Guild Wars 2

I would first ask you what makes you want to leave SFR? What is it you are missing?

Wait Holl, did you change your build linked here? Or am I getting crazy? I am pretty sure it was a Curses/Spite/Reaper-build before, without staff, with Rune of Antitoxin, almost full Viper (a true Hybrid)…. or did I suffer my first psychosis?
(If I didn’t have a psychosis, my comment was of course triggered by the original build linked.)

Kossuth, edited my original comment with build.

Interesting build. Thanks for sharing.

Coming from a 15/20man-team focus, I also ended up with a Curses/Spite/Reaper-build for several months now. Also a hybrid. With both on shroud-entry procs, Deathly Chill and boonhate oozing out of every orifice (Well of Corruption, NCSY as utilities). Traitwise pretty much the same, except with Plague Sending.
My rune choice currently also different than yours. I currently run with Rune of the Reaper, to maximize the impact of Deathly Chill (had quite some shouts on bar already)

My hybrid however has a little bit more toughness, around 1500 mark, 30%+ Critical Chance and about 1300 condi-damage (more with food). So, I gave up some of the condi-damage for bit more toughness. Almost full Viper feels a bit too squishy (for largescale).

I also like to drop my staff on this build, and run Axe/Focus + Scepter/Dagger (or Warhorn).

Downsides I feel are a bit less resilient Shroud, less Lifeforce-generation as well as really missing Blighters Boon synergizing with self-might stacking. Also, the change of heal makes your allies’ cleanses & own transfers that more important.

Edit:
Finally got around to posting an actual link to my current Hybrid build. It’s a bit… different:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQRAnY7dnMbC10gVbCmbC0biFcBLarlv+AQXtAwBIuK2FHjA-TFTHQBlT/A72fgRqiQgTAgRUqEElQFUZBAOIA1TliooEsQqJMgnAQAAEgb2mtZbGcezbezbezzNv5Nv5NvZpAWUYF-w

Are you still on SFR?
SFR currently has several WvW guilds recruiting, including (but not limited to) [xy], [Bzzz], [CC].
The drop in activity and general quality you will find on every server I am afraid.

The following Power Reaper build tries to find a sweetspot between damage, survivability and focus on our niche like boonhate. Also, with this set-up you can easily change some trinkets and utility-skills between largescale and smallscale: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAW3Nnc0A10gVbC0biFcBD6qFAOAxXxuYYkKN0GeWA-TlCEABLqShUK9I4gA0muBDuCAMpMAgHAQO7P0lSQ/VXJAACwNvZ2sNDO6RP6RP6RboDdo3coDtUAjt1C-w

If you go roam/smallscale, you could slot Flesh Wurm (for the recall port), Spectral Walk, Spectral Armor to help you with some (juking) mobility.
Versus thieves, especially of the d/p variants, I feel like old deathshroud (not Reaper) with (close to) full damage spec is most effective (due to instant ranged fear, burst-like damage with Lifeblasts, #5 en #4 connecting while thief in stealth).

Hmm. Well…

…true, SFR has indeed seen better days concerning population and coverage. We might even say that SFR has not seen worse yet. But we aint dead. There is still fun to be had. So…

…before you transfer to another server I would suggest you drag your kitten out of EotM and join the actual WvW-maps. For the moment, I would say, join WvW during primetime.
On those maps, you ask someone (almost anyone) to invite you to a certain SFR WvW-community guild and join that. While you are on the map, you also jump on SFR’s TeamSpeak (you can ask the details on mapchat). Then you join a squad, their TS-channel and you focus the kitten up.
Next to that, you also join the SFR WvW-community website pevepe.net (and bring your questions, theorycrafting, light drama and memes with you).
After you did all that and played a while and you still do not enjoy your time, you can always transfer away. But please don’t transfer when you haven’t experienced (SFR) WvW for real yet.

PS: bit specific info, but I assume these kind of community tools are used on all servers and thus would be advice for all new players in WvW: seek out the community, engage, focus up

Shilajit.9023:

you have no idea mate how many boon curruption skill necro got
Focus 5 (Spinal Shivers)
Shroud 2 (Path of corruption Trait)
all Signets (Signets of suffering Trait)
Corrupt boon (Utility)
Well of Corruption (Utility)

basically you can have 6 corruption skills slotted at once

+
Axe 3 (Unholy Feast)
Spiteful Spirit (Trait, on shroud entry. ‘Competes’ with Signets of Suffering-trait)

In this light it is also a bit funny to see people stress over a boon corrupt on scepter aa-chain, as if a necro doesn’t hate boons yet.

For those wondering about time-period they would roll this out, didn’t Grouch already asnwer that on first page?

Josh Davis.6015:

Pro League S1 Finals will use the Winter 2016 balance update, not the current.

laquito.5269:

This might be unrelated but, is there a necro skill that can pull downed allies? I’ve been randomly pulled or teleported to mostly allied necros while in downstate without doing anything myself.

Had a mes on my team that was also seemingly pulled/teleported to an allied necro although having already used downstate decoy. I thought it was weird but then again I don’t know kitten about necros.

Yes.
Shroud-skill #4 traited with Transfusion, a grandmastertrait in the Blood Magic line

It almost feels like Arenanet doesn’t think about guilds and WvW-communities (which also consist of guilds/based on guilds), and ‘merely’ thinks about WvW players as individuals. There are examples of guilds now which got split up, as they were in the process of transferring and got hit by an unexpected server status update (see above).
It has nothing to do with wanting to stack a server to win the ppt-war.

Do we actually know when these server-status change? It has now changed twice on a monday if I am correct, so can we conclude that monday is the status-change day (if there is a change in status)?

And yeah, these servers that are “full” don’t feel full at all. It would be nice to get some correct info on how the algorythm works, who/what is counted.

This change does not make much sense, Arenanet.
It really fuels the idea that noone of you actually plays WvW (consistent, as main gamemode). If you had, you would have known about the ritual that is reset on Friday’s evening (EU) and would at least have thought to poll before announcing/implementing a change to it.
As people already said, if you merely check your metrics (without understanding the dynamics of a match-up/community) you might very well get a wrong idea about activity. The activity you see in numbers is influenced by a variety of dynamics; dynamics you do not seem to grasp and which do not purely have to do with avaiability.
I add my voice to those that think reset should stay on Fridays.

+1 of course, for the umpteenth time

lol

Venomous Necros™ FTW

So many people pointing to a condition build….

…you should try full berserker 62006 build. Take at least dagger mainhand.
You interrupt their (stealth) rotation with a fear. Then you lock them down and burst.
Fe: Doom > Dark Path > (lifeblast) > Dark Pact > (well on your feet) > Dagger AA.

When you see them being very low on HP and try to hide in stealth, you can use Tainted Shackles, Life Transfer. When Tainted Shackles ends, they are probably downed (especially if there is still a Chill of Death proc in there as well).

Having Flesh Wurm and Spectral Walk/Armor on your utility bar will also help.

As people have already said, power necros are an intricate part of the large scale meta.

If you indeed play a power necro, go (almost) full Berserker. If you want some extra toughness, take a look at changing out some Berserker for Cavalier, to retain high Critical Damage. But your survival/defense is mostly not coming from defensive stats, but from positioning and from outbursting other burst classes like thiefs, mesmers.
Try out a 62006 build.
When you are build like this, you probably wont have to change much when doing largescale or smallscale/roaming. I mostly just change my utilities: from 2 Wells + Spectral Armor or Corrupt Boon to Flesh Wurm, Spectral Armor and Spectral Walk.

If this is not a bug…
…can you explain to us how nerfing DeathShroud (functionality) helps us with sustain? Or how it tones down a specific strong, much complained about build?

Inform us and fix this.

Confirmed!

It happens with naturally ending, it happens when ending because of damage, it happens with both rezzing as stomping.

Please fix this, or stop stealthnerfing our DS and revert this and cd on end-“fix”

Homegrown Seafarer’s Rest guild ‘the Fourth Legion’ [IV] is recuiting at the moment, We look for dedicated, skilled and experienced teamplayers (we don’t want to go back to the basics) to strengthen our raid-/GvGteam.

We are looking for some more heavies, in particular guardians. Though, while several melee players is what we are looking for the most, any application of skilled players will be taken serious and into consideration.

We raid 5 times a week, starting around 20:00h GMT+2 and we strive for as many GvG’s as possible. We ask to attend most of our raids and GvG’s; we want a stable, reliable core. Trial period involved.

If you are interested and think you got what it takes, contact us ingame: Smoke.9273 ; Ebel.2650 ; MVPKLM.1728

uhmm… I guess you mean “spectral” walk…

…and no.

Necro’ing my own thread once more, to keep these vids at one place.

New video: The Fourth Legion [IV] – “Transformation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRSgjUk0JCs

Running with 6 2 0 0 6-build in these fights.

Last week we were late to the party (GvG planned), but tomorrow (18-6) Fourth Legion [IV] will be early.
See you on the (awfully awkward shaped) battlefield.

I go both solo, small-scale and large scale (20/25). All on power/critical damage spec.
As has been said, putting out pressure through (damaging) conditions is ineffective against a larger coordinated enemy group (unless you are focussing on countering periphery maybe, since so many melee groups now with Melandru/Lemongrass).
Our role, next to some control through mostly soft cc, is damage. Armor, weapons, trinkets all chosen to maximize direct damage (basically running almost full berserker).
Running with at least 2 wells and Plague. Plague is a great skill for fighting against outnumbering enemy groups, to negate some of that damage for our melee. Lich’s damage is great, but any coordinated enemy group will focus you as soon as you pop it.
Next to focus on the enemy meleegroup, another role for our necro’s is focussing their periphery, assisting our counter-periphery party.

We are not heroes. We don’t need heroes, not ingame nor irl.
Yes, we won the league. Ppt-game is however indeed mostly about coverage.

Now, I know our enemies have been up against quite a bit of blobs and unskilled players…. but please, where is the recognition of our guilds that have almost always run alone (and not with 30/40+ like some “guilds” on enemy servers)? Or are people commenting here only playing on Eternal Battlegrounds?

I tell you, there has been NO equal sized opponent group that could wipe my guild, Fourth Legion [IV]. The only ones were actually [DISS] and we also won quite some fights against them. We certainly didn’t wipe versus equal numbered PUG-zergs.

Denounce the bad and toxic play by all means, but it would be nice if everyone stopped generalizing. Generalisations are always false.

@ alamore

Within my guild, necro’s role (amongst others) is damage. Seeking to maximize (crit)damage I have a hard time dropping Death Perception, or even taking points away from Soul Reaping. Nor do I really feel (in part because of support of my guild) that I lack in personal sustain and hence don’t feel like I need Vampiric Rituals.
Concerning Spectral Mastery, I’m the only necro running Spectral Wall in our group and hence this trait. Our other necro’s run something else indeed.
That said, thanks for your input.

Necro’ing my own necro thread.

I wanted to share another video, this time of fights against a strong gvg/open field fighting guild:

video, “fighting DISS”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Of9v0V9N4

As before, I am open to criticism.
Build didn’t really change, besides dropping Ruby orbs for Scholar runes.

0 4 0 4 6 (III,VI)(VI,VIII)(x,VIII,XII) remains a solid build for power necro in large scale fights as well. I run this with almost full berserker, except for 2 cavalier rings. Scholar runes. Power/crit consumables. Staff + Axe/x. Well of Suffering & Corruption are always on my utility bar. Plague as elite (mostly).
I do run this mostly in a guild group; if you run with a PUgroup you might indeed want some extra toughness and you might want to take Foot in the Grave instead of Death Perception.

“They come, they die”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFSj6ZNLmc8

Where “they” are [WaR] and [RiSe]

Less talk, more fighting.
See you on the battlefield.

KLM on Seafarer’s Rest.
In his hammer I trust.

“zhey come, zhey die”

Space Lion.4963:

Can I get a link to build? Runes, sigils, and traits please I’m very interested.

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW3Yjc00SbNN+2wfbihhayaIIisACAq3ilIXB-TlCBABCY/BaKBrUtHsUmJxDAwLlGAcEAsUVg80NsxBBgUARsMC-w
There are moments in the video where I swapped out the 2 cavalier rings for 2 berserker rings.
We were warming up for a GvG at that moment, we didn’t bother with food and weapon stacks. Food I often use would be +100 power, +10% crit damage and Sharpening Stones.
But who knows what (we) will change with todays patch….

Well… yeah… as people said, we are desirable in at least WvW though.
If we are talking guild groups, I’m pretty sure every group looks for several necro’s. Granted, most often this will be power/crit specs for larger scale fights.
If you want, you could check out this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZPfQsX-6tg – basically everytime you see me placing wells or using plague, it has been called for by the raidlead. In this video I run almost full berserker armor/trinkets.

EDIT (20/07/2014)
New video,
The Fourth Legion [IV] – “Transformation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRSgjUk0JCs
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Hi,

I am a power necro, part of a guild that runs mostly with 20/25 in WvW.

I finally got around to capturing some gameplay and last week we had some good times fighting in Hills which I recorded:

video “Get Off Our Hills”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZPfQsX-6tg

Dear necro-community,
If you have any criticism and/or suggestions, I really would like to hear them.
(I guess some of you don’t like the larger scale fighting and I hope to record also some roaming/smallscale soon.)

“I found out that necromancers don’t work well in WvW”
Que?
For group-play, like guild-raids, we (power necro’s) are part of the friggin’ “meta”. Condi-necro’s are mighty strong 1v1 or in small group play.
Yes, when focussed, we need to take care.
Yes, we often aren’t that fast. Swiftness uptime is not really the problem though, rather in-combat mobility/ability to disengage is; though when roaming, spectral walk and flesh wurm can do wonders.

Your post seems to be yet another thread about thiefs though…
…when it comes to fighting thiefs, imo they are often not a problem. We do have the instruments to kill them, with different specs.
I suggest you seek out thiefs in WvW and learn to fight the different specs. Stay calm and mess up their rotation.

Assuming a bit of narcissism, I think this is one the OP wants to see linked:

It was a fun intermezzo.

ps: no comment on ‘best commander’

In WvW, some necromancers are wanted in almost every raid.
Condition necromancers can be found roaming and are very strong 1v1/smallscale.
For larger raids a power necromancer (utilizing some wells) is more suited and wanted. I think almost every WvW/GvG guild has some slots in their roster for (power) necromancers.

12345, W & S as they are.
A & D bound to strafe.
6 is my elite.
Q, E & C are my utility skills.
V is my heal.
R is my deathshroud.

Mouse controls the camera, targetting. Right mouse button together with movement keys at certain moments.
A 3rd mouse button for calling a target (default ctrl T).

Equip a mainhand dagger.
Keep pressure, dodge the backstabs.
When there is an opening; dark path (DS #2), dark pact (dagger #3), well of suffering, dagger auto attack.

rank 620+ and got 2 ascended trinkets so far

UnknownRH.4592:

Fun is something that an individual enjoys to do. For some people playing for points is fun, others playing for some good fights is fun and a couple killing running solo roamers is fun.
I dont know how you find it contradictory for people to have fun and kill solo roamers at the same time. Do you have a very defined understanding of fun that was imposed on you by your government or something?

I think you just pretend to not understand me. But I will bite: “If you play for fun and good fights, then…”. You will have a hard time arguing that focusing down 1 enemy with 10 people using autoattack is a fun and good fight. If you think it is, I pity you and your ingame skill.

In any case, I didn’t express some objective truth. I expressed my frustration. Next time I will state “I think,” before every statement.
You will play how you want to. That doesn’t mean I cannot find it lame; lame like the Polymorph Moa-skill of a mesmer.

Have fun.

If you say you play for fun and good fights, stop chasing and killing one person with a group of 5 or 10. This happens on all servers, but I get so sick of it.
Come fight me one by one, you will still have the upperhand.

Also, What about this idea:
Next match up all 3 servers cap 1/3 of the maps on reset and for the rest of the week fight in open field.

Indeed, lots of fun was had yesterday evening on SFR homeborder, really enjoyed the fights. We might have capped a tower or so, but were mostly looking for fights… of which we found quite some, albeit now and then bit outnumbered.

See you all on the (open field) battlefield.

Faunus.3647:

Will you learn to use omega for s2 ? Cause for now you just fail on it.

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http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=668886gw110.jpg

Are that the golems you used to try take Garrison on SFR border where they all got slaughtered? Seems about the same amount…

I only play power necro.
I generally don’t have problems in 1v1’s. Outnumbered fights is a different matter, but I think that goes for any necro. That said, I have won quite some 1v2’s.
When I roam, I currently run 20/20/0/0/30, with dagger/warhorn + axe/dagger. For zergplay, I take my staff and I might change some traits, but often keep the traitpoint allocation and slot an extra well.
I use PVT armor, ruby orbs and berserker trinkets.
Tanky targets can be difficult, more squishy targets often get scared by the damage we can do (lifeblasts, dagger autoattack combined with well etc).
I do feel I need 30 in Soul Reaping and heavily trait Death Shroud.

alanis.6094:

best part about SW is the actual walk/recall

^this, plus the stunbreak.
Spectral Walk has saved my kitten quite some times. I want at least one stunbreak to help myself.
The recall teleport has duped a chasing zerg more then once, reappearing behind the zerg and running the other way.
I can start Spectral Walk (on top of structure), quickly get to a nearby spot, bomb it and recall to be out of harms way.
I can still jump of any height with it.
I find Spectral Walk invaluable when fighting most thiefs and is useful in any 1v1.
Basically, my Spectral Walk doesn’t come off my skillbar, even when not traiting for spectral skills.

Nice trolling in our Lions Arch:
“Canadian Vizunah-Piken Square ALLIANCE RECRUITS: Tired of being second?^ Join Vizunah to nightcap seafarest towers/keeps during the night!!! Only for CANADIANS”

Get your kitten on the battlefield.

Troma.3250:

a charr from AR guild with Pink hair

that beast is Beasty

I must say many of you, despite stating you don’t like the trolling & flaming, do like to feed the trolls whole banquets.
It’s friggin’ boring.

Can everyone, but especially those kittens from my own server SFR, stop the whining about nightcapping/Canadians/double teaming?

We are losing because Vizunah Square is simply the best at the ppt-game.

I for one don’t even want SFR to be as good as Vizunah in this because it will destroy the attitude of looking for the good fights, fighting for improvement of individual/group skill, fighting for fun. Sadly, this is already happening…

…but for now, we still almost always wipe Vizunah in open field, even when they outnumber us by quite a bit. In that, we still ARE better (as soon as we fight against the same amount of Piken, you feel the difference between them and Vizunah: in spirit, in toughness, in skill).

Hoping for some more good fights between us all, see you on the battlefield.

I am also from SFR.
I wish people would stop whining about this kitten. Even if Vizunah has a Canadian nightcapping force, we also have some American guilds/players (and Canadians!).

Vizunah is simply way stronger in the ppt-game.
To be honest, I hope we at SFR will never be that good at the ppt-game, since it completely destroys the attitude of playing for good fights and improvement of skill. You already see this “Vizunah spirit” creeping up in our server over the league… and consequently the openfield fighting skills dropping.

I don’t care if we tick 0, as long as we keep being able to wipe them in open field.

Have fun all.
I hope we will see some good fights inbetween all the ppt-focus.
Also hoping for some less stupid talk on the forums, but that is idle hope I guess.

Thanks Elona Reach & Jade Sea.
For some reason, I’ve never been killed so often as I’ve been this week.
Our pug-zergs (at least the ones I fought with) were wiped so often, I am actually a bit ashamed. Whether this has to do with still new WvW players, with our commanders, with the creeping “spirit” or all of these and more together… I really don’t know.

I for one just wish we (on all servers) would all log in for the fights, not for the ppt.
Maybe next time we can all take a third of the maps on reset and the rest of the week fight in openfield….