Guild Wars 2

I don’t think ANet should remove the possibility to shroudstomp or shroudrez. They should just make it possible without pressing 2 buttons at the same time. People (and guys, seriously, i can both shroudstomp AND dodgejump even tho my shroud is still on F1) can do it anyways, so why not implement it so that everyone can use it?

THAT’s the entire intention of this thread. If elementalists can stomp in mistform, why cant we stomp in deathshroud at least?

Even if eles and engineers still can safestomp with their invulnerability skills, it makes me sick that we cant even use our deathshroud to achieve a health buffer when stomping/rezzing. But I totally agree that eles and engineers should not be able to stomp while using their mistform or elixir S.

Okay, I can clearly see that we have two topics in this one that need to be separated:

I: Difference between transformations: elementalist, engineer, necromancer. Ele and engineer can stomp while being invulnerable and they can do that without pressing 2 buttons. They can start the stomp and then – if needed – hit their invulnerability button to safely stomp the enemy. Necromancer can shroudstomp which can only be done by pressing 2 buttons at the same time, so he has to think about whether to do it or not BEFORE he starts to stomp. And even then its…well its no mechanic, its a weird thing to do. Also, necromancer can plague stomp – on a 180sec cooldown which renders the eliteskill pretty useless for that imho. I don’t think we have to always be able to safestomp, I just want to make sure that transformations work the same or our transformation works better than theirs: its the basic class mechanic! Why can’t we rezz? Or even stomp? It just does not make sense at all. Even lore-wise: when entering death shroud we’re still part of our team.

II: Other ways to safely/strangely stomp: I understood that we have :
- plague stomp (stomp and activate plague after that, like mistform on ele)
- shroudstomp (press stomp+shroud buttons at the same time)
- well of darkness (blind the enemy to…not interrupt you when u stomp? doesn’t make sense in many environments, could be helpfull sometimes tho)
- necrotic traversal/spectral walk stomp (sorry, i didnt get that. we can stomp and then while we stomp port away to not get interrupted and the stomp still works? or what? I’m confused, clarify plz)

That is all….what?

wiazabi.2549:

Why is Death Shroud / plaqueform / lichform stomp still being suggested as solution to this?

The way to do the stomp can in no way by anyone be seen as proper use and is pretty much just exploiting untill the time ANET figures out how to remove the ability or give us a proper option to do this.

You cant res in Death shroud you cant stomp in Death shroud but hey if your skilled enough to hit the buttons at same time you can………….cmon please.

This is absolutely correct. It’s just stupid to say “but hey, you can press 2 buttons at the same time to achieve not even half of what an elementalist can do”. Seriously, that’s just stupid.

180sec CD.

Why do you guys compare a COMPLETE INVULNERABILITY SKILL like mistform to plague? And why do you compare “press F and then press mistform button” to “press f1 and f in the exact same time and if you fail you cant DS for 10sec because of CD”?

You both are right. It is a fact that you can deathshroud stomp enemies when you perfect the timing. But it is also right that eles can just click a button and are invulnerable to CC, damage and everything else without perfecting anything. I would be fine with us just being able to rez and stomp in deathshroud, no matter of stability or whatever. A 30SR build would at least be worth then.

Why can ele stomp in mist form without being harmed at all and we cant even stomp in deathshroud?

So eles can stomp while in mistform only pressing a button, but we have to bugdoublepress 2 buttons at the kittening same time? Are you kidding me?

That’s not even slightly an argument bro

cant stomp while in deathshroud? Totally makes sense, right?
I demand deathshroud stomp! NOW! (please?)

lore.

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oh my god it’s not :o

It’s account bound.

Is this an official statement from somewhere?

Will the unique items like chef recipes, tonic recipe and the minipet/jetpack be achievable after may 12th?

Aza.2105:

JonPeters.5630:

I’ll take a look at how it compares to Necro staff auto. I will say that when this does hit it is the highest DPS #1 skill in the game. We wanted it to feel this powerful but difficult to land but the effect may be too exaggerated. I’ll play some PvE and PvP scepter Guardian later today.

Jon

Thanks for responding Jon, I think its long overdue.

It maybe the highest dps in the game WHEN it hits. Problem is in pvp it never does really. The attacks are so slow and tend to miss the target even if they move slightly.

Also smite is just as bad. Sometimes the attacks do not register. Fixing skills 1 and 2 for scepter would be a big improvement. I’d actually use the weapon!

What is shown in the video can be done with every single projectile based attack in the game. Go play Necromancer with a staff and you’ll QQ, your scepter is perfectly viable.

red.5013:

For me it seemed that control is the key, not zerker dps.

How dare you tell people to not facerool their keyboards while pressing 112f112f112f on their zerker dps warriors? Everything should be doable with least effort and zero tactics. Ah and the devs should be flamed more. Jesus christ…

AoE remove all conditions. Just sayin’.

I just have the personal feeling that the necromancer could turn out to be the “we don’t care” profession nearly every MMO has or had. There always is one profession which doesn’t get the attention it deserves, making players of that profession feel unheard.
A simple “yes, we’re reading this forum, thanks for the feedback” would be enough.

In this forum we have 31 pages without a dev statement about our concerns regarding the necromancer. Does anyone from ANet even read this forum? I mean I can understand if you don’t want to reply because you are to busy, but it would be good to know if posting in here still is a good option to give feedback about the profession.

No need to discuss in the necromancer forums as no dev is reading/replying here anyways. But yes, epidemic in it’s current state is absolutely useless in WvW or PvP and so the condition based necromancer has been silently nerfed to death.

I’m refering to the NPC, not my ugly green haired sylvari woman

If possible, I’d like to not overclock and to change the least possible amount of parts of my computer to keep the budget as low as possible. But thanks for your advice so far, I’ll keep it in mind

I experience rather bad FPS in WvWvW so I activated dummy models for everyone. Still, in big zerg situations, my FPS drop below 20. Average playing in dungeons or fractals is acceptable on medium settings. Please note that both BIOS and all drivers are up to date.

My question is: what should I upgrade first?

Here’s my spec:
Mainboard Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3
CPU I3-2100
RAM 8GB
Graphics GeForce GTX 460 (a “overclocked by vendor” variant)
SATA-I 1TB HDD

Am i right that the I3-2100 is the component that should be upgraded first? I thought about getting a boxed I5-3570. I try to keep my computer to be low budget.

Thanks in advance

I think the main problem about underwater skills is that noone really is thinking about what to do and what to combine to be effective. If you don’t have to use it, you clearly won’t think a lot about it.
As necromancer, underwater combat is pure fun. Switch weapons, use different skills than above water, etc – all cool stuff with a lot of variety to daily gameplay.

One of the most amazing things in DAoC was the introduction of ToA: not for the artifacts, but for the massively huge submarine zones and things you could do.

GW2 has a great working underwater system – including one specific piece of armor and specific weapons dedicated to submarine gameplay. Right now, there is no real use of it.

I thereby suggest implementing a huge water zone with ruins, large leviathan-like mobs, events and maybe a dungeon. That would surely kick kitten!

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.5|b.1c.h1b.8.1h.h9|6.1g.h1b|1g.7j.1h.7j.1h.7j.1h.7j.1h.7j.1p.71j|4s.0.2s.0.31n.0.2s.0.2x.0.2s.0|u67c.u27b.0.0.a6|0.0|3r.4d.3u.45.0|e
I’m going for this one. For scepter/dagger – dagger/focus just put out the staff and put in your favourite berserker weapons. Also switch the 20 spite active trait to the 20% cooldown+range focus thingy. Should perfectly work out.

By the way, that spec’s shown as just awesome. It’s pure DPS with the possibility to use conditions OR staff/deathshroud/lich form whenever you like. It’s great both in WvW and PvE.

This is mine, legendary is pretty fresh

oree-tshal-kuuum

lack of gear grind? try getting a legendary. you’ll rename it to Grind Wars 2 then.

will there be carrion ascended jewelry coming with march patch?

Zedrix, could you clarify a bit: so the chat says Longbow of dragon’s deep (I checked the screenshot, you’re right) but the item tooltip says Kudzu? Can you put both Kudzu and aether into the mystic forge, that means, does Kudzu count as exotic in mystic forge terms?

Zedrix.2104:

I used the Orion longbow. Longbow of dragon’s deep. I didn’t realise until now when I unequiped it, it says the name of the bow it was transmutated from.

Clarification + screenshot please

Official statement would be awesome.

Zedrix, what exotic did you use to transmute onto? Crafted or dungeon? What sigil did you chose while transmuting? Maybe it does matter.

Any updates?
Will transmuted legendaries automatically upgrade to ascended stats?

Heya!

Since Meteorlogicus has pretty useless stats (for me), I thought about transmuting it onto something more usefull.

Now 2 questions:
1. will it still be legendary?
2. will it “upgrade” automaticly when ascended weapons will be introduced?
3. do I have to keep the sigil?

Hi,

thanks for your input, although a spec with 10 in power is not exactly what I call “has burst”
I’m currently fooling around with 30/30/0/0/10 with scepter/dagger and staff in offhand. I wasn’t able to test it a lot, but until now it wields a good amount of condition damage (around 750 on sc/d) with a nice opportunity to burst (staff+DS). I’ll keep trying and if I think it’s viable, I’ll maybe write up my gear and my exact spec + playstyle to get more input/comments or just to show others

Thanks so far!

Final Rest (Necromancer only)

Scythe-animation is wrongly displayed at the hand of the character, not at the top of the staff where it should be.

I guess we hate it because it’s obviously bugged and looks kinda stupid

Any news on this issue yet, Jason?

Hey Torqky and Dylninja, thanks for your postings.

My “scepter based condition spec” until now was http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQUQNArYWjMat7pbOb8bKipCZDSx77V0DiZskRVYdA but it lacks the ability to burst. It’s a pure scepter/dagger-spec with no possibility to actually hit the crap out of something. If your enemy loses your conditions or if you have to attack structures (think of CoE), you’re pretty much kittened up.

For Torqky’s builds: I don’t really get that spec. I’d prefer to go for the 0/30/20/0/20 variant as I dislike uneven numbers in traits, but I don’t exactly get that spec. Can you clarify a bit?

For Dylninja’s build: I’m unsure whether a condition spec based on using the scepter is viable without 30 in curses. Could you also clarify a bit about the playstyle of that build?

Thanks guys!

Well I like to use DS offensively, but I can live with anything, as long as the spec is viable and mainly scepter/dagger based

I’d love to see fancy male light armor t3 cultural colorations. Bring it on guys!

Issue needs to be resolved asap plz. Focus is the most important offhand weapon we have.

Serious issue which needs to be resolved asap. Weaponswitch in DS is vital for us, give it back plz

Heya! I am looking for a viable PvE/WvW scepter based build that is no pure condition damage build. I often see that purely condition based builds are extremely week when it comes to structures or burst damage, so I need something like Zintair’s build ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/WvW-Critmancer-Build-Power-Condition/first ) with a lot more focus on using the scepter.

Why? Well, I like the scepter and its’ skills and I love the offhand dagger in combination with that. I also plan to get Meteorlogicus because Bifrost just looks stupid.

I thought about something where you use your scepter like 80% of the time and only switch to staff for…more range or something.

Any ideas will make me a happy man

I love the idea of playing lettucemode’s build, thanks! I’ll keep you informed

Hey Zintair,

I am very interested in this spec as it really seems to combine the most powerful things the necromancer has – deathshroud burst and condition (spreading).
I altho do not really get the playstyle of this spec by the pure explaination in your postings. I guess you use the staff like 90% of the time and “sometimes” switch to scepter, is that correct? If so, I do not really get the 30 in curses.

Could you clarify that a bit more? I would really like to learn more about this build and its playstyle before i get all the necessary gear for it.

I am sure that both the PvP skill bug and the animation bug on the scythe staff are topics that have to be adressed too. But I think you should create new topics for those issues as I guess that they won’t be noticed in this thread.

I’ve nearly never done sPvP with my necromancer. As I am planning to do so, I was wondering about what build to chose. There were several around, like fear is my weapon or d/d necro. There even is a build thread where I can find…yeah, a lot I guess. But what about you? What’s your favourite necromancer sPvP build? Let’s pretend it’s not for premades.

Thanks a lot Jason. Please keep us informed about this topic (if possible)