Guild Wars 2

I just use Rune of vampirism.
Hit 20% become mist, now you cant be hurt by direct damage, and your invisible

More often then not, when I feel like I NEED to be healed, the last thing that ever comes to mind would be to role into the enemy to pop a mark. When I could just as easily use Dagger 2, then staff 2 then get far away and the minions tank and heal.

Now I will admit, I am not too great at reading math, but I did my best. I’m not to sure if you took into consideration that the minions will pop about 7 heals if they all attack once. If I’m reading your numbers right after they all attack that’s an extra 693 damage and 406 healing. You can also take into consideration, when that Golem charges every time someone takes damage from you get a heal wich can end up burst healing.

(You gotta keep in mind, I’m no good at math and this is my simple man’s way of reading and replying to you, I can be completely wrong )

On paper MoE is better damage and healing, but is the risk if getting your heal worth it? When you can just as easily amp up your minion healing and be safer
Risk vs Reward and all that. Plus Marks don’t work on world bosses and walls.

I hope my “stupid” didn’t rear it’s ugly head too much in this post, if it did please correct me, I take it as a way to learn

Tell me, what path would they be considered?

They aren’t with the normal “Dream” sylvari(Good guys)

I don’t think they are considered Nightmare

And The Soundless aren’t bad, just don’t like emotion

So what are they? Just neutral

Just gonna throw this in the fray, the suddgestion I made was more or less to keep people from clumping without a total revamp (even though I want one)
I feel that when he does egt revamped, that the Entire Brand should feel like its against you. The brand is His domain, where it be crystals, lighting strikes, or even the land terriforming to cause choas, I think when the reva,p does happen, it will feel alive

Imagen this, the ground “Under a Player” get struck by purple lightning, as you stand in this charged area it grows just slightly, but the more people in the area the bigger it gets, a few second later BOOM! it pops dealing massive damage. The lightning would strike Whenever 5 or more players stand to close.
I just hate seeing such a cool looking boss, and everyone just stands in one spot swinging, I really hope the revamp him to Jormag level, somthing more interactive(but Hell no to making him Teqwaddle levels)

Arikyali.5804:

Short answer: yes. You’ll be glassy, but zerker covers all the basic needs.

In PvP, the equipment is of no cost to you. Do you mean WvW? Depending on if you want to roam, havoc, or zerg, different stats would suit different needs, but zerker can work regardless.

PvP = WvW and sPvP. I normally use the same build and gear where ever I go

I intend of going a Power build, but not too sure which one, and I HATE buying/making new gear. SO if I just get Zerker gear, can I really go wrong?
If I feel too squishy I would just get some trinkets for that, but overall can zerker gear do all Mes power builds?

(If the Pvp vs. PvE argument shows up, I normally take the PvP and use it in PvE)

So thanks for all the help

When your a big scarry Warrior standing over someone wildly swinging your sword, not be able to hit them is a little odd.
Where as a Mesmer bending time and space to swing faster would be hard to hit.
And an agile theif moving quickly to swing a blade.(lore wise, kinda bull, but you stand still with a theif for two seconds and tell me how long you last)

All in all, the other classes cant aford to stand still while taking damage, whereas a tough warrior can

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/Logan-Thackeray-is-Zhaitan/first#post4060628

This is what you want

Acewings.6872:

Harvest.2506:

I have 8 eighties, its stupid easy and fun to do it. just go uplevel in wvw if you’re lazy like me.

Sounds like it’s easy for you to say because all of your chars are maxed…leveling up another alt is even more stupidly boring now so of course you don’t have to deal with it like the rest of us. Really though…is Ghostcrawler working at Anet now or something? I mean who seriously thought messing with the traits like this would be a good idea???

Funny enoguh, Ghostcrawler is working in Riot Games, and the balance there, its truely somthing

Just somthing fun to think about

So from what you two have generously given me, we can assume fairly well that a Necromancer can make a zombie. Mindless though. ( Kinda like a Night of the living dead thing, aimless, no memory of what it was before ) Rather than it having any signs of life.

On the topic, could a necromancer turn someone into a shade?

Is raising the dead, kinda like the risen, within a necromancers power?
I figured if it was, then if was just taboo to do so

…Krait…I like them

Thats pretty sad

Just wonder boths sides views about the Toxic alliance.
During and after Scarlets fun time.
Are they hated, or seen as hero like figures?

Well, dead flesh is dead flesh no matter where it’s from.
I can understand turrets because they are put together by the player(kinda?)
I’m not too certain of minion making lore wise, but I do not believe that they were actually living things at one point.
That’s my opinion on it, someone better lore wise might give a better explanation to why Lore wise it doesn’t make sence, or they may say I’m wrong and completely agree with you, best of luck

Thanks Everyone

Yay for Bhawb! The Minion Master Necro Trainer

How do I tell, sometimes its the right one, sometimes the left one. Is it random?

As a MM, I dont have condition removal…..or stability

Just wondering if we will get them, towards the end or somthing.
I never paided to much attention to the Living story Achievements, but times change :P
So, let me know whats going on

As a their, don’t be a hero. You see someone on your team in a duel, get in there and kill.(if you feel nice and they duel isn’t one sided, I tell them I’ll let them duel it out, then I come for the kill in the end)

Don’t be the first in the fight

If you are going to make a 1v1 YOU choose how.that fight is going to happen, you always fight on your terms , if at any point the odds fall from your favor you wanna get out. In fights kill the squishy people or the near death then get out and pick a new

You wanna go into fights, with one target and when he is down, you move to another. Tale them down one by one.

Understand how your enemies are going to play, and outplay them.

This is from my noob self :P but I hold my own pretty well.

MM Necro and Engis

Even when I play my MM Necro, I still have trouble with engi s….they are my bane

If I know a guardian or warrior is good, I won’t fight them alone.

If Zhiatan is anything to go by, he could know anything his minions know, from life or after.

The dream is known to be the collective intelligence of all Sylvari, should they actually be jungle Dragon minions, then everything they have done, he knows.
Wyld Hunts, “would have been” intelligence missions, or even attempted Genocide.
There is a Sylvari in the highlands (i don’t remember what it’s actually called x.x(Lots of Centaurs )) who’s Wyld hunt is to kill the Centaurs.
When you have an unlimited supply of troops, you can afford suicide missions, so giving Sylvari a goal from the start, even if it’s impossible, they will eventually attenp it and if they fail, they next Sylvari to get that task will subliminally know the situation one step better, then the next will know more and so on.

To the question of why they would a Sylvari be given the task if killing other dragon, or cleans ing Orr. Perhaps the theory of dragons consuming the magic of another is possible.
We don’t know if the dragons are all buddys, or if they Wil fight eachother given the chance.

Now as always this is just theorycrafting fun stuff, and is also assuming Sylvari are Dragon minions. So have fun with it

P.S. Sorry how this is poorly written and organized , I did it on a passing thought and on my phone, replies I make will probably be better :P

Im glad I posted, I am not dissapointed

Is it gonna be like last year, where Scarlet attacks?

…

Cuz that would be neat

Just thought I’d let everyone know…

First off, this is just fun silly theories, so enjoy yourselves. Also if you havent done Arah story, kinda spoiler…

As we all know, Logan stayed behind to let everyone get away, and more likely than not, he would not survive. We also know Zhaitan’s minions can make other minions appear alive, as well as act exactly as they would, should they still be alive. If you don’t understand, think back to all the Orrian Mesmers.
After Zhaitan got Logan, at that moment he learned everything Logan knew (In theroy Zhaitan was actually smarter than most asura, depending on who he corrupted) and with his knowlege of the pacts plan, he put most if not all his focus into Logan, and left the big dragon, fairly mindless.
Just think, a near omniscient dragon, who is capable of strategy, and knowing full well the Pacts plan and intent, would fly directly into their greatest weapon, without a back-up plan.

That plan, was Logan Thackeray…

Evan Lesh.3295:

You get a week or so after the time runs out to reactivate during which you can’t use it. After that it will be deleted forever (you have to buy a starter kit to make another one). You will get warnings in your chat window each time you log in if your custom arena is about to expire. Once expired, the time until deletion will replace the timer in the custom arena editor.

Thank you!

If you buy a custom server and you don’t pay what happens?
Does it just delete or does it become inactive?

Thanks in advance

Should me and a group of friends want to do some PvP unbothered, is it acceptable to go into someone else un-used PvP server and play there? I would do it, but I dont know if its some Taboo X.X

Dont be afraid to be blunt in your response, I can take it xD

I never have trouble fighting them, and I just tried one in PvP and I didnt do too well. I understand First time factor, but I can normally pick something quickly and do well. I decieded to use zerker amulet (this is Spvp) and 6/6/2 traits just for raw damage and crits, just to see what it could do. And I felt like I was doing very little in terms of damage. My necro in soldiers feels like it did more damage.

When I wasnt fooling around I was using Celestial gear and a general D/D build

But if I just suck, wich is more than likely, Just let me know some tips and tricks.

The shoes look like Arah to me. I can’t see the legs sadly.

The traits kinda lead you on to believing that they would be vampiric.
What are your thoughts?

What I’m saying is, we fought a dragon that was put there by the Nightmare Court. The Mender “probably” didn’t know what was really going on in the dream. All he knows is we fought a dragon(Nightmare Court corruption, placed there by the Nightmare court). So he calls us Valiant. This is within 10 seconds of leaving the dream so we do not know better than to question him. Correct me if I’m wrong but if we had a Wyld Hunt from the start it would have been somthing put there by the dream itself of the Tree. We didnt fight anything naturally from the dream.

Correct me if i’m wrong but our charators never directly mention feeling called to slay dragons, or anything. We just kinda do it.

Will all the people in a non represented guild be moer likely to be groupped together?

Yes we fought a dragon in the dream. But wasnt that Dragon put there by Nightmare? They were trying to corrupt the dream and we had to kill it to get out.
We wake up and mention fighting a dragon and the dude tells us “Welp your on a wyld hunt now” without knowing that the nightmare did it.

This is just a passing thought, so chaces are there are reasons against it.

When you said people arent dumb enough to attack each minion to death one by one, I chucked because people tent to do that, but anyways. As a heads up, most of this is me just kinda establishing what you said, because it helps me think. Little summery at the bottom.

So your plan is in Pvp, just sPvP or vW as well?, is to be tanky and life stealy and rely on minions to do the damage. Whilest in PvE you rather yourself do the damage and let the minions play meat sheild.

That really clears up why you feel the way you do about the chnages. As you said 5%, not much at all, and in Pve YOU barely worrie about there damage because you take it on yourself. You dont mind the healing becuase your not drawing much of the aggro and you just kinda nuke away.

Now I conflict with this because, I admit, I’m pretty poor at avoiding damage. Its the reasons I cant play theif and ele xD So a glass cannon build is just not somthing I will do. Hence the tanky bruisery kinda build. I go 50/50 with the minions in tankying and damage,so to speak. So when I draw agro, every little bit of healing helps.

In PvP less damage is less damage no matter how you look at it. And I cant really talk on the siphon changes, because I dont know what they are.

I guess we are both gonna view these changes differently because of our different play styles. In PvE you let the minions tank, while you do the damage and in PvP vise-Versa. Yu tank while the minions do damage.
Me on the other hand am kinda in the middle I “tank” and do damage with the minions. I guess its just somthing we will wait and see. Thanks again for sharing your build with me, help for insight.

Bhawb.7408:

The MM nerfs are in no way significant to their PvE use. 5% damage nerf is tiny (you really shouldn’t use that trait in PvE anyway), and vampiric master, while again it shouldn’t be used in PvE, won’t make a big difference.

(Just for clarity, I dont change my build for SPvP, PvE, or WvW. I’m a simple man)

Bawb, might I ask what your MM build is? I myself find that those traits you dont recomend work best in most cases. I use the simple 20/0/30/20/0 build. Should I stay within those numbers Training of the Master is MY best bet trait wise. The other traits would be useful, but they dont seem to be a worthwhile alternitive to me. 30% damage(even with a catch, whatever it may be) is strong, and in PvE I defeinatly wouldnt take anything past it.

And Vampiric master, is one of my favorite things. Every hit the minions do around 70-80 extra damage and I get around a 70 hp heal. Should my blood fiend die, I am getting a 490 heal every cycle of attacks. This comes from both bone minions, double attack from the bone fiend, jagged horrors from runes(didnt second horror from traits), shadow feild, and golem. Now should we have the blood feind up and the siphon is doing 80 damage, Im doing an aditional 640 damage when they all attack once. on top of that, should I pop a bone minion, haunt a group of dudes, or charge the golem I get healed for every instance of damage they do, charge is even more devestating if the enemy is against the wall. To me it just seems to be no brainer regardless of where I am playing.

Sorry if my noob is showing(and my terrible grammar) but this is how I feel and I would like to see your reasoning against it. I dont claim to be an amazing MM , but I know what I am doing, well enough to beat other people at it.

Seras.5702:

What are you wearing “Jake”?

…she sounds hideous

(sorry, couldn’t help myself)

Wanna go?

Xyonon.3987:

Pve, PvP, WvW??

Im a simple man. I use a PvE build for everything. Normally works

Just as the title sudgests, I’m looking to do a flamethrower build and I am fairly new to engi so im not sure what traits are worth it and what isnt. So example builds and some reasoning would be very helpful.

Thank you

So far Weapon wise Ill be useing the Godskull stuff unless I see an exotic that looks better.
Armor wise I have a mix of Teir 3 and Tier 2, because of the straps it has, I like how they look, but ill check your suddgestions out.

I myself would pick the second one. But IM just a sucker for all the little pieces of gold and ornimates. If it were any color besides gold or silverish I would say take the first. My Necro is all covered though :P

Plus the way the sleeves ust kinda, end looks offputting to me. This is my opinion

Dusty Moon.4382:

Necros were the only profession that had a groups of it’s own (MM). I agree with Shaogin and too many necros were using MM as a crutch to get through the game without learning what else a necro can do.

I leveled a Necro from 1 – 80 Playing every build I wanted, conditions, power, hybrid, minions, wells. I used all the weapons and I evetually settled into a tanky condtion build.

Later I leveled a MM as my main. When I compair the two builds the harder on is MM. Conditions is just AA and AoE for bleeds. I Literally Would use staff 1,2,3,4,5,2, swap weapons and go down the line again. When I wanted skilled I used my blood is power and pandemic, Elite when I wanted to nuke or have AoE.

As a dagger minion master I had to get into the danger zone of fight and dodge. Make sure my focus 4 bounces for minion heals and vunribility. My boon rip when they enemyt was starting to get boons. I Learned to heal minions via Traits and Staff 2. I had to lear how to lock enemies down with all my skills. Im still learning to extend my lockdowns with staff death shroud abilities. As a minion master I have far more options of play then I did with any other build.

Sure you can mindlessly go threw the game without learn how to play with MM, but then you never learned to play the actually minion master.

Maybe I didnt spend much time learning my other builds as much as this one, but I put out alot of effort into making this work better, where I never had to learn any real combos with other builds.

All im saying is I have 5 traits dirctly tied into minions. A 6th trait is taken to support my minions. I am completly built around them. I can tell you, I wouldnt take any of these GM traits over what I have, and any nerf is gonna hurt me. In all my PvE ive been told MM is bad, never once was I told it to be good. Everytime I SPvP no one ever told me it was a problem. They just complained about mesmers and theives and the occasional warrior. A minion master is a bit more fair, because you have your targets, you know what to attack. A mesmer is confuing and sometimes unfair. Theives cant be hit half the time, and unless the warrior is a fool, dealing damage to them is too hard, for such high risk. Their changes in my opinion are foolish. And in no way will make this Build or even Class any healthier to the game. Just my two cents, but the uncalled balances changes finally found their way to me Better stay leveling a warrior if I want to win Guild Wars 2 (Humor me with that)

If I may, this trait is for the DEATH MAGIC trait line. The lone that is for minions and being tanky (more or less). SO this is kinda tailored to the more defensive Necromancers. Even if your built glasss canon, this line will give alot of beef.

In short this is not ment for condiontion mancers because its not part of their mane line, its ment for Necros that intent to out live others.

Sorry Im not able to give any math or smart things to say. Im a simple man, so you have my simple opinion

That guy was awesome. He did really good at playing Trehearne. I chcuckled everytime he said Commanders. We were a dime a dozen

I would love to zerg through Orr