so then please explain to me how you keep perma swiftness, or perma protection. And the 14-19 mights
no id rather not. its abuild a guildie and i worked on and we are the only two that know/ use it. ill tell u the stats tho.also its only perm swift with about 66% uptime on regen and protection.
3022 att
45% crit chance
3300 armor
18472 hp
22% crit dmg
33% uptime retaliation
66% uptime protection
66%uptime regen
perma swift
might is tricky.
first 21 secs i get about 17ish stacks on average by myself.
my might sits around 8-10 stacks constantly. Oh and the enemies sit on about 5-8 stacks of vuln if they dont cleanse off.
i agree we can get high might(blood is power,life blasts,signets),and especially with the spite 25pt minor trait
perma swiftness ? perma swiftness is possible with 30 on boon duration + traited warhorn ? protection uptime is from wells and spectral armor? retaliation we also have many sources of getting it, i think its our way of attrition…
imo power is the way to go. theres a way to get super op with power. necros have alot of condi peels so it is easy for other necros to also use those condi removes along with other classes(thief) but if u build smart with power u can be un stoppable.
p.s mystogan will own natsu =3
a joke? i get 14-19 stacks of might for 30-40 sec my self ive hit 25 before. along with 33% uptime up time on regen about 66% uptime on protection perma swift.. around 10% up time on retaliation? and thats all on top of 3.3k armor and 3k attack and 45% crit chance we get mad boons.
Eh idc about 5,15 those are not the traits that matter in my build. In fact if they do only change those two minors then it might even make my build more op
I dont take any minions. But yea 3k att 3.3k tough almost 100% uptime on all buffs except ageis, perma swift . 14-19 might stacks by tself? Also about 10 constant stacks of vuln oh and theres ds where #4 hits for about 5k aoe and lf hits for 3k with no might. Oh and the mass condi clear. Terrble right?
Death magic is fine as is. I dont play mm and i still trait 30 in DM. I have:
-over 3k att,
-45% crit chance,
-27% crit dmg
-3.3k tough(3.7 when buffed),
- PERMA-swift.
-33% protection uptime.
-about 14-19 might stacks 66% up time,
-about 15 secs of regen every 30 secs.
I really dont see whats wrong with this trait tree. does anyone know exactly what is going to be reworked? the only thing id like to see changed is minor 5 and 15.
also PU is very forgiving. if you screw up you have alot of options and actually pu builds are quite hated right now because of it, just like warrior sig
A very ROUND build would be a PU build. it can go either power or condi. round meaning that it does not excel or suck at anything it is very average and is capable of handling all types of content. PU does excel in 1v1s,pvp and roaming wvw. full zerker is not advised unless you are more experienced and if you go condi never go full glass. for power maybe knights/valks. for condi prob carrions
You get mobility from fgs #3/4. IF you do not target an enemy and you use #4, you will run and leave a trail of flames behind, ifyou do target one you will leap to the enemy with no trail. so, if you have the assist setting on, you cannot run through an enemy, you will walk in to them because of unit collision. So if you immobilze an enemy and use #4 when you do not target them, you will stack all the fire in one place and do massive dmg 1 shotting most classes
And ive tried 10% and its not worth. Instead of hitting 5k it only raised it to 6k while if u switch out of LH and use electiric burst it does about 10k in the first 2 secs and about 3k for every next 2 secs. Also 10%crit dmg obviously only works wen u crit and u are not guarenteed to crit with 49% chance so it will be a 1-2k crit increase ONLy when toy crit when techincally is 50% of the time
1 for wen L H is on cd
2 for when water attune is on cd
3 for decent damage wwhen not using LH.
You cant rely soly on LH thats jst dumb. Havjng dmg all round is good. Esp since lightning can burst hard.
Okay so heres a ham build i call itkittenthunda cause the shape in the traits lol
0/30/10/20/10
Air take bolt to the heart, air mastery? (10%dmg while in air) and whatever u want.
Earth take splintered stones
Water take arcane causes vuln, 20% dmg to vuln enemies while n water
Arcane take cdr
Utilities: arcane wave, arcane power and LH
Elite take fgs
Honestly stwalth is fine. Ive fought against hackers that abuse stealth to use there hacks and then after there is no proof to show anet. Im not saying stealth is op or anything i jdt want it in the combat log. Having dmg go not recorded is messed up
20% is a bit much for the proc, thief war evicorate, necro life blast, els fire grab/ drag tooth are only class i can see that can do 20% in 1 hit with out major survivability penalties. hundred blades counts as many attacks so does necro axe #2 and alot of others. most proc skills are 10% for this reason. smoke without fire is cool but maybe it should blind instead? having a smoke field for two attacks on dagger, then having the trail on fgs and conjure axe would seem strong, esp if running focus with the refelct and air field.
Like what? it does massive dps… not to mention the huge mobility. if you dont have a target #4 leaves a trail of fire which if you run in to an enemy that is immo it will almost 1 shot them. on top of that it kills wow siege very good and the treb in pvp it also gives good stat boosts. the only problem i can see is that it does not proc sig of restoration cause its a conjure. and thats not even a problem for me cause i use ether renewal
If this isnt a bug then it should be fixed. While an enemy is in stealth if you hit them, the damage will not show up in the combat log. Perfect time to use the hax. no proof of damage or anything. if this isn a bug, like i said it should be fixed to where it shows up in the log.
it does matter because i rather be aoe-ing in an intelligent manner instead of hopping around hoping to lluckly hit a stealthed enemy where as if you follow your combat log you will at least be able to make a decent guess as where the other player is. also its a great time for those who hack to use them to heal up or turn on invuln because who would know if you hit them or not? it doesnt show in the log so theres no proof of the damage so one cannot claim that they are hacking. only saying this because of previous experince with a ranger that would magically reappear with full hp out of stealth every time no matter how low he was or even when his healing well was on cd.
I think the staff needs to leave marks behind and create a whole new set. i dont like the idea of laying down marks on the ground and either waiting for ppl to step in them or laying them on the player. not only is it not that great for dmg it gets repetitive and boring. I think staff for a necro should include alot of life siphoning to team members and fields like darkness or frost fields.
Heres a pvp condi build i use for teh lelz. It uses focus and i take earth recharge for its reflect and invuln. with this build im in earth 80% of the time so the recharge helps a lot
You just need a build that uses one elemnt alot and then uses the other as support, like fresh air builds. it would help alot to have 20% cdr in the air trait tree, but most ppl take bolt, training and fresh air. If you play staff water cdr is helpful for fields in wvw. On the other hand if you are using a focus, having earth CDR is very good with earth 4/5. I do agree that they are better on other profs but they do have their uses and it might be good but it doesnt compete with the meta.
At the boss fight at the end of the ice fractals, if you are looking where he stands when he drops ice, to the left theres a little area with an invisible wall if he puts up ice blocks when he is fighting and you are near it it will push u to the other side of the wall and you cannot get out nor damage him nor teleport back in.
Im rather new to spvp. i have almost 900 games under my belt. Why didnt they just leave in the diversity of builds by having all stats on armor and trinkets and weapons and keep the different stat scaling? they im sure the vendors are capable of holding other things like trinkets and armor. it would bring more diversity to builds instead of seeing sig ham war s/d thief spirit ranger every single game.
This is for wvw roaming, obviously. No barbarian gear here..
In wvw there is only 1 viable build and that is cantrips..
I think this is kind of an over exaggeration. It is mostly D/D builds who take 3 cantrips because their survivability for a melee build is astonishingly bad compared to other melee builds of other classes.
If you look at it closely, almost all melee weapon sets of other classes have either Evades, blocks, or a combination of both on a very tolerable cool down. They either have tons of evades and blocks or they have natural medium~high HP/armor or access to stealth. Now look at Eles, lowest HP and armor in the game. Main hand dagger has 0 access to evades for a whole year (will be given 1 on the march patch). Off hand dagger has one evade on Updraft on a 40 second cool down. Dagger main hand offers no survivability outside of Shocking Aura which is easily contered by stability. This is why people are forced to get defensive cantrips.
As for s/x builds, they usually go for “kill-before-you-get-killed” builds. When I go for Scepter I usually go with 2 arcanes and Lightning Flash. The blinds, although Dust Devil is a bit unreliable, are your bread and butter for survivability. While it is weaker than Evade (because you can only blind very limited number of enemies), it is decent enough for a ranged weapon.
100% correct. I use s/d wvw roaming and alot of other ppl do too. i also take two arcances but i switch up the last one a lot.
Alot if what you want to know is can vary depending on playstyle. Like what kind of trait setup do you want? A cantrip build a sig build a burning build a crit build? If you specify a little more i could help. Ik u said d/d roamer but what kinda utilities do u use and what traits?? If you want a crit heavy build my rule of thumb is never go velow 40% crit chance. Going full zerkers gives about 39%. But so does full barbs and full knights., the difference is that u grt alot more survivabilit with the ladder of these.
Lol. No geomancy. Its to much ive tested this for a month now and with geomancy i only get 10 stacks and thats only if im sitting on top of an enemy to hit him with the ring. And all condis are easy to remove… Tey dont have priority over others… Burnings easy to remove to and so is confusion and cripple. And i get 2 mins of burn regularly. Since i stay in earth i wait for a cleanse switch to fire hit arcane power auto 5 times and switch back to esrth. It ticks for 30-45 secs most time. Somtimes ill switch to earth to immobi on the ladt arcane power. Im not asking for advice ive tested this throughly in solo q in team tournies and in hot join and it stands up to other condi builds like a beast. The only condi build ive had trouble against is necro.
20 stackss of bleeding + 2 mins of burning? im fine thanks.and u forgot arcane precision. it all adds up they usually end up running i find them dead a few secs later. This allows me to apply burning in other attunements. if i focus on just bleeds 1 condii clense cankil even 25 stacks of bleed. where as compared to if they have a move that clears a condii, i will still have either burning or bleed, but not both.
I am running a condition ele build myself, which i am really enjoying. Sure it isnt the overpowered mess that most condition builds are but its a lot of fun.
My advice:
Burning – This will be a key condition. With this in mind. Replace Scepter with main hand Dagger, while Scepter has some decent skills it loses several key ones as well – Drakes Breath, Cone of Cold, Frozen Burst, Shocking Aura, Ring of Earth and Magnetic Grasp can all be very useful in various fights. Even without buffs Drakes Breath can do like 8-9k Burning, plus its great being an AoE. Burning Speed is also a VERY good skill.
I would replace the rune set and go for Undead Runes, Replace the amulet for Carrion Amulet and grab Settlers Jewel. This will give you 1,468 Condition damage, 1,411 Toughness and nearly 18,000 health. Sigil wise, you are wasting them as well. Go with Geomancy for Damage and AoE bleeding The second one is your choice, Seeing as Burning is such a key condition could go with 10% Burning Duration.
Trait wise – 10 in Fire is rather wasted, the proc for burning is rather low and you have plenty of access to burning without it. I would put them points into Earth for more Condition Damage and Toughness and grab either Earth’s Embrace or Diamond Skin depending on who is on the other team I would also replace Serrated Stones with Elemental Shielding. As you will now have 2 Auras (with D/D) and you will need them to not die rather easily. Replace Arcane Retribution with Elemental Attunement this will help both you and your team mates with some very decent buffs.
Utilities wise, mostly okay. Glyph of Elemental Power can be very handy. You can trigger it in one attunement and then switch to another and keep the condition from it. I run with Arcane Shield, Arcane Power and either LF, EP or GoS depending on the situation.
Elite wise, we are as a conditon build rather screwed. In WvW i mostly use Reaper of Grenth (Human Elite) but FGS can be very good as well thanks to its nice Burning it has.
I jst kiled a sig hammer war with this build =3 made sure he couldnt get to me with arcane surge
Lol, this means nothing really. We have no idea on his/her skill level, what sort of build they were or anything else about the fight. You could very well go against another Sig warrior and get owned.
Yes but i wasnt sure if bleed was the way to go because of earth IV which allows 5% dmg when an enemy has bleed and 20% duration.. i wasnt sure if that was better then another condii. Also this allows me to apply bleeds while in fire attunement too, so while i am applying my burning burst i can get bleeds sometimes too
