Guild Wars 2

As a Necro main… I make heavy use of Life Syphon in WvWvW as it targets Thieves even in stealth.

If XxX want to run guild-only then that should be respected…
I often see them in the EB and i’ll join in if I come across them fighting/capturing a structure but once done they all move off, so I wish them well and let them get on with it (i’m sure wherever they go that Gandara will benefit from it)

Are there any Power/Prec/Toughness Ascended items?
Been looking for a Back item but so far not found one with these stats…

I have a Tailor and wondered what people would advise me to make for the Monthly crafter… Cheapest as I am poor :-)

Can you use both together?
I had an axe with bloodlust and a shield with Accuracy but having killed several critters I was only seeing the bloodlust icon on my screen…
(I know both are capped at 25)

Ellies and Mesmers (imho)
I have tried cond necro and now using powermancer but after trying out a d/d ellie and confuse/shatter Mesmer my powermancer just feels like the ginger-haired step-child of the caster classes :-(

The trait where you can fully down an Ellie, he mist forms then pops up straight away at half health (no longer in downed state)?

I see FR servers SP servers and even DE servers but not a single UK/English server? why is this?
I would like a UK server for a host of reasons, mainly for higher ping/English speaking and server pride (in w3)

Aww, I hope we don’t have AR again :-(
Tired of being so out-numbered and AR camping our Spawn Poin

Maybe not in pve but pretty much in WvWvW. But the fact is if you are playing wvwvw without the best gear- why not? You are gimping yourself, making yourself far less effective than you could be.

I don’t want the best gear, sadly ‘as I love WvWvW’ it is getting to the point where I ‘need’ the best items ‘ascended’ to have fun (getting stomped by a guy wearing far superior gear is not fun)
If it was for fashion or ‘keeping up with the jonses’ then I can easily do without but the higher numbers mean without I will be much weaker and do less damage-which are needed in WvWvW.

Just watched the video, very good.
I especially liked the fight with the thief and the warrior :-) poor warrior not having a clue what is happening wandering around like a zombie hehe

Any ETA from Anet about this?
I know we can get from the forge but you still need a vial of mist essence to make which can only be gotten from fotm.

So between 10pm and 1am 20 people turned up …
Hope we got our keep back :-)

So what if we are lacking numbers? We are still putting up a good fight

Well, 3 of us were…

I thought 10pm uk time was within ‘prime-time’ ?
Well, we tried a 3 man golem rush to take back our keep… and almost made it to the gates hehe
Good fun
Title edited as previous was written out of frustration rather than general thought

‘Getting our butts handed to us’ was not what I was referring to…
I was referring to only 3 players from Gandara on the entire EB map (2 now as I had to log).
If you don’t find that strange for a t3 server then there is no hope for us hehe
(from 10.pm Uk time not in the middle of the night)

10.30 and there are 3 yes 3 of us on the EB map so we lost everything!!!
wth Gandara…. we don’t deserve t6 never mind t3

Cheers for the reply :-)

What affects these abilities?
Power?
Precision?

I run a power build and use dagger/whorn+staff (mainly wvwvw) but following the recent changes would I be better ditching the whorn for the focus?

To be honest, there was a lot of talk about how we (Gandara) would get crushed in T3 but from recent fights (and the map) we are more than holding our own and see nothing special about K or AG.
I guess they are giving their main effort for the borderlands and ignoring EB.

Expecting some class tweaks (Hoping my Necro gets some Love)

I am talking about WvWVW not pve :-)
And as for the smart kitten who stated that ‘if a group of Engineers attacked’ … Have you ever played W3?
1. There are not enough Engineers to make a group playing in W3 (I wonder why)
2. A group of them would get facerolled by a group of virtually any other class (try 10 d/d ellies vs 10 Engineers and get back to me on that…

I have noticed an increase in childish behaviour over the last few days. I am an average player at best, so when I die it’s no biggie :-P
But recently I have been killed by a player/players and had them jump up and down on my corpse/laugh/dance as if they had won the world cup or beaten Chuck Norris!
For the kiddies doing this… WoW is that way —-——>

Every day I see more and more d/d Ellies, D/D Thieves, Mesmers and the odd Guardian in WvWvW (getting to the point that is all I see in T3)..
Jut this evening a few friends and I were assaulted by a group of 13 d/d Ellies supported by a few thieves to mop up the few survivors :-(.

I am not asking for a nerf, that would not be fair to those who have spent the time and money building their characters, what I will say is boost the lesser classes… As it stands the Necro/Engineer are woefully left behind and becoming abandoned classes.

Better drop rates maybe?

I’m going to try that on my Necromancer… Oh wait…

I do love my Necro and have great fun with him in WvW but I do admit that compared to the power of Shatter/confuse Mesmers and d/d Ellies, we are the Ginger-haired step child of the caster classes :-(

I have a condition thief and need some advice on runes for cond damage/duration

I am currently using 4x runes of afflicted and 2x runes of Krait
On my daggers I have 2x agony sigils
(with sup tuning crystals I get around 75% cond duration)

Are these ok or should I have different runes to best maximise cond damage/duration?

I do that Ranger, Engi and especially Necro definitely need a boost! Necro sadly seems to be the Red haired step-child of the caster classes :-(

My fellow Gandarans, please stop fighting the Kodash thieves… 3 times today I have seen several Gandara groups try to fight a thief or couple of thieves and the result is the same.. lots of Gandaran corpses (1st time I tried to help and aoe’d the kitten out of the area but dies to 3 hits so 2nd and 3rd time I warned them to run). Don’t play them at their game!

well, just had a bs thief bust me down in 3 hits (seemed to be 8k each hit) which seems a little op

My power necro has 1.7k toughness but a healthpool of 18.7k
I’m using knights armour with emerald orbs, Cavalier (exotic karma) rings/trinkets with ruby orbs..

Seem to do ok except when I get conditions on me :-(

If you really can’t tolerate it, STOP PLAYING WvW!

The fact that 90%(rough forum and my own in-game conversations base statistic) of non thieves complain about it means exactly that we Should not tolerate it. I play a Thief myself and admit stealth is a broken concept at the present.

Yeah… out of stealth for a few secs… then try using tab or mouse click to target before they re-invis (can be done if you are lucky or the thief is bad)

i was replying to that pistol dagger thief scenario which would not be near as deadly as what you are talking about, since he cant keep invising at range.

All I know he downed 6 players (including me) shooting – invis repeat …
Aoe fine but very easy to avoid, impossible to target due to speed he appears/disappears … Best advice, see a thief coming at a distance (if lucky) move away… Don’t play his game or stroke his ego…

Well, I carry dagger/whorn+staff…
You mean using the staff mark that transfers conditions from allies to enemy?
So if I cast it on ground and ran over it, it would remove my condition?

If you think the D/D thief is bad, try fighting a pistol/dagger thief…
hit invis hit invis hit invis etc… no time to target, at range he easily dodges aoe … total win for him :-)

Well, after trying the build I realised it missed a major component for WvWvW- a condition remover…
Yes I have ‘consume conditions’ but that’s my heal and has a 25 sec cool down which is impractical if you are running for your life and get crippled!
So I went with the 30,10,10, 0 20 …
Mainly for the remove condition on deathshroud (basically a cond remover every 5 secs)
Ok, I lose 10% crit damage but with ruby gems and knights armour I don’t miss out too much.
I’m using pow/crit/tough jewelry with ruby orbs – I am lacking in prec which I make up for with superior sharpening stones/omnomberry ghost foods

Thanks… time to try the Build out :-)
What food would you recommend? Ommnom ghost and superior sharpening stones?

Cheers… so ds for main attack, then dagger to re-charge life force umm…
Maybe spectral grasp, dagger 3 wells, ds auto attack then finish with dagger

Looks great – oh, this is mainly for WvWvW I use dagger/whorn and staff (I realise staff damage sucks but for groups and keep attack/defence seems the only option)
Would your build work in WvWvW?

A lone pistol/dagger thief was embarrassing a group of 6 players on my server (Gandara) – they were swinging around, aoe but he used cnd to it’s full potential killing 5 and the 6th ran off couldn’t touch him.
I could have helped them but I know from experience i’d just add to his corpse list and boost his kitten :-P

I have taken advice from various sources and would like to share my build and hope some experienced Necro’s can improve it or give me advice as I do tend to die a lot :-(

Power/DS build (idea is to use DS a lot for bonuses and to remove condition)

10/20/10/0/30
Power 2.1k
Att 3k
Tough 1.7k
Health 18.5k (low I know)
exotic Knights armour+ ruby gems
cavalier (karma pow/prec/tough) trinkets/rings/back with ruby gems
Dagger + warhorn with bloodlust and accuracy sigils giving 39% crit chance 88% crit damage

Utilities wells, spec crasp, lich form, consume conditions

Maybe the Juggermancer would be better?

To the Riverside p/d thief that killed me and 5 other players this morning in EB (easily) well done, I know there are some bad thieves but you played very well :-)

*Even more fun was the loud-mouth Gandara guy in chat who claimed to easily kill thieves – he then died to the thief then rage quit hehe

Was amusing on Gandara this morning… A pistol-dagger thief killed 6 fellow gandarans (including me)
Some loudmouth ‘I kill thieves easy’ guy in the chat started mouthing off, so invited him to have a go … he died much to the amusement of those already dead and he rage quit hehe
Sadly Gandara server is full of guys who are all talk and no trousers- so to speak :-(

So how does one counter a Pistol/dagger thief?
One was wiping the floor with 5 players on my server… no one could touch him or lock on him.
I think best to just avoid :-)

Just learned the hard way that Power Necros are totally useless against Pistol/Dagger thieves…
they are in-out of stealth, outside well range, dodge spectral grasp, easily avoid Dagger 3 …
So if you see one – avoid (to make matters worse, he danced and laughed at how pathetically bad I was- Which was nice)

That’s all I ever see in WvWvW ! Where is the diversity? Where are the range of characters using a range of skills?
(Yes I see the odd Ranger/Necro/Warrior from time to time but they seem to be getting more and more of a rare sight daily).