Guild Wars 2

I don’t understand how this thing with few male norn necromancers came up.

Green Mask , Toxic Mantle and Gloves, and the rest are from the Bladed set

there are enough threads already, according to description it acts like an upgrade for people who have it … no info about compensations yet

Ultimate just has 4k gems …. so it’s Deluxe we talk about here … yes it’s high

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

Vagelis.9562:

you won’t get another account , just upgrade to HoT if u have core game … read carefull the standard description and yes it is unfair

Yes it says that you are buying the core game and the expansion, so it’s not the upgrade for those of us that already owns it.

As i said it is unfair for us who have it cause we pay for sth we already have paid in the past … just to clarify that we don’t get a 2nd account.

it will most probably give an upgrade option for core players

you won’t get another account , just upgrade to HoT if u have core game … read carefull the standard description and yes it is unfair

for people who have the core it will only work as an update and we won’t be compensated

I chose a more straightforward look …

It’s an all around PVE DPS build/Boon build that I used to get 100% map and found out it worked perfectly. My guardian was the easiest for me to achieve that.

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Greatsword for Killing , Staff for tagging Mobs , Swiftness along with Line of Warding to stop pursuing enemies. Along with Retreat (it was 60 sec back then) I had swiftness nearly 90% of the time on me.

Travelers runes are a good choice and I never regretted investing in them. Before that, I used the cheaper Rune_of_Speed. I preferTravelers for the overall Stats, and especially Boon Duration + the passive speed is nice when I forget to use Retreat.

Armor is standard Berserker Exotic. Ascended Berserker Accessories are not necessary , but i got all the items i needed due to guild missions and fractal runs. As I said its my all around build for PVE.

About Skills , Signet of Resolve offers a lot of heals, and a nice condi clean for occasional immobilizes and cripples. Others prefer Shelter but I found myself not reliant on Block on PVE as much as dungeons. Purging Flames is a Condi clean plus fire field. Wall of reflection because mobs suicide on it (alternatively switch for Save Yourselves for more dmg with Power of the Virtuous trait). Retreat is a keeper.

As for traits , I want to kill things fast (for Hearts Missions) so 2/5 to increase my dmg and signet effects. 2 points in Honor for Superior Aria. Rest in Virtues for Boon Duration.

It’s not an elite build not specifically build for Boon Duration or maximun DPS. As I said I simply had a positive experience with it and thought of sharing it.

Happy exploring

Boss wasn’t difficult , just tricky. A simple mix of the last 2 boss mechanics, plus Marjory ressing you from downed state. I managed to do it with no deaths on my Power Shatter Mesmer (and yes i was denied my builds main faction = illusions). Blink is all you need (or swiftness for easier movement). I guess the zerg mentality is the reason for all these complaints …

May i ask your opinion on Hoelbrak Runes for a Cheap alternative (until Flame LEgion or Strength)

No, we are an attrition based class … i know right >.>

Anyone can kill a really really bad warrior. But it is really satisfying to see that warrior QQ because he/she thought necromancers are useless …

If Anet think of this as an exploit, why didnt they fix it since this happened in the initial Gauntlet.

After all, we used nothing more than the game provides us.

I defeated her on my thief using life stealing venom build (with Vampiric Runes, life steal Sigil). If i had full berserker armor (i had only 3 ascended and 2 rare trinkets), i wouldnt need to get her to phase 2 at all. with my build i got her to 25% then shifted her to phase 2 and bursted her. My weapons were 2 Mystic Pistols (berserker)

Not a lot of breathtaking changes. New traits aren’t completely useless, Communal Defenses combines well with Pure of Voice, and if it’s true that Purity of Body combines with Battle Presence that also unlocks some potential new type of support. Force of Will is just extra VIT which depends on your build. The other two make conditions a bit more viable but i do not believe it is enough to make the build Strong.

Vigorous Precision extended cooldown stings a bit but we have Boon duration and new Passive

Neutral to a bit positive feelings for new traits. I’m staying on this profession for a long time.

Aza.2105:

Jerus.4350:

Aza.2105:

If you don’t like the class then try another class that fits what you want to do. Its useless to continue to complain, obvious Anet has a different vision of guardian than most players do.

Personally speaking, I think the new traits are good. They open up a lot of different possibilities. But this is just my perspective.

Care to elaborate? I see some viability in Communal Defense maybe. But the rest /shrug.

I always approach class changes objectively, looking at it subjectively (i.e what I want, if I could change this etc) often makes one overlook things.

The first thing I did when I logged in was go to spvp and make a condition guardian. During my first match I was grouped with Chaplan! Anyhow, I went to test out amplified wrath.

My findings is that the trait is extremely powerful, burning ticks in spvp was 808 per tick (in pve I was getting around 1200 per tick fully buffed), without the trait its around 605. Most players worry about one thing with guardian and burning: That enemies will just remove it. This is true. But the rate at which guardian can reapply it is far higher than any enemy can remove it.

Another great change that affects everyone is the sigil change. This allows guardian to finally gain access to easy poisons, bleeds and chills. Between the sigil changes, burning and binding blade, guardian can throw around a lot of condition damage relatively easy.

I next tried radiant retaliation. I feel the trait is good but it believe its mainly geared towards condition guardians who may try to use 2h weapons for condition application, mainly greatsword.

Communal Defense is really really interesting. When I was doing teq last night, I noticed that when I used communal defense that it applied to the entire zerg. How did I know? Because I had pure of heart traited, so each time I blocked and communal defense wasn’t on cd, I seen a screen full of 805hps pop up. I’m not sure if that is intentional but if it is, its definitely powerful. Also, if it works for pure of heart then it probably works for shattered aegis. It might become extremely powerful in a wvw setting.

Force of Will is good, its passive but good. When you look at it objectively you are getting the same amount of vitality you get by investing into a entire trait line. I’d say that’s worth its keep. Some people say why take it over pure of voice? If you run consecrations you don’t need pure of voice. Remember none of the traits are suppose to be replacements but options.

Sadly I didn’t try purity of body. I will probably try today.

Amen … someone who finally tries things and just doesnt complain for no reason …

I have tried warrior in PVE, WvsW and SPVP … and i hated, i just dont like the playstyle. Guardian will remain my PVE/Dungeon main. For PVP i switched my main to Necro and for WvsW, i picked my Mesmer. But i’ll never take warrior seriously … it just doesn’t shine …

Perhaps Sylvari are not minions of Mordremoth at all … Ronan simply placed that seed at Maguuma where the dragon lied sleeping. The pale tree created the dream in order to teach its saplings the lessons and love Ventari gave while raising it. This dream was a unique form of intense magic. Mordremoth sensed this magic and tried to creep into it, thus causing the “Nightmare” a form of corruption to endanger young sylvari. The Nightmare Court are sylvari who are slowly influenced NOT CORRUPTED by Mordremoth’s power without their knowledge, all they see is power just like Sons of Svanir are victims of Jormag (but they are not turned, immediately, into icebrood). Since the Court reveres the Nightmare, it slowly enpowers Mordremoth.

Malyck is not a minion because perhaps the pale seed was simply raised on its own and didn’t need some form of communication since it had not received and outside stimulli like Ventari gave to the Maguuma one. And perhaps his Pale Tree is a bit far from Mordremoth. Moreover, we do not know if there are any analogous villainy group in Malyck’s territory like the Court, thus there are not any Sylvari who are negatively influenced by Mordremoth’s power.

The only real corrupted Sylvari is Scarlet (as proved by her body and face during the ending cutscene). The court is influenced likes Svanir’s in a slow process. Scarlet was directly exposed to Mordremoth so harshly that twisted her mind and became a true minion … with an exception. She was still connected to the dream in some way. The pale tree tried to reach her and perhaps is the reason why Scarlet tried and showed resistance to the influence (like Apatia during Krait Orb PS didn’t attack the hero when turned into Risen but accepted a relinquishing death). She tried to tap into the dragons magic leyline feed in order to shock him and let her alone … a insane mind has crazy ideas as we all witnessed.

In Conclusion, i don’t believe Sylvari are Mordremoth’s creations but most likely a very promising candidate for corruption (like Jormag’s Sons of Svanir, Orrians who fueled Zhaitan’s army, Primordius shaping Destroyers after underground/mountain fauna).

Just some theories , sorry for any bad english.

Male Sylvari . White Skin , Abyss Black Nightmare Armor and Member of the Durmant Priory … a Brave Adventurer that chose to walk through the shadows and learn more about the unknown parts of Tyria.

Fleshreavers ….

Human male , trying to rebuild the legend of the almighty guardians that Logan demolished … Humans have nice Armor in form of Tier 3 (Seraphs use it). Norn is more Viking looking.

Vigil Armor looks like a centurion (has a lot of Roman motiffs) which leaves free the issue of race.

I know this is a little off with the current phase the LS is but

Ellen won -> got thaumanova reactor fractal -> we saw Scarlet put her little cute wooden hands on that as well (well she urged and possibly “brainwashed” the Inquest to try out their experiments on Dragon energy on top of a cross point of those magical leylines … I think she is capable of anything even brainwashing).

If Evon would win , we would get a fractal to see the events that led to the fall of Abaddon … or something like that

Would Scarlet appear on that ??? impossible lore wise , the sylvari didnt exist 200 years ago so …

Was Ellen’s victory staged , so that Scarlet would appear in the reactor ?… Is it all a lie ? are we deceived ??? !!!

I haven’t stalked the LS section of forums so I apologise if this is already discussed , just a conspiracy theory my mind created at 2am

We did the same on Aurora Glade , round to 40 – 50 necros with all minions , staff marks and warhorns …we did 3 circles around Bordelands , smacking down keeps towers camps like nutshells … Golems are excellent substitutes to flaming rams ^^

It was the funniest and most (WvsW Rank Point) rewarding expirience i had in WvsW so far

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Ty a lot for clarifying the Force Sigil issue and your general information , so i ended up with this.

As for Death Nova , i like it a lot but this extra condition removal seems too valueable for me ( at least till my fighting skills improve)

So i have played around many pvp builds like Conditiomancer , Terrormancer , Dhuumfiremancer (hated it), Power builds

So i tried this Minion Master build
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And I was suprised by how addicting it is and how successful I was compared to my other builds. Maybe it suits my style who knows. Fact is i’m pretty amateur in PVP but with 197 fights , my Necro holds the highest ratio of wins

Ofc when i get CC and burst damaged , I die pretty fast but it is a risk I take , that is why I use 3 immobilize skills

Have you tried a MM build in PVP since the new metathat finds us so nerfed. Did you find it useful , gimmicky or crap ? Did you try a different trait combination. I’m looking for more opinions

in any PVE enviroment , my thief is a better condition applicator with D/D Death Blossom and Caltrops , Same goes for Shortbow Ranger … but that’s it , application not sustainment

PVP is another story. My auto attacks keep constant bleeds and poison , i can make them Vulnerable , Corrupt their Vigor , have them nearly perma Weakened through Dagger and Staff 3+4 Combo … Chill them and gain lifeforce …
+ AoE Torment + Immobilize + Bleeds + Chilled on DS

Conditions aren’t just bleeds , to be honest i find bleeds to be my least priority as i prefer landing weakness blind torment and chill on them first

Not even discussing the addition of Dhumfire or Terror on top of all these

Sustainment over fast application anyday for me … though i do understand your arguement

Most Necromancers on youtube have bifrost videos that were made before the legendary weapon enhancement … judging from Mesmer and Elementalist videos , Necrotic grasp should shoot rainbow shet , no idea about Life Blast

My Norn Necro uses the tallest but “skinny” body type , which in human terms is a very very fit person. Just posting these for comparison.

sorry for ui forgot to turn it off .

Norn here and didnt regret it … As tall as possible , trimmed head , piercing green eyes dressed in Abyss Tier 1 Armor . As an acolyte of Raven he looks frickish ,scary , macho, terrifying well … all the “imo” necessary stuff an Asura necro lacks

The pic with Shadow Armor is old one

He was a tone-downed version of Taboo from Super Mario Bros. Brawl … or i’m just imagining things

Creselia : Mixture between the Crescent moon and Illya , one of the Twin sisters that make Lyssa (since i’m human)

They did it , read it on GW2 FB pages …. as for mesmer no idea , i tried on thief and mostly protected the turrets , Tequila wrecked me everytime

i like blue lights and crap … yup

Ravenna Umbraplume , my tall Norn girl that honors the Spirit of the Raven

Im Thief born under the Sylvari of Night. Plus Malomedies is my favourite Luminary.

I play an Ash Legion Engineer . Female with a snow leopard in mind ( i’m male in real life). Imo , the barbarism and macho-thing on males is a bit too exaggerated , and the faces are horrible.

From GW2 Wiki

“Raven is one of the more prominent deities of the norn. Raven represents cunning, trickery, and knowledge and is the animal spirit of the norn that is associated with the Underworld and the spirits of the dead.”

Fits my Necromancer perfectly

“I feel FURIOUS”
“I feel Mighty "
My male sylvari thief gets Fury/Might through Thrill of the crime , and it fits.

“I’m exposed” during vulnerability …….. cracks me up a bit

Edit: S/P yes , sorry it’s 2am here

Hello , I currently experiment with this build for PVE only with D/D , Shortbow and S/P for tanking. Till now I had no problems (my thief is sylvari) , and kept a balance between condition and power. I would like to ask about your ideas for this build , what modifications i could try so i’m ready to step into Orr ( I start saving for a legendary and as a slow farmer i can’t waste money left and right).

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/thief#3|3|2642|2645|3361|8743|4461|25|2355|1704|0|0|0|0|0|10|2384|0|0|20|727|1168|0|15|786|0|0|19|3|5|28013|0|49960|49960|49960|49960|49960|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Shadow Arts is currently at 2 , i’m at lvl 71.

ty for your time.

I plan for a combination of Inquest top and gloves with Whisper pants and boots …. no cool weapons yet so this is a pretty close up with a basic cabalist set.

I use a Greatsword / Scepter-Focus build 30/0/10/20/10 based on phantasms , clone cripple , power greatsword and glamour utility. Worked well in PVP so far …

Grimm.2906:

They’re necromancers because they deal in magic related to death, spirits, and life-force. It doesn’t say anywhere that necromancers have to animate corpses.

Originally “necromancer” (in the real world) just meant someone who supposedly used magic to speak to dead spirits. The whole “animating the dead” thing came much later and only in fiction.

This , necromancer comes from the greek word necromadis ( and boo for forum not accepting greek letters) who like simple seers , had a connection to the underworld and the world of spirits. Just a small drop of info fro msomeone who knows these facts from his history,

Also , do not forget that your first great enemy Zhaitan , raises actual Zombies. I don’t think the necromancers who opposed him would liek to practise the same art with him. Just a thought i had lately.

OK , this is purely based on opinion but

1) my Necromancer is my best character in Dungeons. Wells , Marks , Corruption (epidemic). I can support like a Guardian , remove conditions , and inflict conditions ( like spreading 25 stacks of Bleed to all foes. Who else can do that ? No idea yet.

2) My necromancer is my best PVP character so far and the one that gave me my first Tournament Win. I am not a PVP born player , but having a 43% wins with necro compared to Thief and Mesmer means that i’m good with this class , and against good opponents , i have skills that make me dangerous if i want to.

Ofc it is maybe the skill and love for this class ( haven’t played GW 1 )

There aren’t a lot of crucial bugs compared on how we started. and last patch wasn’t really much beneficial , but it did have zero nerfs so that is sth.

2 examples is Blood Fiend and Spectral Walk , they started as mediocre , got reworked and became far better. We do get beneficial changes , just not in the same frequency as other classes like warriors elementalists mesmers etc.

We aren’t bad at all , but we aren’t a burst class , As Anet said , we are an attrition class , we wear down the enemy through a complex and skillful combo of abilities. We are one of the last profession to die in party situations ( provided we have our cards ready to play).

It takes skil lto be a good necro , and unfortunately many impatient people who have other predetermined view of this class think we are bad , not of their expectations , but that is wrong , they had the wrong expectations fro mthe beginning.

To close this small wall , no we aren’t the super class , we have minions that do not respond well , we have traits in wrong places , and we have only 1-2 builds which compete to others. Bugs in the class are few and most are located in the tooltips aka wrong info on our skills.

With some careful rework , we will be ok. I don’t know when this will happen from Anet , but have faith in this profession. Do not let others who aren’t designed for this class discourage you from trying , who knows , maybe it will be the class for you , or maybe not. You choose

Happy gaming

For my thief i have used a white icy skin with the most black looking skin patterns and white glow …..

Looks awesome at Night and the contrast to my Iron dyed armor ( soon to be full Nightmare) is really nice and relaxing

Sieg.8439:

I’m one of the stubborn idiots still using the Minions build, and yes, Flesh Wurm is by far one of my MVP’s. Or MVM’s. Most Valuable Minion? Anyway.

Like everyone is saying, he has one of the most useful utilities in that he gives you an escape button when you need it. He has fantastic damage and good health to boot. But I really only equip him when I’m settling in for a long fight.

It takes guts to play as Minion master these days , i salute you

My Norn necro with this sexy tribal tattoo

Some old buried pics ( i use different armor and weapons now)

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When things are stationary ( a boss fight) , Wurm does really good dmg , and provides a teleport as wel lthat applies poison nearbu and gives you life force (kill it fast before boss kills it does the trick).

In all other situations , you move across the map so its usefulness is diminished