draged me back lol . I’m also not that great of a player and I’m scared of being hit (always played ranged mainly healer) so I wouldn’t really know where to start with a Guardian lol

Thank you for the suggestion Donari Are there any others by chance? Would really appreciate it.

Hi everyone, hoping you all might be able to help me out I’m a returning player, starting with all new lvl 1 characters. My goal here is to hopefully keep me interested long enough until Wildstar/Elder Scrolls Online comes out.

So I’m going for map completion, exploration, farming materials to sell, dynamic events, even possibly taking on some Champions by myself. Not to sure if I will be bothering with dungeons this time around. Diffidently not doing any thing PvP lol

Does anyone have any suggestion on which class might fit what I want to do better? I was kinda leaning towards a Necro Minion Master or maybe a Beastmastery Ranger? Is there another class that might fit the bill better?

Thanks to everyone for any help or advice given!

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Nyah.7428:

I play a MM Necro. Out of all the groups I have been in no one has ever called me useless.

My Necro main is 450+ hours. Since no one has the gut to call you useless, I’ll be happy to. You are useless. The only contribution that they would notice is your support from marks. They also notice your minions horrible ai aggroing the whole map and then some.

If you are referring to a group in WvW then I feel sorry for that server.

Say what you want but I know how to hang back and make use of my minions. Sure, sometimes the AI messes up but they sure don’t agro the whole map because I don’t let them. When we need to sneak past stuff, guess what? You can desummon them by switching skills. Before you start calling other MMs useless how about you learn to play one first?

I will always stick with MM regardless of what people like you say and learn how to work with what is given me. I enjoy it very much and that is all that matters.

Stop thinking that Anet seems to hate Necros If you stop thinking about it then you will get over it.

If your only able to use your DS every 8-9 enemies then your probably using it wrong. When you enter DS, try only going down to 60-55% of your LF then poping back out of it. The dmg cuts off anyways when you get below 50% I think.

I play a MM Necro. Out of all the groups I have been in no one has ever called me useless. Everyone seems to love my lil army Its the same way for Condition or Power based Necros. Each play style brings something different and its never useless or it wouldn’t be in the game

No edit Forgot to add in there that I normally use the Crests instead of runes just because I think the direct stat increase is better then the rune bonuses.

I use the staff pretty much all the time. I have a dagger/warhorn for my secondary. Dagger for the times I need melee dmg in a dungeon like AC (can’t remember which path but it had those mounds) and I use the warhorn for the speed boost to quickly get back to my group if I go down on a fight.

I thought healing power also scaled Transfusion (BM #6 Major) and Deathly Invigoration (BM #9 Major)? So maybe the Cleric set isn’t really worth it then.

I have been switching between Cleric and a Rampager (rare only atm) set recently. So what I’m seeing so far is that its really only worth it to go with gear that has Vit/Toughness/Power/ and maybe Con. Dmg? That would leave the Carrion set and a few of the dungeon armor sets.

Any other thoughts? Thank you for the replies so far!

I love playing a Minion Master Necro even with the issues it has. I don’t think I’ll ever give it up lol so I have some questions about gear. I’m a little confused in that department

I’m currently using the 20/0/30/20/0 but have tried playing around with the 0/10/30/30/0 some and like it to.

Should I even bother trying to do support? Maybe aquire a Cleric set? With the extra healing to keep minions up maybe it would do some good in groups?

If I do go after Cleric set, should I also go for a dps set like Rampager, in case more dps is needed instead of healing? Maybe don’t worry about the healing and focus purely on dps?

Or would it be easier to just go with a set like the Shaman and mix both healing power and condition dmg?

My intentions with playing MM are mostly PvE and dungeons. I rarely do PvP so I wouldn’t be worried about changing things up for that. I can’t think of any other information to give or what else to ask right now. Let me know what you all think.

Thanks!