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I think some of you are delusional if you think Epidemic and marks/wells are not getting to get hammered.
The ONLY thing we can hope for is they said special attention will be given to the classes with only a couple viable builds. I consider Necro to have 2.5 good builds. Conditions and straight power, plus wells which usually overlap one or the other.
I’m new to the Necro (just hit 80 a few days ago) so sorry if this question seems stupid.
Why do people use the entire death trait line to buff staff/marks when it’s only a secondary weapon? Wouldn’t those traits be much better spent elsewhere?
I do have one question. I notice a lot of Necro builds use 20 death magic to improve marks and staff recharge times when staff is only used as a secondary weapon. Why is that? It is mainly for the toughness?
Awesome. Just what I was looking for as my Necro rapidly approaches 80. Thank you.
My advice is to get the 50% HP trait first, Flesh of the master (20 pts) in death magic line.
A lot of people will tell you to go the Altruistic Healing route. Don’t be fooled. In your post you said you want a solo build. AH requires a lot of other nearby players to be effective.
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The rest is all personal preference. Just pick a weapon you like that has a symbol and go. I like hammer myself as you have nearly 100% protection running plus the reduce damage signet.
IMO if you want to recreate the WP feel this is how you do it. Granted it might not be at maximum efficiency like other builds people are showing you here, but I use it for PvE and it works great.
Go full Valor and get Monk’s focus (mediations heal you). The first two traits are really your choice but I would take the ones that help mediations.
Go full Honor and get all the ones that make symbols better.
The other 10 points are your choice. Now use a Mace as your primary weapon. You can use any offhand you want depending on what you like. Then use Judges Intervention and Smite Condition. The last utility skill is your choice as well. It’s no where near as awesome as the WP was, but I find it enjoyable.
Thank you, I will try that.
Background:
My guardian is now 70. I spent the first 10 levels or so experimenting with the different weapons, liked greatsword and used that since the headstart week until last week. I read here about the hammer builds and decided to try it out. I found I die way too often. Yes it’s probably me I know and not the build. I switched to mace and love the survivability so far.
What I would like help with:
A self-healing survivability build (Traits) for solo PvE. I work graveyard and as you can see I’m a casual player so when I play the middle-range zones are usually dead and I need to be able to handle small group content by myself. I am liking mace but open to any weapon that fits.
I’ve tried a number of the healing traits like altruistic healing, monks focus, and zealous blade but never found one that works very well. (Probably because I don’t know the right combination of traits to use with it.)
I was speaking from a purely PvE point of view. But it sounds like we are well off in WvW and PvP.
Granted I have only played other classes to 15ish, but it seems to me that our downed abilities are next to useless for reviving ourselves unless we have a mob closeby that only has a sliver of life left. While other classes get useful things to try to help revive themselves.
It is a case of “the grass is always greener” or are our downed abilities bad?
I’m not sure if this is intended or not, but I found a way to bypass the whole scaffolding jumping puzzle and get to the vista and chest/achievement in tribulation rift in just a couple jumps. If this is not a bug just ignore this. If it is then have a dev PM me and I can give details.
I created my own personal guild on Blackgate called Poisonous and I am the only member. I cannot edit guild rank permissions to give myself the rights to start using influence for upgrades. The only thing I can do it create new ranks, but I am unable to give them any permissions. All the options are grayed out. Please help.
Two reasons why I like my Asuran Guardian.
1. Small size for WvW. (This is a mixed blessing right now with the camera problems)
2. Golem elites. These are great as our normal elites suck for general world PvE.
As an Asuran Guardian, please fix this.
You probably could have used a different title. Most will read it and assume its a troll post.
As a Guardian, the 7-series Golem is fantastic for general PvE. All three of our elites are basically useless for the quick choas of open world PvE. The tomes are strong in dungeons and PvP/WvW, but the golem is great for me in PvE.
Right now I say things balance out. On one hand we can hide in PvP/WvW easier. See Lurikeens from DAoC. But we have terrible camera problems looking down over walls and generally end up spending half the fight trying to find a good position where we can actually see something.
The sad part is for general run-around PvE I use my Asuran golems as my elite since they are better than the others.
I don’t know if this happens with other races, but in WvW I have wierd camera issue’s when trying to look down over some walls. (I.E. protecting a gate)