Guild Wars 2

Powermancer are incredible in WvW.

Really, I have a lot of fun with them. I used to play a crazy burst engineer, and thought necro were underpowered hwen using a power spec.

But once you start to learn the necro, you will do a lot of damage. Not in a burst form, but in a constant damage form.

What you lack in burst, you get it back into DS form. Seriously, people are kitten all over it, but this ability is amazing. And since in most powermancer build you have to traits in DS, it ever better.

And our elite, man my engineer elite were bad. But using Lich Form in WvW is awesome, well in small scale battle (in large battle you get focused a lot in lich). Just auto hit for 3-5k damage really fast. It’s a crazy elite skill.

I don’t even have good gear yet (about 6 berserk part without good rune), but I love the necro in WvW.

Don’t give up, you’ll learn to love it.

And by the way, necro in PvE are awesome too!

Have a nice day!

Mesmer are so awesome in WvW.

In WvW, I’m playing with ym friend who is a Mesmer, and man I’m happy to be on his side.

He hit like a trucks (7k crits), and is survavibility is crazy even as a glass cannon, and can also chase down people with is pull.

Seriously, I do very well with my necro in WvW. But to say I have as many option as him is crazy.

If it turn bad (10v2), he can escape, he has 2 stealth. I just die.

If a thief try to escape, I’m left behind but he can just pull him to us.

I got a good dps, but I don’t burst like him. His combo nearly insta kill people.

Seriously, Mesmer are a really solide class.

Not even talking about elite or portal bombing

Stiv.1820:

I did this to some SoR zerg last night. They eventually all stacked up and I made a mistake and I was dead. I don’t see what the big deal is, I wasted ~5mintues of a zerg’s time and they were still able to cap it.

So one single person, holding a point for 5 minutes, isn’t OP for you?

I wish I could hold a point for 1 minutes vs a Zerg with my Necro or my Engineer

I do agree with most thing.

The only thing I’m not sure, is Warhorn being lackluster.

I started using it with Dagger, and I think it’s really strong. The #5 skill give swift and slow! You root someone with dagger, run to them, cast #5, and they are stuck with you for the entire duration. It does a lot of damage, plus you stay in range for dagger.

1. is great too, but I agree that it’s a little boring. Daze for 2 sec, nothing else. It’s a bit hard to aim in pvp too, and low range.

But I still think warhorn is an underused offhand, and it stronger then people think. Really useful for farming too!

I will also add that I tried a Fear based build, and it didn’t work out really well. adding Fear duration doesn’t do much really, I had like 80% fear duration and I didn’t really see it.

The damage on fear traits is good tho, free damage on a CC is good!

Our “fear when getting downed” traits seems to be bugged tho. I didn’t test it, but sometime it doesn’t seem to cast it. And sometime it put our #2 downed state fear on cooldown?

Overall, I want to say that I think Necromancer are a lot better in PvP then people think. I use my magic find gear in pvp, and I do fairly well! Sure I don’t have my Engineer burst, but I can take a punch(Thanks DS) and outlast people!

Love the class, love our balance (maybe condimancer lack a bit), just resolving our bugs and making Axe a bit better so I can use it would be really great

Since Anvil Rock will prolly decide who is 1 and who is 2 in the next match up, I will propose something.

Each leader of the two server will send me gold and gift, and from there I will choose who shall get Anvil Rock support.

Thanks for your collaboration

It can hardly be more even.

Thats our closest game since release, and if next week look like it, I’ll be happy!

@Kneemin

Mist form is still an interrupt. If you are in an open field, and you are getting finished, just mist form. How is that worse then any other interrupt? Sure you will get a downed state penality, but not like it change anything. If you gonna get downed twice in 1 min, you deserve to die.

My rally exemple was, you are downed, you are dying. You see an ennemy downed getting killed far away. Port to him with vapor, and hit him.

You might think it’s very situational, and it is. But it still one more option then most class have. Not counting running behind your keep door or behind your zerg.

And I’m not sure, but I never saw any difference between finishing a tank or a glass cannon in down state. Does it really take in account our stats? Can somoene confirm it?

Yeah well I really loved the mecanism of Axe attack.

It just so sad I have to switch it for dagger now I still think about trying back my axe but I think I won’t :P

But don’t judge my gear! My necro is still in farming mode, and I was using the axe to tag the creeps in DE with #3. And if you knew what I was wearing in that screenshot, Axe is not the worse. :P

I’M in full traveler + pirate rune + magic find opal.

Let’s just say I’m in Farming gear. Not the best thing for WvW :P

Nice Style Unknown L:P

I wanted, I REALLY wanted to use the Axe with my new power build to farm.

I love the #3 skill, it’s a bit low damage but at least it slows people and retialiation is good.

But 1 and 2, man they are lacking. Axe Range is really bad, so you have to go under fire to use it. But the risk isn’t worth it.

2 is a channel damage, and it onyl does that except refiling LF. You don’t have any other effect. I can do more damage with my #1 dagger, sure I have to be in melee range, but with axe #2 channel, if you don’t stay in melee range you will miss half your hit. And it has a cooldown.

the #1 is the worse. Sure it’s stack invul, but you have to stay close, and use this slow 2 hitting low damage output skill.

Like somoene said, #1 staff does the same damage at 1200 range, and pierce people.

And the worse, is the only trait to make axe better, is a GrandMaster tier that nobodies take, because the other traits is a must have. You have the choice between 20% bonus damage on ALL direct damage under 50% hp, or 15% damage on 3 skill (one low damage, the other one on CD) and 20% faster CD. It just not worth it. Close to Death is so much better, and apply to every damage attack!

I WANT MY AXE BACK!

I feel bad for switching to dagger for WvW and farming, but when I don’t use staff, that’s because I’m in melee range. And Dagger is a lot better, damage and control wise.

alanis.6094:

We place conditions at a much higher rate than ANY profession can cure them.

No? :P

Even if you place 14 blood, you know they can remove it all at once right?

Lordrosicky.5813:

Its a great feature and skilled players are able to use it to their advantage to dominate even more due to their skill.

Of course there are less skilled players who die to it. But there are also less skilled players who get owned by not dodging out of the fire and they want the fire nerfed too.

If you are a small group you need to manage downed states effectively. It takes practice and skill and my advice to Op would be to learn how to manage it. That way he will realise what he said in OP is complete rubbish. Downed states dont effect how easy it is to stomp a bigger zergs of lesser players.

Such an easy answer : " You are all bad, I’m good and I have no issue. But I won’t say what I’m doing better then everyone else".

You lack any kind of explanation, please be more specific about how you counter a zerg rezing.

Necro doing too much damage? I don’t have any issue again other necro when I have to down them. Make them waste their fear, then finish. They will damage you for like 5 second? and it hit for about 200 damage. Mind blast or rock throw by warrior ca hit for 1.5k. Sure it slower, but still a lot more damaging then necro.

And changing our downed state for something with our pet? That alone say you never played a necro. 80% of necro doesn’t use pet in WvW. They just die right away, or idle in the middle of the fight.

And mist form not being a buff? Are you really that crazy? Since the update, it’s prolly one of the strongest skill. You know you can port behind door? You die in a Zerg fight? Just port behind you zerg and wait for a respawn. You can also travel to the nearest mob, to kill him and rally! So many utility on the same spell.

Ranger, like I said I can tlak too much about it since I didn’t play one. But like necro, I never had any issue killing them? Do they even have an interrupt?

Mesmer : You guys make your #2 look worse then it actually is. It’s really annoying, and 95% of the time you won’t be in range for a stomp. And you forgot to talk about your mindblast #1, that can crit for 1.5k. The first time it happened to me, I couldn’t believe it how hard it was hiting.

I don’t say you have the best downed state, but your #2 is a lot better then you say.

Well I think the worst downstate skill are :

Engineer, Necro and Ranger ( Ranger I just heard of, didn’t play them, but I know when I down a Ranger it will be easy to finish off)

Engineer : Pull skill, rarely useful. Single person interrupt. the 3 skill is nice, but it have the same effect then guardian instant #2, with a bit more damage. It’s not that it’s so bad, it’s that others have so much better.#1 does minimal damage, tho it has some nice debuf.

Necro : Only one interrupt, a 1 second fear (Btw if you take the AoE fear traits on downed stats, it sometime make #2 downtate fear goes on cooldown for no reason?(and sometime it doesnt work at all)) with casting time on a single person. #3 damage got buffed, but it still only poison people. You rarely get to use it, and when you do I would personnaly prefer something to cancel/dodge finisher. #1 is a fast hitting life leeching attack. It’s not that bad, but it won’t save you, except in pve. I have to say that #1 and #3 damage got buffed, but they are still subpar since we only have 1 interrupt.

Ranger : Pet can rez, but I don’t know much.

Elemental got buffed and got there #2 as mist form, a really annoying skill.

I thought Anet would nerf downstate skill, since I don’t think it should be as strong as Thief,Mesmer,Warrior and Guardian abilities. They should nerf it to necro/engineer/ranger level. But last patch, they chose to buff Elem/necro downed. Weird choice.

@Ceelaniri

Just be cleaver and dodge/escape when a thief gank you. Even if they don’t appear right away, you can see your health go down.

I’m currently playing my alt with rare magic find gear in WvW, and I still didn’t get one shotted yet by a thief? Not even close.

Downed State is bad for WvW. It truly force people to zerg togheter. When you try to pick a group aparte with tactics and hit and run, it just doesn’t work because they keep rezing.

Not even talking about Downed state ability balance..

Forgot to say : I’m not saying Transfer are the reason you are winning right now, I think you guys went all out this week.

Using strats, upgrade and siege, it’s crazy.

Good job Borlis Pass!

NeuroActive.4058:

After all the complaining & accusations that BP has received an influx of players do to transfer, which is not true, I see an Anvil player recruiting an entire Guild. Funny. lol

I really hope we do not start seeing a bunch of transfer & will discourage as I see them looking. I really do not want to deal with the issue’s the “upper echelon” servers are dealing with currently. Winning is great, but great matches are what its about.

Which guild did we recrute? Didn’t see a commander since sunday in WvW in EB

NeuroActive, I think nobodies can know for sure, if you had transfer or not. It would be cool to have some stats about it. Like How many player join WvW.

But since release, I never saw so many player from BP. I could be wrong, but I really have the impression that you are a lot more.

It might be us that lost player for the halloween, that’s another possibility.

But you gotta admit, that a server getting stomped, turning into a beast the next week, give us even more argment.

I would like to add :

Downed state is prolly the less balanced part of the game. Some class have incredible downedstate, other got useless one.

Thief / Mesmer / Warrior = Awesome Downstate

Necro/Engineer = Weak Downed state

I will try to re-read your post later.

Because right now, it doesn’t make any sense

I don’t see the relation between PVE and puzzle jumper and mass transfer?

Finally our DayCrew kicked in! :P

Kick those Doors kitten

Why does bottom server need help?

If you play on a bottom tier server, you know most of us don’t want transfer.

We learned since release, that going for top tier wasn’t a good idea. We have really good fight at bottom tier, no queue, minimal night capping and low cheesy tactics (I have yet to see portal bombing or Staking).

People have to stop seing dropping tier as a bad thing. I think Gate of Madness will agree on this. Since they dropped in our tier, they love it.

I don’t want to be paired with a top tier server, having their mass transfer guild coming to us and destroying our communauty.

Might sound selfish, but If I wanted to have queue, hack and cheesy formation, I would transfer to BG.

Personnaly, I have a great time in tier 7, but to say it was fair and fine all the way since release is wrong.

It’s prolly the first real competitive match up (Except maybe SF) since release. All other match up (NSP,DH ect.) We were getting stomped. The good thing tho, was that our player kept playing, even if we were losing really bad.

Sorry to sound negative, but I think that you can base everything on this week match up. WvW still need a lot of tunning.

And yeah… no mass transfer please

Those fight yesterday were crazy in EB.

We didn’t have any guild or commander, it was a pure PuG roaming around, so we didn’t do much except killing. BP were amazingly strong and had so good number. We had outnumbered buff for half of the night.

But it was still a blast, BP eventually pushed and got 3 of our tower. But getting our Keep was another thing, someone had fun building like 10 siege to protect our front near the choke point, it was useful.

Didn’t see many GoM tho, was hoping for them to take BP while they were fighting us. But they didnt.

That’s how we outnumber Borliss Pass. We are at least twice as them. That outmanned buff is just for the show. Oh And they had a group attacking another tower too.

Second image : Here we can see BP using their new tactic. They got better this week, it doesn’t have anything to do with number, only those kind of new tricks.

Hakato.9650:

Lol obviously you didn’t read anything I said. I want you to show me where I typed ’We are smarter and better than you."

Yeah, I read your post.

We are always outnumbered, but now you win because you got smarter.

So we are losing right now, and you just said we are outmanning you. You also said you win while being outmanned, because you got smarter. and better. So, even with more people then you, we lose versus you, because you got smarter.

Do I have to translate it for you? It’s not because you don’t say it directly, that you don’t mean it.

Stop using the outmanned card. It’s not true anymore. Be it transfer, or like you said, pve coming to pvp, I see good numbers from BP.

@Hakato

Definition of sportmanship :

“We are smarter and better than you”.

@Hsinimod

Like I say, you can live in your carebear world. But having the option of showing or not our name doesn’t affect you.

Just let us show our name if we want to.

Really Nice Video!

Good job man!

No you don’t sundial.

Stop acting like you representant everyone.

And thanks Unknown for the Screenshot. What happened to the orb? Might just have been bugged, doesn’t mean it’s hacked.

Evalana.5480:

it has only deteriorated because ‘someone’ (not naming names) is putting their 2 cents in, when no one wanted, or even asked for them. Again. Go troll your own forum. Your opinion matters not! =) have a great night!!

The same could be said about you.

Now, anyone has any screet shot of what happening right now? What’s the score?

And What’s it about the hacked orb? Is it real?

@Ianervan

Yet you don’t want name to be shown, but you are still trolling this thread.

I would love to see my ennemies name, not to troll them or anything, but just because I miss it. It was like that in WoW (didn’t play much) and I never trolled anybodies. But it was really cool to see some known ennemies commander coming to you, because you know you were in for a hell of a fight.

At least give us the option of showing or not our name, everyone would be happy. You want to be anonymous? don’t show it. Don’t dictate how I should enjoy the game, especially in this case where it wouldn’t affect you at all.

He is proposing title, only to have some sort of carrot on a stick. I’m like him, I don’t play Call of Duty cause I feel like I’m not progressing(well except those level). I love to pvp, but that’s why I play MMORPG, to pvp and progress.

I would love some stats bonus, but it would imbalance the game. The only other option we have, is title and cosmetic. I’m don’t want to show off, but at least having title will give me a feeling of progressing.A carrot on a stick.

Wow Come on Goat and others?

What kind fo flaming is that?

Osskil did nothing wrong in that thread, and didn’t even talk about a BP player before one of you flamed him.

Stay Classy, Goat and others. (See I didn’t say BP)

@Plok

If it make you feel good to think you got under my skin, so be it. You just seems to be making excuses for being annoying. “Oh I’m annoying on purpose”.

But I have nothing personal again you Plok, other then you constant accusation toward AR, I’m sure you are a good fellow!

Nice thanks for the input monkey! :P

I’m trying to remove any conditions damage from my build, but I think I will follow your tips on blood mark on dodge.

I had syphon health on crit, but it not really useful in DE. Didn’t know which to take, but I didn’t know blood mark was a combo finisher. Good to know Didn’t know it was affected by greater range mark too!

Scepter/Dagger is really good for leveling. I had easier time then with my engineer, who was really good at pve too.

Scepter/Dagger, stack conditions then epidemic.

Necromancer are actually pretty good in PvE. Minions master can be really good too, as long as they don’t stand there doing nothing during fight.

dirtyklingon.2918:

i speak for my guild when i say we like being outnumbered.

I doubt BP is overnumbered anymore.

Yesterday, during primetime, the numbers looked really even between our 3 server. Well at least in EB. We had outmanned buff for a bit, then BP got it for like 5-10 min too, so it was all fair.

And don’t worry, I won’t judge BP over Dirtyklingon, Plok or Hakato. They have been posting thing like that since launch, in every match up. I know the rest of PB is really great, and have really good player.

Thanks for all the answer guys.

@TheAgedGnome

That looks a bit like what I was using, but Orr on my server is really bot heavy. By the time I target somoene with a lot of conditions and epidemic, the mobs die so fast I miss half of them. Condition doesn’t seem to damage fast enought to tag them for exp/loot. But that’s mainly because with all those bots, it take 2 second before everything is dead.

Also, since I’m going with traveler gear for MF, I will be lacking conditions damage. I will have Power/precision, so I need a power build sadly. (my poor condimancer)

@lettucemode
Yeah sadly they won’t be as good as my staff, but as second choice I think they can help to tag the mobs. I will try it to back up my staff. Would love dagger #1 to AoE a bit so I could farm with it.

Yeah I fund the trait after some research, and I did a theorical build, just for fun. Tell me what you think.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQJAndjMaZ6Vama07JAJFPf9kCvHH6Ru66MA

I don’t focus on critical damage, I try to focus on reduced cooldown as much as I can. I could still remove 10 point from Spite, and put them in soul reapong for reduced cooldown on Life Transfer. Still didn’t decide yet.

Yeah I will, this will be a temporary build only to get some gear for WvW.

Sadly, when I encounter somoene in full Exotic and I still have level 70 green, I get stomped

So anyone having tips for second weapon? I’M gonna use staff + well, with power/precision. What could I use as second weapon?

I was thinking about Axe + Focus, but I’m not sure the AoE will be strong enought. Dagger does a lot of damage, but it’s single target dps.

Good

Hatako, the discution was all cool until you started calling out people and tried to act like you are the best around.

I didn’t see any AR talk again BP every other week that you finished under us on the scoreboard. Now that you are ahead of us, you are just better and you can wipe us 10 vs 40.

Calm down your ego, we were just having fun on the forum until you felt like you had to pat yourself on the back.

This is a WvW post, not 4chan where you flame people.

Thanks lettuce,

I’m not at home, but is Well of darkness doing damage? Is this the well that blind people for 5 sec?

But I’m gonna try to use them with my staff. Can we reduce wells cooldown?

As I am going power/precision for my magic find gear, Do you have any tips for my second weapon set? Because my Scepter/dagger will suffer a lot from the lack of condition damage.

@Teknobug

So you think epidemic and corrupt boon are better then Portal, AoE swift and all those mesmer spell?

I always WvW with my mesmer friend, and I feel quit weak If I compare to him. Seing him criting for 7k with a berserk illu, while I need 3-4 sec to put my 15 bleed on somoene just for that somoene to cleanse it up right away.

I love my necro in WvW, and I don’t think we sucks. But we are no where near Mesmer power in my opinion.

Hey all!

Just got my necro to 80, and I started to farm in Orr to get some gear for WvW.

Sadly, I find it hard to tag everything during DE before Bots kill them all. My server has full of bots in Orr, and I have to do a lot of AoE quick damage.

I also have an engineer, and using a lightning bolt build, it was really easy to farm. A lot easier then this necro.

Currently, I’m using a 30/20/0/0/20 build, with Staff / Specter+dagger. I use BiP, epidemic and spectral walk for speed.

The staff is really useful, but it has a long cooldown and I can’t use it on every wave. Scepter is good too, but since it’s condition damage, by the time I use epidemic, mobs are mostly dead, and I can’t damage enought to tag them.

It might be me being bad at it (I not a PvE guy), but if you have any recommandation?

P.S I’m currently making a Magic Find set with rune and Traveler gear, so my condition damage will prolly be lower during my farming. If you have any Power farming build, it would be cool.

Thanks all!

Personnaly,

Just for the attitude of Plok and Hakato the nightcapper, I wouldn’t mind an alliance between AR and GoM

“I say you guys all just stop QQing and typing a block of text no one is going to read.”

Really, what kind of post it that?

I don’t think it has to do with GoM having transfers or being better this week

And it isn’t mean to be an insult to them, it just how this tier work.

In this tier, we are a lot weaker then any tier above. There is a big gapse between us and any server going down from the upper tier. So each week, we get stomped by the bigger server.

Now that GoM dropped in our tier, they might looks to do better, but I’m not sure about it. They might be just as good as last week, but they are fighting weaker server.

But it’s a good thing really, GoM might have lost guilds and all, but it’s one of the first competitive match we had in this tier since release.

For that, I thank you GoM! Your fair weather player are gone, but trust me, it’s better without them!

@Plok

Always, always the same thing each week. Get over it already.

@Everyone else :

Beautiful fight this week! I don’t care if we finish third, I’m having a blast.

We had a war going on yesterday in EB laste in the evening, and it was a lot of fun. We were trying to get OgreWatch, but BP had some good defence and good number. We got pushed, we tried to take the supply next to Ogre and we got attacked from each side by BP.

We didn’t succeed in our attack, but Green had been attack SM and Red at the same time, and they took a lot.BP went to defend vs Green, and we finally could take Ogre Watch.

Too bad, Green decided to also attack us, and took some of our territory.

The rest of the time, we defended Ogre Watch and we had a 3 way fight right next.

That was awesome! That was the perfect place : in a 3 way crossroad, each server on one side. No one could push up without both server attacking. A lot of kill, a lot of blood, but I had to log in this great fight.

Nice Job everyone!

Just finished leveling my necro, and coming back in such a good week, is awesome!

No.

They are doing what they can to resolve them. It’s no easy task.

and Boycotting WvW wouldn’t change anything since about 10% of player read this forum.

Thanks a lot!

We will now see if it resolve the issue, I hope so! But 7 days might not be enought!

Hey all,

Just to let you know that the “live” matchup score site is back up again.

Praise to them, we really need that tool!

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

By the way, Anyone got the score? Millenium is down right now.

Yeah looks like it will be a really great week!

Transfer or not, I gotta say BP really went all out this week. Seriously, I helped to attack the bay this week end and you guys had so many upgrade and a lot of people working togheter.

But I saw some guild that I never see before, like ASIA?

Finally got my necro to 80, getting some gear to be competitive and I’m looking to have some fun fight!

Edit : Forgot to say, it might be us, Anvil Rock, that lost a lot of player too. Not because they left the server, but I think we have a really strong PVE population. They all went to do the halloween event.

I’m not a PVE player, and I hate puzzle. But I still wasted like 1-2 hours in the mad tower puzzle. Imagine If I did all pve event