Guild Wars 2

OMG Leeto commented on my thread!

What you explained is very similar to what I experienced plus a group of anet devs were present.

I love your videos, especially the current state of PVP, lol. Happy to see that you have Close to Death traited.

BTW, there are 3 1v1 servers on right now and out of 46 players, only 2 were necros.

Hey Bhawb you confirmed what I thought was the case with the ds zerk build. It’s a fun build but rather dependent on a lot of things. But the tips from fellow necros on here are still very useful.

It’s just that in certain tpvp situations, playing a necromancer becomes a liability to the team. This concern is beyond one’s gaming style. Despite the setbacks, I really do enjoy playing it. A condi necro has nowhere near the sustainability of a condi engi, warrior, ranger…so on. Either adjust the sustainability of the class (i.e. warrior signet heal) or improve its attrition/dot. We lack real stability and an escape but I’m fine with that because I gave up believing they will ever be added.

So a handful of pvp devs were in BG hotm last week and they were as you’d expect, bombarded with threats or kitten -kissing comments.

Then I suggested that they please consider adjusting the flaws of necromancers and IMMEDIATELY a champion titled engie and guardian said necros are already OP and doesn’t need buffs. More than anything, they said it needed a nerf. What made me ALT F4 is when a warrior, out of all classes, agreed with the other two.

GreenRipper.6432:

In wvw I usually use this to build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQRBHbhG2IHNF32SjNNs3moWoguODgZIqOg65oNqWA-TBCEABJcSFYS5nEHBA72foN9PA8gCSU9ntUCGAABIAfLcfLcu5NP6NP6NLFQELjA-e

How to play (Always start with the life force full):
1 vs 1:
Dark Pact->Wail of Doom->Well of Suffering->Swap Axe and use Ghastly Claws-> Ds and Life Blast

2 × 1:
1) Dark Pact-> Wail of Doom(Search hit the two)
2) Then Well of Suffering on first target
Well of Corruption on second target -> preferably use on class with more boons(elementalists and gardians)
3) Charge(golem skill)
4) Locust Swarm
Swap to Axe and
5) Unholy Feast
6) Spinal Shivers
Enter on DS
7) Tainted Shackles
8) Life Transfer
9) Life Blast on eak target first

Tips:
1) Use Doom on near target and use dodge for evade stuns and etc.
2) Use only 50% o fyour life force and get out. Immediately use Spectral Walk->Reapers Touch->Unholy Feast->Ghastly Claws to gain more life force.
3) Use wells always.

Thanks, I appreciate your input. That’s not a bad rotation, I’ll try it out on a mesmer.

I use staff dagger/focus mainly for spinal shivers and have chill of death traited. Since I cant escape leap or stealth, best I could do is slow them down. Casting time takes a bit so if my positioning is faulty, the outcome wouldn’t be good. I like using the dagger but uncertain if the staff is optimal for this build. For utilities Im currently using well of suffering, spectral wall and armor. Lich for utility.

Or do you guys still think this build is viable? I’m also interested about your 1v1 tactics outside the DS zerk build

I run the full zerk 6/2/0/0/6 build and early on in the match when empty on LF, I struggle sustaining especially vs mesmers. I use spectral wall as my main defense to buy me some time until I accumulate a little LF but it seems there is very little margin for error.

How do you guys approach this situation when running this build

the biggest issue I have with the axe is that it’s really a weak “power” based weapon. The AA is worthless. It’s like a watered-down dagger with extra range.

It needs a major lift.

Once you’re in plague form, go ahead and click the heroes tab and check out your armor stat…..

They must really like winning! Sadly, they lack the skills to do it because 99.9999% of pvpers don’t do this kind of thing. It’s really cheap and it won’t be taken seriously so I wouldn’t worry about them.

Did you guys watch the tourney last week? I wonder why there weren’t any necros in the last 4-5 teams.

If this class is even viable for high tier tpvp, who’d you recommend. It seems they lose to hambows, mesmers, and even eles.

Necros are great in wvw and hotjoin perhaps but I can’t think of them being viable outside these two realms. I want to be proven wrong tho because I do like the class.

Eviscerate is very powerful but it takes more skill to execute properly. so many variations you can try. Why stick to hambow

I despise the hambow so much yet the warrior (Asura) is one of my favorite classes to play in pvp. It’s really a matter of personal preference. Some of the best players usually run with off-beat games.

I transmuted my twilight to blue stats so it can be account bound and now I dont know how to get it back to legendary stats. Also, I spent money buying transmutation splitters (have 6) and crystals (have 15) but they dont work!

I play the shortest possible Asura warrior and love love love my size. Plus armor that look meh to so-so on other races look good on me.

A bigger Asura just defeats the purpose of playing an Asura.

My tip to you is try using a “chubbier” build. They’re too cute and making them taller would look odd.

Junkpile.7439:

Is this season hype some American thing like monster trucks and wrestling?

The OP is in the Oceanic time zone so that voids your American reference.

But the hype he is referring to is happy, motivational hype…like how the smartest people in your country are motivated to migrate to America.

Where is SoR?

Been out of touch with wvw since Dec 2013 and not seeing them on this list is kinda weird.

Made a mistake and meant to use a skin for pvp instead of pve. I know the transmutation splitter will keep the item soulbound but my question is, can I use it for a skin to go from pve to pvp.

thanks