That I don’t even play anymore.
I was lucky and finally got a job, so I haven’t had much time to play Guild Wars 2. I did log into my necro for 5 minutes a week or two ago, went into WvW as I usually do. I met a thief and thought I’ll kill the kitten. Well he used the grapple hook to pull me in, then one his minions pulled me in and seconds later I was dead. I couldn’t do much and logged out in frustration.
I know, I know, “you can just dodge” or w/e people tell themselves to believe things are balanced. But I couldn’t and didn’t have a chance.
However, my shiny bright light at the end of the tunnel, the December 10 patch, was just around the corner! There was a chance, that the Necro could come back!!
What did we get? A fat load of nothing, and a crappy heal signet.
I shan’t be coming back the game, I can’t in all honesty keep playing a game, where the devs simply have no clue how to balance.
And that diamond skin video, just made me cry!
“Cya”, “Go on”, “bye” and the good one “can I haz ur stuff” – No you can’t, and I know I won’t be missed
I wish all you necro’s the best of luck. You’re going to need it.
It actually works perfectly fine. Press buttons at the same time = win.
Is it annoying you can’t do it mid-stomp? Sure. But I’ll take what I can get
Regarding rampagers, I wouldn’t recomment it, you need toughness imo
After having run this for quite a while, my suspicion of what would be its weakness, was confirmed I met Ascii today on the field of battle, and boy oh boy did he rip me a new one. Several times So against a good necromancer player, who can send back conditions, this build has a hard time.
Since then I have chosen to run plague signet instead of well of power, namely to be able to do the same
Also commented on your vid, I’m on Blackgate and would love to duel you
I am on most evening prime time so sure. Shoot me a message.
Nice, I’ll keep my eye out for ya
Also commented on your vid, I’m on Blackgate and would love to duel you let me know!
I posted a 30/10/0/0/30 build some time ago, but in the end it didn’t quite hold up to the various challenges in a roaming environment, so I’ve opted to change my build, and share it with you all.
I’ve tried many builds and couldn’t settle for one, because if one build was good at taking down X opponent, I would have a hard time dealing with Y. I did however, find that there are some traits that help a lot against all classes, and those are the ones I couldn’t find myself letting go off.
My current build is 10/30/0/0/30 - not with 50% crit chance, as many roll, but with foot in the grave! Why, you ask perhaps? I met a really good hammer warrior and got completely Rick rolled, I changed my build to have foot in the grave and every duel we had from that point, I won. So, that’s a trait I found to be more valuable than I had expected.
Firstly – This is a hybrid build, I run both condi dmg and power/crit %/dmg
Secondly, weapons – Scepter/warhorn – Staff
Why not axe? Scepter AA is a lot more powerful than Axe, critting upwards of 1k on each auto attack, and putting out bleeds/poison. A low CD long lasting cripple and 3 bleeds 240 aoe and a powerful fast cast DD that does upwards of 3k dmg and giving a lot of LF. Axe2 compared to Scepter3 does more dmg, but is channeled, in which time Scepter can keep autoing instead.
Why warhorn? I love the traited weapon! A 3 second daze, but more importantly, warhorn5 is extremly powerful, 210 range damaging, gaining lifeforce and crippling. I put out 5 seconds of cripple every time it procs, and it procs every 1 (right?) second! This makes up for a good ambush, run in do some dmg and if the battle is about to be lost, run out and they’ll still have 25 seconds of cripple on em Additionally, with just one person hit, I gain 2% LF and since I have Vital persistence I loose only 2% LF per second, which means, effectively I don’t loose LF when WH5 is up (as long as I hit someone).
This weapon is also extremely good against thieves as the constant cripple really hurts them.
Staff The builder is out of date and I use torment rune on my staff, I want to give out as many damaging conditions as possible as fast as possible.
Alright, that covered the weapons, and to assist the tools my weapons bring, I use Consume conditions, SoS, BiP and Well of Power. I gain 3 might stacks from using SoS, 10 from BiP and vigor from using well of power (if it converts the bleed from BiP). I also gain 2% dmg from each condition on the foe, meaning I get upwards of 3k life blasts.
I use the golem as it is just cool, knockdown is a good tool to have to do a CC combo.
If, however, I see lots of people coming I will quickly switch to Snow Leopard and quickly dash away :P
Armor is rabid gear with traveler’s runes, cavalier amulet, zerker rings and rabid accessories, ruby jewels. Scepter/WH – zerker, staff – rabid. So I’ve got an offensive set and a condi set.
Spite IV – Reduced CD of SoS and might stacks
Curses IV, VIII, and IX – Weakening shroud, WH trait and terror
Soul Reaping II, VIII, XI – Reduced LF drain, DS CD reduce making it only 6 secs, and 3+ seconds of stability every 6 seconds.
All in all, this is an awesome build, it puts out tremendous DD as well as condition dmg, and with the might stacks everything just hits harder. Letting go of 20 in spite made it easier to switch from axe to scepter, and scepter does hit quite hard. Anyways just thought I’d share what I’m running and to join the crowd not using Dhuumfire
@Isende
Many class can maintain permanent or near permanent vigor, whereas necromancers can get only 9 seconds of it on a 50 second cooldown, using two utilities slots. (Blood is Power and Well of Power)
Thanks for this! I actually didn’t realize that bleed is converted to vigor! Let alone a 9 second vigor not depending on the duration bleedstack. I was already carrying blood is power and well of power, and it has actually helped me quite a bit to have access to vigor. If I know I’m dueling a class that doesn’t have all that much condi, I can access vigor instead, in this case I don’t feel like I have wasted a slot on well of power
Thanks for the info!
It does have an ICD with itself though, so you cannot use two for double the proc rate.
Would be awesome if you could double proc
That’s just it, it was there during character creation and thought it might be due to the background, so I kept going. And it is still there during actual gameplay!
Hmm.
There are some skin colors which have secondary green tints to them. I know my Sylvari is one of the yellow colors, but she still has quite a bit of green as well. Know some of the reds have green secondary tints to them as well. Didn’t think any of the black shades had it, but I could be wrong. Which skin color did you choose?
That might be it, perhaps. I know you can choose a primary color and a secondary, but if there’s an inbuilt tint to some of the colors that might be what is affecting it?
I picked a black skin with grey secondary (or was it grey and grey?) Dark colors anyhow.
But the weird thing is, when I chose the exact same options for a mesmer or engineer, the green tint wasn’t there.
That’s just it, it was there during character creation and thought it might be due to the background, so I kept going. And it is still there during actual gameplay!
Easy escape? RAWR snow leopard stealth and dash
I had to try out the sigil, it does something like 126 or so dmg when enemy is moving, and fire sigils procs for anywhere between 600-1k so all in all it’s not too bad a difference. The thing I like is that it’s an aoe, with about 200 range. With decent crit chance you can maintain 2 stacks at any given time, so it amounts to quite some dmg, and again when fighting more than 1, it’s awesome
And Sylpheed is correct in that it’s good to have another condi… the more the better! Makes it easier to get in some dmg
It heals for under 4K with a 30 sec cd. I’d be glad if people use it against me
Oh dang I shouldn’t have forgotten to mention that!
Yes this is for wvw solo roaming
Just wondering, which weapons do you use in your hybrid specs?
I can’t decide I like axe for it’s damage on #2 and aoe cripple, but scepter has a great damage ability as well and also an ar cripple plus bleed. And AA is better on scepter. Staff seems like a weapon I want to do without, but can’t seem to let go.
For off hands I really only like dagger and focus. But then again, I can’t decide between those either.
So for inspiration, I am asking you folks, what do you run on your hybrid specs?
All day long I’ve been fighting warriors, sure I don’t know their spec, but they all had hammers and regen signet and I didn’t lose 1v1 all day. And I’m specced hybrid, so I also do quite good DD on top of my condis.
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My little Necromancer, Ztiff.
Wow nice look, there’s an evilness to this little one