Guild Wars 2

sorry to all those who tried to listen to the last panel episode it only uploaded 10 minutes. It has been fixed.

Okay so it has come to my attention that every single recording of this podcast is 10 minutes. I fixed the youtube one, and am now fixing the others. I apologize.

Bhawb.7408:

What I usually do is start the fight with Axe auto then Axe 2 (in PvE it doesn’t do much, but in PvP a lot of people will waste a dodge). I can’t specifically remember of Focus 4 aggros or not, but I plan to be making a video about it sooner or later.

focus 4 does, but if there are multiple targets that it hits it kind of wigs out a bit. Focus 4 plus auto 1 works if it only hits one target.

Harbinger.8637:

I was right. Here’s the recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XySDo9DjNQA

That makes a ton of sense actually. I have noticed that sometimes that happens to me, and other times it doesn’t. If I run with death nova it happens, and when I don’t it doesn’t happen.

There is a trait in the curses that does that when you fall, but I don’t know anyone who ever takes it haha.

OMNIBUS.2913:

Bas.7406:

Don’t take away my unholy feast :P. I love the aoe cripple for when I need to run away!!!

Axe/Focus = Minion heaven slows and the auto attack is a double hit which activates your minions immediately.

I just got my magic find gear adn was runnign minions today, killing karka. There AI doesnt activate good even with axe. Everytime i started a fight with a karka there was pretty much a garaunteed 2-4 minions just standing there for a long time before they decided to finally attack. Flesh golem attacked the least >.>. with his ability on recharge i couldnt wake him up to start fighting. The poor lost and confused minions =/

Auto attack twice at the start of the fight 99 percent of the time it will force them all to attack immediately. The only time it doesn’t is if you are taking damage from another source before you start auto attacking it confuses them. haha.

I was doing it in wvwvw reliably, and in Malchor’s leap.

The key is Auto Attack twice first.

Haha, well we are going to sit down on Thursday before our next Podcast and work out the details and logistics. No other community has been as on board with this as the Mesmer community (okay the Necro community was :P).

Redfield.6174:

I’m trying to get a good build for my Necro on WvW, heading to siphon and wells. Watching closer the Blood Magic Tree I can see 3 traits which are very similar:

V – Siphon health whenever you crit.
15 (Minor Trait) -Siphon health whenever you hit a foe.
XII – Wells also siphon health when they pulse

My doubt here is if these traits have a not mentioned cooldown or they stack, I mean, hitting a critical will siphon twice and if I crit on my well attack it will siphon 3 times??

Appreciate any further tips for vampirism.

They siphon three times if you get all three. They siphon at different amounts though. Siphon health is about 33, siphon on crit is about 140 (I think), and wells siphon is dependant on your power (not sure).

So the key when running a powermancer is asking yourself how far do you want to go. If you want to burn bunkers and float between points, it’s not possible. You either have to go offensive team or defensive back cap bunker. Unfortunately, we aren’t floaters, we move in and stay especially the powermancer. If Zombify ever gets back on I am planning on talking how a powermancer works at top tournament levels.

If you don’t have a formal team setup you will have some issues, because necromancer’s excel at matching team roles. Regardless let’s get to possible builds, and weapons.

Dagger/Warhorn or Dagger/Dagger with staff secondary is amazing depending on if you are carrying a guardian/elementalist in your offensive team. I run heavy power with lots of crit damage for certain builds. The key with any power build and any necro build period is positioning, never put yourself in a position where you can’t get away.

Once you get that figured out, If I was on the offensive team, I run 30/15/0/0/25 if I have a good support team. This build rocks and you can use DS offensively this way. However, if you aren’t really using ds except to mitigate key damage hits than a build more like 30/30/0/10/0 works really well for more of a Hybrid type build. 10 points for crit siphoning.

Key Talents:
Close To Death almost mandatory in most power builds.
Withering Precision – Weakness is underrated
Banshee’s wail – stun and longer locust swarm
Chilling darkness mmm

Runes: Ogre is really strong, but i prefer Eagle for all your crit abilities
Sigils: I like swap sigils one for might and one for Hydromancy and Sigil of Accuracy or Force

Problems – you will get trainwrecked if you don’t play fast.

I would only run that build if you have a quick hard hitting team. I am going to go test it out now ;p.

The way I am currently playing in tournaments is a bunker never say die mode where wells siphon health and I just keep killing or I run Minion Berzerker.

bumping for invites

Zinwrath.2049:

Bas.7406:

Quick question about the Death Shroud 1 ability – Why would I need another auto attack? How would the game know if I wanted that one or Life Blast?

You can set what ability you’d like to auto attack.

So it would essentially be 5 attacks, and you would select bleed stacking with low damage or high damage and vuln/might stacking with lifblast?

Quick question about the Death Shroud 1 ability – Why would I need another auto attack? How would the game know if I wanted that one or Life Blast?

In Episode 2 of our favorite GW2 Panel: Symbolic is out of commission due to tournaments, but the four of us gather to talk about GW2 Balance, Meta Gaming, and Jin Drake goes off on Guild Bounty Missions.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-panel-podcast-episode-2/

Thanks again for all the support from the Necro Community we look forward to bringing more News every Wednesday and Friday about the Necromancer.

You can follow us on itunes and youtube as well. Andele, I am working on getting better videos. I will fix the youtube one.

I can’t believe this got moved out of the Necromancer forums. I seriously wonder sometimes about whether the moderators actually pay attention to the forums, or they just look for keywords.

Bhawb.7408:

We have a lot more versatility than other classes, we just don’t have the “standard” simple builds everyone looks for, and therefore no one tries to explore for more creative ways to accomplish something.

Hey bhawb, you notice that your replies and mine have gotten a lot shorter since we started doing the podcast? haha

Kylie and Osci will be lead contributors for our Mesmer focused Podcast, and if I can convince them to co-host even better. We will have written contributions from fay as well.

Andele.1306:

Pretty sure you bonked it up since only 10 minutes are up.

On the youtube or the itunes and website? If it’s the youtube, I know what happened. I have been having trouble with WMV (piece of junk editing system) but I don’t know of a better free audio to video combination setup.

In Episode 2 of our favorite GW2 Panel: Symbolic is out of commission due to tournaments, but the four of us gather to talk about GW2 Balance, Meta Gaming, and Jin Drake goes off on Guild Bounty Missions.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-panel-podcast-episode-2/

You can follow us on itunes and youtube as well. I am working on getting better videos.

Hopefully on our next Panel we can have a regular Mesmer contributor.

In Episode 2 of our favorite GW2 Panel: Symbolic is out of commission due to tournaments, but the four of us gather to talk about GW2 Balance, Meta Gaming, and Jin Drake goes off on Guild Bounty Missions.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-panel-podcast-episode-2/

Thanks again for all the support from the Necro Community we look forward to bringing more News every Wednesday and Friday about the Necromancer.

You can follow us on itunes and youtube as well. Andele, I am working on getting better videos. I can’t use the GW2 official pictures because I don’t own the copyrights therefore Youtube can pull it off.

I think the idea is to work not just with tournament players, though in the Necro, Mesmer, and Guardian ones we have had or will have guests who are top tier tournament players. Our goal is to get people who explain the basics of the class in a way that is easy for beginners to learn, and be able to reach out to the high end tournament or wvwvw guys to have them tell us a bit more.

The main issue I have found with working with tournament guys is that they are very busy, and taking an hour out of prime tournament time to do a podcast every week is generally not something they are can do. I will try to get ahold of some other players, but remember the goal is to build a better community by sharing ideas.

Don’t take away my unholy feast :P. I love the aoe cripple for when I need to run away!!!

Axe/Focus = Minion heaven slows and the auto attack is a double hit which activates your minions immediately.

We appreciate the work you are doing even if you do hate minions ;P. I am actually working on a recording of me with my minions in wvwvw killing all sorts of baddies. Granted the players aren’t very good, but it’s hilarious how I can fight a 1 v 2 and live easily while forcing them to play hide and go seek.

I like power builds, but feel that when running in a small group or solo it’s pretty difficult to do what you need to do in order to survive. I will read through the rest of your post later, and if you want we can try and get you on our podcast one day to talk about wvwvw and the powermancer.

Windwalker.7421:

+1 on the people mentioned, and as for a name the obvious would be “Mesmerized!” ;-)

Which is the same thing as saying “mind-kittened” and thus fits perfectly.

That is really good. haha, i will have to run it by our hosts :P.

Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of the Elementalist world, my name is Bas and I am the host of the GW2 Podcast But of Corpse. We are looking for an Elementalist who would be the right guy to appear on the Podcast to talk about how Necros are viewed from an Elementalist’s point of view.

We are also looking at opening up an Elementalist Focused Podcast in the near future. You can check out some of our podcasts here: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/
Is there anyone on the forums regularly or in game who the majority of the Elementalist players respect and would be willing to talk with us? Is there anyone in particular you would like to hear talk in depth about the Elementalist(No I cannot get John Peters :P)

It looks like we are closing in on a start date for the Ranger Focused Podcast. We still are coming up with a name like Necro’s But of Corpse, but we have a few possible hosts, and are working on lining up some guests.

Hopefully we can launch it with the Mesmer and Guardian Focused Podcasts on the first week of April. All feedback is appreciated.

The Mesmer community has been amazing so far. I have so many positive pushes, and we have several players who are willing to contribute already whether in written form or as podcast guest or in terms of hosting or co-hosting.

We are probably looking at two weeks or first week in April for Launch of the Mesmer focused Podcast. We still need a pun name like the Necro But of Corpse for the Podcast.

I am gone next week and once we work out schedules we will get everything setup to have at least a weekly Mesmer Focused podcast.

No worries, brutaly we are still working on putting everything together.

We have a Mesmer Focused Podcast hopefully launching in a week or two, and a Ranger Focused Podcast launching the first week in April. My goal is to get a Guardian Focused Podcast going the first week of April as well.

Oddly enough, the toughest guys to get responses from are Thieves and Engineers.

I appreciate the feedback, we will see if we can get his attention ;p.

Actually, we are looking for a few people. Our goal is to interview and talk to players who do wvwvw, pvp, and pve at different levels. I am not a very active player, but I do know how to push a conversation in a direction to help newer players figure out how the really good players play.

I have gotten to talk with some of the top Necro pvp, wvwvw, and pve players so far, and we look forward to doing the same with each profession.

Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of the Engineer world, my name is Bas and I am the host of the GW2 Podcast But of Corpse. We are looking for an Engineer who would be the right guy to appear on the Podcast to talk about how Necros are viewed from an Engineer’s point of view.

We are also looking at opening up an Engineer Focused Podcast in the near future. You can check out some of our podcasts here: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/
Is there anyone on the forums regularly or in game who the majority of the Engineer players respect and would be willing to talk with us? Is there anyone in particular you would like to hear talk in depth about the Thief (No I cannot get John Peters :P)

I look forward to getting at least one regular contributor from each

Only warriors and rangers we haven’t heard from ;p

Thanks guys, it may be a few weeks before we get anything up and running, but I will see what I can do.

podcasts going strong, come and join us.

Wow, you guys are incredible. I will try to catch them and talk with them.

@samaski – if you catch one of our podcasts, you will see that we essentially have two hosts and we talk with a knowledgeable guest.

Thanks for the tip brutally.

I will send you a PM Danto.

Lopez.7369:

Balancing the game at lower levels is impossible. Way too many of the perceived imbalances are people just being terrible at the game. For example, look at how many people still complain about warriors and Hundred Blades, which is extremely easy to prevent and avoid. If ArenaNet nerfed this ability, warriors would be gutted at high-end play, where balance actually matters due to tournament play, because a few people at low-level play have no idea how to move or position.

Besides, low-level players will always find something else to complain about. Bad players have a tendency to blame the game before themselves, which is why they stay bad. The best players are always analyzing how they did and how teammates performed, which is why they consistently improve.

While I readily agree with you that a lot of the perceptions of imbalance is due to bad players and misperceptions of the class schematics in general. I think you misunderstand the point of the podcast. My goal was never to bring someone better than me and have him tell us we suck. My goal was to show how the Necro is perceived on different levels of play.

I am not sure why me disagreeing with another player is perceived as a bad thing. I am going to have a top tier Powermancer on next week to discuss this perception and how it can be changed.

The main point of my podcast is to bring in players at different levels of the game and allow them to state their point in a clear way. Discussions and disagreements are part of building a class. In fact, if I had never said I disagree with you to Symbolic we never would have gotten to the part where he discussed the LichWellBomb build, or discussed how class mechanics force a necro to view position and the ability to escape benefits other classes.

If I don’t say I disagree, he never explains why he feels he is correct. This is the point of a discussion to openly discuss counter points of view and be ready to explain it. Symbolic did a fantastic job explaining his point of view, and I can see how he comes to that.

Besides, it was helpful for beginning necros to get an idea as to how the game changes at different levels, and that Necromancers are not a bad class.

SupahSpankeh.8452:

Indeed, easy enough to test, but I was hoping the chaps who said “If you have any other tests you would like us to try we would be glad to take a look at some other builds. We will probably be testing minion aggro theories next” might pick up the testing and do a cast or something on it.

I’m not even sure DS HP scales at this point. I’ve gto 28khp, but I lost approx 45% of my DS HP to 6k damage

I know when you add HP your DS meter goes down, which hints it does work, but in my hasty tests I’ve found it to be the same amount of HP.

Haha, I will see what I can do. Recording is new to me so I will do what I can

Haha, I apologize. Making videos is new to me and since its a podcast it’s a little different. It has a lot more to do with how I combined the two than the pictures I took.

I was able to get our YouTube channel and itunes subscription working. If you have a video you would like us to look at and comment on for future episodes let me know.

Sittingonacouch YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Jopf2

Sittingonacouch iTunes: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/feed/

Hopefully this will help those who need to use the captioning. Yes the pictures are the same on all three, because I don’t record my gameplay yet haha

I have the BoC Youtube Podcast Channel now

http://www.youtube.com/user/Jopf2

Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of the Warrior world, my name is Bas and I am the host of the GW2 Podcast But of Corpse. We are looking for a Warrior who would be the right guy to appear on the Podcast to talk about how Necros are viewed from a Warrior point of view.

We are also looking at opening up a Warrior Focused Podcast in the near future. You can check out some of our podcasts here: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/

Is there anyone on the forums regularly or in game who the majority of the Warrior players respect and would be willing to talk with us? Is there anyone in particular you would like to hear talk in depth about the Warrior (No I cannot get John Peters :P)

Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of the Thief world, my name is Bas and I am the host of the GW2 Podcast But of Corpse. We are looking for a Thief who would be the right guy to appear on the Podcast to talk about how Necros are viewed from a Thief point of view.

We are also looking at opening up a Thief Focused Podcast in the near future. You can check out some of our podcasts here: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/

Is there anyone on the forums regularly or in game who the majority of the Thief players respect and would be willing to talk with us? Is there anyone in particular you would like to hear talk in depth about the Thief (No I cannot get John Peters :P)

Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of the Ranger world, my name is Bas and I am the host of the GW2 Podcast But of Corpse. We are looking for a Ranger who would be the right guy to appear on the Podcast to talk about how Necros are viewed from a Ranger point of view.

We are also looking at opening up a Ranger Focused Podcast in the near future. You can check out some of our podcasts here: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/

Is there anyone on the forums regularly or in game who the majority of the Ranger players respect and would be willing to talk with us? Is there anyone in particular you would like to hear talk in depth about the Ranger (No I cannot get John Peters :P)

Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of the Mesmer world, my name is Bas and I am the host of the GW2 Podcast But of Corpse. We are looking for a Mesmer who would be the right guy to appear on the Podcast to talk about how Necros are viewed from a Mesmer point of view.

We are also looking at opening up a Mesmer Focused Podcast in the near future. You can check out some of our podcasts here: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/

Is there anyone on the forums regularly or in game who the majority of the Mesmers respect and would be willing to talk with us?

Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of the Guardian world, my name is Bas and I am the host of the GW2 Podcast But of Corpse. We are looking for a Guardian who would be the right guy to appear on the Podcast to talk about how Necros are viewed from a Guardian point of view.

We are also looking at opening up a Guardian Focused Podcast in the near future. You can check out some of our podcasts here: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/

Is there anyone on the forums regularly or in game who the majority of the Guardians respect and would be willing to talk with us?

Got to necro bump this!

Bravo Nay and Hisazul, great perspective and level headed answers on minions. I don’t even need to comment except to say, read them, and don’t worry about them dying. It’s what they do.

Nice Testing Warhorn, you will have to start a thread called Necrobusting: DF and it’s 1.2 Myth

Oldbugga.7029:

I found it interesting just from the different perspectives that emerged. And I might say each was valid in terms of the individual play-styles etc.

One thing that I find unsettling, and it is probably more in general on these forums than specific to this podcast (but it was evident at times), is the constant use of absolutes and superlatives in support of views/arguments/builds. I think for the intended “education and learning” aspects of the podcast, opinions etc should be qualified where possible and put into context. For example (and this is just plucked out of the air but you will all recognise what I am talking about), statements like players being able to “spam fear” should really be qualified with context details like the duration, frequency, cooldown and any obvious opportunity costs involved. I did notice that Symbolic approached this on several occasions…sort of. It would add balance to the information and allow people to make up their own minds based on that information rather than just say-so. What I have found most valuable is that the information I have gleaned has allowed me to experiment without it being a haphazard random stab in the dark….and I personally really enjoy that.
Just personal opinion….and a big thanks to those involved in the podcasting

We try to keep things general in our first few podcasts, because there is so much to go over and we don’t want to go for four hours. Which you easily could with the necro, I tried to stop when a statement was made that I was sure would need to be explained. I appreciate the feed back, and will work on catching more things.

There are times when we had to cut off a certain subject (if you checked out Rennoko’s we cut him off several times when he started delving into conditions and how they operated). We will start becoming more detailed as we progress, but in one hour we can only cover a few subjects, and I wanted to bring in other players who can also explain certain specifics.

@Lopez, Symbolic and I converse quite a bit in game. I was pretty sure I knew his answer before I proposed the question. When he came back with an absolute, I wanted him to clarify his position. It had nothing to do with arguing. I was trying to give him a basis for the opinions I had. I never claimed to know more than he did. In fact, when he made a good point, I said you make a good point, but why can’t I do it like this.

You see, the key to a conversation, is having two counter points and debating them. It was not my intention for it to be perceived as an argument, and at no point did Symbolic feel it was an argument. I did catch him off guard, but that’s because at the level he plays there are things he just assumes all players know. This is not the case.

In fact, at the very end of the podcast, Symbolic stated that he did not intend to mean that it should not be tried and that he may just give it a try. In his mind due to the way the Necro plays, and the format of the game currently (epidemic being so strong) that on high end tournament play the conditionmancer is stronger than a powermancer.

There is a reason we wanted him to repeat several times why he felt the powermancer was weaker. I wanted him to clearly state his opinion so that others can see where he was coming from when he said Conditionmancers are the way to go in tournaments. When you make a statement like that a lot of people will stop listening to everything else you say, so I asked him the question why? I then gave him examples as to how Bhawb and I have seen success, and wanted him to clearly explain his position.

He did it very well. In fact, after the podcast was over, we spoke with him for several minutes about playing different builds and thanked him for some great tips like the LichWell Bomb, and corrupt to epidemic to fear and playing off main target. At no point did I feel he was attacking myself or did he feel I was attacking him.

Having said that, I agree with your basic point. He knows more than Bhawb or myself about tournament play, but we wanted him to explain himself not to just make a blanket statement.

I was trying to find you this week. I will pm you