Guild Wars 2

SBI probably got tired of being man in the middle. Thats the problem with being 2nd place. Oh well, at least I like 2nd place area in EB more then 3rd place area.

I used it in conjunction with a beserker build and it works pretty good. I needed to go into the blood line anyway for well recharge so I just took the siphoning traits too.

I’m also using sigil of blood + mixed berry food. Siphon on hit and siphon on crit are seperate siphons that happen together. That with sigil proc, food procs and life siphon from dagger 2 and you get a 3-5k heal from a single attack. It’s also good support for those moments when you go toe to toe with someone in a well bomb. Of course Life siphons have more value if you have high armor to ‘protect’ it. I don’t, but don’t care, every 1 hp is 1 hp I can use. A tank necro with minions can be really hard to kill because of siphoning.

“have access to buff foods that also steal life and helps to finish off the build. In Spvp you can’t do that.”

fixed that for you. Wvw has life steal food.

DS should be a steal style teleport. That is all.

Yeah I have experienced strange lag as well.

What I would like to see, for sheer cool factor, is special bursts for dual wield builds. Like dual axes could have a extra whirling attack at the end of the leap. Dual swords would have a crazy 15 hit attack. Sword/mace or vice versa would be a stab and smack knockdown, sword axe would be a stab + evis like chop, axe/mace could be knockdown with mace then a triple chop while theyre on the ground.

One of the flaws in this game is you don’t use your dual weapons fluidly in this game. In other games having dual weapons changes the auto attack to account for it. Id like to at least see something in that direction.

I would rather fight a invuln thief then a invisible one. People who say “oh you just need skill to beat stealth” really mean “oh you need to be playing the right class to beat stealth”. A melee fighter has no chance. No matter how much skill you have you can’t guess where a stealthed thief is accurately unless you caught him with a skill before he stealthed. Condition builds have no chance, because condition thieves cleanse every time they stealth. That is a cleanse every 4 seconds. The only build that has a good chance are 1-shot glass cannons that can simply kill the thief before they can start doing their dance.

Swapping stealth with invuln wouldn’t fix all of that but at least you could stay on target and not have to bother with targeting and the guessing game, which are annoying, not fun.

Been running a rabid sword+warhor/shield (rifle in inventory), 30 arms, 30 defense, 10 tactics. Dogged march, leg specialist, shield specialist, embrace pain, deep cuts…why do warriors have so many great traits? Coming from a necro it is like a candy store of goodness.

Godofallu.2935:

A couple of things to note-

You have no mobility on either weapon set which will make roaming quite slow and ineffective unless your group mates can buff swiftness on you always.

Longbow is a weapon which has no real defensive measures and minimal single target damage. Really it’s basically castle defense AOE from backlines only.

Sword has a burst which is frankly terrible assuming the opponents have a stun break. I know this is WvW but most roamers are good and will destroy a sword/longbow user.

Both sword and longbow look like rabid (condition orientated) weapons but they actually are not. You get more damage out of both going for power or even crit damage/precision then condition damage. Don’t run undead runes and rabid is the main point here.

Anyways hopefully you aren’t offended as i’m just trying to help and give some honest advice. This is WvW and i’m sure it is possible to roam with any gear/weapons but if you want peak efficiency I would consider a warhorn or greatsword for mobility and dropping condition damage plan.

“Anyways hopefully you aren’t offended as i’m just trying to help and give some honest advice.” Don’t say offensive things if you don’t want to offend.

Now then…

1. You’re not helping if you don’t realize that stun breaks don’t break immobilize.

2. Undead Runes and Rabid melt face. Either you’re trying to keep a good build secret or you don’t know what you are talking about. Here’s some math: one flurry delivers 12 3s bleeds. With deep cuts thats 4.5s bleeds. Plus Earth runes add 2 7s bleeds and you may get 1 or 2 bleeds from your minor trait.

(130×4.5×12)(130×7×2)(130×5×1) = 9490 damage from one flurry. + 1000-3000 in physical damage.

A properly executed combo though uses bleed shot from longbow, combust shot, weapon switch with geomancy gives 3 more, auto attacks add bleeds + earth and trait procs. With good adrenalin production you should be popping off a burst every 5-10 seconds (time your weapon swaps) delivering alternating fire and bleeding attacks. So what if they got a couple cleanses? They probably wasted it to get out of my first immobilize. The main problem is I’m constantly running into the bleed cap!

So here is my advice: Run Longbow + sword/warhorn. Bring a buddy, like a guard or ele. Get rabid gear. 0/30/30/10/0 traits. Trait for adrenalin production and fury on immobilize. Use your mobility as your defense. You can use your sword leap to leap into and out of combat. Warhorn cleanses roots and cripples and gives vigor. Use that. Sword rangers wish they had a warhorn like ours. Remember all you need for perma swiftness is elite signet + warhorn. Don’t let your adrenalin go to waste and remember to bring at least one condition cleanser. Ok?

Edit: copy and paste http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBjYDbkzJGOFS4hJOggeUFWhAeekELB5lKcGA-jEyAINBZqSgIPw5wioxWNLiGrGCTlSEV7DKiWNA-w

Timing berserker stance with burst attacks is tricky and takes practice.

No, please…I’d have to roll a asura warrior named “cirno” just because…

On the otherhand, she’d be the strongest character I’ve ever made. Her trait layout would be 9/9/9/9/9

It’s good to know the faces of my enemies!

Don’t get caught outside the zerg sweeties.. Evil evil things lurk in the dark waiting for you. >:)

…and down here in T4 we see keeps flip constantly.

So tier 4 and lower servers need some kind of mechanism to make them play like t3 and up servers.

Here’s my idea: automated defense. In t3 and up there is no shortage of people to man the siege like t4 and lower. So let castle defenses operate automatically if no one is on them. Or at least put a npc near each cannon/mortar and if no one is on that piece with enemy in range, the npc will hop on and use it. If a player tries to get on it it will kick the npc off.

This at least will slow down cannon teams from stripping smc of its cannons while the defenders are outmanned/overstretched due to lack of numbers (a lower tier problem).

If longbow had bleed on auto attack it would be perfect. Or maybe have combustive shot work like it does on ballista and apply 6 stacks of bleeds.

I like the LB a lot as a opening weapon. It complements sword builds perfectly. That is the build I run. My partner runs a mobility rifle build. When we go roaming lots and lots of people die. They’re both great weapons if you build for it.

My barbarian archer..

I agree. its infuriating to be shooting at someone I def should have los but don’t. I still love my longbow in wvw…its better then Ranger longbow anyway. ;3

Sometimes I like to get into the roleplaying mood as a necro, especially in wvw. For instance one time after leaving our borderland spawn I went west down the stairs and cliffs. At the bottom, I found a dead person. I start chatting him up..

“Aha! Another corpse to add to my minions!”

Starts Rezzing.

“ty sir”

“oh you’re quite welcome…..”

Another person falls from the cliff and goes splat.

“It must be my lucky day! It’s raining corpses!! =D”

I want one thing for signets. It’s the trait eles have..

“Signet passives persist even while signet is on CD.”

haha I see. That’s good to know. Why do people not use beserker stance? I’ve been using it a lot to pop off multiple combustive shots.

Are they good? I’m rolling my third character and am currently leveling her. I’ve been using stances but I was wondering how they stack up in the end game world. I know that the trait that makes them last longer is bugged and I don’t think there are any other traits that make them better. Because of the build I’m currently running I don’t have any points to spare into the tactics tree to get shouts or banners.

I guess what I’m getting at is how do stances compare to shouts/banners/signets?

Yes Swoop > Rush.

But please stop pushing this "…than a ranger that is supposed to run away and kite. "

Aragorn was a ‘ranger’. Did you see him running away? Or kiting?

If anything it’s a shame Rangers are as weak as they are in melee. It doesn’t help their bow skills aren’t much better. Then there was the quickness nerf…

I don’t play my Ranger anymore specifically because they are too weak in 1vX situations. 40% of their dps is single target only (pet). Other classes like warrior and necro can apply 100% of their dps to 5 targets simultaneously.

But getting back in topic, Yes, Warrior should have a rush that is awesome as Swoop.

The Rifle Warrior is a terror on the open wvw battlefield. I’ve teamed with a few good ones. A rifle team can coordinate their bursts, they can fire piercing shots into gateways and bridges, and 1 shot quite a few people. Throw in a couple thieves for stomping duty and you got a vicious roaming composistion.

I’ve been testing builds in Spvp and strangely enough Longbow does very well too. Probably because you can cover the entire objective circle in a fire field aoe.

Ok I fixed it.

I followed step 2 here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18583-user-folders-restore-default-location.html

And changed the location of my “personal” folder back to where it needed to be. Now I am reinstalling the game. (Too bad if I had done that first I wouldn’t be reinstallling ;_; )

No, the problem is I moved my documents to a different hard drive and it went bad. I’ve already removed it from the PC since it was causing the entire machine to lock up. So now my computer does not have a “my Documents” folder, just a regular documents folder. and gw2setup.exe won’t start because it can’t access the archive file “local.dat”.

I can’t do anything because the hard drive I had pointed Moved my documents too has died. I have a documents folder again but when I launched the game the client wouldn’t start saying it couldn’t access its hard drive. So I tried to reinstall, but the installer said the same thing. So I deleted the game, and removed it from programs list. Tried running gw2setup.exe and STILL says it can’t access local.dat so it wont start.

Now I am trully stuck. I can’t install the game, or reinstall, or do anything.

Please Help!

Warrior: Can quick stomp and has lots of stability
Guardian: Has lots of stability
Theif: Can Quick stomp and stealth stomp.
Ranger: Can quick stomp multiple times. Has stability via non-transform elite.
Engineer: Elixier S stomp + stability
Mesmer: Stealth stomp and quick stomp but not as good as theif (long cds)
Elementalist: Mist stomp and stability.

Necro: Shroud stomp + stability (with 30 point trait in a not so wonderful tree)

Our problem is that stability with Shroud isn’t inherent or at least more accesible. All the ‘slow stomping’ classes (Guardian, Engineer, Ele) have loads of stability. We don’t. in fact we have some of the worst stability access in the game and our enemies know it. When they see you are a necro you can expect to get chain knocked around. Especially now since certain Anet changes have resulted in a proliferation of Hammer Guards/Wars. Against competent WvW teams you will spend entire fights on your back from the Ele/Guard team up. Necro/Guard is good too but Ele brings their own stability, in addition to the guards as well as better survivability too.

Hard to find a good flaming staff that doesn’t look cheesy (like molten). Otherwise pretty happy with my look.

cant log in either :c

I’ve started fooling around with warrior. So far I’ve gotten this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIMQNBjYDrE0RqzWHyOYyJAQFsy8woiI6UIpkizMD;TsAgyCuoqyUloKbVuqkVtCY4x2DA

and I really like it. I feel like having a heal that removes 2 + 3 conditions covers me on that side while having all kinds of interupts is just great.

Possibly my favorite 1v1 combo is: Bull Rush, Fan of Fire, Kick, Pin down, Combustive/Arcing shot, bola, and if he isn’t dead yet, weapon swap and rush him with my sword.

Kind of sad that the Warrior is better with the Longbow then the Ranger is. haha!

Andele.1306:

Lorelei.3918:

OK LISTEN UP

Sigil of Blood DOES do damage.

It like life steal food ticks off damage in a different way then normal damage. it comes up as very tiny little numbers flying in a different direction then your regular dmg numbers.

After letting the warrior in spvp grounds beat me up, I sat and beat on golems with half health. Sure enough I saw 452 pop up in tiny numbers over the golems head.

For testing purposes, I put no points into blood, only put points in curses but selected no traits, wore rampagers trinket and made sure my food buff wasn’t on. End result was a 452 tick every 5 seconds.

If you test this with a fully fleshed out life steal build you will have so many number popping out of your target it could be very easy to miss.

And the news is? They are hashes (and myslef) confirmed it in the release week, its also true/shadow damage that ignores armor (you can damage Jade Maw with vampiric since his “immunity” to damage is just a massive armor buff).

Read the thread

“Taril.8619:
SupahSpankeh.8452:
Also, it doesn’t do damage to the target
Sigil of Blood should do 452 damage and 453 + (0.1 * Healing Power) healing when it procs.
Thus making it deal slightly more damage than Leeching if you proc it every 5 seconds, it should do more healing than Leeching if you proc it often and/or have an okay amount of healing power.
Mmm. I tested SoB, it did around 480 healing but did no damage at all. That would be roughly half that of the 10s heal from Sigil of Leeching, which also does no damage, but requires only one hit to proc.
Plus, once your 5s cooldown is off, it could be anything from instant to a few seconds before it procs again.
For my purproses (DF/DW or DW/AF), where I swap regularly, it’s not a great choice.
I checked damage on screen and by reading combat log. Got it to proc a number of times.”

Hence my post is reply to this misinformation about blood sigil.

Tired of being kicked from dungeon groups? Tired of people arbitrairily looking down on your class? Do you want to be part of something bigger then yourself???

Then come join the mist wars! Your adventure awaits you!

OK LISTEN UP

Sigil of Blood DOES do damage.

It like life steal food ticks off damage in a different way then normal damage. it comes up as very tiny little numbers flying in a different direction then your regular dmg numbers.

After letting the warrior in spvp grounds beat me up, I sat and beat on golems with half health. Sure enough I saw 452 pop up in tiny numbers over the golems head.

For testing purposes, I put no points into blood, only put points in curses but selected no traits, wore rampagers trinket and made sure my food buff wasn’t on. End result was a 452 tick every 5 seconds.

If you test this with a fully fleshed out life steal build you will have so many number popping out of your target it could be very easy to miss.

Poverty mainly. Also the slim hope it doesn’t have a internal cooldown. The wiki isn’t clear about it(says some do like omnom, but not others).

Leeching’s issue is at most it’s a heal every 10 sec, but in normal play you don’t swap weapons that much. I prefer putting preception or bloodlust sigil on my staff offhand so when I am in a zerg I can hang back and build my stack while still getting bags. As for heals not being great: no one siphon is great. It takes multiple sources. Food, Sigil, traits. Siphon on hit and siphon on crit are independent heals that add up to about 100hp. Berry siphon is 300ish. Life siphon is a 300ish heal per tick + trait siphons + food siphon. The result is a constant little stream of incoming hp. It may only keep you alive a few seconds longer, but those few seconds count. In 1v1 siphons can turn a fight around, because you can essentially burst and heal at the same time….

Here’s the video of my build as promised.

And guess what? I AM going around in wvw as a glass cannon. What’chya gonna do about it?

You could look at my build in the builds thread, its the second to last one posted.

Here is my suggestion real quick

30 II, V, XII
10 IV
0
30 II, V, VIII
0

Gear:
Bezerker/Soldier mix (karma soldier armor, berzerk everything else)
Rune of the Pack or Thief or Eagle if you are loaded.
Superior Sigil of Blood on main hand
Superior Sigil of Accuracy on off hand
Sigil of perception on Staff secondary
Mixed Berry Pie and artisan maintenance oils

I am making a short video showing the healing potiential. Will edit this post later.

As a Roamer I feel you alls pain. I also crave small fights in wvw and go out of my way to find them.

Good places to find a small fight: At a sentry. After (or during o-o) soloing a camp. At world events like dredges and ogres. Alongside SMC. Near Yaks (don’t kill the Yak, be patient). And behind a zerg, there are always slow stragglers ripe for picking off.

But many will run. Since you are a ranger there is no excuse for letting them get away. Swoop and shoot them with a cripple shot when in range. Daze them after that. Let your pet cripple them and knock them down(you’re using a wolf right? ~_^) . I’m a kittenecromancer and I still catch people and eat them. You can definitely do it.

I run semi Zerkers and am not the -first- person to go down. Either way I always take a few people with me

I run dagger/Wells and focus on burst damage. Well/Marks are ok too but I really like running up to someone and seeing the HP bar go from full to empty in a few seconds

Every Necro build has it weaknesses. Well Necro has no stun breaks and limited stability. Spectral necro has awesome stun breaks/stability but little aoe. Condition necro may or may not have stun breaks and stability and MM necros are irrelevant ;p.

You can’t make blanket statements about the entire necro community because honestly we do have access to just about everything. Just not all of it in one build.

I think the balance issue comes out of how a few other classes CAN have their cake and eat it too. Like warriors for instance.

“My thanks to all the CD and SBI for the past month of fun.”

Hey you are welcome. We love getting steamrolled by what should be a t3 server for a entire month. Say what you will, that 100k lead tells exactly who is having all the fun.

Well…it IS fun watching your zerg herd move across the plains of EB. I feel like I’m watching a episode of national geographic. lol

I used to like axe too till I learned how to survive using Dagger. Dagger dps is sooo much better, and it builds Lifeforce just as well if not better then Axe. You just have to be very bursty, and know when to back off and start life blasting.

Now I am become DEATH, The Destroyer of Worlds!

Another Well Bombing build.

First, traits. 30/10/0/30/0

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQEQNAodWjMaJ7VaaaM8JgpHcPu4QPydXnjKcMA;ToAg0CnoSykkIJbSukkJNiYSA (copy and paste url)

Gear – You like to making ****??? BERZERKER (ok you can mix in some soldiers for survivability too)

Some target WvW stats:

3400 power
2000 armor
60% crit (after sigils, food, oils, buffs)
50% base crit dmg.
20K + hp

To get there I use Rune of the Pack set + Sigil of accuracy and sigil of perception also Maintenance oil and precision food.

Also, your primary weapons are dagger/focus and staff.

Now for the but whys.

This build is meant for WvW, hence world destroyer. Thus it needs a smidgen of survivability. You get that from life steals and lots of vitality. Also why I focus on shroud buffs. Shrouding is for defense. You can still get 3-4k crits with it, but mainly its for staying alive. Now why dagger focus? Best burst a necro has. Focus 4, when you are by yourself, can do close to 4k damage and does it while you auto attack. Throw in well of suffering and well of corruption and boom, that is 4 separate sources of simultaneous damage + lifesteals. Also Focus 5 is great for gap closing to get in range for immobilize. It can also do big damage if it strips 3 boons. (3k ish crit with my stats)

So there is your basic burst. Wells + Focus 4 + autoattack = some one is going to die. Now lets add flavor. Lets say there are multiple targets nearby. As soon as wells and focus are done, shroud and use shroud 4 for more aoe goodness. Lets say you are fighting a zerker warrior and you absolutely must stay away from him. Ok…use your CC in reverse. Use Focus 4/5, Dagger 2/3, kite and mix in some life blasts for good measure. If hes chasing you, make him walk through wells to do it. I have turned fights against HB warrs this way. They’re all kitteny dunder heads that happily walk through wells while chilled. Now Don’t forget your staff. Lets say you ran into a condition necro. Let him get his stack on you while you melee him. Then switch to staff and give all his conditions back to him. go back to melee and kill him before he can pass the hot potatoe back.

Weakness: know them. You have epic burst, not epic pressure. If your burst fails, don’t feel bad to kite or run away. Second, you lack mobility, which is endemic for necros. Being a glass necro means if you get caught ‘out of posistion’ you are insta dead.

And again…you are squishy! People are going to notice when they hit you and get that BIG number. Seeing that makes them hard and they will remember those sexy numbers coming out of your head. As such you need to be careful, so that you don’t suddenly have all your ‘admirers’ spraying you with their dps love.

Here is a build video with a bit of kill footage.

LameFox.6349:

Rok.5260:

…they have so many evades with their sword.

Fight by a cliff and use spectral walk to leap off (then teleport back, naturally) as they reach the 3rd stage of their auto-attack. :P

This is SO Evil.

I love it. <3

I didn’t know power rangers could do double well bombs… ;p

Well I used to play a Tanky ranger so I know the ins and outs of them. Essentially the way to beat one is to kill his pets. Tank rangers are all BM, so killin their pet kills their dps. Don’t do it in range of their weapon though. Fake a retreat. You (should) have perma swiftness most Rangers don’t. Root/chill and run. With sufficient distance, turn, kill the pet. Wait. Ranger will send his other pet as he comes after you. Kill it. Then his pets are on a 40 second cool down. He just lost one of his sources of passive regen and condition removal (natural healing and empathic bond depend on pet being alive.).

He might run away at this point if hes smart. There is nothing you can do when a Ranger decides he wants to run away. Rangers have the second best escape techniques in the game next to Ele. (Swoop, Monarch leap, counter attack, RaO)

I’d still count that as a win.

I used to main a necro in GW1. I agree with everything you say Yoh.

That said I still main a necro, but I play it entirely differently. I wanted to be a MM necro like i had been.

Instead I am using a dagger with zerker specs. Wat.

At least, if I am going to be a physical fighter, I’d like to have a more ‘death knight’ motiff, with a 2 handed physical weapon. I’d love a scythe but at this point I’ll take anything.

Though I had an idea. We could just get a elite skill that when activated replaces our staff skills with scythe skills, and generates the scythe effect continuously. The scythe skills could use our spear skills. Deactivating the elite puts you back to regular staff bar but activates weapon swap timer. Also activates 30 sec timer on elite skill so you can’t abuse it for certain effects from runes. Also weapon swapping deactivates the elite and puts it on CD.

So it would be a big tradeoff. You would get a set of powerful melee abilities but woud give up the elite slot and make weapon swapping less flexible.

Its not that bad. It does have one advantage over dagger. Since it’s weapon damage is higher it gives bigger life blasts. axe 3 is also great, don’t forget it cripples too.

The Axe is a good weapon when you have a build that is constantly casting something. Thus auto attack becomes irrelevant and the burst of Axe 2 gains value.

Rangers are awesome 1v1 fighters. Our chance of success drops rapidly as soon as it becomes a 1vX fight. That is because Ranger dps is very single target, except for melee. Even with melee, our pets don’t aoe and our dps is based around having a pet. So while a ele can burn multiple targets with the full force of their dps potiential, a ranger, at most, is only putting 60% of its dps ability in aoe form.

And this is critical because winning a 1vX fight is about pressure. Applying pressure to all the targets forces them use heals, to fight defensively, it breaks up THEIR dps output.

My bezerker Necro wins 1vX fights far more reliably then ANY of my ranger builds, and that is why. I wade into the fight and I send multiple people tumbling back.

I want the Scythe so bad. My main from GW1 was a Dervish. Please please please Anet you know how to do cool scythe fighting animations, just give Necro the scythe. I don’t want to be a silly priest class…Scythes are for Necromancers

Clearly the answer to this dilemma is to let the fish ranger have a monkey pet.

I am the bone of my dagger
Culling is my body and Crit is my blood
I have created over a thousand Tears
Unknown to Noobs, Nor known to Devs
Have withstood haters to create many ragequits
Yet, those people will never mean anything
So as I pray, unlimited stealth works.