Guild Wars 2

Sevans.4619:

Fun to watch! You were at a serious terrain disadvantage and still performed well.

What was the first song in the video?

Thanks!
First song was: Sugar Daadies feat. Bryan – IDYL (Younker Remix)

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Very nice. Certainly better than the last Reaper v Chrono video that was on here, lol.

Wish you had left the in-game sounds in though. I don’t like Mesmer but I almost want to make one just for the sound effects that Chrono has. I absolutely love what they did with the skill FX for that specialization.

Hehe ty!

Well while I was recording those duels my mic was also recording… so you would hear me rage xD Ill try to remember it

Guys you NEED to check out these sick spectral grasp plays… you absolutely need to!

Falcon.8713:

Just hope RS and stab is up when they drop their elite well I guess

Or pray that they left your wurm alone o-O

I’m a complete PvE scrub so correct me if I’m wrong but:

Wasn’t Reaper Shroud 1 spamming with all the traits (dhuum, unyielding, etc) when a boss was > 50% health and Gravedigger spamming when he was < 50% health like one of the highest DPS’s in the game?!

(I think I read this somewhere, so I’m not sure)

I’d totally be up for this!

Blaine Tog.8304:

Honestly, I do think full healing through Death Shroud would be OP. It could easily lead to situations where the Necro could become literally unkillable.

We already have a lot of durability from our second health bar and we pay dearly for that (no Invulns, very limited Vigor, Block, and Evade access, limited mobility, etc), but it’s still relatively easy to run out of health if you mess up. If we could heal and be healed while in Death Shroud, though, it might be possible for us to heal to full while in DS and then heal our LF back to full before running out of health, looping ad nauseum. That isn’t fair to the other professions and it ultimately wouldn’t be much fun for us, either. Our damage would have to be nerfed to compensate and we’d become unkillable but mostly useless. Even without any damage nerfs, though, unkillability still doesn’t sound like all that much fun to me. I’d rather be able to fail so that success wouldn’t feel empty.

If Anet wants to make dedicated healers a part of the game, however, they have to give us some benefit from healing while in Death Shroud. No way around it. We’ll be total pariahs, even in casual groups, because the healers just won’t want the added headache of trying to predict our DSs. I don’t like the idea of partial healing, either, since it could still lead to the same unkillability as full healing, and it would still be a headache for the healers. That’s why I like the idea of a Healing Bar that would appear above our Life Force when we go into DS. All healing (other than Life Siphons) would go into this Healing Bar and max out when it equals our max health. Upon leaving Death Shroud, the Healing Bar would proceed to empty into our Health Bar at a 1:1 rate over the course of 5 to ten seconds, halting if we re-enter Death Shroud. This way, would would still benefit strongly from healing, healers wouldn’t feel like their efforts were wasted, and our opponents would have the opportunity to take advantage of our moment of weakness upon exiting Death Shroud. It’s a win all around.

+1 million

yoyo,
Last BWE I dueled my good friend Jurica when we were both on our beta characters. Let’s just say that… it went somewhat better than expected :x

Just remember…. GRAVITY WELL WILL kitten YO kitten T_T

Vod:

Hope you enjoy(ed) x)
-Hollts

Ps. TBH I felt like I didn’t do TOO bad, but chrono is hard to take down if the player has some skill (and jurica had tons of it) :p

flow.6043:

Drazerg.8956:

Flumek.9043:

Yup, i really dont know why ot even has to exist.

Just yesterday my 2 supportbots blew 10k+ heals on me, but seems devs think that with 2k hp and under focus fire is wrong time to enter your only defense mechanic.

^This

In all seriousness, reduce heal receive effectiveness while In DS by 50% and it should be fine.

Why 50%? Guys, please stop suggesting that, it makes no sense at all. Any kind of reduced healing in Shroud is just as bad as having non at all.

Well flow, IMO 100% baseline would be a tad strong and knowing Anet I doubt they would implant that. Just my opinion…

With my proposal bloodmagic could also see some more use (which could be bad or good depending on how you look at it).

Just my 2 cents m8 no h8

Aw yea forsaker, hope to see more of this

What I’d like to see is:
-Baseline healing in shroud, with ~50% effectiveness.
-Some GM trait in Blood Magic which ups that to 100 or 125%
-See utility CD’s in shroud

I don’t understand why this hasn’t happened already :<

SAME! x)

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Mirmil.5074:

To which of the dark gods do I have to sell my soul to play like you?

Grenth of course C:< I got a bucket load of skill after selling mine!

Ravezaar.4951:

Very nice and a great last homage to the “Old” Necro, looking forward to your future Reaper Montages m8 and the jukes get a 10/10

xD <3

deathike.4623:

Thanx a lot i enjoyed the video i have been thinking of making a necro coz reaper looks awesome your vid confinced me its time, had loads of fun in pvp today. I main a d/d ele but im getting bored

Anyone would get bored playing that x) thanks m8

otetas.9675:

Spectral Walk too stronk! Needzz more nerfs!!!!
With great jukes, comes great fun!
Nice video Holts :P

Indeed, thanks!

Don’t worry this is not my last montage, just my last normal power necro montage for a long while because once HoT comes out IMMA BE ROCKING THAT REAPER and making montages on that instead x)

Anway, this video is filled with jukes, outnumbered situations, bursts and of course your daily amount of MLG wurm stomps

Video:

BUILD used in the video:
Curses 25k HP Power Necro – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZYkjG7rBXag/GH4CFNNajnFe1BQLE3afAA-T1CFABMcIAOUFiN0HAwDA4KlgCcCAQS5nhqEUz+DLcEAURdlAAIAyoNau5Nv5RP6RLDg+WA-w

NOTES ON THE BUILDS:
1) Add in as much valkyrie gear as you want, ~30% crit chance is the sweet spot because with fury and death perception you would still have 100% crit in Death Shroud.
2) The first utility skill should be spectral armor or walk, depending on if you want LF/tankiness or juke capabilities respectively.
3) In curses you can either take Path of Corruption or Master of Corruption for the master trait.

If you have any questions feel free to ask, I hope you enjoy(ed)
-Hollts

Ps. #Nvr4GetNormalLifeBlastSpamPowerNecro

SoI, it’s been too long… Join me on far Shiverpeaks we have great roaming here o/

100% biased here…. POWER REAPER IS DA kitten!

So… we did it again x)

Kami, FQ, Donee, me and Ryusai teamed up again for the last BWE. We all got on our beta reapers and kicked some kitten C:< We did like 5/6 matches and won all of them, except one cuz FQ decided to go stronghold ._.

We then made some vids of our reaper PvP experiences!

My vid, with a lotta dmg ( ?° ?? ?°):

My power reaper build used: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZakjG6rxabwlG4vxCugFfF7ihRq0Qb4ZBd1CAtAA-TpBFwAMOCAl2fgwJAYxhAoaZAAPAAA

Kami’s video, featuring amazing singing that Simon Cowell would r8 8/8:

FQ’s vid, with the BEST intro ever!:

Ryu’s video, where he is scavenging for life force cuz he didnt take blighters boon -_-:

Donee’s video:

TO COME! He’s slow with editing :/

Hope you all enjoy(ed) our reaper adventures!

lol, perplex dhuumfire deathly chill condition necro x) If only you could have added in curses there with terrror and weakening shroud the amount of condi’s would have been INSANE.

Great video, unfortunately I wasted all my time in PvP with reaper… T_T

messiah.1908:

like your vid

also had much success with the reaper (and i main mesmer who was main a necro who was main thief… )

i put 4 build variations for bunker, power, hybrid and mm necro build with reaper
i will post them later and would like to hear your thoughts as i had much success with them with group play in pvp

Waiting for the builds :p and thanks!

Terimac.5871:

Scrub, you should stick to pve <3

I suck at PvE ;_;

Proof:

I can confirm that the thief I fought in my video was of similar skill level to me. We fought a lot and it was a 60/40 win rate for me. ANY PATIENT THIEF will win from any necro, simply cuz of LF draining. This works in duels, but not in actual PvP.

And ye, lockdown teef with spamable CC will win of most necro’s/reapers, but what does it do vs other classes?

Just my 2 cents

Ravezaar.4951:

Holl.3109:

Sorry for the shameful bump u_u

ALSO: If anyone is taking blighter’s boon it is HIGHLY recommended to take A STRENGTH sigil. Lotta might boons = lotta LF / health ( ?° ?? ?°)

Yep works like a charm, ran Str + Hydro mostly during weekend. Great Vid Hollts as I tought u would bring us. Keep them comming.

Hehe got 2 more planned, have 100g of reaper footage :P thanks!

Axelwarrior.9084:

I have to say I laughed at the beginning, good job :P

hehe thanks!

Thx for mentioning ma vid Charblaz

And yup, it can very well become meta. The sustain is nice on power and amazing on cele with blighters boon. Some mobility and stability helps a LOT too.

And IDK why everyone is suddenly getting all excited about necro’s gaining life force from objects… This has always been around and numerous necro’s have done it in tourneys. So can someone explain? :o

Drizzy.1268:

Woops, didnt think about the strength sigil, played geomancy/hydromancy on both weapon-sets all weekend.
Gonna go double strength/hydromancy for the next beta then.

I wouldn’t give up your standard run of the mill energy and air(power)/geomancy(condi) sigils but strength/hydro is indeed very strong :>

Sorry for the shameful bump u_u

ALSO: If anyone is taking blighter’s boon it is HIGHLY recommended to take A STRENGTH sigil. Lotta might boons = lotta LF / health ( ?° ?? ?°)

So I made this video… it’s about reaper… and I kittening love everything about reaper <3 It includes some of my highs and lows from playing reaper for 5 hours yesterday O-o Who cares about chrono and rev, WE GOT REAPER BABY!

Anyone else as hyped as me? Or just me? u_u
Hope you enjoy(ed) the video! Lemme know what you think of it and how your experience was playing reaper

-Hollts

Ps. More details in the video description
pss. we are not ping pong balls anymore \o/

Lynnie.7213:

Squeezzy.4718:

I’m finally on the forums!!!! yay!!! I laughed so much watching that vid Donee. I also liked how Holts forgot to turn off the sound on his version and you can hear all of you guys talking

Congrats and welcome to the forum!
Could you hear everyone’s voice or only hollts fat fingers smashing the keys? lol

Uhm excuse you, i have skinny fingers :< I just casually assault my keyboard, there is a big difference!

Squeezzy.4718:

Lynnie.7213:

Squeezzy.4718:

I’m finally on the forums!!!! yay!!! I laughed so much watching that vid Donee. I also liked how Holts forgot to turn off the sound on his version and you can hear all of you guys talking

Congrats and welcome to the forum!
Could you hear everyone’s voice or only hollts fat fingers smashing the keys? lol

Secret MLG necro skills smash keys until things die

HOW DID YOU FIGURE OUT MY SECRET STRATEGY?!
Jk yo man, remember your name instantly bcuz of yt comments x) And I didn’t forget to turn the sound off :< I kept it on cuz we were all goofballs xD

but anyway welcome to the forums <3

Lynnie.7213:

Holl.3109:

Hahaha I’m prolly younger than you tho :P And thanks for the ego boost, had a kitten day and now it’s somewhat less kittenty <3

I’ve never thought about this, but on today’s video i heard your voice and started to wonder … how old are you?

k don’t tell anyone but im 16 :< I’m the youngest person I know in game X) Your turn!

Player.8373:

flow.6043:

Nice. Except you didn’t have enough Charr in your comp

Pfff Hooman master race.

+1 – and did you see yourself in the video Flow?

I teamed up with FQ, Ryusai, Kami and Donee to do some 5-necro PvP! It ended up being a kittenton of fun and I wanted to share it with y’all

Pretty much the enemy is overwhelmed by the amount of condi’s we have to our disposal together with a lot of fear/cc/corruption. With so many green ping pong balls, which one do you focus?! We were even called kitten team so that means it works decently at least X)

(More detail in the videos’ description)

My vid:

FQ’s vid:

Ryu’s vid:

Donee’s vid: Almost ready

MrKami: Still in editing

Hope you enjoy(ed), lemme know what you guys thought and have a good day!
-Hollts

And ye kami beats me ;_; K I ADMIT IT STOP RUBBING IT IN MY FACE * runs away crying *

Hahaha I’m prolly younger than you tho :P And thanks for the ego boost, had a kitten day and now it’s somewhat less kittenty <3

haha thanks guys X) Truth is, any condi necro would beat me cuz of weakness ;_; ask kami

Happy there are some new necro youtubers * cough * Donee * Cough*

*proceeds to make fart noises in HotM and blame it on the asura next to me. It’s always the asura *

But in EU we are not rich scrubs with 2 accounts ;_;

Nexed u are NA rite?

You came to the right place! I haven’t done too much roaming since the 23rd BUT power necro has so many viable options now.

• You can go curses power necro – All the perks of a power necro with the condi’s of a condi mancer. perma weakness, boon conversion and free condi transfer. Together with lots of crit bonuses.

• You can go blood magic power necro – Help others out if you are in a group, or you can trait wells and blow up people. All with some added nice sustain/perma swiftness.

• You can also try something different (which is what I’m doing) and use Death magic – This selfish sustain line helps with condi’s and boosting your raw power over 3000! And then we also have unholy sanctuary which isn’t half bad and has saved me my life many many times already.

All builds can be found on my channel, but I’m only listing the death Magic one here because I feel like it is best for solo roaming.

DM powa nec: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZakjGKux+awlG4vxBuQJ7huefppRb8swrOAaBA-TliFwAKOCAZ0GUVJoRlfAOBAz2fQwDA4iOgEHCAUq/EAABgbezbe0je0yAovFA-w

2.9k power, 25k hp, 35 crit chance (but with fury and death perception it will be 50%/100%), 1.9k armor (2.1k in DS) and a whopping 212% crit dmg. (This is all buffed and stacked with no might)

Selfishness is what necro is best at, and DM provides even more of it :p All in all a pretty good roaming build IMO, but I haven’t played it too much yet. So lemme know what you people think of it

Hope this helped
-Hollts

But trap tranger?! :<

k then play another profession. With that attitude now one will miss you. BYE

Ahhh ok Choppy, I thought you were referring to the first fight. The one at 4:35 was definitely because of the 100b before it.

@ the OP: 13-16k Whirlwind Attacks are very possible with full zerk, 25 might, some vuln, 25 bloodlust stacks and quickness.

Choppy.4183:

Holl.3109:

First fight – 12k WW, highest ive ever got in PvP/WvW

If you watch that at 0.25 speed it looks like that 12k is actually from the partial 100b just before Whirlwind. I think you only put two hits into your targets with Whirlwind there.

Could be wrong, but it’s how it looks when you slow it down.

Interesting, but if it was a partial 100b then why didn’t it go on CD?

First fight – 12k WW, highest ive ever got in PvP/WvW

Lynnie.7213:

Ravezaar.4951:

yea cant wait for next BWE, wanna test the changes and see if I can work GS into my Build instead of D/Wh

I guess i’d take D/Wh + GS. One set for single target burst and another for pressure.

But no range ;_;

WELL kitten , was gone for about a week and a half and see this thread loaded with replies…. and then saw they were about mesmer PU and warrior healing signet u_u Hasn’t this already been discussed to death tho? well…

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Why do you and I always enjoy similar builds…

I should watch your videos more often but I don’t usually follow Gw2 videos unless I see them show up on the forums. It’s nice to see that I’m not the only one who likes using less than ideal builds because they’re so darn fun.

I’ve tried using axe instead of sword so, so many times… It has better overall damage but I just like sword so much better. The extra mobility, the immobilize is great if you land it at the right time and I’ve always found that Final Thrust with Intelligence sigil does better damage than Eviscerate.

That 19k crit is the highest I’ve managed to get so far but I think maybe with Scholar runes it’d be possible to go higher.

EDIT: Just finished watching and LOL, we use the exact same gear, runes, traits and utility too. The only differences are that I use Intelligence in my sword and Hydromancy in my greatsword.

Also nice to see I’m not the only one who forgets that Stability auto-proc’s because you popped Balanced Stance when you didn’t need to at one point and I do that quite a bit too :P.

Good vid as always!

Wow… did not expect that xD We are quite similar it seems…
And yea, too many times I was rolling with 10 stacks o stability

Ah alright thanks for the tips! So BM or NM… I suck at managing my pet and them boons from NM tho :/

@Oslaf
But I don’t wanna be a scrub and go full dire u_u

Anything else that someone can point out about my build here apart from NM vs. BM and dire stuffs?

Sup people, I’m revisiting my ranger after the 23rd patch and would like to continue playing trapper condi ranger for wvw roaming. This is my build so far:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNQQRAsf3YjMqQ3K2uCmrAVLGYEKP0HhTvH3aND4C4yDgTWxXeB-T1SHABEcQAMRVlnXfoDdCXoNoQ1AYRliAeCA3pEEgTAwRK/CAgAwRP6Rn5MnZpAgZOA-w

Nice condi clear, lotta regen, stealth and mobility together with a kitten ton of condi’s. 3k armor and nice protection uptime for power builds and 22k hp with decent condi clear for condi builds. Entangle can be switched out for SotP for stab access.

Are these the right trait lines? :o
I’m not a ranger main and just went by what seemed useful, can anyone enlighten me on some better alternatives (if these exist)? All help/input is much appreciated

Thanks in advance!
-Hollts

Uhm well I’m no where near being a top necro player, but I like to consider myself a somewhat above average necro :p

LB’s are still a grind (right? not 100% sure) and I would be too lazy to try and get in them anyway. atm I just queue every now and then with guildies or do some WvW to make some vids

Sword works very well in a power build, you have to also take the utility that it brings into account instead of just the dmg

FrownyClown.8402:

I’m not saying you are a bad necro, but you got carried by perplexity.

He didn’t win those fights because he had perplexity runes, he won because he knows what he is doing. Perplexity sure helps, but you can’t assume that that was the only thing that made him win.

As to Donee; great stuff as usual!

Choppy.4183:

Pretty much my build exactly. Same traits and gear anyway, though I usually put Frenzy in there for the giggles. Some nice game play in there too.

@Ilias
While axe is clearly better from a potential dps point of view, imo it’s inferior when roaming precisely because of the loss of mobility.

Sword 2 is the best skill we have to sticking to a target trying to kite us, allowing more opportunity to actually deliver damage (this help offsets the weaker damage potential of the sword vs axe). Flurry is also useful for setting up 100b against some opponents, and Final Thrust almost as hard as Eviscerate and it actually cleaves (at the cost of twice the cd).

Being able to Sword 2 out of bursts (e.g. when out of dodges), kite melee opponents while focusing someone in a group fight, or just plain escaping are huge advantages too.

I’ll often switch to axe in a duel, but when roaming I’ll generally take sword.

Thanks Choppy, nice explaining

Ilias.8647:

If you use Axe instead of Sword as you are using a power build, with given mobility due to GS, and you don’t sprec sword(Arms specialization)… Axe will give you even more DPS.

Stick to the Sword if its what you prefer but know you are somewhat lacking cause you don’t use Axe.

You don’t need arms for sword, the traits that I’m using do just fine. Sword trait is over the top. Axe indeed does more damage, but that doesn’t mean that it is better. The mobility/gap closer, 100b setup and crippling auto attack are more helpful to me than a little more damage. Also, more damage doesn’t help if you can’t keep up with the target (immob and gap closer from sword come into play here ;-)