Guild Wars 2

Biggest problem I see with dagger build… Dynamic Combat Environment.
We’ve seen the numbers thrown out again Axe vs Dagger against a dummy in Spvp HotM. But seriously…. anyone who has even attempted this knows that fighting a moving target face to face is much harder than fighting a stationary dummy.
Yes, dagger does deal more dmg, BUT you need to maintain that close proximity IOT deal that dmg. Axe gives you that 600 range as well as some vulnerability to close the gap on that dmg. Unless you are so amazing at PvP and you can stick to yur enemy like glue and all yur dagger hits land (i’d love to see the vid) than IMO axe wins.
Go ahead and hate me for saying it, but axe is simply better because it hits more often. Dagger forces you to get up into the enemy’s face where more often than not he has the skills supporting his fight and most of yours are ment for the contrary. Like I said, and Im saying it again because tis the most important fact in the axe/dagger arguement… Axe has that 600 range that dagger does not. Unless you are fighting a stationary noob in Pvp (which is nothing to brag about) than that range really does matter.

I want to address something else here real fast, The SW ability leads into another thing I see alot of necros complain about…DS.
From personal experience, it has to be one of the best skills the necro has.
1) You have several skills to bring up LF not to mention a whole trait line devoted to it. As well as abilities in other trait lines to reenforce its str.
2) DS isnt ment to spend the whole LF bar at once. The point of it is simple, use is to:
a) avoid dmg output from huge single sources like the slam from the champ at the temple of melandru.
b) Popping #3 for the added fear effect.
c) quick heals from traited #4 for life transfer.
d) pop #2 to close the distance with the enemy before popping wells and marks again.
as soon as those are done, you should drop DS and get that CD to reduce so you can have it ready again. But before you ever initiate DS, unless its life saving, pop your staff #5 to induce fear so it can go on cool down. The time it takes #5 staff to go off, than DS fear to go off, you already have a good few secs into CD for your other skills. Dont think of fear as 1.25 secs of running thats it. they have to recover the distance spent, so thats really 2.5 secs of CD you just saved. 2.5+2.5=5.0 thats 5 secs of free CD gone.
Lets say you pop SW as in my reference, and run the 6-7 secs before repopping it, thats an added 12-14 secs of CD gone. making anything on a 17-19 CD ready to use again. With the DS only being used in short bursts, its ready for use and more fear again.
Point is, Spectral Walk is amazing. Its ability to repop either brings the enemy into the open, drops CD on skills 6-7 sec if they dont chase, or the enemy stays in place waiting for you to repop making them vulnerable to teammate atks.

Yus, this is what makes Spectral walk one of the best PvP skills for necro, hands down. I love using my fear abilities with it. It takes practice but with the right timing you can keep people running back n forth while yur teammates pick em off.
My Fav tactic so far is…
1) Fear mark
2) DS, stack might n vulnerability(from traits) than pop fear #3 before DS drops.
3) initiate Spectral walk to regain DS and continue the fun.
4) 6-7 seconds later (cause the timer on reset is 8 secs) pop SW again to hit PoO.
(point of origin… thats 6-7 seconds of cool down off your skills and that SW adds to LF so you can go back in for more fear).
5)either run in opposite direction and kitten them off or prep for charge.
6)Fear is ready, rinse n repeat.
by utilizing SW’s 8 sec repop to origin ability you effectively reduce CD by 14-16 seconds because your target will be running around trying to look/engage you. If you can do this at the limit of your range atks you can save those precious seconds.

That dagger looks nice

This would be an amazing advancement.

Remember when really anticipated games’ release dates would get pushed back because they werent ready yet? Well that stopped because now companies know they can just release and use the general public as ‘beta testing part 2’. You pay 60 bucks to beta test after the beta test. The game has been out since what… August? a few months after it was released it’ll still have bugs. Just wait, itll get better. Anet is made up of humans that need sleep, food, have families and want to enjoy life away from the screen as well. Theyve vome pretty far as it is. The best we can do is help keep track of what the bugs are so they can prioritize them. Itll get fixed.
But I wouldnt spend the cash on gems right now either unless its for bank slots.

I ran Dagger with my build and wasnt liking it. I really prefer the skills and their synergy adding to my play style. Not saying Dagger doesnt work, just not my taste.
I run that sigil that adds power in PvE, but in WvW/PvP it doesnt work. Everyone drops sometime and those stacks go away before you even get to 25 most of the time.
As for Spite tree, i just use 30 to get the 300 power and axe speed/dmg.
I’m not basing my facts on PvE at all, they are WvW relevant. You cannot fight and rage quit others in PvE unless I missed something.
Besides the PvE aspect you have, what about the competative side? What do you run against people?

Axe has it’s perks in its utility. Applying Vulnerability, life force and slowing the enemy down. Luckily we can carry two weapons and staff can come along for the ride when needed. But in comparing Staff and axe… Axe #1 attacks much faster. Those certain situations, like needing to kill those death blossoms in TA exp as you run through the tunnels are proof. But you would’nt use axe against the nightmare tree, you’d use staff. I enjoy the little range axe gets. All the atks can be done 600 away from the target at least. Allows for that extra split second of reacting from charges or extra distance needed in a retreat.
Plus, in regards to S1 Axe, its applies vulnerability, which not only helps my dps output, but that warrior or ranger who’s about to drop into you as well

I run Axe?dagger as well mainly because that dagger adds blindness (and chill cause of traits) and bounces my cons to the foe. I don’t see Focus adding more utility like that.

Here’s me before buffs from food/boosters/potions.

Armor is Knight’s w/ 6x Runes of the Doylak for Vit/Tough? n Regen
Full Knight’s jewelry with Back piece being Guild defender trans’ed w MK book and
fitted with exotic emerald jewel.

Power isnt near 24xx because Vulnerability closes that gap and lets me have that 3k defense in light armor. Dont like Vit being so low but need that Precision for dmg and procs.

Engels.8537:

Is not approved by Grenth in my HUMBLE opinion,

1) Your movility as necromancer sucks, most people will be able to close distance or keep you at range, or just run away, I never tried this build, but i think that any decent melee clases will tear you apart and range clases will avoid you easily,

2) I’d add some toughness to your build, so much critical damage as general rule (except thiefs) ends in no critical damage at all,
(any necro should use some toughness due to our high vitality),

3) I would use lich form as elite in this build instead of the golem,

4) I would use BIP instead signet of spite, 10 might stacks helps a lot, but it’s discutible

5) I would use signet of the locust instead spectral walk,

6) I would use a warhorn instead a focus just to improve your mobility with locust swarm, plus the focus will not synergizes well with this build

I’ll try this build anyway, just for curiosity

Regards !

In regards to yur number one, I believe necros are pretty good at manueverability in an abstract kind of view. DS/fear skills/Spectral walk prove this argument. Let’s say you are being attacked by a necro and some of his friends. He pops mark#4 and fears you. You run. As soon as that fear drops, you turn to assault but that necro is now DS’d and pops #3, more fear. You run again. Ok, necro needs to die, let’s smash his head in…
Come out of fear, necro already dropped his DS to save lifeforce. You chase him, he runs and pops Spectal Walk. as soon as you pass his Point of Origin he hits SW again and appears behind you. Not only that but as you were chasing him he dropped that pesky blindness well and…kitten… he’s spec’d it for chill as well. Now your out in the open again, blind and chilled. being played with. And the Necro now has full DS and fear skills again.
I do this in WvWvW and I’ve had toons Rage quit. Necros have amazing mauenverability. Especially if you dodge a couple and you have the sigil of endurance (or whatever it is) you dodge here and there, it regens while fear/ds is going like normal. In a tight spot? switch weapons to get it back to dodge quickly again.

I use Axe/Dagger & Staff. Power/Precision/Toughness build. Awesome tanking build. My Gf plays a Condition build with Scepter/Dagger & Staff. We both do just fine. Power build doesnt beat Condition or vice versa. It depends on the enemy your attacking. Power vs Toughness and Conditions vs Vitality. Obviously it works to have the Conds hit higher tough – lower vit enemies and the power hit lower tough – higher vit ones.
Axe is awesome because I use DS alot and skill2 adds lifeforce. And I spec for power and vulnerability and Axe skill1 adds both. And DS is spec’d to add vulnerability like crazy. Well of corruption is amazing for fast vulnerability stacks to get through that armor.
Those bleeds add up but i like seeing my 3k+ dmg land with the axe hits.
Not sure what the OP is getting at with that build. You prolly stumbled upon it messing around and it was better than the last, but there’s better ones out there. Especially axe builds that make you feel like yur melting butter.
If youre going to throw out a build and say its amazing, please have some proof why other builds arent better than it.
For instance… in WvW i’d crush you. Youre closer to the glass cannon side of the spectrum with little support outside of DS popping. My toughness (2347) would laugh at your dps as I bounce out of DS, pop spectral armor, stack lifeforce as I apply vulnerability, ghastly claws you, pop back into DS, pop fear, drop DS again and ghastly yur kitten again. DEAD.
PvE, yeah that build works fine, but PvE is a joke. I can solo Champion Dredge in 13m with my toon. Yeah conditions wreck me but thats why I save dagger offhand skill 1 to throw those bleeds back on you.
please retort with something viable

I think the events need to overall improve. Think about it… a couple months down the line when there are newer things to do and one of these events pop up… if the reward isnt as enticing as it could be, its going to be hard to get enough people to help finish the event. Its a snowball effect really… less people makes the event harder, with no change in reward. So why would they come back to fight again? End state happening is trying to farm ori in Forstgorge with crystal shards that never get destroyed anymore >.>

This happens to me regularly with the Claw of Jormag event. With my wells, marks and DS I can tag and deal decent aoe dps to the waves of adds that the dragon spawns. Yet for some reason the only loot I get is from the chest upon completion. Even if its the first time I do the event that day. I’ve switched it up and gone single target dps to destroy things faster and harder thinking my dps output was the reason… still nothing. Think its just another bug going around.

Well you can see from most of the world map, there’s alot of room we still cannot access. As well as those portals in LA that are not yet operational. They’ve planned on new maps being installed in the future. It probably wont affect the current map completion achievement. I can see them making another achievement and labeling it after that event series or overall region.

I bet the one time event will scale like Halloween did. But as for the Lost Shores, Its most likely a new map introduced by the one time event and hopefully it’s lvl 80 content because there’s really not much of it. You realize that once you get there. I’m hoping they drop that door to the south west of Lion’s Arch and allow us to play the turoa or whatever the bird people are. Would’nt be surprised if it had to do with the Dragon in the Unending Ocean. Maybe he was waiting for Zaitan’s fall for his own assault on LA? who knows but its bound to be awesome. Whatever it is im glad theyre doing it and not just making us wait a month and a half for Xmas event.

It seems like Anet’s eyes are glued to its Monthly tracker hanging in the office or there’s management that is so in love with themselves they refuse to see that how they are applying the bandages the wrong way. Their concept of BLTP netting them an income because its F2P is only going to increase the bots and exploits. Honest players are going to give up for a bit because it is very frustrating.
The drop rates are insane. Only botting shows productivity without being that lucky individual. Its a shame. All those 200+ gold items on the BLTP are just ruining it too. Its either by players who dont realize its ruining the economy, or by botters who know itll net some guys to buy from their site. There should be a selling cap, or somekind of monthly fee to remove most of the bots, ruin their profit and lower the gem cost on Anet. Sure I like to work for my reward, but working for nothing is insanity.

Best thing is everything still spins around me >.>

Here’s another pic

So i decided to try out the clocktower and get frustrated with everyone else but I ran into a different sort of problem. I teleport into water far away from the tower whenever the event starts. The Tower is off in the distance as you can see. Only way to fix it is to log off >.>

It’s impossible to get people who signed the kitten contract to accept responsibility for their actions when they mess up. You think anyone sitting behind a screen feeling special would admit to flaws every human experiences? kitten no.

This has potential ^.^ I’m down to run dungeons. Especially TA exp. but any will do

This post is pretty much the reason why I solo games alot. If I have to group though, I usually do it with <80s because they seem to have better things to say. Part of enjoying the MMO IMO is being able to enjoy what normal people do- communicate. If you’re going to play the game like a bot than youre doing it wrong.

My necromancer…

LvL 80 Sylvari Necro

Need critique on my stats. I’m playing a tanky melee necro. Using Axe/Warhorn + Staff