Guild Wars 2

< Condition necro. I prefer dagger/dagger (2k damage from dagger #1 combo) & staff in dungeons and sometimes in WvW. Condition builds can’t escape power anyway, simply because all condition damage armor comes with secondary power stats.

fauXnetiX.6459:

A better solution would be to actually fix the issue instead of trying to slap a band-aid on it.

Last time I asked, Anet refused to give us an access to the code so we can fix our bug and balance the class.

Dagger.
15char

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

How to get Modniir staff ? ( can’t find it in TP )

Using wiki http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Forward_Scout_Greta

gw2armor.com has all armor skins.

Arah > flame > bones.

Oh, yes, crossing. Forgot about that.
Nice one indeed. Though, has a ridiculous recipe for an exotic, so I might to buy one just from TP.

Final Rest. > http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Final_Rest
But nobody knows where to get one.

For me it’s Scythe Staff Skin. No particular effects, but looks cool. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scythe_Staff_Skin

Pact staff has a a skull on it. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Pact_Quarterstaff.jpg
Deathwish is nice too http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deathwish

PS
And Eye of Rodgort is the best scepter for a Necro. So glad I got one before fractal madness > http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Eye_of_Rodgort.jpg

My leveling build: gold.
20~ish gold and several hours of crafting = alt lvl 80. Neat.

As for your question – yes, go for Scepter/Warhorn and staff. Cripple, chill, fear – to slow down mobs, plus some aoe for you too.

Sheobix.8796:

I think they were trying to console you >.>

Whaaaat? No, they don’t.

Rejoice!
Anet recognized our lack of block/vigor as a bug/issue.

Eh… I don’t like it…. So, eh, useless…

Nah, nonsense.
Even if our bugs is still not fixed after 4 or so months doesn’t mean that our class is broken.
We have lowest burst damage with caster-class weapons, but hey – we can go melee with dagger and be pretty awesome vs one target (while a warrior next to you killing 20 of others). And everybody knows how actually good light armor for melee is.
As for survivability – we’re the best at this. We might be the only class without block/vigor, but our Death Shroud is far superior both of them. Though, you’ll need to learn use it properly.
In dungeons we’re the first class to go. No one is better than us in WvW. As for sPvP, there’s a rumor about upcoming nerf, since we’re so OP.

Just go to other classes’ forums and you’ll see how warriors/thieves whining about us killing them with one skill.

ALL HAIL NECRO! ALL HAIL MINIONS!

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15char

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Every time I hear about Spy Kits and Portal Guns, I cringe.

Every time I see how developers making this game “for warriors only” I cringe.

Every class has cripple and almost every class can chill (and those who can’t can do more useful stuff anyway).

I’m asking about something special, that only necro can do.

Just like:
Mesmers – confusion, portals, feedback, time warp.
Elementalist – AoE, reasonable heals.
Thief – damage, stealth.
Guardian – protection, heals, boons.
Warrior – melee damage, survivability.
Engineer – boons, aoe, mid-range damage.
Ranger – range damage.

My example is rather vague, but still.

Since our fear now is useless, that else Necro can do for a group in dungeons?
Besides being a meat shield.

Just ran dredge fractal.
Never felt so useless before.
Can’t do much damage, can’t heal my group, and now can’t interrupt. And still – can’t block.

Manticore Five.9867:

Don’t worry. Savan said we can just dodge! I’m sure that any minute he’ll be here with his Necro Vigor build so we can dodge a lot, just like he says.

It’ll cost you about 10g of sigils to build Necro Vigor and then say good bye to staff.
I have one question: where are my 10 free gold to make that happen? Sure anet must provide us with it, since we’re only class without vigor/block.

Who are you anyway and why we should care?

Discovered this today as well.
…
Unkittenbelievable.

Why:
We’re the only class without block. Fear kinda was our block. Tricky to use, but hey.
Now we can’t block (all other classes can) and can’t save ourselves with fear either.

Welp. Since our fear now basally useless, I think Retaliation isn’t that bad. I mean, this is the only “limited” effect we have that still works. Sigh.

When they remove necro, mesmer will be next in the line. They probably give portals to warriors, Time Warp to guardians and Moa Morph to thieves.
But I don’t care. For 60$ I had my fun with this game. Better quit before it became “Warrior Wars 2”.

Think I saw the Techno Viking…

Levian.6742:

I actually like him! In WvW when you’re on a mortar or treb, when a jagged pops up you know there’s a loot bag beside you!

Oh, gosh! And there I thought we have eyes for that.

Solid Ocean Fractal, Jade Maw.
I want to have an option: use minions to slow down the run and make everyone angry, or be able to use crystals by myself and don’t lose time.

It resets with your daily achievements (4:00 PM PST/5:00 PM PDT).

+1

And I even have a reason.
Uncategorized Fractal (asura one), after the room with 4 champions there are several harpies killing which 95% gives me that pathetic minion. I might not even notice it and run electric pulses puzzle. But if this minion gets hit (and he will) – I get hit too, and so people near me.

http://youtu.be/neI76SsDGDk

What has happened to this place?
I don’t recognize it anymore.
It used to be so fun and special.
What is life worth living for?
The dream is dead, our land is gone;
There’s a hole in my heart and I can’t go on.

There are too many minorities (minorities)
In my jumping puzzles (my jumping puzzles).
This was our land, our dream (our dream)
and they’ve taken it all away.
They just keep coming and coming (minorities).
I tried to go and tell the Anet,
But even the developers
Are minorities
In my jumping puzzles…

I spent 3 days in Clock Tower and every time it was fun and challenging. Beating it was SO satisfying. Getting better, looting all chests, making challenges…

But after 3 hours in new one I can’t even force myself continue to farm. Too boring.

Boring. Too slow.
Without any challenge.
No hidden stuff to make it harder, like small chests in Clock Tower.
Without its own music theme.
Paths are not even, you can do left one much faster than right.
Traps are too easy to evade.
Must use UI to get out from chest room (I like to run jps without UI).

But hey, at least waiting isn’t boring – best… only good part of this puzzle.

Every other class but Necro has:

Block
Vigor
Fury skills
Burning

Lack of some effects we share with one of other classes, for example:
Quickness – every class except us and ele.
Evade – us and guardians.

There are some “limited” effects that only several classes (4 at max) can use. We have two of them:
01 – Fear
But even here we lose to other classes.
Our base fear has 1 second duration.
Warriors and thieves can induce fear for 3 seconds. Ranges for 2.
Yaaaay…
Edit: in PvE fear became useless. After December 14 patch we can’t anymore fear bosses/champions, which makes us next to useless in dungeons.

02 – Retaliation
But who needs retaliation anyway?

My point: I don’t have one. I just wanted a list to see where we were screwed over.
Since it’s wiki I got information from, not everything might be correct.

But I don’t even care about most of the effects mentioned in this list.
There are only 3 things that concern me:

1. Block.
2. Vigor.
3. Fear.

Having first two is a big deal. Warriors can solo Lupicus with blocks. Robert Hrouda (Content Designer) for some reason thinks that every class can do that, which is not true.
As for Vigor, the only way for us to get some extra endurance is rune/sigils, and not cheap ones, I might add. Sigil of Superior Energy will cost you 2.5g atm.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

It is indeed pretty amazing. To be honest though, this can probably be done with enough practice with any class. Smart use of evasion, blocking, and only dodge rolling when you should. He saves his dodge roll for the appropriate times, weapon swaps to let his endurance refill… It is honestly just really solid gameplay regardless of class.

Except there is a class which doesn’t have any kind of blocking abilities.
Yes, I’m talking about Necro.
Shame on you.

Main: Necro. Played him since first beta.

Tried warrior and thief. Quickly got bored, too easy.
Mesmer is nice. It’s hard to play him after Necro (illusions =/= minions), but mesmers can be very tanky and it’s the best class for trolling in WvW.
Ele. I recently discovered a really awesome style of play for ele and want to try it out.
Guardian. Want one for dungeons. I just want stand in front of bosses and don’t give two kittens.
Engie. Just curious.

Ranger. The only class I won’t even try. Can’t play archer-ish classes. Just like can’t stand human characters.

I asked support about this, here’s the response:

Thank you for taking the time to contact the Guild Wars Support Team. Currently, this issue is being investigated by our development team. We have no official word on if it is a display bug or not and at this time I would recommend holding off on purchasing any new 20 slot fractal boxes, just to be on the safe side. I would recommend keeping updated on our forums for any news on this issue as any info will likely be posted there once it is made official.

Keep an eye on the following resources for potential updates and additional information:

Guild Wars 2 News: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community/community-news/
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Oh, true.
But still, you can affect only 5 players with AoE. I can see why it’s nice to have in sPvP, but in WvW even if you fear 5, there are always 20 more.

As for you example, I prefer to have 3 seconds of Stability every 10 seconds with Foot in the Grave trait. Or just use plague form, 20 seconds of stability and zerg having problems targeting or even see me.

My build.

As for yours.
Dark Armor is useless. We have only 3 channeled skills. It’s might be good for sPvP, but in WvW we don’t have a luxury of small scale fights.
Reaper’s Protection is bad for survivability in my opinion. 1 sec of fear won’t save you from zerg, especially only once in 90 seconds.

Blood Magic in WvW… Meh. I prefer Soul Reaping since Life Force refill is very quick in WvW. Though, my main reason is just fear people from cliffs =)

You might like this build Seems tanky. But I still prefer to fear people from cliffs. It’s kinda my reason to play WvW.

JonPeters.5630:

This is a great thread. Keep it up and we will use it t help figure out all of the issues.

Thanks,

Jon

If you give us access to code, I’m sure we can even fix all our bugs by ourselves

Depends on your definition of “cutie”.

Depends on situation.

PvE.
Flesh Golem can tank for you. Lich Form for champions if you in a zerg.

WvW/sPvP
Plague Form #3 for group/zerging.
Lich Form if you alone/in a small group. Especially great with mesmer’s Time Warp.

Dungeons
Lich Form for bosses. Again – mesmers are our dear friends.

I run only with PUGs and only occasionally have rage quits at low levels. People want to progress, and if you willing to give them advice and being nice – they won’t quit.

Actually, more than often people rage quit at higher levels. Only because they got there their conceit leads them to death under AoE or in the middle of zerg. They don’t listen advises, die like flies and then rage quit to find a group willing to carry them. Meh. Will a guild save you from that? Doubt it.

Thank you. I’m ashamed but thanks to that I’ll never make the same mistake.

PowerCat.5738:

It’s tough.

What I can suggest is teamspeak, and ash legion spy kits.

If I understand correctly, you supposed to be able beat challenges with tools that the game provides you. It doesn’t have VOIP function, so you must be able to run third path using only text chat.

So, it must be balance issue.

…After enter Mists is somebody’s behind? Many of them, actually. Can you change the angle or something, Anet? It’s disturbing and creepy.

Stopped as well.
Bugs and glitches is one thing, mostly you don’t encounter them and OP just had really bad luck. My problem is RNG with rings. Progression based on luck? 2 weeks of dailies and only one ring? While some other people have like 10 of them? No, thanks.

Too… Hard… To… Code…

Well… Read a book, watch Dexter, WvW is still an option.

Most people are running fractals after daily reset, during day time there isn’t much to do. People tend to work or go to school/college, so this isn’t “major” problem either because it concerns only few who have nothing to do during day time.

Eh… This is big deal to me.
I bought like 20 those boxes for my alts and they’re already full of stuff. I don’t want to lose it just because anet made a mistake.

jazzllanna.1278:

Everyone always says use gw2lfg— sorry that does not help with level 1 fractals— I just gave up on fractals myself still at level 1. It is impossible to find a group and just think here in a month what it will be like!

It’s not impossible.
Takes time – yes, effort – yes, but not impossible.

I’m strongly recommend to find someone who can explain your group that exactly you need to do. I don’t blame people for rage quits on lvl 1, but sometimes I want to murder those who does that on 10+

And it’s an MMO. Saying “I don’t have time” you must understand that other people also might don’t have time. Wait till weekends, then.

We have developers’ approval of gw2lfg.com
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/STOP-lf1m-posts-use-lfg-site/first

Use gw2lfg.com
Always update your LFG there when you found people – LF3M – (delete and make new one), so your will be at the top.
Look for people during your continent prime-time.

Endurance is not refilling after killing Karka Hatchling, though killing those counting as kills in daily achievement.

You also can’t rally by killing those or eggs, but you can rally by killing sticks in some fractals.

Edd Scissorhands.4108:

Looks like Hrouda is hacking…

Don’t talk nonsense. He is a developer, he has console access.