Being able to provide water fields is often crucial to WvW support so I definitely wouldn’t go any less than 20 points in water for a support-focused build.
I posted a new topic on this today (Sorry ANet!), and after visiting all zones again (ending at Chantr of Secrets), I did get my star.
New question: That star is supposed to appear for all characters on your account, right? I noticed that my other character still isn’t showing it, though he can boast that he’s, “Been there, done that”. Can someone clarify that this character should show the star as well, or is it just the completing character?
Burning doesn’t deal enough damage by itself to make it worthwhile to center a build around it. Especially when you consider that it doesn’t stack very well with Burning applied by other people.
So that means in order to stay competitive in WvW, everyone will have to grind dungeons for gear even if they don’t care about PvE content at all. Brilliant.
I feel like if Necro is supposed to be hard to escape from the class needs a lot more and more powerful hard CC than it does right now. The amount of CC of pretty much any other class I have played so far greatly exceeds that of my Necromancer.
Considering how imperative condition removal is in PvP even when people don’t run dedicated condition builds I find it hilarious that there is still talk about the “metagame” in this context. Condition removal is never going to go out of “meta”.
Arenanet only bans for exploits that affect the economy of the game or extreme things like flying all over the map to ninja orbs and such. Don’t worry about using this trick.
Eruption+Arcane Wave+Stasis Field is an awesome combo for stacking Swiftness. This is rather important in WvW so I’d really hate to see the effect changed.
Currently they automatically go into equipment boxes instead whenever I swap weapons which is pretty annoying since I use those to sort loot I collect.
first :
the warrior was horible, he made 0 kills by himself with orbs
he rushed in with an zerg behind him and managed to hit 1/2 targets, failed to kill 2-3 players below lvl 80
regarding the guardian he start to fight since minute 9 to the end:
a lot of healing power, low hp pool , some dmg and some armor
if u can see the heals are over 70% of his hp pool, so i assume that his max hp is arround 15 k and he run with over 1k healing power. build looks viable on first sight but as you noticed guardian wasn’t presured by heavy dmg, our boy made max 1 hit of 2500 rest arround 700, and the ranger behind didn’t made heavy dmg either.
You don’t need healing power for Signet of Resolve to heal your entire hp pool.
Well, assuming it stacks multiplicatively with other percental damage increases, it’s still only 4-5% more damage. It really depends on what you’re giving up to get it.
Use full Vitality/Toughness masterwork (green) armor and keep it somewhat up to date, as well as your primary weapon. Use defensive utilities such as Signet of Judgment, Save Yourselves, Hold The Line etc. more than anything else.
Just finished 100% world completion including the Chantry of Secrets. I didn’t get any gifts but I did get the “Been there. Done that.” title and the corresponding achievement.
People that are happy with the class are less likely to post. Discussing potential problems is more constructive than talking about how great everything is, too.
I feel like it’s usually not worth it to go for condition damage on gear in general. You can easily get a decent amount of condition damage just by stacking might via fire field + blast finisher combos.
Unless you’re focusing on healing I really wouldn’t bother with healing power gear. I’d recommend full Knight’s or Berserker’s accessories to go with your Pow/Tgh/Vit armor.
Wells are pretty good AoE nukes in WvW if you get the trait that allows you to ground target them. Life Transfer is an excellent ability as well, especially if traited. With Transfusion it’s a 3k heal over 3 seconds on everyone around you as well as dealing good damage without the need to aim. Marks are great to place traps in front of portals.
All in all, the only downside of the class I see in WvW are the huge cooldowns of all these abilities.
Retaliation will likely receive a major increase in damage once the rest of the abilities granting the Retaliation boon have been adjusted. The only problem I have with this change is that it severely weakens the aoe damage I can put out in PvE with Symbol of Wrath’s damage component.
They don’t want people teleporting right back to an event going on if they die. However since events are currently so trivial anyway, contested waypoints might as well be removed.
Equipment:
Berserker’s Greatsword with Superior Sigil of Strength
2 Superior Runes of Hoelbrak
2 Superior Runes of the Fire
2 Superior Runes of Strength
Mix of Power/Toughness/Vitality Armor and Power/Precision/Toughness Accessories (you should have at least ~40% crit chance with traits)
An alternative to the runes used here are Superior Runes of the Monk and Superior Runes of the Water. These offer 30% extra duration for all boons but at a cost of 10% less might duration and 50 less power.
The basic idea behind this build is to build a lot of might stacks for you and your allies while dealing massive aoe damage with the Greatsword. This build shines especially when fighting multiple opponents.
The secondary weapon set and your utility skills largely depend on your personal preference and the given situation.
Get into an organized WvW raid, then you can easily use a melee-centric build successfully. I’m just using my regular PvE Greatsword build with Judge’s Intervention, Save Yourselves, Retreat and Tome of Courage as utility skills.
If you’re looking to stack condition damage, it’s probably more beneficial to go for a might stacking build since might gives both power and condition damage. Guardians can easily keep up 15++ stacks of might with the correct build and equipment.
