Guild Wars 2

Vydahr.4285:

Lynnie, you’re making me want to play MM more often…. xD

Minions just saved me that day. I was playing with 3~4 seconds delay due to distance from my place to EU servers.
Minions are great in Spvp and hopefully will get better with reaper and shouts.

Hey guys, this is a very special project. 5 of us, necromancers, decided to get together across server’s region and play some ranked matches together.
Surprisingly we had really good results with our composition. And was one of the most fun days i ever had in GW2 in all times.

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Make sure to check out theirs POV’s as well. Links below:

Hollts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdsoR_XIqUE

FQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrCwqfDtlbY

Ryusai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE-ERzkEPpo

Mr Kami: Lazy F*****g kitten . Still on editing process, i guess.

Holl.3109:

Donee’s vid: Almost ready

Mine is up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OfdaGAZF2A

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?

Holl.3109:

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*

Kami > Hollts ? Is that what i heard, huh? lol
What aree you saying, old man? Huh? huh?

PROOF BELOW!

EremiteAngel.9765:

Lynnie.7213:

Hollts is so good at power necro, when i grow up i want to be like him. -

this made me laugh hahaha
we all grew up watching Hollts =)

Great fights as usual =D

We gotta fuel the old man ego, you know … Haha!
Thanks, mate. Our fights on your ranger/guard coming next … after reaper, ofc.

Right now burn guardian, but used to be condi meele ranger.

Ravezaar.4951:

2- At least one day of Power Reaper, roaming or Spvp. (I promised i’d upload some of this)

Yes u did, I need my Power Vidz but I know u are Condi np I also have Hollts Power Vidz to look forward to. Still Keep the Vidz comming causeeven if they are Condi its always nice to see some1 who knows howto play Necro well.

I keep my promises.
I enjoy power builds in Spvp, quite a lot.
Hollts is so good at power necro, when i grow up i want to be like him. -

Zera.8907:

Another great video. Question for you Donee, what are your plans for HoT as far a Reaper goes? Have you been theory crafting builds, etc?

Thanks, Zera.
You know, i will always play condi builds, so i have theorycrafting a couple builds for this next BWE. Hope one of them works out well enough.
For this BWE, i plan:

1- Test my theorycraft builds as condi roamer.
2- At least one day of Power Reaper, roaming or Spvp. (I promised i’d upload some of this)
3- I need find a Berserker to fight against in WvW as condi Reaper. I don’t know if i’ll find one. (another upload promise i’ve made)

Would be nice to have this kind of thing on NA servers. My latency on EU goes craaaazy.

Urukami.4796:

Aww :< I didn’t know about this. It would have been fun to test my build here x)

Minion Force! You know what i meann …

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Lynnie.7213:

Belial.9350:

Doesn’t seem to exist in the WvW section of metabattle, which is where I assumed the roaming versions of builds would be.

Here on metabattle:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Signet_Roamer

The build above in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSzYPg-N5yI

That’s rabid though, I guess celestial isn’t used at all in wvw for necros?

I mix rabid with dire, until i feel comfortable with my crit chance. You see some celestial necros in WvW, but they are rare compared to Spvp, where they shine.

Power Necro Guide and stuff, one name: Hollts!

Ravezaar.4951:

as always I enjoy your Vidz, very nice Donee

Thanks, Ravezaar. This means a lot.

Belial.9350:

Doesn’t seem to exist in the WvW section of metabattle, which is where I assumed the roaming versions of builds would be.

Here on metabattle:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Signet_Roamer

The build above in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSzYPg-N5yI

Dreaming serpent.5197:

Everytime you post these, I want to go onto my perplexity sinister signet necro and play (exept yaks bend has turned into k-train central).
Nice fights!

Have you ever though of using epidemic instead of walk? Really fun putting massive condition pressure on downed then epidemic that to their would be ressurector (s). Also works on random beasts, about to go down? Plauge signet to a mob, epidemic, go down, rally off the beast, win in ds.

Aslo, you were pretty lucky that mesmer didn’t rally in that 3v2 fight round 5 min matk6

Sometimes i pick epidemic when i have a good party comp to support me. But that is rare. Everyone goes for the necro first, so i rather focus on my own survival.

Yeah, sometimes you gotta count on luck. My plague stomp was stopped by something, i think i was lagging that afternoon.

Another wvw roaming montage. Hope you enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSzYPg-N5yI

Remove 1 condition on evasion and every dodge remove cripple and chill.
So another specialization that will make any condition build nearly to useless or even useless.
And on top of all that, will make Reaper play fool, because if the target is not chilled, what is the point?

Otaur.9268:

Dakunaito.9602:

drgast.1469:

Just a quick thank you to whoever the dev was that helped make minions responsive. Sincerely, thank you very much.

it only took 3 years to get fixed

Engineers are getting drones (minions), probably use the same AI, so it had to be fixed for the Engi’s!

I see that as a probably cause, but i am still glad we got fixed, maybe because of them, but still happy.

I never got kicked of any dungeon party as Necromancer. Just be on meta and you’ll be fine, specially for pugs.
And Reaper is awesome! -

Dirame.8521:

Lynnie.7213:

These rules are completly off. It narrowed the build variety to the point that some classes will be nearly unplayable.
Necromancers will have to pick Golem as elite….Golem…
No celestial will take one of the best necro builds for Spvp out.

I pass on that. :/

Then you are obviously not a great Necro….. :P

Of course i am not a great necro, otherwise i wouldn’t be QQing here on forum.
These rules put a lot of classes in disadvantage. Specially the 120 seconds elite rule, that is silly.
But have fun y’all.

These rules are completly off. It narrowed the build variety to the point that some classes will be nearly unplayable.
Necromancers will have to pick Golem as elite….Golem…
No celestial will take one of the best necro builds for Spvp out.

I pass on that. :/

Condi 4 Lyfe!

Sororita.3465:

Sigmoid.7082:

Builds used for this video?

I too would like to know the builds involved. The Runes and Sigils given during the BWE were also very limited. Were you using the same runes and sigils? Were the majority of the trait allocations the same except swapping Reaper in for a line?

Reaper and normal condition necromancers as you say are very different in how they operate. I’d say we can’t say whether or not one is better than the other or if they’re the same until live.

Corrosive poison cloud + Soul spiral = sweet sweet 30 stacks of poison on a target though =)

Gear/runes/sigisl were different due to BETA limitation. The build is on the post above.
And you don’t need corrosive poison cloud for that, you can just staff 3 > RS #4.
4~5k dmg per sec from poison.

I don’t recall very well the build, but i’ll try my best to make in on gw2skill.net calculator in a bit. Just getting some photoshop stuffs done.

Reaper build i was using for the most part:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQBYBXwizidxwIVaoNEtguaBgFAA-w

Necro build is my own that you can find here:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Signet_Roamer

It’s just a comparison between condi reaper and necromancer in wvw, as a solo roamer. It’s the first time i make something like this, excuse my flaws. Hope you enjoy and thanks for watching.

Dakunaito.9602:

Pecar.1236:

i must ask again why is necro still in game? devs again and again show they bugger this class and berserker show this if warrior can have F1 and F2 why necro cannot have DS and RS same time when necro dont have any range weapon that dont suck (axe big fail and staff is slower aa in game what dont work right) and 1 big question why have gravedigger 2 spin if hit only 1 time???? if they remove it they can save 50% casting time we dont see other engi/thief/ranger spec but i can say reaper will be most up spec in Hot like necro in vanilla necro suck in every path power/condi/ support almost every class have better dmg/ better condi and can support better

F1 and F2 shrouds and share cd and choose if you want range or melee would be great, but only Warrior can have this option of choice

finally someone that can see behind the fancy animation of Gravedigger and understands that it has unnecessary animation and it’s very bad. i’d prefer if they increase dmg by 10-15%, lower it’s cast time to 0.5s which is the typical cast time for 1-hit skills. Mesmer has even 0.25s cast time skill and hits 5 targets, and not 3 like Gravedigger + removes 1 boon. weapon throw etc skills have 0.75s cast time. and it should hit 5 targets. Drake Breath and Fire Grab of Ele are frontal only attacks but they hit 5 targets

Gravedigger from 1.25s cast time, it skyrocket to 2s on full cycle. even if it did 2-hits, 1.25s cast time is still too much. Mesmer does 4-hits with 1s cast time, and list goes on. on the other hand look how fast this skill of Berserker is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd9QuYktMos. it summons a rock, punches it, and all that in 0.5s cast time. seeing it from video, doesn’t it feel like it’s on fast forward? they cut the animation so that the attack is fast to not have drawback

i already started leveling Warrior that have 0 drawbacks, cause Necro-Reaper have too many drawbacks, and it’s not fun at all in pvp when others have 0 drawbacks and just rekt. *cough Warrior

I am already good for zerks, too. Level 80 warrior, too bad is not fun to play that.

We just gotta face it, people.
Warrior > Necro any day, because Devs want it that way.
I am just about give up having hopes for this profession. They give you a nice thing then they give another class the same thing they gave to you but 100 times better. And that class is the top 2 mobility in game, while we are the worst.

Yea hopes and dreams going away…

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Chilling nova on a 2sec ICD or RIOT!

I am most worried with 2 things: Perma pulsing stability and Cleasing ire every 4 seconds.

I have an youtube channel with some Spvp/WvW videos and a build guide of the build i made and use.
If you want to check out:
https://www.youtube.com/donee

About weapons i could fast talk about it:

Dagger: best direct single target dps and life force regen
Axe: Single target dps but from medium range. This weapon is not good atm and we are waiting on something better.
Scepter: Condition weapon, works with bleed,poison and cripple.
Staff: Great AoE condition weapon.

I really liked my beta charr necromancer. You can make that really dark and kitten if you want.

Ravezaar.4951:

Í hit a Ele (not upscaled) for 16k Executioners Scythe in WvW last BWE and constant 10k+ Gravediggers, (and that will add 50% dmg) granted this was more often then not with Full might stacks and for sure Vun on target but my point I think our Elite Spez is good dmg.

What bothers me is they talked about the opposite to Reaper stands the Berserker and it feels like it has more tools to counter us then we have to counter it, imho it seems to outshine us in most things.

And Condi vs a Berserker is not gonna gonna work, I just cant see it at all. As a mainly Solo Roamer and PvP player I see the class that counters me most is even harder to fight come HoT. I cant see how a class can have both imunity to dmg, Immunity to Condi, best cleansing ingame and Perma Stab all at once….

btw looking forward to that footage Donee

Yea, i don’t see a condition build succeeding against berserker and since i mainly play condi. Let’s see what i can do about, maybe they change some numbers or anything.

Ara.4569:

We already have records of rampage vs lich. In my opinion, Reaper vs Zerker might be close to that, imbalance wise. :>

Also the amount of stability Zerker has far surpasses Reaper’s. As for crowd control, we have more soft CC, all easily cleansed, but less hard CC unless you go signets and corrupt stab ad nauseam.

What if Zerk see he is about to lose and pop rampage? lol

Vydahr.4285:

Seriously, though. Someone should record a Reaper/Zerker brawl next BWE.

Onto it!

Ravezaar.4951:

Lynnie.7213:

Ravezaar.4951:

The stability GM-trait is an insult and a slap in the face of Reaper, we got something ok with Enfuse Terror and thye get PERMA Stab, the also get a better Unholy Sanctory… that Master is imho the best Master Trait presented sofar.

Tho Warrior have already bin Necros hard counter this Elite Specc just widens the gap to Necro further, a gap we closed slightly due to Reaper Shroud being Melee based.

Strongest Elite Spez to date.

I think they want to make the specializations look so good in order to sell HoT, because let’s be fair, the price and what it offers so far is not that attractive., that they forgot about balance. This thing is just broken in so many ways.

Yes and also the fact that Warrior already according to Anet is the nr1 most played class in the game currently just ahead of Ele, has bin so for along time. but this is just pathetic cause Reaper gave us a chance vs the Stab-Heavy and CC-Heavy classes like Warrior and Ele and this just resets that completely…

but I agree with you.. they are selling it

Yea, condi builds will just become useless versus that. Even worse than old shout warrior.
Selling HoT before they bankrupt.

Ravezaar.4951:

The stability GM-trait is an insult and a slap in the face of Reaper, we got something ok with Enfuse Terror and thye get PERMA Stab, the also get a better Unholy Sanctory… that Master is imho the best Master Trait presented sofar.

Tho Warrior have already bin Necros hard counter this Elite Specc just widens the gap to Necro further, a gap we closed slightly due to Reaper Shroud being Melee based.

Strongest Elite Spez to date.

I think they want to make the specializations look so good in order to sell HoT, because let’s be fair, the price and what it offers so far is not that attractive., that they forgot about balance. This thing is just broken in so many ways.

What about that 3 seconds condi cleanse on 4 sec cooldown?
What about 2 sec internal cd on their fire trait, while our chill trait on reaper is 10 sec?

:)

So, berserker get a 20 sec elite that stuns and give them full adrenaline bar.
Reaper get a stun followed by chill with 2 sec cast on a 120 sec cooldown.

Your thoughts? #Balance

Great video, Nemesis. Necro community could use things like this.

TheLastNobody.8319:

Well yes it may consume them, but cleansing ire states they need to hit with an attack to cleanse the conditions. So does that mean as long as they are zero, whenever they hit they cleanse? Sorry sorta confused.

I already saw a couple of warrriors use cleasing ire bow on the ground and condis were cleared. I don’t know if it was a random bug or something. But already happened a couple of times.

I like speed of shadows with reaper, has some good sinergy.

Chillblains provide the best combo for reaper in my opinion. Chillblains + Soul Spiral inflicts 25~28 poison stacks ticking for 4~5k per second on condi build.

Sagat.3285:

TheLastNobody.8319:

do we know how cleansing ire will function with the berserker system?

3 bars become 1 so one burst clears 3 conditions but it would consume zerk state but you need 3 bars to enter it that is how I get it.

I don’t think using F1 ability when you berserker mode will get you out of it. Otherwise would be pointless.

nekretaal.6485:

Necromancers aren’t condition users anymore.

Maybe this should be in the engineer or guardian forum.

(sarc)

Yeah, i kinda agree with you.
But will it counter any profession’s condition build? That kind of condition removal seems pretty strong and often.
What your thoughts?

Seems like Berserker (warrior spec) will hard counter condition builds. They’ll get a new F1 skill with a lower cd and will always count as a full adrenaline bar use.
So if they pick cleasing ire from defense line, they’lll be able to remove 3 conditions in a period of less than 10 seconds on top of others conditions cleanses.

Of course, we didn’t see that specialization in action yet, but why shouldn’t we talk about it?

Mobility we needed

EremiteAngel.9765:

oh man you made the group of TC players at the first fight look bad =(

like how you always make me look bad when we fight lol…

I didn’t made they look bad and never made you look bad, bro.
we always have great fights!

Cecilia.5179:

Lynnie.7213:

Cecilia.5179:

Good stuff. You’ve already replied to me in the YouTube comments, but I’d also like to just say it here too.

Thanks, Cecilia.
Who are you on youtube? Is your name different there? Because i don’t remember to see your name.

A certain little spider. I’ve climbed up a water spout a few times.

Lil spider its you!
Because of you i learnt how to make subtitles for my video. Next one will have subtitles in english and portuguese.

Cecilia.5179:

Good stuff. You’ve already replied to me in the YouTube comments, but I’d also like to just say it here too.

Thanks, Cecilia.
Who are you on youtube? Is your name different there? Because i don’t remember to see your name.

Holl.3109:

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 ;_;

Go deep meele or go home! Rofl
Tbh, i really like d/wh + staff reaper.