Guild Wars 2

Grimstar.6931:

The vitality for the original build is awfully low.

I dont get why people want to get so much defense :]
I run the base HP which is like 18.7k ish ? With wvw bonuses and guard stacks it can go up to 22k. More than enough.
When the party prioritizing buffs update comes its gonna be amazing. Currently I run (with food and stacks) 90% crit dmg, 42% crit chance which can be boosted with fury by warrior(s) in your party and deathly perception from soul reaping (so maybe I can drop Foot in the Grave and guardians can give us stability when needed), that will get me up to ~80% crit chance in DS. Also with ~2.9k power (not counting might) and 22k hp/1.7k toughness.
Thats a zerg busting 30/10/0/0/30 build with last gasp and spectral armor you will be running with decent protection uptime and Life force gain etc so surviving will not be a problem for anyone experienced…and the damage is insane.

Build offensively imo, and it was said that they gonna change some stuff in the blood tree so gotta see what it brings.

Magnetron.5823:

The game mode was made for open siege war and not remote GvG, if the dev wants to stand there he has the right to stand there, he did nothing wrong… He said, start the fight go go.

Cant believe what I am reading…
You really hate anything that takes even a little bit of skill/teamwork dont you, hehe, stay in pve buddy.

Moon.6371:

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Dont worry about this guy, hes in Buka, from what ive seen its a guild who like to roam in wvw and think they are amazing, I have encountered them several times leaving me dissapointed and you should take your own advice about learning to play.

And im sure you have never taken part of a GvG in GW2, so I dont get why you even bother replying, you clearly have no clue what you are talking about.

Roe.3679:

Banjax.6573:

Aphix.9846:

Not outrunning zergs, but 1v1 and 1vX situations it’s necro no doubt, and camp flipping is a breeze compared to other classes as well.
Surprised it wasn’t mentioned.

What necro build would you recommend for this?

I’ve mained necro since launch and I can say that most Necros agree that we are not a 1vX type of class. We can be howitzers if protected, but generally die if focused. No escapes, no blocks of invulnerabilities, no extra dodges or evades. 1V1 we are powerful, but not 1vX, or at least not as powerful as other classes.

Not true in wvw, in tpvp maybe against competent players, but in wvw I’ve fought 4+ horrible level 80’s where they all went down to one epidemic in 5 seconds.
1vX you got so much aoe and also you’re capable of bursting one guy down and e.g. plague stomping one.
I run the standard 30/20/0/0/20 and with last gasp and spectral armor I got decent protection uptime and life force so very often I’ll be able to tank through their focus and use my burst/aoe to down them…
And camps melt with epidemic.
I recommend necro ^^

Not outrunning zergs, but 1v1 and 1vX situations it’s necro no doubt, and camp flipping is a breeze compared to other classes as well.
Surprised it wasn’t mentioned.

In wvw zerging I run with 2.9k power with food buffs and sigil stacks, 21k hp, 1.7k toughness, 42% crit chance, 90% crit damage. (30/10/0/0/30) Not counting fury or might.
When the party prioritizing buffs update comes along we can start using classes like warrior for some fury and guardian for stability so we can drop foot in grave for deathly perception, so that would get me to ~80% (?) crit chance.
I still use last gasp and spectral armor as stunbreaker and protection, so I am incredibly tanky while doing absolutely ridiculous damage.
You should try it out, those wells+staff rotation+axe3+DS5 and 4 numbers are amazing.

Spurnshadow.3678:

I assure you they are not representative of WvW.

Really ?
Sounds to me like you have no idea what you are talking about.

When I roam I circle AROUND the buffs because thats where I will find the fights, everyone ignores the capture points because its a big pile of kitten, the ruins itself are decent, but not the stat boost.
Yesterday the 3 servers used one of the capture points as a dueling arena, lol.

Yes there are maybe 2-3 people capturing the buffs, but Im sure some guilds who are looking for fights and do GvG or people who want duels dont really want to have 3 stacks. Thats the real wvw right there, where builds/skill/teamplay etc matters, not standing on a empty capture point for a minute, run around, wait another minute, repeat and woo look at that, I got extra stats !!!

Deso has done it about about 8-10 times, not sure exactly lol, losing count.

Deso got him again, 4.39 left :]

1x Char lvl 80
Full Exotic or Ascended gear (preferably not Zerker)
The will to defeat Tequatl
20s – 1g (For food to kill him)

Those requirements should be met by pretty much every single level 80 in the game.
Exotic gear is incredibly easy to get…so is 20 silver. Thats it.
And you still find a reason to moan, OP. Amazing stuff.

I see no point to make a new topic for my question so I will just drop it here, hope its ok :p
I am extremely bad with computers… I have a fairly decent PC as I have been told and I run my game on medium/high, but here is the problem – I crash sometimes when I have played for a few hours or most likely when I am loading a map or when I turn the wvw settings to high.
I cant run with wvw char quality on high, I either crash ~10 seconds after putting it on high in LA where there r loads of people or crash a few minutes later when im loading a new area.
(When I say wvw char quality I mean the option that makes all people look the same and not see their actual armor etc)

What upgrade would I need to make it work fine with no crashes, so I could run in high populated zones and wvw with character quality settings on high. That would increase my gameplay a lot, I could see the skill animations etc and obviously just make the game look better. (I do not care about running the game on high/ultra, just about the char quality/crashes)
Sorry for off-topic, but any help is appreciated.

Fuzzion.2504:

1. Adding stat bonus as a reward is a good step forward

Its really not.

DevonCarver.5370:

It’s far too easy to flip them

Thats another problem imo.

Simple, Anet wants to get more moneys because they introduced finishers in the gemstore.

Brew Pinch.5731:

The minority who actualy come to the forums do so predominantly to complain. Most players are actually out in the borderlands loving the new changes

How do you know they are loving the new changes ?
I actually cant find a single reason why +150 stat boost is a good thing, and from what I have seen so far the stronger servers with more people and better coverage hold the buffs…

Magnetron.5823:

Aphix and tuxedo, you do realize you are playing WvW right?

GvG is something what bad Spvp players created. Please MOD, I don’t want to call you out but these guys only troll on every positive post I make.

I really want to thank Anet guys for creating this, it is awesome.

You realize how big of a troll you are ? I can’t take you seriously after seeing what sorta kitten you type in map chat all day and now the forums, you seriously got some issues.

Why do you get on the GvG subject anyway ? GvG is something created by skilled and competitive minds unlike yours and it’s over now so no point argueing about it. WvW is awful with bloodlust, I don’t want 3 stacks while I wipe another guild or 1v1 another player while roaming, I’m sure you need every bit of stat advantage to compensate your lack of skill, but some people don’t want that.

Poor patch for WvW and even worse for GvG. Bloodlust stacks is a horrible feature, period.

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So what I’ve seen it’s about 90% ‘No’ in this thread, and this was the attitude towards stat boost mechanic weeks before the patch, clearly shows how much Anet really listens.
So stupid.

Even if I disagree witht he way wvw is heading, no way will I miss reset for this and then wait in queue for hours, horrible idea.

I like the ruins but not the stat boost that the objectives give.
Change the stat boost to something completely else or have it that the bloodlust stack dont go to other borderlands so the stronger server is running around with +50 to everything, not +150.

That’s a no.

Single most kittened patch I’ve seen, I had hope for anet, they communicate on the forums, do what people ask etc (for pve carebears)… but this… now wvw is pretty much killed.
GvG is gone and when we wipe a guild with 3 stacks of bloodlust it doesnt feel good, feels pathetic, when you get run over by a 40 man guild blob with 3 stacks of bloodlust you just wanna close the game down because you have absolutely no chance.
I challenge any dev who thought this was a good idea to explain why add stat boosts to the buff. When people asked if this buff could be toggled on or off devon gave us the most idiotc nonsense answer I’ve seen, ever. They must be deluded to think this has a good impact on wvw.

Wow… even I could do a better job.

It’s amazing.

This pretty much reflects what’s gonna happen, maybe not at prime time but off-peak times definitely, absolutely idiotic to add stat boosts to the buffs imo.

The default radius was increased and you will hit 5 target anyway in wvw (zergs stack etc, hard to miss :/), even if the marks are a bit smaller without the trait.

From what I have read, I obviously might be wrong, seems like 9 out of 10 people agree that it should be account based, myself included, yet Anet fails to give any good reason why it is not and why it will not happen…
Still they keep saying that they listen to the community… same with gvg… they really dont :/
Character based ranks makes me hate playing alts in wvw simple as that, same goes with every single person I know that also play more than one character in wvw, even the ones that play only one still dont make sense why it is not acc-wide.

I would switch the signet out for a stunbreaker/well of darkness/spectral wall, you definitely dont need the heal it gives, you got 26k hp and 2.7k armor. And swiftness should not be a problem in a zerg. Axe instead of scepter because retal is amazing and the boon removal helps.
Right now I dont use any points in death magic because it is just not worth it, but with the coming updates unblockable marks might be worthwhile.
I also prefer using 30 in soul reaping for last gasp and stability on DS and other awesome traits.

For blowing up blobs I use 30/10/0/0/30, 1.5k toughness and 22k hp, so my offensive stats are fairly high, you really dont need that much defense as a necro imo…, for more serious fights right now I personally consider 20 in curses and 30 in soul reaping a must.

mistsim.2748:

How do you deal with stability nemesis? It’s very prevalent in higher tier meta. In fact some guilds run like 10 guards and have perma stability. With fear immunity all u have left is bleeds. Fearmancing is great for dueling and vs. disorganized groups for sure.

I ran with cb/epi/spectral wall for a while right after spectral wall was buffed. I loved it for its potential but when everyone is stable your dps is kitten.

Thats what corrupt boon is for.
And if you mean organized guild groups then this is not the build to fight vs smth like that, playing in an organized guild group vs others its highly recommended to use a power build, this build however is good for roaming, clearing camps, 1vX situations etc. Corrupt boon can handle one targets stability, but you can also kite people with chills/cripple etc.
I run different build for roaming personally.

Ascii.9726:

http://www.twitch.tv/gw2ascii

Livestreaming solo havoc and general roaming’s.

What was that music when you were roaming ?

Thank you for the fights.
We got a lot of stuff to sort out.

PvP and WvW.
Some living story achievements and legendaries on the side.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

I have bolt, I spent about 200g on bolt (144g went to charged lodestones, before they got this cheap) (zap was from forge).

Almost have howler finished. I bought howl for 200 (knew I should have got it 2 weeks ago for 120), and if I choose to finish it tomorrow I’ll need to spend about 90g.

Why did I have to spend so little gold on the materials? Got most of materials from kill drops, chest loot, loot bags from drops, champ boxes, and trading laurels for t6 mats.

You’ll be surprised how little money you can spend to get a legendary, the only real barrier is the precursor.

Champion loot is definitely the way to go, and the suggested locations above are great places.

So you didnt get Bolt for 200g, you found other materials which also have value, probably about 1k worth in todays economy…
The logic…lol…

If you want gold farm cursed shore and invasions when they pop, gold making is way easier than it used to be.

DevonCarver.5370:

No. That is not a possibility at this time. The point of the buff is to affect the WvW game mode as a whole disabling it on your character would lessen the value of the buff to a server and completely invalidate the whole point.

That makes no sense. Clearly most people who do WvW will be happy to keep the buff, it’s not like a server will capture 3/5 and then just everyone disables the buff for kittens and giggles ?!?! On the other hand GvG’ers and maybe roamers who don’t like to have an advantage over someone else would have the option to disable the buff and it would not affect wvw as a whole at all.
When I will be running around in a zerg I’d keep the buff up 100%, but when I go do a GvG/duel or whatever, it needs to be gone.
The only way it does affect WvW is that GvG will be no more and probably that was the intention and that’s the only reason not to add an option to disable the buff.

dreztina.4820:

If you’re in a zerg, it doesn’t matter what you run.

I don’t even know what to say to kittens like you.
Absolute waste of space.

Hello, I’m new to ele in wvw and need a good d/d build for blob fights and ~20v20 fights, NOT roaming.
I’m definitely not new to wvw but I’d like to see some experienced wvw d/d eles and their builds, biggest problems I have is I dont know how much HP and toughness I can get away with in zergs and still maintain the burst that a d/d ele should do… if you know what I mean. Any help is appreciated.

Cheers.

For wvw zerging and whatnot 3.5 and 3.7k is way too much lol, a waste….

Might sound a bit harsh but too much defensive stats can be used to compensate for the lack of skill…

~3k is the sweetpoint for armor on heavy class.

I run 3k armor with 26k hp and healing signet, shouts, balanced stance, banner.
0/0/20/30/20 with 45% crit chance with fury, 55% crit dmg, big deeps and amazing survivability.

Taralyn.6859:

True. Demand is high. I am saving hard because I want at least just one legendary. Wow some people have 3 and 4…how do they do that? It is so hard to earn gold

I know a guy with 8 (iirc) legendaries. No gold buying or anything like that either, he’s just a mad man.

But ye…prices slowly going down on other mats required for legendaries tho…

Wvw ranks should be account wide as char wide ranks make absolutely no sense at all, especially with 10k ranks, but it wont happen as they have already said.

This game is actually doing well, out of all the games Ive played this requires the least amount of grinding.
Quit moaning, you are playing the game wrong, you make it grindy for yourself. You do stupid braindead kitten over and over again and then come on the forums blaming Anet.

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I wouldnt use spectral walk and armor, one is enough. For proper AoE id put in well of suffering, especially for zerging and well of corruption should be a must for every necro in wvw imo, its just too good to pass out, for pure wvw blobslaying I go 30/10/0/0/30 with targetable wells for pure damage and Well of suffering/corruption and a stunbreaker.
For GvG type of play I go 0/20/0/20/30 with well cdr, chilling darkness, DS stability etc.
I personally barely use life blast unless its for nuking one straggler down, and imo piercing is not enough for proper aoe.
Why never leave DS ? use ur axe 3, wh 4 and staff rotation once in a while to pressure enemies with condis and cc. Necros got a lot more to offer than just damage.
Also plague over lich form.
The build can definitely be fun with big numbers tho.

Anet does a great job, ascended tier is a good thing and kinda needed, but not a must for wvw etc like some people are saying, thats nonsense. Take your time and craft it if you can/want if not then dont, and if you play 67 alts well thats your problem.
They are releasing them bit by bit as well, I now have like 4 sets of ascended trinkets, at 1st I thought I could barely get a set before they release new types of ascended, Im guessing ill have several weapon sets before they release the the ascended armor. And never have I felt a difference when playing on an alt which doesnt have any ascended trinkets, the stat boost is barely, if at all noticable.
Get to playing stop moaning so much, its in the game already theyre gonna add armor as well thats a fact. Get over it.

I dont see the problem, the increase is not much at all and it really doesnt make a noticeable difference.
Exotic gear is way too easy to get anyway, need something to work towards sometimes.
Some people have more than 2 hours a week to enjoy this game and feel like a new tier can only do good for them.

It went up to ~1200 viewers.

On this screen, I see the player doing a necro staff #1 animation, it least it looks like it.
Maybe no dark scythe figure on the end of bifrost for necros ?

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ab8b802-Clockwork-Chaos.jpg

Probably not gonna be a big help but whatever, I crafted my juggernaut a week ago and this is what I did to get it as ‘cheap’ as possible
I made like ~35 attempts at clovers (10x recipe) and I got about 100g worth of t6 mats (clovers were basically free + made ~35 gold bonus on top of that), I got all my obsidian shards by buying lost orrian jewelry boxes in orr, spent about 2.5mil karma (I still got 3.5m left so I could have kept going, and use boosters !!!) and made about 75g from the lodestones they gave me as well.
I ordered absolutely everything, doubloons, t6 mats, precursor etc everything, it all adds up and you save a tonne.
And to get molten lodestones I ordered 300 cores and used to 2x core recipe to make lodestones, saved another 30g.
I did this all in one day, was fun I had saved up over 1k gold and just went for it.

I also have over 16k badges which I could basically sell by buying siege then TP’ing it and 110 laurels which can be turned in for T6 mats I believe ? But I didn’t need to use them. Resources everywhere ;D

Maybe this was helpful maybe not

Necros are very stronk in wvw, not even close to free kills, lol. Crazy damage and pressure, awesome survivability etc.
And when I say wvw…I mean wvw, not roaming or any of that kitten. They are awesome in 1vX situations tho, but the OP asked about WvW.

But yes, pretty hard to lose a 1v1 nowadays with a 30/20/0/0/20 build or a variation of it, it really is. Stunlock warriors are annoying but you only ever meet them in tPvP.

It’s been ~9 months since my last legendary, and now I crafted this a few days ago, very pleased with this

OP you complain about the game being tedious, boring, dull, yet you want wvw maps x4 larger so you spend 50% of your play time running from A to B (thats the definition of dull tbh) or doing jumping puzzles/killing mobs and searching for caves to get cover from blizzards. Really ? Keep that in PvE, not a place for that in wvw.

About pve waypoints, first you need to discover the waypoints – thats your journey, dont need to travel all the maps again the 2nd or 3rd time, its not as good as the 1st time, you have already made your discovery of that area and making that journey again would be boring and a waste of time.

I agree with the pve content being easy cuz of reviving/zerging/waypoints and rewards being bad, but then again jumping puzzles are not challenging imo, only clocktower+aetherblade and maybe 1 more were actually hard.

My end game is and has always been PvP in games, here its spvp and wvw with achievements/living story and acquiring desired skins on the side.
I found the leveling experience awesome, but as for running around for hours and doing events and consider it as end game…well….no.
From your post I honestly think youd be better off playing a game like elder scrolls lol.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Aphix.9846:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I recall hearing that once it comes out, it lasts for the duration of the sale.

And whats the duration of the sale…?

10 days?

There we go.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I recall hearing that once it comes out, it lasts for the duration of the sale.

And whats the duration of the sale…?

Champion and Legend are fine. The fact that you promote from Legend to Bronze Invader is the problem.

I support this.
People bringing up GW1 GvG again, makes absolutely no sense at all. Well done.
The GvG you had in GW1 is now sPvP basically, number wise.
Here GvG has evolved to what it is atm and theres a big demand for it, clearly.
Calling 15v15 or 20v20 zergfesting and button smashing shows you clearly have no experience and you should not waste your time and our time commenting. If I dont know anything about a certain subject then I wont get involved, simple as that and it will save me from looking silly, some people here should do the same tbh.