Guild Wars 2

Seem like they put more thought into the joke than developing the game. About 1/2 of those jokes can actually make the game better than what it is now.

Power doesn’t go well with minions as far as I know. Minions condi scale with condi so condi is better with minions.
Staff is good in theory but since minion don’t die easily in PvE so you don’t really need staff. Staff is not good in pve
In addition, running minions in open world may get you in unnecessary combat (they are undead minions, they have no brain)
I would suggest to run less toughness. Viper (for condi) or zerker (power) then switch dead magic in if ypu still want minions
For weapons, if no gs then just axe/wh and dagger… It should be fine

Thanks for the build. I think this build is a little too defensive for PvE. I would use Kraith runes and replace shroud reaping with curses to maximize condi dmg.

Power is not bad, but condi is better. Since it’s not hard core PvE, anything should work. The reason why people prefer condi necro fpr T4 fractal is not about dps but how easy a to work with a viper necro . And so far I don’t think any gear give more points on offensive than viper at the moment.
Some reason I can see:
- range, if you can do range attack, you can do melee
- blood magic trait give some decent team support
- epi is a great Aoe
- provide condi clear (individual and team) if needed
- minion condi dmg scale with necro condi dmg (not power)
- simple rotation, don’t even need to swap weapon
- extra hp bar

….. So when it comes to pugs, viper necro is more forgiven (hope i use this word right) than other classes

Hope they undo the other ninja nerf on boon remove hierarchy. Long time ago corrupt boon always remove resistance first, then stab. not sure what is the current order.

maybe roam, but not ZvZ. vanilla necro does not have the mobility to get out blob fight and most likely will get immo, stun … You can try, but just be more careful on position

Haematic.4913:

See attached, obviously the “25” cap isn’t working. If 31 bleed stacks are being applied on one epidemic.

There fear and chill come with the epi. Chill =3 bleed, fear =chill = 3 bleed.
25 + 3 + 3=31
Idk, maybe.

No down player can hold that amount of condi. The ele either stay close to lord, sieges or someone abuse resistance to tank condi. Maybe they epi from ranger’s pet.

Yes, he has a purpose, I think we did it right.

So you want to nerf a skill that can take condi necro out of WvW again? Condi necro has the worst condi dmg, epi is the only reason condi necro is playable in WvW group fights, and pve too.

And before someone start “but my guild run power necro and it work too” . Well, I don’t care who are you and what is your guild, if you have the option to not play condi, let others have the option to play it. This is WvW, not PvE, the game is not build around you and your guild play style. Forcing people play your game because you can’t beat them in their game is just ridiculous.

Remember, when you die in WvW, you have all the time in the world get out of combat to change your build, trait, food … not like PvP you have to stick with what you start until the end, so, please learn how to do it.

There are guilds out there spend time and gold to test builds every new balance patch and create what people called meta. And there are people who just want to play the same stuff for 3-4 years and expect it still work. In that case, PS warrior in PvE seem like the most stable class you can pick.

So, this is what I understand about Stronghold:

Another PvP map that combine many annoying features of other PvP maps with:

- Trebs similar to Battle of Kyhlo
- Lords and Gates like what we have Legacy of the Foefire
- Buffs that give advantage like Temple of the Silent Storm
- Supply run like Orb run in Spirit Watch
- NPC that give buff … remind Forest of Niflhel
- And walking Skitts like walking Yak in WvW …

…. not surprise if Stronghold will have a skyhammer or some kind of holes, or a river in the middle of the map and some pirate canons to bring Raid on the Capricorn back.

Is that correct?

Even necromancer is one of the most important class is WvW or GvG, it’s still a broken class.

With too many condition clean skill + negative condition duration, condition necro are useless in 10+ fight (still good for small group roaming).

MM never be a good build from the beginning. Those low IQ minions doesn’t do anything good in a group and too much trouble to control them.

Signet necro doesn’t exist, vampiric necro with siphon is more like a troll build than something that work seriously.

Therefore, the only necro that can get a good job in gw2 is power necro for WvW. However, the AOE DPS role should belong to Ele instead of our evil necro

Interesting, I used to run vampiric necro about a year ago with cleric + soldier gears to maximize healing power, which supports siphon. So my well can siphon up to 70-80 hp /hit => 2-3k hp / well. The benefit is I can easily run along with my front line in wvw without any problem (thing was easier back then). But since I have to focus on healing power and physical power, I have no crit at all. Just check all the new stuff and find out the Zealot gear seem great for vampiric necro, I think I will test it someday.

Happy Lunar New Year for all Asian crews.
(so surprise that our Asian crews is fighting in their biggest holiday … )

Dear Dragonbrand Commanders,

Please turn off your Commander icon if you are not doing WvW in WvW maps. I wouldn’t care that much if we were winning. But, tonight, the only Commander was helping his friends in JP while enemies were hitting our Keep’s inner gate with 5 golems.

Thanks.