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Wells are influenced by Power. Staff is a hybrid weapon. It’s our best weapon period and while the marks benefit from condition, the auto is power. If you are going with Two or More wells along with ground targeting than Power build is the way to go. Zerker gear :P.

oooo, I forgot to add the old youtube account ;p it looks like Mesmerized is in 2nd place still bwahaha

I forgot to count the old video counts at jopf2 – Symbolic is actually way ahead of all of them.

Let me encourage you to check out the BoC stuff too for Necro goodness as well.

Necro Minion AI explained

Updated to add the Minion AI explained video

Conditionmancer is the easiest way to play. Minions Don’t suck, they are just different, and the powermancer is increcdible. We have so many builds it’s hilarious. Here is my three step process for Learning about the Necromancer!

1) CHIPSSS Encyclopedia of Necro skills

2) Nemesis Tutorials

3) SOACGaming Podcast - sittingonacouch.com for audio only

Each of these are fantastic ways to get immersed into the spirit of the Necromancer and what they bring to the table.

Ignore the hate. The Necromancer does have a learning curve, but the more you play it the more you will enjoy it or find that maybe it’s not for you.

Good luck and if you have any specific questions as you level, don’t be afraid to come back here!

You won’t get passed over by anyone who is a decent player and has a basic concept of the game down. If you are playing strictly pve. I will give you my three step process to learning about the Necromancer

1) CHIPSSS Encyclopedia of Necro skills

2) Nemesis Tutorials

3) SOACGaming Podcast - sittingonacouch.com for audio only

Each of these are fantastic ways to get immersed into the spirit of the Necromancer and what they bring to the table.

Ignore the hate. The Necromancer does have a learning curve, but the more you play it the more you will enjoy it or find that maybe it’s not for you.

Good luck and if you have any specific questions as you level, don’t be afraid to come back here!

Zachaos.2651:

EU player here but looking forward to watching this

EU players are welcome to sign up. If I get at least 10 EU players we will set one up on your side as well.

Good evening my friends, SOACGaming and Mesmerized (our hosts don’t know yet :P) wants to start setting up an 8 on 8 all-mesmer spvp war ! My goal is to have 3 or 4 different people record it and we will edit it so that everyone can see the battle.

If you are interested in participating please respond in the following manner so we can make sure to get enough players to try it.

IGN: Bas Ag Teacht
NA or EU: NA
Server: Tarnished Coast
Access to Mumble: Yes
Video Capture Capabilities: Fraps – Editing as well
Easiest Day for you: M-Thurs after 5:30pm PST/GMT-8

I look forward to having a fun time with those involved.

Good evening my friends, But of Corpse wants to start setting up an all-necro spvp war of 8 on 8 full necro war! My goal is to have 3 or 4 different people record it and we will edit it so that everyone can see the battle.

If you are interested in participating please respond in the following manner so we can make sure to get enough players to try it.

IGN: Bas Ag Teacht
NA or EU: NA
Server: Tarnished Coast
Access to Mumble: Yes
Video Capture Capabilities: Fraps – Editing as well
Easiest Day for you: M-Thurs after 5:30pm PST/GMT-8

I look forward to having a fun time with those involved.

Current NA sign-ups

Bas
Bhawb
Storm of the Ages
Kravick
Gaffles
Tezcatlipoca
Talentless
Admired
Bull Zooker

Current EU Sign Up

manverupped
flow
Samuska

Pretty funny stuff, but might i recommend using a script in the future. The editing is brilliantly done, but it seems like the dialogue is random, and at other times it’s great.

You guys are funny, but a nice tight script would really pick up the pace and keep the guys from accidentally switching between the way their character talks and the way they talk :P.

My favorite part is the side effect phew they make for the mesmer that appears.

Bandicam is good, and it’s free in 15 minute increments. Fraps is the best, but it’s ridiculously large so you need to swap it to .mp4 or .flv and then delete the .avi file

xfire is a free one, but it’s more annoying than it’s worth. The only benefit is they have a straight upload to youtube button. The bad news the files are gigantic, and recording both your mic and the game sound is impossible at the same time is so wonky it’s not worth it. However if you just want to record what’s happening, it’s the easiest to use.

Bah, this question should have been in boc central sorry

So I am looking into adding optional captions into the video podcasts, but I wanted to know if there was interest in having captions added to it?

If so what languages should I add to the optional captions?

For those struggling, captions are subtitles where you can choose the language you want to read it with.

This is a work in progress as I need to find one that I can use that won’t take me three hours to do the work.

The benefit of the captions is it also will give me a transcription of the podcast as well.

So I am looking into adding optional captions into the video podcasts, but I wanted to know if there was interest in having captions added to it?

If so what languages should I add to the optional captions?

For those struggling, captions are subtitles where you can choose the language you want to read it with.

This is a work in progress as I need to find one that I can use that won’t take me three hours to do the work.

The benefit of the captions is it also will give me a transcription of the podcast as well.

Bhawb.7408:

I’d go for cute skins as much as I’d go for more undead looking ones. Call me weird, but having a bunch of fluffy bunnies killing people (and exploding) seems just as fun.

Haha, that actually made me laugh out loud. You could scream Killer Rabbits. Than have an engineer run in with his Holy 100nades

Rennoko.5731:

I would like to point out my amazing gameplay must be the reason, and grabbing a summoned weapon, proceeding to use one of the skills on it randomly, throwing myself off a cliff. Good times.

I have only seen about 20 minutes of each video so far. There is so much editing involved that I only watch a few minutes of each before uploading them. I will have to go back and watch that one completely through now haha.

Panhauramix.2784:

On my solo roaming travels in the Borderlands, I love my necro. I play him mostly hybrid, he’s one of the fastest and easiest solo camp taker I have (Epidemic makes them melt away fast). I can’t deny that. I also love the way we manage boons and conditions, and I like him most when dealing with sieges.

But against other players, my 3 others classes have better options to deal with small opposition and survive, and it has all to do with meta or whatever direction the game is going.

Right now, in my opinion, Direct Damage trumps condition damage by a large margin. Even more if you stack Vulnerability and Might. When I roam with my brother who’s an Static Discharge full berserker engineer, the only thing I (can) do is fear our target and he litteraly down him in 1-2 seconds because of the burst available in WvW (You can’t even compare the damage of a full berserker in sPvP and WvW, it’s insane). Yet, defensive stats doesn’t scale as much.

All my conditions are wasted, dont even have time to stack them and then I wouldn’t even been able to cast Epidemic.

Small roaming group is almost all about burst right now, and necro is far from the top dog in those scenarios, but those scenarios are what small scale groups encounter the most, hence I can understand the lack of “fun” playing that class vs playing another one.

I still get the most fun out of this class, but I can clearly see that other professions are performing better in our own field (the attrition master described by the dev).

This is a great statement. It’s like I told some followers on reddit. The necro does the no wow stuff so our contribution sometimes feels unseen. Our biggest issues in these situations is that almost all of our attacks have either extended cast times, long cd’s, channel (dagger auto withstanding), or have extremely slow projectiles. This means in havoc squad fights you essentially have to do all the little things to make sure your team is rolling. Such as quick stack vuln, use fear to peal, and protect your thieves, warriors, and mesmers.

The bigger issue at hand is that because the scaling of offensive stats in wvwvw is incredible compared to defensive stats you end up with a lot of burst being driven out. Such as no one can stand up to 2 guys in full zerker gear hitting you, but you can kill two guys in pvt gear if you are running zerker.

This puts you in the unappealing part of sometimes having very little to do in a fight.

WonderfulCT.6278:

If you are really doing this change the name, the reference is old and will cause the podcast to lose all credibility before it begins. :/

The reference is supposed to be old. It’s a vague reference that the veterans get and find humorous, and is catchy enough the new players will be able to follow it. I appreciate your point, but our credibility will not come in the name, but in the fact that we have a lineup of 10 so far of the most intelligent Rangers in the game.

Plus fans of our other Podcasts, But of Corpse and Mesmerized, know that we strive to bring some of the best quality while adding a bit of subtle humor. The ranger podcast will be different than the other two simply because our hosts are completely different :P.

I have encouraged the hosts to get on the forums and start talking with people. Both have avoided the forums for months as they felt there was too much negativity (a lot rightly deserved). However, we greatly appreciate what Chopps and numerous other rangers have done already to bring an open discussion on the different ways to play the class.

Rennoko.5731:

I would like to point out my amazing gameplay must be the reason, and grabbing a summoned weapon, proceeding to use one of the skills on it randomly, throwing myself off a cliff. Good times.

I did manage to get a few good 2v1 and 1v1’s into the video though, so it is worth a watch if you like condition builds and Bas’ soothing voice.

My soothing voice haha! Did you know my screaming voice in Bas vs. the world is now sitting at 517 views. I am thinking I should have kept the constant death videos i had of me in a tournament against OP. I was solo queuing, my team was bad and I had 15 deaths in one tournament. At one point I died while my teammate was fighting a ranger who was shooting me while they stood beside me without rezzing me.

Stuff that may interest our viewers and guests – List of Views plus listens

BoC: Symbolic – 1,133 Audio plus Video (without Captions the EU crowd is lower)

Mesmerized (Mesmer Podcast) – 888 Audio plus Video

BoC: Talentless – 875 Audio only (He needs to get me some video)

BoC: Rennoko – 855 Audio plus Video (He has shot up in the last week from 2nd to last)

BoC: Takarazuka – 630 Audio only (He has been out sick so no video yet)

BoC: Khalifa – 575 Audio plus Video (Surprising considering how popular his build is now)

BoC: Andele – 513 Audio Plus Video (surprising considering how many dungeon questions we get)

BoC: CHIPS – 471 Audio plus Video (Incredible Podcast I guess when there is no Bas haha)

BoC: kitteno – 265 Audio (We are doing the Video Editing tonight and it should be up this weekend)

I would pay for Creepy Dolls or Undead Animals ;p.

I think that’s a fantastic idea. If I ever get a chance to talk to a Dev I will beg him for this, but I think the coding behind it would be seriously complex.

Stuff that may interest our viewers and guests – List of Views plus listens

BoC: Symbolic – 1,133 Audio plus Video (without Captions the EU crowd is lower)

Mesmerized (Mesmer Podcast) – 888 Audio plus Video

BoC: Talentless – 875 Audio only (He needs to get me some video)

BoC: Rennoko – 855 Audio plus Video (He has shot up in the last week from 2nd to last)

BoC: Takarazuka – 630 Audio only (He has been out sick so no video yet)

BoC: Khalifa – 575 Audio plus Video (Surprising considering how popular his build is now)

BoC: Andele – 513 Audio Plus Video (surprising considering how many dungeon questions we get)

BoC: CHIPS – 471 Audio plus Video (Incredible Podcast I guess when there is no Bas haha)

BoC: kitteno – 265 Audio (We are doing the Video Editing tonight and it should be up this weekend)

The BoC Presents: Minion AI is going to be recorded today, and should be up Friday.

bumping for love of Mesmer. Curse you Mesmer’s for topping the youtube charts!

Kravick, why are you even on this forum. All you do is hate on the Necromancer. I have seen the numbers the players are talking about, and we are pulling it off easily. If you are having issues, the Necro isn’t for you.

I swear everytime you visit the board it’s only to troll about how great you are on everything and the Necro sucks. When it’s obvious to everyone who plays the class competitively that the issue is you, not the class.

bumping for awesome Necro fun!

CHIPS.6018:

Agreed that Axe 3 is a good skill. That AoE range is huge. It is a shame though that skill is on a single target weapon.

Axe is good on a minion master build. For WvW though minions dies too fast. Since minions are weak in wvw, so is axe.

Overall, I still think the staff is better than Axe in WvW.

Epidemic is bad in WvW now. I just hope that this opens up room for other necro buffs.

Agreed with the bleed cap. They should increase that from 25 to 40 first, and see if it needs additional increase.

I think we came to the conclusion that it should be open for discussion. Perhaps halving the damage once it crossed a certain number, or allowing the stack to happen only on bosses that have the defiant skill.

It’s a very scary thing to just haphazardly lift the cap to 40. That would lead to everyone rerolling to condition caps, because 40 ticks at 150 per tick spread to 5 people will quickly wipe out entire groups. Even if you had 25 ticking at 150 with 15 ticking at 75 that’s still an incredible amount of damage every second.

I think if you up the cap, and lessen the damage you then eliminate Hybrids which kills your variety as it would make more sense to go full conditions than to hybrid because the ca kitten o high.

This leaves us with another option. Increasing the time between ticks, which then crushes Condition Damage specs in tournaments.

This is why nothing has been done so far.

We will continue to line them up we are at two months of guests and are still going forward. Thanks for the continuing recommendations.

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Khalifahaze.6045:

Bas.7406:

Khalifa, Have you ever thought about trying a 30/25/0/015 build?

Staff is necessary for tpvp imo, it’s easily the best weapon we have. Not taking greater marks trait makes staff pretty worthless though. I would love if I didn’t have to spec 10 points into death magic to pick up that trait but without it staff just isn’t good.

A spec like that would give you more damage from the 25 point trait in curses but like I said 10 pts in death magic is a must.

Why not give up soul reaping then, and doing a 30/25/10/5 or something down that line?

jubskie.3152:

Whats your criteria for your podcast? I’ve made a few guides about ranger pets already.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Busting-the-Myth-of-Useless-Pets/first

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Guide-Useful-Pets-5-or-0-points-in-BM

I have read your Pet guide before. It’s very handy. When I started the podcast, I lined up the hosts, and then I went off the list of players that people listed as being possible great guests.

We are always looking for more guests and will shoot you a pm.

lookitsandrea.8531:

Hey guys!

So my necromancer is only level 25, and I have a lot of learning to do. But…

I have noticed that my character does just fine with one enemy (even if it’s boss), but once I get three or more, I pretty much know I’m going to die. This is probably my fault because I may just not be that good at playing a Necro, but does anyone have any tips on how to handle large groups? I will also take build suggestions! I tend to solo PvE this game more.

I am a firm believer that until lvl 60 just build around the best weapon you have in your hand at that time. There is nothing major you can do until lvl 40 plus when you finally start getting to the good stuff.

Several vary basic tips for a new player.

1) Always carry a staff as a secondary (the aoe and escape abilities are worth it).

2) Upgrade your gear every 10 levels for maximum survival

3) Check out Nemesis and CHIPS videos of possible builds, and the But of Corpse Podcasts for some great ideas and encouragement.

4) Try everything you can, mess around with builds, and find the weapon you like the feel of best.

4). Stay active and talk to other necromancers about questions you might have.

Tristan.7430:

Are devs able to repair it? because it is gamebreaking bug with current rally system

It happens to a few other classes as well, but from my understanding of talking to players the Necro seems to be hit the most. I have no idea why, and I am not sure anyone ever asked a dev.

Khalifa, Have you ever thought about trying a 30/25/0/015 build?

@Kravick

Let me encourage to watch the Gameplay Podcasts at SOAC Gaming, the Khalifa ones reflect a Necro in tournament play taking down two to three players without dying. It’s not impossible it just takes more work, and more awareness of positioning. Watch the videos by Talentless on when he solo-roamed.

I am far from a great player (just watch super adventure box :P), but I have 1 v 3’d a group in wvwvw while taking down a supply camp.

Thieves are the masters of hit and run, and so doing a 1v3 is much easier than doing it as a necro because you always have a reset button. As a Necro though, I rarely find a Thief I can’t kill. BTW, 1 v 3 or 1 v 4 as a thief has a lot more to do with how bad your opponent is than anything else. When you can do that as a thief in tournament play than it’s impressive.

I will agree, that Necros are the masters of team support, and we get stronger the more our team grows while a thief gets weaker the larger the group.

CHIPS.6018:

This thread should be a sticky. I bet a lot of necros found these helpful. ^^

I believe it has to be requested by someone other than myself :P.

Updated to add the first gameplay/video with Podcast.

Welcome to Mesmerized, our Mesmer only podcast!

This week our two hosts, Kylia Deprigen and Pyroatheist invite WillowBreeze to have a chat about his build, his time in GW2, sPvP, Guardians converting to Mesmers and lots lots more!

As always Pyro and Kylia bring you differing thoughts and opinions but ultimately provide you with a podcast that is about and for their favorite class… The Mesmer!

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If you have any comments or questions please let me know.

In this week’s podcast, the But of Corpse crew tracks down kitteno, who has perfected the art of the Axe damage power build. In this podcast, kitteno explains exactly what maxes the axe his weapon of choice. How open world pve and dungeons work well for an axe build, and the But of Corpse team takes time to explain why a cleave on Axe is just a bad idea.

All in all a good time.

http://sittingonacouch.com/the-gw2-necro-podcast-but-of-corpse-ep-8/

Hopefully it will be up on you tube by the end of the week.

kylia.4813:

Mesmerize update – Rumour has it that there will be another podcast this weekend, Stay tuned!

Whoa!!! Excitement! Hopefully we can get your podcasts on youtube soon!!! haha

Bumping for Khalifa’s gameplay is up now with the podcast.

For all the great rangers fans and players who are looking for more ranger knowledge our official first Recording day is in two weeks, after that we have guest lined up for the next two months. If there is anyone you want to talk to or things you would like to see, please let us know.

Our first guest will be Bas as our two hosts educate me on the Ranger.

After that every Tuesday you will get a new podcast

Tuesday April 23rd: Durzilla! Post any questions here that you might like us to ask him!

Ascii.9726:

Rennoko.5731:

Not sure it matters that it is a chain really… wouldn’t a better way to look at it to be the damager per second that the skill puts out vs. other auto attack skills damage per second?

I suppose it would be fair to say under optional conditions Dagger full chain would dish out more damage a life blast.

When i compare damage of skills i don’t count on the if’s or maybe’s of a full chain hitting, i compare the DPH of one skill hitting vs. the other but thats just my style of calculating stuff.

This may be the case, but that isn’t what you said. You stated auto attack which is the number 1 skill. DPH is completely different and not the same thing. There is a huge difference between 100b per attack hit and it’s full damage attack.

Actually you can’t resummon them until they die. They are designed to die to keep them weak.

The reason we don’t have it is because you need to save Death Shroud until you are about to die :P.

Seriously though it’s not that big of a deal, just a minor annoyance when playing. I am not sure why they don’t have out of combat regen, nor can I give you a real reason as to why.

Ascii.9726:

• “Except any semi decent player with stability and protection is going to interrupt your cast putting you on cd while they pummel you.”

I refer you back to my " Saying its useless because you get focused is like saying Fear is useless because people spam Stability." statement. Any ‘decent’ player has the chance to counter others.

This was my point and the reason why our cast times are issues in tournaments. You are now just agreeing with me so I have a feeling you didn’t understand my original point, that it’s much easier to counter a necro out of his bigger attacks because of the exaggerated animation and cast times.

Ascii.9726:

• “They don’t have terrible UI, there is bad pathing period in the game that adversely affects minions.”

They don’t engage even if in range, period. Heres one example

That video shows a player who used aoe to force attacks and then chose never to use his actives to create action. This is creating a false reality. I also saw the minions attack after a few seconds, thought player never once used two single target attacks in a row so I am not sure what your point was. We have already stated that aoe skills create confusion and a delay in attacking. Two single target skills = minions attack.

Ascii.9726:

• “You are comparing a signet that does one good active with an elite skill that buffs your entire party, raises your entire party and can be used on the same CD as your signet, and calling that okay.”

Undead is not an elite skill… also they dont have the same CD they have the same Cast Times. Undead is 60 seconds quicker then banner.

No one takes the banner without the reduced banner trait – Signet of Rage is too good other wise. Other than that you were the one the compared undead to Battle I didn’t so your point was you made a mistake??

Ascii.9726:

• “It’s not even close to the strongest autoattack in the game. Dagger 1 auto attack chain alone can hit for 13k”

Check your statistics. bar elite skills, 50%+ DS-1 is the strongest auto attack in-game. Dagger 1 is a chain, 3 skills not 1. Ranger LB does not hit harder then DS-1

You said strongest auto and then disqualified a chain? That’s not a valid arguement then The Dagger chain is an auto attack. If you want to make the claim that DS is the strongest single ranged attack you would be wrong there as Lich Form auto hits harder. Trust me on this one LB hits harder and faster when traited than LB.

Would you rather hit for 3200 every 3/4 seconds with a quick travel time or would you like to hit 5k ever 1 second with a slow casting speed that can be dodged? If you answer 5k than you haven’t fought those BM rangers with unending vigor.

Empiren.6401:

I like how you made snide remarks instead of addressing his entire quote. Also, I love self proclaimed meta’s.

Edit: You are right Empiren. I read it as enemy cooldown and not ally cooldown sorry about that.

I don’t have a self-proclaimed Meta. This meta was given to me by Symbolic, Khalifa, Battoosai, Danto, Zombify, and several other players who run with full time teams and all of them have over 2000 tournament games played. I have stated this before. I dont’ think of anything myself I simply know the guys who do and pass it on.

If you listen to the Symbolic and Khalifa Necro podcasts you would catch how they reference tournament pvp and it’s current meta state. In fact, they stated that the meta only stays that way because it’s the easiest to roll and when more players start playing competitively again it may change.

We will be having an NA Tournament and EU Tournament update podcast coming soon where we will discuss this exact point.

Tarsius.3170:

Bas.7406:

Dundir.2853:

Maybe something like The Guarded

Not bad. I was thinking of names like “I like Big Boons” or “Booned” or “Hammer & Boon” or “Blocks, Boons, and Bunkers” or even “Virtued”

Boontang
Glassbunker
Vigorous Indecision
Merciful Indirection
Downed State
Just Lost My Virtue
FeelMyFeelMyFeelMyWrath

Haha, some of these are hilarious.

PinCushion.7390:

Anchoku.8142:

The Necromancer is not a class with an Easy Button. There is no nuclear combo. There is no escape. The minions cannot slaughter an enemy zerg. I have never seen a gold farmer using a Necromancer. The skills do not produce broad, flashing, pastel particle effects. The sound effects are not particularly addictive.

This profession is not for everyone. It is best for players to decide what jobs they like rather than try to convince them they will be happy with one they previously decided was not their style. If a player has to ask and Necromancer has not recieved a radical change, then that player probably still will not like the play style.

I second this. Maybe it’s just because I haven’t dug into the traits all that much, but I finally leveled my Guardian to 80 and noticed that all of the suggested builds had a single trait in common. Altruistic Healing. Almost every Guardian build is an Altruistic Healing build now. Almost every Elementalist build is an Evasive Arcana build. I haven’t noticed the same “Gotta Have It” traits in the Necro tree. There’s synergy there, but it isn’t going to reach out and slap you. Because of that, we’re not OP. But also we’re not shoe-horned into the same build as everyone else.

Death Shroud everyone takes Death Shroud. YOU HAVE TO SAVE DEATH SHROUD UNTIL RIGHT BEFORE YOU DIE!!!

Still the funniest comment I have heard.

I am still wondering why the host didn’t stop and go wait, can you say that again? So they are supposed to use death shroud just before death and then what? You do realize you can’t be healed while in DS, and you have a ticking clock as well that means if someone hits you hard boom you are out of DS plus they don’t have active vigor returns SO WHAT THEN?

Back on topic, I was trying to think of the most common trait taken, and the only one I can think of is Greater Marks, outside of that there is no most likely in a build trait. I think there are a few don’t touch that traits, but outside of Greater Marks and Maybe LB Pierces and stacks vuln there is nothing I can think of that a majority of people take.

Swamurabi.7890:

There’s a lot of actions in GW2 that correspond to what Necros could do in GW1.

A GW1 BiP Necro was energy management. In GW2, energy management (except thief) is done through cooldowns. A GW2 Necro could have a trait that reduces allies CD’s. Now see how many people want necros on teams.

There were so many things wrong with your post, but this was the most obvious. In GW2 this ability is called Chill, we can keep it up permanently on a target. We also can keep up weakness and blind, but hey who needs to read tooltips when we can type long pages of rants.

Finally, the current meta in tournaments is Necro/Ele/Mesmer/Guardian and whatever else you have. There isn’t a high end team that doesn’t carry a Necro, but hey who needs to talk to actual players when we can type 300 words of rants comparing it to a GW1 class.

Wow, I must say, whatever video kylia shot for the Youtube verison of the podcast is taking forever to process!

Either way, this was a great podcast, and the Mesmer’s are losing to the Necros in terms of downloads :P. Though 354 downloads in one day for a first podcast is really good. Most of the Necro ones that don’t deal with WvWvW sit around 180 the first day and then slowly climb until they hit about 500 to 800.