Guild Wars 2

Helly, nice videos! Do you know any good BG necros that can play this well? Last night while roaming with my guild we kept running into one of three necros, each with a different build. First was a charr necro(base) running a power spec, he was fairly easy to damage, but never failed to kill 1 or 2 of us, saw some 12k life blasts in our logs.
Second was a sylvari running a power reaper, we didn’t fight him..but we watched him camping on the ruin closest to Garry and bay, he fought 4 people for nearly 10 minutes before they gave up and stopped running back, never really took damage, but took huge chunks off each attack.
Third was an asura, little Condi reaper.. Hit our entire party with something like what you have in the videos, but several of us hit 45 stacks of bleed (we aren’t great we know), never knew a single reaper could drop a 5 man party in seconds..and teleport stomp (I think the worm).

Curious if you know them, or might be able to guess the builds, we obviously need to learn more about necros and you seem to know your stuff! Thanks!

I would honestly say that doesn’t improve the build. Couple reasons

• You’re losing 100 condition damage, which is a negative for obvious reasons.
• You’re losing a significant amount of crit chance, which since precise strikes has no ICD, does actually harm your damage output.
• Agony sigil is entirely pointless when the bleed is already over 19 seconds on your auto attack..if they can’t clear it at that point its unlikely they ever lived 19 seconds to begin with..many things won’t care if the bleed is 10 seconds, or 2 minutes..your only hope is potent conditions not long duration (Look at the ranger build lurock linked)
• Fast hands does NOT go well with those sigils, they have a 9 second ICD. It would make the rotation on this build much less fluid.
• Hydro sigil is nice..but..you already have pretty strong CC capabilities (flurry/bullscharge/stuns).
• Loss of doom sigils will entirely screw you in fights against many common builds that utilize regen, PU mesmers, normal regen rangers, melandru warriors, and many other builds.. If you can’t poison them, you lose.

Impressive build! Went ahead and tried it because rabid, unlike all the “cool” builds I can actually afford! Was running it in WvW early this morning.

Takes some work to actually play this correctly..I was trying to use the blocks wrong for one. It started making sense to dodge the big hits like eviscerate and use the blocks on faster multi hit skills. Had a glass guard immob me, hit smite, then doing whirling wrath on my block. To the people that say the burn isn’t long enough..use your blocks on the channel skills…that guardian had like 20 seconds of burn easily. It also acts as a type of crowd control from what I saw, after they hit your blocks a few times people get very skittish and stop pressuring you..letting you regen.

The confusion also seems to badly scare people, its actually impressive how many enemies you hit with a stun decide to take off running…trying to kite off the confusion while torment and bleed actually kill them.

To the guy claiming T2 roamers are better, don’t make me laugh. I dare you to try and beat the roamers fielded by T1’s roaming guilds. Off the top of my head:

BG fields oPP/RIOT/QQ, oPP especially has a few exceptionally good players that I would bet on against anything from T2. (oPP has roamers on T2 as well I believe). Darn good solo roamers, as well as group roamers.

TC doesn’t have many..but if you see the OP’s guild FLOT beware. I remember these guys from when I was on Mag, they were a nasty FA group that fielded some of the highest damage necromancers I’ve ever seen. Started seeing them again recently on TC, and while they mostly seem to be on different classes now..they are no less painful. They have several that I see solo frequently, and most of them are no joke to fight..

JQ is mostly thieves and stuff, not really a guild that fields the roamers. It’s mostly solo guys like me.

The thing about T1 is these roamers are built to survive long and nasty outnumbered fights, T2 roamers nearly always run “1v1” or cheese builds. Builds that won’t last long in T1.

Speaking of that..Lurock, you have a sylvari condi ranger in T3 cultural in your guild. What in the world is she running..? My buddy and I tried to take her down this morning with no success using a perplexity necro and this condi warrior. She just killed my buddy while kiting me, then focused me. I couldn’t even do noticeable damage to her.

iAmTheDuke.6201:

Well sounds like you got outplayed and I almost feel bad for you.
Also doesn’t change the fact that the gameplay on that video isn’t anything special especially with the ez mode button.

Yes, we got outplayed, now got some of your own videos so we can critque em?

iAmTheDuke.6201:

Not impressed, will be impressed when he drops the ez win button on his utility bar.

Instead you should watch the big boy Necro Videos by Rennoko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rwTPeEkSTo

The guy is solo roaming on a class with no real method of escaping, no blocks and no invulns, he stood his ground and wiped me and 6 other people after one heck of a long fight. It would be rather foolish to not use every ability available to ensure his own victory, pretty sure WvW isn’t about who uses the most fair skill, its about who wins.

Besides..saying its an ez win button is no different than saying a warrior shouldn’t use stuns, a thief shouldn’t use stealth or any other mechanic given to the class. He targeted me with that ez win button and I blinded him mid cast, he still beat us through clever kiting over the stairs in the NE cap point. He didn’t win through the use of a long cooldown signet with a long and obvious cast.

To the charr necro from YOHO that we jumped near the ne bloodlust point on SoS BL. I’ll take a TC zerg over fighting you again any day…we definitely underestimated you, I didn’t actually think we would find a TC roamer to begin with, let alone one capable of wiping 5 guild members and 2 pubbers without help from a blob.

I’m still crying about that condi…and you fearing us all out of my shadow refuge.. and you transferring the confusion from our perplexity engineer..and spreading it to all of us..

Okay actually we’re just going to attack your zergs…they go down easier than you anyway..

Love, the little pink haired asuran thief