Guild Wars 2

I knew it was coming …

Falcon.8713:

I was waiting for you guys to start complaining, here is the first post, congrats.
1. L2P or gtfo
2. You haven’t seen or practiced kitten and already complaining -> Makes me remember 15yo teenage girls.
3. We already have a warhorn

^ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can’t tell you how to play it, but i can tell how i play it. Specially in rankeds.

1- Don’t get anxious to use your signet, control yourself.
2- Only use signet of locust when you have more than 1 target around you.
3- Use plague signet to transfer conditions, i usually wait until i get 5 of them. But if its a high stacks of bleed or burn i just transfer right away.
4- Signet of Vampirism can be used either offensively or defensively. You can active it at start of fight and try to deliver the max of attacks to your target for the extra siphon damage. Or even in a team fight focusing target, that will make the focused target drop even faster. Or use defensively to heal yourself, i usually wait until 60~70% hp to use it, so i can make best use of siphon health.
5- Always place your wurm before enter a fight. Try to place it behind a wall or up some elevated ground. That will make your escapes better and i always counter rampage that way. lol

I may be missing some points here, but that is how i play usually.

EremiteAngel.9765:

i just have to bump this again.
thank you lynnie.
your method works great!
cries
good rangers still give me a hell of a fight…but at least it doesn’t feel like its a 30-70 disadvantageous fight for a necro…feels more like…40-60 now? =DDDDD good enough for me.

Yeah, that method is pretty good. Since some people are asking, i’ll try to make commentary videos, but english is not my main language, and probably will take a comment on ranger fights.
I only can’t beat 1 LB ranger in our WvW tier, like i told you, beaten him only once.

Dristig.9678:

Is there a sPvP version of this? The closest I see regularly is Cele Signet but it seems weak in comparison.

Sadly, doesn’t. Condi necro is fairly weak in Spvp, so you better going celestial signet there.

Chilled to the bone! But that 2 seconds cast is crazy!

Salamander.2504:

Lynnie.7213:

A Volcano.2510:

So mysterious…

Necro tips and secrets right here, bro —-> https://www.youtube.com/donee

This is going to sound totally noob, but what map/where do you go to find 1v1’s in WvW? (I only ever PvP)

Some people usually do duels in Obsidian Sanctum. Other than that you have to walk around and pick fights, and most of times it will be outnumbered.

EremiteAngel.9765:

I realized through my fights with you and your videos that your staff mark casting accuracy is very good!
even against blinking kiting mesmers you hit them with marks very accurately.
and you rotate out of shroud to mark very smoothly.
another great display!

Thanks, mate. Our fights were good indeed.

Necro 4 life! … or death if you know what i mean … xD

Vydahr.4285:

Lynnie.7213:

A Volcano.2510:

So mysterious…

Necro tips and secrets right here, bro —-> https://www.youtube.com/donee

That aaalmost makes me want to play Condi Necro. You kick kitten , man

Is the power of Dark Side. Embrace it!

Sandrox.9524:

Well,wierd that no mesmer inturrpted you..even if you use foot in the grave…I think condi necro in good spot against mesmers,would like to see power necros agaisnt them.

I get interrupted a lot by mesmers, i just choose the fights that ended quickly because of video purpose.

Joseph.9853:

Hi hi!

I’ve been running with my necro for over a year now, and love every moment of game play on him I can get (yes, I said a necro and favorite). It really has came more and more to mind recently, especially with the 6/23 patch, if I should really be looking into a different gear stat than what I have now.

As of now, I run all soldiers, trinkets and all (except one ring): everything ascended. While I do get my nice run from him if I was doing this all in WvW (soul purpose of it), just feel rather week if I am not in a zerg. If I just 1v1 someone, I can survive for a few minutes, but always end up taking a toll of death: but I just keep rising back up.

So, maybe I’m doing something wrong? Is there a gear-set I should be running? I’m open to suggestions, though it will be hard for me to get away from soldiers, so anything to build around that would be great!

Here is my current build, hope that gives you an idea of what I run: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRQQNAW7djc0Q1N2SD20A/NOsGKZAEyl88kjgMg2CxwIA-TVCBABCu/gWK3QTJIAHEAvUSYp6PM8EAy4CAonuhAAIA38mBAXXjDNAA-w

I do run wells, but willing to change those out.

This guide will change your life!

You know what i mean … we “LUV” mesmers, right?
Don’t take this videos seriously, is just for fun purpose.

A Volcano.2510:

So mysterious…

Necro tips and secrets right here, bro —-> https://www.youtube.com/donee

EremiteAngel.9765:

your method is great lynnie!
I just killed a LB ranger easily lol.
although admittedly he wasn’t that good, but your method worked great lol.
it became much easier to fight now.

Yeah! xD
That has been my secret for a long time. It’s really helpful against those rangers who are not so fast in controlling if you know what i mean.

Zantmar.5406:

when the necro dies he gets his dream accomplished- get closer to death
so whatever happens necro always win

“Death is a lover. Embrace the love.”
-Olias from GW1

Man … agree with you in every word. #necros!

I am still looking foward reaper shroud pve build stacking might/chill/vuln. The hope will never die!

infantrydiv.1620:

Power Ranger vs Necro in open field is a one sided match up

For which one?

Hey fellows necromancers! I am here to officially post my roaming build to hope our community, since a lot of necros complain about the class in WvW. I think they are just using “not optimal” builds or need some tips. So here you’ll find it!

This build is able to 1vX just fine.

You can check my build video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCJYMAKAJI

If you are more of a reader person, i have a written guide in Metabattle. If you like what you see there, please positive rate the build so it becomes Meta.
Check this right here: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Signet_Roamer

If you have any questions or sugestions, you can message me in game or in my youtube channel. Take care.

I think reapers have a couple of gear status to use, but as for ascended i’d stick with berseker. Because even if your reaper not gonna use it, another characters will, because berserker is the PVE status.

EremiteAngel.9765:

u got the fights and u won 10 out of 10 times lol.
I gave up. you too strong.

I did learn out to engage a ranger better now though =D
thanks for the tips!

Just a regular necro. xD
That secret tip must stay with us, is super op! lol

I demand another fight then!
Yeah, without LoS this build is really really hard to beat. I don’t like to say impossible, so i’ll “really really hard”. xD

Anet should take a look on this closely. This will only improve the class gameplay without unbalance. This should been like this ever since game release. Last time i lost a couple outnumbered fights because i couldn’t see my utilities skills cooldowns while in DS.

C’mon Anet, you know we need this!

I can’t complain about necros, really. In WvW solo roaming its great as condi build. In pve/dungeon the AoE is good and the rest is avarage but still fun. In Spvp it lacks disengage but if you know how to position yourself you can still do good.

I have a lot of fun playing this class, specially because people think we suck big time and come at us thinking we are free kill, then BAM! Get REKT! \o/

We could get some better things, but so far its fun.

Choppy.4183:

Loboling.5293:

Sad to see this move to the necromancer forums, as it is more a showcase of horrible and funny warrior gameplay than anything interesting in necro play. Moderators need a sense of humor.

This video is a mockery of warriors that play like pve npcs. Possibly players that were used in coding for Ranger Pets. In fact, you need to make another dueling video with a ranger who has his pet on passive and is using these warriors as pets instead. Make it a comparison for if the wolf pet or warrior pet is more effective. Would be too lols.

Agreed.

I will make this my mission from now on!

Something is weird that. I have 1900ish condi damage no buffs in perplexity runes. Undead should be higher.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

nice song and video! thanks for sharing!

the necro and warrior dueling are friends ?

No, we are not friends. We just meet the other day in WvW and did some duels but he got pretty salty at end of every duel, sending me nasty messages. So i decided to make the best of it and just found that amazing song.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

So you come here on the warrior forum to show your kiting skills vs bad warriors xD nice song though

Nah. I came here because is a satire video about warriors, meant to be funny. I get rekt by them most of times.
DAT song is just amazing, i had to!

I know this video is a necro gameplay but warriors may find this fun? I hope so. Sorry anything.
Is just a satire video i made while bored and don’t have enought content for a new montage. Thanks for watching!

pdavis.8031:

oooo I might have to invest in undead runes. I am currently running krait. But with rabid gear, undead runes and the trait that adds toughness (Corrupter’s Fervor)….so much toughness!!!!

And then you add in the Krait Tuning Crystal… and now you have so much condition damage

I am so going to do this now!!

You know you can’t feel much of difference beyond 3000 armor, right?

I love characters that use the dark magic, darken, scary and necros delivery me all in one package. Plus we are pretty awesome ofc! xD

flow.6043:

Other than that your post mostly reflects that warrior has a way lower skill floor than necro.

You just said what i was thinking.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Krait is by far the best rune currently due to the removal of the condition cap.

+45% bleed duration translates to a direct 45% increase in DPS.

Undead runes even with max toughness armor give ~5% dps increase.

they aren’t even in the same league.

Your bleeds will never last until the end to make use of those +45% duration/damage increase you mentioned. Everyone is running tons of cleanse skills.

Don’t ever use Lich Form near an engi or mesmer. But if you run minions you are just screwed! lol
Anet doesn’t love necros!

Perplexity all the way for roaming.
Krait for pve/fractals if you running condi build.

Ragion.2831:

Tim.6450:

Lynnie.7213:

A lot of people were saying its a necro killer because necro couldn’t stand a chance in 1v1 against a Revenant.

Lol, people really said that? A class with slow cast times, low amount of stunbreakers and low amount of condion clears which were replaced with stab and resistance without cover boons would beat a necro?

its because even though Revenant was revealed incomplete, it was a heck of a start. Condis all over the place, high stability up time, the crazy elites, people simply filled in what they expect was missing like the active defenses and dps and came to the conclusion that once the class is complete it will over shadow necro.

Yea people said that, but was before beta.
I don’t think Revenants will over shadow necro. Even if its missing 1 trait line, 1 legend and maybe 1 weapon, i don’t know. So far the only good thing there is support and high stab uptime.

A Volcano.2510:

I actually am pretty happy with the scepter auto attack.

If I could change anything, I would add chill to the number 2 scepter grasping dead. This has good synergy with crippled also on #2, and would also work well with a condi-reaper.

I think scepter auto attack is lacking something. The attack is a bit slow to only grants 1 bleed per swing, but we can live with it.

Slapinator.4196:

Necro is dead we just have to accept and move on.

No! Compared to Rev, Necro is god.

Some vulnerability stacks on auto atk would be really nice for a condi build.

oZii.2864:

I haven’t played it I watched a lot of streams and read up on it, but it looks very different from a Necro so I don’t see a real comparison to be made as if it would replace the Necro because it does Necro things better.

A lot of people were saying it would replace Necros, because its just better.
A lot of people were saying its a necro killer because necro couldn’t stand a chance in 1v1 against a Revenant.

So far …

Bhawb.7408:

I might actually strangle myself if I see another person kitten about Revenant when it isn’t even half finished and still heavily in beta.

Let me reformulate my phrase.
Revenant SUCKS in current state!
But yeah, you still going to see a lot of this.

kittenly Slow !

Simply sucks!

Tommyknocker.6089:

Lynnie.7213:

I still play my necro and its my main.
I do all kind of gamemodes with it. I’ll be posting the builds i use for each mode and that may help, i don’t know. We can still do pretty well if played correctly and carefully.

PVE: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_DS_Shredder
PVP: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Celestial_Signet
WvW: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Signet_Roamer

Here you got some WvW videos as well, may help, i don’t know.

https://www.youtube.com/donee

Unfortunately not all of us are in the 1%. I myself wasn’t sold on the necro for the burst, nor for the high end condi; I was sold on it being an attrition class as was originally advertised. I am well aware that a few players are godlike with a necro; although top end PVP teams seem to get by well enough without them. IMO if you are making an entire class only be a beast in the hands of the very few, it is a waste of a class (dev time) and anet would do wise to listen to the other 99% of us.

I understand what you said and agree.They should take a closer look at our class, but what i am trying to do is help the ones who still are trying to fit.

I still play my necro and its my main.
I do all kind of gamemodes with it. I’ll be posting the builds i use for each mode and that may help, i don’t know. We can still do pretty well if played correctly and carefully.

PVE: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_DS_Shredder
PVP: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Celestial_Signet
WvW: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Signet_Roamer

Here you got some WvW videos as well, may help, i don’t know.

https://www.youtube.com/donee

Use LoS, time your fears and pray for a mistake from his part.

I had the same question, but as people above said. It will not show on hero panel. You just have to belive its working, which i still have my doubts.

VunDola.7596:

Lynnie.7213:

VunDola.7596:

Lynnie.7213:

VunDola.7596:

Perplexity runes <3

Perplexity became amazing after patch.

Was it not always good?

It was good pre-patch, it is awesome post-patch.

how specifically? I dont understand

It now deals damage every second, even if you don’t use any skill while afflicted with that. Just like bleeds.

Confusion:

" This condition now has two damage components—damage over time, and the damage dealt when an ability completes. The damage has also been normalized between all game modes. The formula for this condition has been rescaled to account for the new behavior of damaging conditions and to put more focus on the condition damage stat. The skill-use damage will also now trigger when the affected target is interrupted during skill activation.
New damage over time: 2 + (0.1 * Level) + (0.035 * Condition Damage)
New trigger damage: 3.5 + (0.575 * Level) + (0.0625 * Condition Damage) "

bump!!!!!!!!!!

VunDola.7596:

Lynnie.7213:

VunDola.7596:

Perplexity runes <3

Perplexity became amazing after patch.

Was it not always good?

It was good pre-patch, it is awesome post-patch.