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I was getting bored by my necro, so i try out the mesmer. Now he will be my new main. Love to get into close combat with sword/shield/focus. Also carry a gs with me sometimes it’s better to keep a little bit of range. Yes imo mesmer is not faceroll to play but it makes so much fun not to faceroll the content all the time. Playing Dom/Duel/Chrono mostly sometimes i switch Dom or Duel for Illu or Inspiration, depends on the situation.
Thx for your replys. I’ve created a Charrguardian and unloked the DH specc. It’s really fun to play. Only on long figths when erverythings seems to be on CD an no trash is around to procc the trait for reset the F1 skill it’s pretty hard to stay alive for me at the moment. Champions soloing seems harder for me with the Guard/DH than with the Memser. Maybe some kind of l2p issue but i’m looking forward to improve my playstile.
Greetings,
first of all sry for my bad english it’s not my native tounge.
When i begin to play GW2 a few years ago i started with a necro. First it feels really great, like an unkillable killing mashine. But within the time i spend ingame it feels more and more lackluster. Now, after a few breaks of the game an returns i can’t play it anymore. It feels so boring and meh can’t even find a description for it.
So i tried out a few classes exspaclly Mesmer and Ingi. First they were fun but somehow i think they are not the thing wich i wanna play. This is a little bit strange for me in other games i picked up a class and play it till i quit. Never been struggled with my chlasschoice.
Im normaly a typical Paladinclass player (Played Pala/DK in WOW, Darkknigth/Pala in EQ 2, Pala in Singlegames like Baldurs Gate and Co). So maybe the Guard could be a thing for me. I have looked around for some builds but came to the same place where i was when i started GW2, it seems on Metabattle and Co there no sword an board builds. But i like this playstyle so much imo it fits perfectly to the class fantasy.
I’ve already build Blitz/Bolt for my Mesmer and i want to use it for the Guardian too if it’s possible. I’m a openworld and Low/Mid fractalplayer. No raids no high endgamecontent pvp/wvw rarely.
So my question is how is the Guard seen in an overallperpective to all Gamemodes. And is it possible to get an exaptable Sword/Shield/Focus Greatsword build for Openworld and Low/Mid fractals?
Thanks for your advices and opinions to this.
Imo the most are looking good and a few okayish. But till we can test them in a real pve envoirement it’s hard to say if they will working well.
As guy who is maining necro the new elite looks pretty interesting to me. My second most loved alt the Guard seem to be well too.
Thanks for all of the advices, I really appreciate it!
Well no wonder you get your ass handed to you mate your playing with waht comes down to 2 out of 3 specelization lines since your berserker line aint fully unlocked.
I would say plop defence or tactics in there and get the use of full 3 lines.
This is one of the first thing I did after creating this discussion, right now I’m using Tactics, but I’ll see what I can do with Defence.
If u playing on the european megaserver i can offer you some help for story contend and guide you trougth the jungle if you want.
Right now I’m playing on the Fissure of Woe european server.
All rigth, i add you on my fl. See ya ingame.
Necro Condiminionmaster for u will never die again. I do with this build Story/Openworld/HP soloing without any help. For higher Fractals you can change into a pure condibuild. Outside of fractals i never meet something wich i can’t handle on my own. Some ppl say it’s boring but for me it fits perfectly.
I don’t hate adventures if there are no MP gated behind them and if i have not to run within a time limit. I was so frustrated with some of this arcade gaming like stuff in HoT wich was needed for the ascendet elite weapons. I hate to do things within a short/close time limit. If there would be no need to do this i would enjoy them for some variety to the usual gaming things.
I don’t want to get the MP served on a silver tablet but i think it would be a better way you can get em also on an other way. Maybe one point for doing it without a timelimit. Give 2 or 3 points to the ppl who get it in time, thats just fair.
I want to relax by playing this game my whole day is full of stress and timelimits i don’t want to do this also in my leisure time.
If u playing on the european megaserver i can offer you some help for story contend and guide you trougth the jungle if you want.
you can use gs as main, but it wont be for raids. if u like the playstyle a 2nd exotic power gear set isnt expensive
Yeah i really want to use 1 set cause i m poor AF lol
If you need berserker gear you don’t need to spend much gold to get it. You can buy a complete set for karma at the karmervendor in Grenths Temple on the last orr map.
Also you can buy it for map currency and a little amount of gold on the first HoT map by the vendor on the entering point of the map.
If you wanted a easy to get ascendet GS do the Caladbolg restoration quest after you finished the HoT storyline.
Imo you don’t need to unlock the first elite. PoF is a standalone addon wich do not requires HoT for playing. So there will be ppl wich do not have bougth HoT but if i get it rigth they can use the new elite but not the HoT elite.
Mäh my most hated type of content is also in PoF. Every minigame wich need movement is my nemesis. Quit HoT first time in case of the minigame wich i need for the ascendet heroldshield.
Got kicked out of a dungeon… Let’s take a look on twitter, what this time causes the connenction error.
And before you all criticize, I have a high level dragon hunter that does high level fractals. In fact, every one of my characters is level 80, medium to high level fractals. Solo story mode in these expansions is a pain in the kitten terrible rewards and dying every 2 minutes because you are one again 20 adds and a boss is ridiculous.
Maybe here lies one of the problems. Don’t get me wrong i don’t want to insult you, but imo for solo story and stuff like this, fractalbuilds not really good and how good you’re on doing fractals says nothing about your soloabilitys. Fractalbuilds often depends on other groupmembers for buffs or balancing out build/class weaknesses. So with wich build you get stuck in the story?
All in all imo there are not enough information to deliver a helpfull advice or solution.
I forgot in my last post:
u also can change your GS/Scepter into Sword/Shield for some encounters this has been a good replacement for me, in case of mobility and additional blinds.
If u want to write down here what is killing u all the time we may can give better advices to you.
An other strategy could be to take a look what is killing u and replace traits or skills to get over it
I create a ele as first char just for fun, never played one. Enemys get molten away just by using the standart build i got in the beginning. With Dragonhunter and Necro it were faceroll easy.
My advice to u is try to dogde. The pattern of the enemys are pretty easy to get. As DH i use scepter/focus and GS. Camp on scepter, build up some migth. Use the 5 skill of focus. Swap to GS use 3 to close range. Get down traps, use also retread as extra aegis. F1 for full groupblind. Lay down field, whirl and enjoy your burst while trash and boss are getting whiped out. If something is still alive use aa or swap back to scepter get out of infigth range an reprat the whole thing. U can use F2 as escapeskill if you are in trouble.
Imo GW2 is the most casual player friendly MMORPG i ever played. You have easy acess to highend gear. No ‘’you must play’’ endgamecontent. The HoT maps are a little bit confusing and the mobs are a little bit harder to handle but if u use dodging and spend a little time with exploring you’ll be fine with it.
Most of the HP in the jungle nowadays you can easily solo or duo.
The only things for wich you need help are big metaevents or as casual like me, for some LS Bosses. But i have made good experience with asking for help in the mapchat or using the LFG.
I play on the european megaserver if you play there too and you want to give the game an other try, i can help you througth the jungle if you want for HP and MP.
In openworldcontent powerreaper can be used as ususal. In all other modes everyone just asking for condispec or switching your char…
All these silly assumptions about making scourge the only boon corrupt spec or turning necro into condi only- no. Just rethink your build. You have new stuff to play with, too. Some of these changes like making signets of suffering much more support-y and required for keeping shroud up better don’t make sense though.
For now, just adapt. Every other thread is already telling Anet about how much “we”(not me anyway) dislike how “our” builds were all broken due to some trait changes.
Plus, vital persistence is only required if you’ve been using it your entire life and have grown way too attached too it. Most people can get in shroud, do what they want to do with shroud, and get back out when they need to. Dhuumfire and the like aren’t gone, and spectral armor & walk still keep you up- spectral grasp even gives you 100% shroud back if traited(not sure about this, i didn’t test it but it would make sense since the tooltip doesnt say that every one of the five gives you 4% lf)My hatred of these kinds of arguments knows no bounds. Let me boil this mentality down to its bare essence:
“Just deal with the fact that your build was severely crippled without warning.”
Unacceptable. Many people — not just me — are using a Reaper Shroud build because they enjoy it and have invested a significant amount of time into acquiring gear and learning how to play the spec.
Bear in mind that this is a spec that isn’t considered to be the most powerful way to play a Necromancer. The damage output is decidedly worse than a condition build and it offers almost nothing in the way of group utility. On top of all of that, Necromancer as a class is performing worse than almost every other class in the game in terms of damage and utility.
And it’s not like this is a recent problem! The issues with Necromancers are well-known and have been discussed to death. If they were concerned about these two very necessary traits not affecting Sand Shroud they could have literally just buffed them by adding in the new effects (Swiftness on Speed of Shadows and Vitality on Vital Persistence) without changing anything else and it STILL wouldn’t have fixed the core issues that the Necromancer class faces.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I enjoyed the Reaper Shroud build because of the visual effects and mobility. In reality it’s mostly an auto-attack spec that doesn’t even have access to utility skills most of the time.
So yes, I can “adapt”, but there is no good reason that I should have to. This was a scorched earth approach to addressing a problem that didn’t actually exist. The “solution” was not only lazy, it feels terrible.
And to top it off, there was no warning! So now I’m stuck with gear for a build that doesn’t work anymore, and my choices are to either go with a Greatsword power build that is even LESS effective than the already underperforming build that I was using yesterday or scramble to put together a set of condition gear.
I can’t even begin to describe how terrible that feels.
So much this. Thx for writing this, thats exactly the reason why i’m upset to the changes.
Yes, we can adept and it seems we must, but the feeling and the way to play this spec now is imo complete differrent. I’m already changed some gear but it feels so much different to me to play this spec now. Maybe it’s getting better if i play one or two weeks but at the moment i’m just disappointed…
For now, just adapt.
First off all you are right. Every time we get a big update we have to adept. Sometimes a little bit more, sometimes a little bit less. The simple thing why i don’t like the changes is, that the build i used before the patch was my ‘’this is it’’ build.
Everything feels good to me while playing. Rota and all the things feels smooth and flows nicely. I played differnet builds on my necro before, some of them were okay others not. I know i will adapt my build in a way that it will work good for the type of contend i play, but i don’t think i will get that feeling back while i’m playing. Hard to explain english is not my first language. Thats why i’m upset with the actual patch and state of the shroudtraits.
I loved my power necro, played him most of my time. I’ve done some doric eventfarm yesterday before the patch and this morning. It feels like i play two complete different specs. Now it feels pretty clunky and kinda slow like the flow it has before is gone.
Imo the devs want to push necro in a condi only class. But why do they don’t just say it? I loved the shroud mechanik and traits like it was, it was the mainreason for me to play necro since i started to play gw2 years ago. I thougth to myself okay let’s give scourge a try, if it it’s not my thing without that cool shroud mechanik i can stick to my reaper.
Now it seems the fisrt time ever im thinking to go over to my second most played class the guardian.
Oh, thougth it was my cat wich chrashed my game. She was walking over my keyboard after a pvp match and i thougth she pressed some weired combinations of buttons on it.
Necro Minioncondimaster complete faceroll and unkillable by anything.
Dito please. I love my condiminionmaster with reapertrait, rise and all this stuff, it would be pretty hard to give him up for me.
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Mhm the mounts seems to be dyeable. So we better get prepared for packs of pink raptors, bunnys and all the other types of mounts. Can’t wait to ride into battle on a bunny as necro who let rain pain and agony above all who steps into my path… But it’s a good deal, if i’m dressed coomplete in black evil looking clothes, riding toward my enemys on a pink bunny i do not have to use any skill. They will lay already on the ground if im arriving laughing their kitten into nowhere till they die on a overload of joy brougth by my appearance. So it’s time to put on wagner’s ride of the valkyries on the mediaplayer playlist an everything will be perfect.
I play a Condiminionmaster necro as main and i’m nearly unkillable. I played every story part of HoT and LS 2+3 solo with him. Soloing HP in the jungle is also easy going. Farming too, with the staffskills it’s easy to tag large Groups of mobs, and you can gather mats while your private minion army protects you against enemys.
The playstyle is pretty easy, get out your aoefields, wield around with your scepter ( using autoattack or 2 and 5) for bleedingstacks and watch the mobs dying in agony and pain brougth by your condistacks and minions.
I use complete vipergear and can facetank everything. If life drops sometimes then u can use your Shroud as second healthbar while your minions fill up your life again.
Hey guys,
just want to say thanks to you for all your advices. I love and enjoy the Memser playstyle so much that i decide to main him. Never thougth the game will so much fun again. It feels like the days i started to play GW2.
So thank you all again!
I quoted Sun Tzu because I thought the OP would relate, given there name. I think buffing rotations are a fairly low learning priority, particularly for a new Mesmer in PvE land.
My point was to be flexible. A gw1 friend calls me mouse.. the point being to remember I am squishy and slip in and out of combat. Good advice for Mesmers generally.
And you were rigth. It seems to me i have to be more flexible. After changing my playstile now in a more closed range it works much better. I pull one or two mobs out of the group wich are hard for me to burst down together wit the others. So i kill them before i get into the rest of the pack wich are no problem now after killing the hard hitter or blocker.
Also the sword/focus and sword/shield advice was awesome. The sustain is much better, the shield gives a good aoe too. So i carry my GS with me for Farmtrains or if an encounter needs it.
It’s interresting that i mostly see GS camping mesmers around me. So i thougth this MUST be the way to go.
Thx for your advices.
Ps: Woul it be more effective to drop Domination for Duelling if i mostly use Sword Focus/Shield?
Greetings,
on my search for a second main i end up with the Mesmer. Erverything was easy going during the lvl phase. I craft exotic zerker gear went into the jungle and got the chrono. It was a little bit harder then the old tyria maps but i can handle it.
After this i start to the LS maps and everything changed. If there spawns 3 or more mobs i’m geeting wrecked. It begins with the destroyer and end’s up at lake doric, wehre i get instantly complete whiped out by 5 man groups of the mantle. I try to use all my active avoid/defense skills. Try to pull em together and burst shatter them but all this seems not to work for me. If the burst don’t kill em they kill me.
I played Chrono/Domination/Duelling till LS now i changed Duelling for Inspiration for more survivability and a little burstheal. Try to camp on the GS or get full infigth, if there more than 3 enemys on the same time i go into downstate or end up dead.
I tryed out more defensive stats on Armor/Trinkets but this seem not to work i stay longer alive but kill much slower so in the end it’s the same issue.
I don’t know what i can do. It’s the first time i got such a problem with a class. I have no problems to stay alive with ele, guard, ingi and all the others. Of course a part of this all will be a l2p issue, but i can’t imagine that i’m that bad on one class.
This is my Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR8ensICFohlfC+fCEgilUjqeZr2r9MKaipjcAKhAA
I’m opening with GS and get my 2 Illus up. Then closing the range swapping to Sword lay down the wells shatter first time and after this as soon a possible a second time.
Sometime i use blink instead of signet of inspiration.
Hope someone can give me an advice what i can do better or change.
Greetings,
i want to optimize my current Condi Minionmasterbuld. I’ve crafted full ascented viper weapons (Staff/scepter/Focus/GS) and amor. Trinkets also all viper.
Actually im running 6 Runes of the Afflicted. I’m thinking about changing them into 6 Krait or 2 Trapper together with 4 Nigthmare runes. My main condi dps is bleeding together with poison from the Nova of my dying minions.
So my question is wich runesetup will be the best for me?
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Imo it depends on what you will do ingame- A lot of PvE? WvW? PvP?
I leveled my Rev up with Shiro/Mallyx abaout 3 months ago. But it feels some kind of incomplete till i got Glint. I used Shiro only for travelling.
In PvE now i’m running Glint/Shiro (Non Raid Content). Honestly for the trash and during a farmtrain i’m often camping on Glint all the time. No need for a complete dmgrota including a stance swap into Shiro and back. Just need this for great hitboxes or bosses in the storylines. I play with fullzerk. For me this works fine.
Tryed also Mallyx for PvE after the latest buff, but for me Torment does not work well in PvE. In PvP it’s pretty nice because Players seems to move a lot more around like mobs, so Torment can do some good damage. I use for PvP/WvW the same build Mallyx/Glint. Sometimes i use Jalis for Glint. This works for me but i think other players can give better advice for PvP/WvW, i do not play it often.
Thx for all your answers and explanations. I’m running now with a reaper condi minionbuild. With Rise and the aoe fields of my dying minions it’s ridiculous easy to play. I mean if i take bloodmagic instead of a more dps oriented trait i feel unkillable. Just walking around enjoy the landscape an wielding my scepter.
Greetings,
after i got a little bit bored by playing my power Reaper i decided to play MM for a while. I crafted viper exotic gear and using sinister/viper trinkets. Now i’m wondering why the most builds are with Reaper for condi MM.
It just offers cold and nothing elese or do i get something wrong? Wouldn’t it more effective to use an other trait? The vanilla shroud offers more condi too i think. Is there something i got wrong?
Hello folks,
after a longer break i leveld up a rev. During the lvlphase i used the deamonstance with an condi setup on weapons and armor.
Now i hit lvl 80 and i’m not sure whats the best way to go. I’m playing open world and a little bit of of fractals and dungeons mostly.
So it’s glint/shiro the way to go with an power setup or can i use also mallyx/glint? I’m not sure if torment is strong angainst pve mobs at all. So i hope you can give me some advice to it. Would be nice if you could also explain to me why.
Same Story. Hope they’ll fix it fast, my only Char is there.
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