if you wish to play with conditions necromancers have build called condition master. sure other classes can have easier time putting bleeds and get burn but necro can throw conditions back and have skills to spread targets conditions all over and skills to turn boons→condition (and allies condition→boon)
I would be very surprised if they wouldn’t add new skills sooner or later. Game has just come out they wanted to keep it balanced and thousands of skills and class mixes sure would make it hard to make it balanced.
well consume conditions is healing skill i would recommend get asap as without traiting (and even with them often) blood fiend is too fragile to live long enough to be able heal you.
but for other, it depends what kind of game style you wish? try weapons out at least to unlock their all skills. wellmancer, condition master and minion master are the basic archtypes currently. all have their strenghts and weaknesses. but all will you get to 80 and you can easily always switch between builds. it is not that expensive.
Sure they are usable only every 40 secs or so, but using them right time can turn the battle around. Specially when enemy tries attack and they have to go from small area (like gate) so you can force them be in the wells.
with well of darkness (plus chill on blind trait) and well of corrupttion you can slow down enemy zerg and thus hinder its effectiveness greatly. of course it isnt iwin button and you need people to help you to deal the zerg but it certainly helps. and leaving third utility open for depending situation for epidemic or well of suffering
of course in open field wells are pretty useless as there is way to go around. but luckily you can easily switch skills and traits to suite for each situation,
personally i think scepter/dagger & staff is clearly best choice for www due plenty of aoe, good range and being able to throw conditions back. Not really that much different from condition master truly.
It seems there is some teleport area in green (vabbi) borderslands blue (ring of fire ) spawning camp that teleports person running to it to outside the camp. it is just at where stairs at gate starts heading down. added video about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HiM8mG4st0
might be nice skill if it really is 350 cond damage and some power then it should help a lot conditionmancers..
(venting)but again nothing to help minionmancers.. Even though mesmers got their illusions a upgrade. (/venting)
yeah humans racial skills fir pretty well for necro.. i used to use the 12 second condition to enemy/boon self skill at start though then it got replaced by wells. but human racial gives conditionmancer specially some access to burning damage with the balthazar.
i wonder what race would be best, chars get charrzooka which seems pretty nice.
Bit slow start but otherwise ok.
Though i feel it had misinformation, like that you would need to jump at people to get your wells to work when there is trait to make them targetable making them very good in www. You can save yourself and your group from zerg with them with right time right place position.. or then to keep enemies away from siege weapons for a moment.
fear can be handy but unless you have plenty people stacking it its just doesn’t cut it imho. sure if you have clan then you might get people cooperate but otherwise it rarely keep people off long enough.
I have played lots of open pvp world. and while i admit there is some thrilll in it it is ruined because 90% of fights you have to fight you are fighting against someone lot higher level, greatly better geared or at least greatly higher number of people. even gw2 has downscaling on lower areas the high level people have huge advantage over low level one so it wouldn’t work.
If you want open pvp then www is great choice. it has dynamic events with npcs and lots of people searching to kill you and lot people to kill.
I hope they fix pants looking like gloves before they add dueling and chance to block duel invites automatically. hate that duel spam when i try do something.
works for me. and they actually pull quite nice amount hp
well ahven’t played my mm necro bit since i have been leveling my alts now. but it worked week ago.
dagger necro might be what you look for, their life siphons aren’t great nor their damage but they are very durable even on glass cannon mode.. well they don’t really have class cannon mode at all. They can get a lot self heal if you go for blood based build but dps will suffer.
Yeah warrior at least seems bit boring. but try around different classes for some levels. Remember try enough to unlock skills for all weapons
i prefer using scepter/dagger and staff so if you go that line then condition damage at least. I use carrion plus some precision toughness condition damage items mixed to get some extra survivability and it works well. Might not be that much damage but i survive quite a lot damage in www and very durable in pve.
necromancer is fun class, they have some problems with bugs but they are plenty fun and pretty durable, though their damage isn’t amazing.
Tell bit more what kind of gameplay you prefer and it would be easier to point out the class. All classes have their good sides and bad sides. and can have quite different playstyles depending how you build them.
if you want all out from minions you want 20/20/20 in spite/death/blood for 30% damage/50% health and minions life siphon.. well life siphon isnt that important but nice in pve.
leaving you 10-30 to spend for curses if you wish to do condition damage or crit more often. or soul reaving to get some deathshroud stuff, like 15% speed when in shroud as with minions you can’t get speed boosts unless you use horn.
minions are quite softy until you get +50% hp to them from death tree. They are great on leveling though keeping enemies busy for you. With mark of blood you can keep them alive longer specially if you get mark of evasion from blood tree to support it.
wells are great too, with them i would suggest dagger/focus with power/prec (high hp and death shroud give you survivability you need) build (and later levels getting life siphons from blood line to add survivability )
do not downlook epidemic on events, it is fast recharging skill and it is really handy get those conditions to spread around.
Try them out for a bit (of course until around 30 gameplay might change radically, but with trying out all weapons and maybe around level 10 you get basic image. ) and choose which one fits best for you.
yeah mesmer, elementalist or necro would be the casters to choose from. Specially necro requires lots of skill since no one has yet mastered necros death shroud even devs have said it is OP. They are my favourite though but elementalist are fun too and mesmers have their good stuff though they seem to be late bloomers, but are great help in www.
spectral walk is great speed utility. other choices are to slow down thief with cripple and chill or with daggers immobilize. Or then switch to longer range weapon or shroud and attack from distance.
Edit: whoops how did i read it was about trebuche?.. must be my brains in friday mode.
That sounds quite lot for i got hit something 11k when i was trying take down one.. yeah they hurt quite a lot but what grinds my gear is that they can shoot behind.. flanked one and stayed behind cballista all the time and still died after gettign 2 hits from it combined with some other enemies attacking me.
with my minion mancer i tend to stay close to allies but keep looking back and around for flankers and time to time attack bit deeper to tag people about to escape with bleeds so they will go down even if they get to their allies.
with my wellmancer i tend to get more aggressive and do strikes to enemy to force them retreat throwing my wells to their feet and backing up. and since she uses dagger immobilizing and so on on enemies who end up getting too close.
well if it were regeneration it wouldn’t do that much as regen doesnt stack intensity and if it was life siphon effect.. well life siphons aren’t that great.. and since aoe skills are capped to hit only 5 people . Though of course if like 10 stacks of blood would cause 10 siphons and that was spread to 5 people that would be hard for one person to kill but would die still very fast if all those 3 people attacked necro.
it is quite lot at time but once you get to 70+ areas you can get that money in couple seconds with bit of luck.
well ok in couple seconds requires uite good luck and doesnt happen that often but it doesn’t take too long .
It would be great , and same for flesh wurm necrotic travel. It is so annoying when you think you can escape the enemy but there is little speed bump on ground and you end up moving only meter or two backwards
Now if we had healer to back us up with our area agro skill we would be awesome.. coudl that be it.. get couple heal specced eles heal your behind and take agro while group of thieves ninja middle of enemies and starts to whirl around killing everything.
well to be honest i have been able to optimize DS usage a lot when i concentrated learning it but its no win button like that whirl or heatseeker or 100 blades aso.
Yeah i used similar tactic too with my asura necro. Though overally i think it was boost but would be nice if they added the earlier versions (with the other boosts skill got)
I think spectral walk got now lot better though i must admit that i am going to miss shroud suicide life transfering (spectral walk→ go middle enemies drop wells and shroud to life transfer until SW takes you safety.)
Agreed. With other classes it is like oh yeah i had this amazing buff in my utility slot too, i would need to use it more often.. while on necro i am waiting and waiting the cooldowns go down.
on necro that would have been something like on 0:05 pop shroud. then getting pulled knocked thrown around the walls to somewhere 0:10 and couple seconds to finish necro.
well with help of rogue necro might have managed to escape to try something. Perhaps managed to over surive the bunch as they aren’t genuinely 80.
Knew that gem prices will rise as people get higher and get the gear they wanted, so while leveling i used my moneys to gems and bought account upgrades instead putting it temporary gear and other that kind stuff.
necros can also be pretty good offensive style healers.. heal with mark of blood and evasion and death shroud traits while taking transfering conditions (with staff #4 and maybe on plague signet if it gets changed to actually take conditions away instead copying them) or turning them to boons with well of power
As minion master you ahve so many minions that atleast few of them usually attack and while problem exists its not game breaking, as you can still kill mobs even without using utilities (and with other builds you pretty much are every now and then without help of utilities. )
sure dps suffers but i have done to level 80 and done dungeons without major problems.
epidemic and well of suffering are pretty nice utilities. spectral walk can be handy for mobility then blood is power has great synergy with off hand dagger #4 and epidemic
so i got space for 2 different necros (mm and wellmancer ) and other classes