Guild Wars 2

Cc crushed me on terror mancer l. On minion it bothers me much less. I’d prefer to have more stability but that’s not gonna happen. My buddy has been running marauder mm with spectral armor instead of flesh when and loves it for taking points.

Chaos I must admit it’s awkward seeing you on the ele and necro forums lol.

I run Nec in pvp for s very long time and recently I’ve focused mainly on minion master. What makes necro unique in pvp is that as bunkers we can still murder people very similar to eles. There is no hard counter for us except maybe pure ranged mesmer or pure range ranger, but both need to be zerk to apply damage to us and necro demolishes zerkers. Unlike other bunkers, we more than just hold points we actually threaten to kill our attackers. Talking strictly as a minion mancer, losing a 1v1 on a point is rare. It takes 2 really good players to down me and if one is zerk I’ll take it down with me. Minion also wrecks thieves which is a big deal. Guardians, especially meditation burning guards, will burn themselves to death fighting you. While I’ve always laughed when the devs said necros are the attrition class, they truly are now, especially with blood magic. While I played terror mancer for a long time, I felt the lack of stability a lot while using it. Using MM with good movement and good mark placement you mitigate so much cc

Looks good except the wings. They make him look like he’s wearing a kids Halloween outfit

I agree. I have 20 toons and have no issue buying even more slots but the bag slots should only be 100 gems. I’ve never bought a single one

It’s a reward. It’s a fractal skin for people that do fractals. There’s always been exclusive fractal skins, why are you crying now that they made one legendary

This build is so dumb I might try it. If it’s good delete this thread before nerf

I have personally liked every elite reveal so far, the dragon hunter is meh to me but it’s mostly because I don’t like guard.
I just re watched all the reveals again and I have slightly different feelings toward the chrono than I did when I first saw it. On the flip side everyone hates on the tempest and I think it looks great

Shriibot.4569:

Messed around a bit and let my ranger pretend to be an Ele. Thought this looked pretty cool! However, I wish we could properly preview dyes in the right slots D;.

This is very similar to what i run on my necro actually

Gaebriel.3754:

Here’s my female Norn Mesmer. I like my characters to fit seamlessly into the world, so I went for a savage/shamanistic look, using fur and rough leather looking dyes and items.

This normally is not my style but I really like the look. What helm is that?

As long as her hair can show I’m good. Other than that I just need ideas. For some reason I cannot make her at all decent

Yea that looks pretty good. I’m rocking the Dwayna outfit now and feel meh

Besides revanent, no. Necro’s have asked for not only buffs, but fixes, for three years and nothing

I know, I’ve seen burning builds in pvp. I decided to try sinister in pve

For some reason I can’t ever settle on female armor. Can anyone that thinks their female norn has a good look can you link a pic so I can get some ideas

And holy moly was I wrong. Ive seen it’s power in pvp but I necro in pvp and the burning never stacked high on me. I’ve been bored of ele in pve so today I decided to try sinister burning build and wow, just wow. Even with Scepter I was getting 7k ticks. Felt like it was stronger than my zerk d f ele, dunno if it actually is though. My apologies to any ele I ever scoffed at recently for playing condi

on that april 15th patch long ago that moved the mantra trait to a different traitline, I quit mesmer and went back to ele. this year I finally came back to mes, fell in love again recently, and now they nerf mantras…. sigh.

Chrono is cool, but I actually just re read all of the specs in detail. I feel like reaper and tempest will find ways to be good, chrono actually seems meh to me besides the gm traits

I kind of think the shield is meh. I like the Wells a lot but on the flip side mantras are just so good I don’t know where I’d use wells. In the current content I see no place for the shield, maybe just wells for stacking

Druid will have mantras or glyphs that damage enemies and buff pets

Give us 5 percent more damage while an attunement is overloaded and 10 percent while it’s on cooldown

Hey sry just saw this. My build is basic. Full sinister gear, sinister trinkets. My back piece is rampager or rabid I’m not sure I have to check. Krait runes, sigil of bursting and agony, although to be honest in think sigil of earth may actually be better than agony but we can discuss that at a later time. Super veggie pizza, quality tuning crystal. Sword focus, sword pistol. Signet to increase condi damage. With this my bleed duration is 100 percent So I don’t need signet for increased condi diration, it helps for burning and confusion but i prefer using mantra of distraction for the interrupts or null field for the ethereal. Iwarden, iduelist, signet of ether, iduelist. Then duelist again.

However, I go back and forth on agony and earth. If you take off agony sigil, but add the signet you’ll still have 99 or 100 percent bleed uptime (sry I’m tired I forget how much duration signet gives) and earth sigil with sword will give another stack of bleeds every 2 seconds.

Cecilia.5179:

Forcing the use of greatsword for RS ruins RS… Greatsword is too slow to be viable. Also, condi reaper can’t work without reaper shroud (They already nerfed it to oblivion, but this would make it nonexistent). Also, when using RS, you need to think of it as swapping to a melee weapon. To be honest, this accentuates how bad axe is, because axe is not a viable substitute for ranged damage on a power necro.

dont get me started on axe, ive made countless threads about it for years. If axe was a true ranged power weapon it would solve a LOT of problems.

the correct fix would to make DS f1 and RS f2, but I simply dont see this happening… it should, but I dont see it. as it stands right now, the major threat behind DS is life blast. anyone can run from a necro, even guardians, but shooting them in the back and fearing is how 90 percent of (my) fights end. RS is based on being hulking and poweful and chilling, but thats only if someone goes head to head with you in melee. If a medium/ranged bursty fellow comes along RS is dead, just dead. Not only is RS dead, the Necro itself is dead. Atleast now, with the threat of DS and (and a combination of other things) we can “close” the gap / maintain some damage from beyond 300 range. I just can imagine too many situations where we pop F1 and people disengage asap and range. after that, what, do we F1 again and… do what? put RS on cd?

Im being mostly vague here but we can probably all come up with 101 situations where DS would actually be help. I dont know if the right answer is RS through GS, but I think its the most realistic option

Funny, I was using a signet build with my necro but didn’t feel that powerful. I switched to minions again and I’ve demolished every ele I’ve come across. Is it just the condi transfer that’s killing you?

so ive been thinking…

I think once you take the Reaper specialization, you should only go into reaper shroud when you have the greatsword equipped. if you have dagger/axe/staff/ I think you should maintain death shroud. I feel like taking Reaper is limiting our one decent ranged power option. Of course I could be wrong, but I dont think so. I see the Tempest doesnt lost any of its attunements, Chrono isnt losing any shatters. Guardians virtues change, but for the complete better it seems; a literal buff. Reaper isnt a buff, its just a more powerful melee option. Again maybe im thinking about this incorrectly

Ele is the beat overall class it has been for awhile but let’s not jump to conclusions about elite specs. chronomancer whole not as flashy looked extremely powerful as well. Reaper may or may not be the new biggest hitter. Dragonhunter… well see

im with you chaos. This is the Battlemage ive been looking for since launch. I go between Ele Mes Nec all the time, and now its even harder to choose!

I don’t care what negative material you guys come up with, tempest is awesome. That is all

well I havent run a condi necro but I can tell you exactly how my Sinister mesmer works, ive been running it a lot especially in fractals.

my usual party in dungeons consist of a warrior, sometimes a ranger, sometimes an ele, sometimes a guardian.

My auto attack with sword will hit between 1-3k.
Blurred Frenzy will hit for 2.5-6k.
my iduelist will hit for 2-4k.

now, most things die before I stack true condition damage on enemies in dungeons, so I get 900-1800 damage in bleeds and about 400-700 in confusion damage.

Now, against champs/fracal/dungeon bosses, with a good amount of might and some vuln stacks

My bleeding willreach between 3500-6000
Confusion 1800-4000

Now, in a good party, these numbers are completely different. With might stacks, an ele with consistent fire fields, and vuln

I get 8000-13000 bleeds
4000-7000 in confusion
2000-11000 in burning

with fire fields, when I dont put up timewarp/nullfields/feedback for the duelist/warden to hit with confusion, the duelist will destroy with burning damage.

I still generate decent-good damage with my aa.

its unlikely, but very possible to rely on burning damage, but bleeding and confusion are easy.

in certain fights like the archdiviner I end up getting torment/bleeding damage as I rely on scepter/pistol.

cheers

Maybe my memory sucks, but I remember reaper attacking pretty fast and gs being slow. You don’t have to use the gs outside of reaper ya know.

Oh and to add, my fastest frac 50 ever was 1 warrior 1 ranger 3 necros. Nothing survived between wells and healing spring we meleed archdiviner into instant death

If we could get a a 50 percent cooldown on wells trait man that would change everything. Necro burst with dagger and wells crushes everything, but after the Wells are gone…

No they said they might use jagged horrors. That was their beta test they didnt decide what it would summon yet

These forums are so ridiculously negative. This spec will be very good, just different

Necro axe is first

I’m laughing a little because im thinking of launch. No remember when everyone thought eles were horrendous and unplayable etc etkittenil daphoenix and his cleric dagger build came along.

I’m not saying tempest is a god send or isn’t but let’s see how it actually plays before anything else

Dude you’re overwhelmingly negative and need to stop

meow one twenty.4376:

Azure.8670:

Necro was based on Scream

More like Necro was based on Scary Movie’s Scream character. All the falling over fits our lack of stability perfectly.

sadly I was thinking this as well

I’m sorry I just had to tell the world.

To the corner I go

No need to respond, simply venting.

my sister, much much younger and beloved sister, is 8 years old and crushed my spirit.

Last night I decided to take a break from gw2 for a few hours. I felt like watching a movie for some reason. I had this craving for a horror movie and couldnt find anything. Somehow, Melandru be cursed, I settled on Scream.

Now Scream came out when I was in highschool and I always found it corny, and ive made fun of the killer forever, simply too weak to me compared to other horror movies. So im watching this nonsense and its at a point where im like wow, this stupid guy is wearing this corny mask running around with a knife and a little mic to change his voice. This is horror? no ones scared of this chump except women and the defenseless. (no disrespect ladies, my 8 year old sister wasnt too scared either). she comes on down and says that the movie isnt scary and that no one would ever be scared of such a stupid man. in her exact words she says “hes like your game guy, the one with the knife and horn”. I have no idea what shes talking about, and then it hit me.

I turn around and look at my character select screen.
All black
Grenth Mask
Dagger
Warhorn

Necro was based on Scream, and it explains why we are so weak and pathetic. I understand now. The killer had boys, minions, that were all stupid. It all makes sense now.

Please, no need to crush me any further, I just needed to share

I actually saw this guy in cursed shore yesterday and today. I thought I was imagining things

I know so many people that dont play ranger because of the pet AI, or quit the game due to it because they always main rangers. So many people dropped necro years ago and never picked it up again due to the awful AI.

yea man dagger eles have been in a bad spot for so long

Warhorn on necro is good. It’s the dagger part that isn’t.

they havent announced a single thing about warhorn yet but Its already better than dagger/warhorn necro.

Cheer up guys, theres always someone doing worse than you

I can beat anyone on any class on my necro, but in nearly all fights the odds are against me. I simply want it to be a closer match up

Arobain.8274:

Azure.8670:

This last update was great but the engi necro and ranger need some serious love. The community amongst necros and rangers are basically ready to give up and join team revenant

you mean the elitists among engie, necro and ranger? i’ve created SEVERAL builds that are great among the classes

Your builds must be amazing, particularly the ones for meta pvp and pve.

This last update was great but the engi necro and ranger need some serious love. The community amongst necros and rangers are basically ready to give up and join team revenant

Agree with everything you said but your dps rankings are a bit off. Engi doesn’t compete with thief or ele anymore from my understanding. Mesmer dps is a lot higher than ranger now

It’s not going to console but it would make a killing ifnitnsid. Ff14 and eso are mopping it up right now

Actually pyro and chaos are the only reason I ever made mesmer my Main. I was ele and thief my first year of gw2 and I hopped onto the Mesmer forums because they were burning me in wvw. I found their knowledge quite intimidating and decided to give mesmer a shot and it’s all I really play since then besides some necro