Guild Wars 2

I do go out and gather, but that is just me… I am fully aware that it is not “time efficient” but I am always out doing something and gather while I am out and about. I don’t try to maximize my playtime and just relax and enjoy myself. I think if more people played the game casually and didn’t worry so much about doing everything as quick and efficient as possible.. usually stressing them out in the process.. they would have a lot more fun.

The moment I start treating a game like an assembly line where I have to X number of things in Y time in order to meet a goal of max gold per hour (or whatever goal you have) then I quit the game bc it has turned in to a job.

Rouven.7409:

Then why do you have to own more than 3 tags in order to receive a refund?

Because you would have spent more than the 300g for the account-wide tag coming next month.

Superior Rune of the Scholar is one of the more popular runes at the moment. Power, +% crit damage, and 10% more damage when HP is above 90%. They are a bit pricey though, but if you have the money then they are definitely worth it. You could also socket ruby orbs for some nice static stat increase.

Sigils… I consider those highly subjective and depends on what you want. There are theorycrafters who want to min/max and go for the perfect sigil setup, but I say go for what you want. Sigil of Bloodlust (10 power per kill max 25), Sigil of Force (5% damage), Sigil of Strength (30% chance to apply Might for 10s on crit)… those are some choices, but there are a lot of them: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

Drakkon.4782:

If this is true and the Black Citadel isn’t the actual racial capital, then I look forward to seeing the others. This is what ANet should be doing, rather than making more 2-week events.

We may at some point… Only a portion of ANet is working on the Living Story -4 teams of about 70 people total. The rest are working on other projects such as future content, class balance, UI improvements and so on. We just see the fruits of the LS teams’ labor more often since it is on a 2 week schedule and the rest of the teams release their projects as they complete them and ready for release.

On topic now…. The closest thing the Charr probably have to a “racial capital” is some sort of fortress that the Khan Ur used as his command center. There might have been a village or something outside of it, similar to a medieval castle, but it’s most likely not an actual city. I would very much like to see the Blood and Ash Legions fortress capitals though!!

My new necromancer… 3rd I have leveled to 80, but the other two were deleted long ago. I am pleased with it.

Ah, missed that part where you said you were focused more on a tanky build…

SO tanky with oomph huh… Rune of the Fighter (power, toughness, and gain might on heal) is probably going to be your best bet since it gives power and toughness which we lack overall and gives you Might whenever you use Consume Conditions. You could also go Dolyak (vitality, toughness, and HP regen) for an even more tank-like build. It will really boost your survivability but takes away from some of your damage.

I saw you mentioned the Runes of Exuberance… I did quick napkin math, but if you had full PTV gear and 30 points in Blood Magic, you are only getting ~50 power from the 6th slotted Rune. I cannot pull up my spreadsheet at the moment to plug in all the numbers to get it exact, but I believe that is correct. We already have a fairly high HP pool and, I am assuming you are doing Knight or Valkyrie armor or something with Vitality on it, then I would personally lean towards stacking some more toughness to mitigate damage.

Sigils would stay the same.. there are no “tanky” sigils really. Sigil of Blood is an option as it gives 30% chance to lifesteal, but your crit chance is going to be low so the overall chances of this proccing are diminished.

spoj.9672:

You cant tank in gw2, so making tanky builds for pve is pointless.

No you cannot tank, but I don’t think that is what he meant. He is looking for a build that can soak up damage and siphon. Perfectly doable.

Your crit is a bit low to use Reaper’s Precision. If you are using Death Shroud often, pick up Terror to add a damage tick to your Fear. Could also do Weakening Shroud for utility purposes… Weakness is very nice.

Are you go in and out of Death Shroud often and what is your goal with that? You could just go with a 30/25/0/0/15 or 30/15/0/0/25 (depending on DS heavy you want to go) and grab one of the two damage boosters from 25 points in one of the trees.

Eh… if he wants to play it that way, why not? Some people do not feel comfortable doing zerker GC builds or don’t like condition. I have run a siphon/absorb build before and found it to be a lot of fun. Sometimes it is more about doing what you enjoy than what might be min/max perfection.

To me, axe was never meant to be a primary weapon that you constantly auto attack with. I use it as a burst tool with Ghastly Claws and then supplement that with Life Blast for 5s during Fury uptime, wells, or minions if you go MM. It’s also a great AOE tool since you can hit up to 5 targets and gain Retaliation equal to the recharge time of the skill if you hit all 5.

Just remember that you don’t want to sit and auto attack… it’s not that kind of weapon. It’s meant to be used in tandem with your other abilities that do more damage (like wells or minions) or help boost your big hitting Ghastly Claws.

I like the build… I have a couple of guides up on GW2Guru pve forums for necros as well. The second one I started yesterday after watching this video and was interested in doing a more glass cannon build.

Difference in mine… I didn’t go 30 in to Soul Reaping only 20. Now, I could see maybe going 25 and getting Strength of Undeath so you can manage your life force to keep that 5% damage increase, but the last 5 points I didn’t see as crucial to the build. I also didn’t go in to Blood Magic… went Curses for precision and some better utility major traits for various encounters. If you are truly doing glass cannon, then siphon health isn’t going to be helpful to your overall damage and the health you gain back won’t save you very often in FotM. What are your thoughts on that?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=V08c7-KGlHFJ0m37JVJ0g3FJVB0r3BK;4TJ;0J45B46;552-OR1;3JF04JF045Bm

Some of the mats required to craft ascended weapons are account bound and the rest of the mats require 500 crafting and are made combining lower tiers of mats; please god don’t make it 250 ectos and 250 x mat to get the T7 level.

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