Guild Wars 2

Spoj has the best information out there for necros. Hopefully his guide will be of use to you.

http://dulfy.net/2014/06/30/gw2-necromancer-pve-guide-by-spoj/

Sure, I can help you here!

This is what I suggest for you:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJEQNAZ3cjMdTnKvwb334x27+wJ2hDEEUmLgAIBOfCF90raNA-ThSBABUcABoZ/BKV/xMlgXp8DPdDoohZhDggGHEAAeSBiBIP-e

Particularly because it’s exactly what I used to take in groups for Mai Trin and it works perfectly provided you don’t screw up in cannon phase and die.

If you get low on health then swap to lifesteal food, and you should be using Scarlet Slaying potions for +10% damage dealt and -10% damage taken.

The key is to learn how to max-range axe her. With a mace mainhand block you will never be in the position where you’re not able to block her teleport shot.

The longer you stay in melee range btw, the longer it’ll take for her to teleport to you.

I personally take mace offhand swap rather than mainhand actually, because I find that I don’t need more than one block, but I strongly advise you to just run it mainhand for safety precaution unless you feel very comfortable fighting her.

hybrid.5027:

adozu.6398:

i’d gladly trade back some support to some more active playstyle and more meaningful damage to be honest.

Warrior has a very active playstyle if you are trying to have perfect rotations. Also, I’d rather have mediocre dps and be allowed in dungeon runs due to my utility than have great dps and be excluded like engineers.

The hardest part of dealing with PS is getting yourself out of the mindset where you care about your 100b numbers. OMG I CANT HIT 50K HUNDRED BLADES ANYMORE THIS SUCKS. You have to stop looking at hundred blades damage numbers and focus on the number that actually matters: boss kill times.

While I agree with you here and this is what I do, I still can’t help but feel uncomfortable when on my warrior nowadays. It used to feel so relevant, so powerful, but it’s really underwhelming now.

However if we’re talking about boss kill times… they technically are slower than they could’ve been a while ago by a lot. :x

You know what’s fun? Making all the mobs in Arah port to the start of the dungeon. Let’s see you try to skip now, filthy elitists!

It’s true, the trait is ridiculously strong. In fact it’s the #1 reason for taking a warrior now due to several reasons, the main ones being that their personal damage isn’t really relevant anymore anyways and because staff eles are just SO. GOOD.

When the trait first came out I wasn’t very much convinced it was better than scepter+LH and staff ele, but after many months of time and lots of testing it’s painfully obvious at this point that it is the overall best.

However it’s really important to note that it’s not always optimal to run 05063, nor is it always optimal to run 06062, nor always 44060. It all completely depends on the team comp, what’s needed, etc.

Scholar runes are sometimes the best to use with fried golden dumplings or whatever they’re called, and otherwise strength runes are best. Strength sigils are often wasteful and not needed.

There’s a lot to take into consideration here but one thing’s for sure and that’s that Phalanx Strength is currently warrior’s saving grace that redeems itself for what it lacks.

Well sure you can mark me down as a potential candidate for it. Once you get the specifics with what it will entail be sure to let me know. Also posting here is a good way to grab my attention but you can feel free to inbox me too.

It depends entirely on what you want. Just to take videos from my channel for it or what?

Hayashi.3416:

Ranger is not the strongest ranged class, Elementalist is. And fractals are meleeable.

PSA: Flame Axes outdamage Frost Bows on the whole with the exception of FB4. If you’re using FB 4, you should use it and drop it if your sustained DPS is high (staff). If your sustained DPS is low (scepter), you should camp FA instead, then drop in your high bursts in between FAs.

I’ve seen so many Elementalists using Frost Bow’s autoattacks on bosses with no idea why the Frost Bow is used.

Why use flame axe…?

Just use IB 4, 3, and deep freeze depending on whether or not there’s defiance, then drop. No need to use flame axe.

So I will begin making another guide similar to this for eles now.

While I am doing so, I figured it would be worth mentioning something about warrior DPS vs Lupicus in a solo setting.

As many of you guys know, Lupicus is currently bugged and his ranged autoattack hits you regardless of what range you’re in.

This changes things about optimizing our DPS!

It’s actually better to use missile deflection (reflecting while blocking) because each of his projectiles deals more than half the damage we can with hundred blades.

The traits I recommend are:

4 (V IX)
5 (I X)
2 (V)
0
3 (VI)

It may sound weird, but using this allows you to have the bulk of your melee damage while nearly optimizing your damage from reflects while blocking. The weapons that seem to work best are GS + mace/sword.

As for utilities, I’ve found banner to be more of a hindrance than boon at the moment because it’s difficult to avoid pushing him around without always dodging backwards and avoiding whirlwinding through him. Because of this, I find taking the following best:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJIQNAR5cjMdTnKvwbh34xv7+wJ2hEAEIoiZ8QgrhyorNA-TRSBAB0s/Alq/YmSwrU+hnmHU0BoxBBIvnAAAXAAA-e

I’m not entirely sure if it’s best as of yet because I’ve only done a few solos with the new bugged Lupicus as of now, this one being the only one I’ve bothered to upload (with a fail).

I’m not promising when, but this bug will likely be fixed within the next couple of days. If you find it fun, enjoy it while it lasts!

P.S. – I put Superior Sigil of the Night on the GS and mace in the build editor link because there is no option to select Superior Sigil of Undead Slaying. Please keep that in mind.

Ranging isn’t better DPS than meleeing unless you’re an ele, but you should play however you’re comfortable as. Just make sure that depending on which that is, you are not imposing yourself on your group.

If you’re with people that want the group to all be together, do so. If you are with people that want everyone to spread out and range then do so. Respect LFG wishes!

#GettingCloseToAYearNowAndStillNoFix

Nah you’re not the only one.

Forgot to mention this bug is confirmed to have the same problem with all other burst skills, not just eviscarate.

Honestly I don’t find it more fun for him to be like this.

Lupicus’s level of difficulty was perfectly adequate before the update but now it’s going to be terrible for anyone new to him to learn to fight him. Despite whether or not anyone here enjoys challenging themselves I don’t see why this boss in particular needs this much of an upgrade as opposed to many of the other bosses in Arah.

Either way it’ll probably be reverted soon.

It just baffles me how many unintended dungeon related problems surface every single time a small patch comes about, like wtf.

hybrid.5027:

http://dtguilds.com/forum/m/6563292/viewthread/20801055-trio-challenge-post-mortem-thread/page/1

Trio Tournament feedback thread, please participate if you have anything you want to add.

I don’t feel like making an account to post, but I can tell you as both a participant and spectator it was really really starting to get on my nerves how much emphasis was on hotw. I had to stop watching numerous times because it was just getting annoying seeing that like 50% of the tournament was on both hotw and AC p3…

Too many paths were repeated and there were some really good paths that I’d have loved to see teams face up against each other on that never were drawn, for example Arah P2. I don’t think I remember seeing TA fwd either but could be wrong on that.

Basically I don’t think your path picking strategy was ideal. I understand you were trying to avoid teams picking their best paths that they were confident they would win on, and I agree that at the very least this was better than that. However I think next time maybe there should be some system where you cannot have the same paths as the teams did before you, to avoid this. That’s just an idea.

Unfortunately so many teams dropped out but you don’t have control over that. The seeding kinda sucked, especially since Goku’s team pretty much got two free byes up until the semi-finals and didn’t really get a chance to play anyone until then. You didn’t have control over the results, but I think that should indicate to you that the teams who do get seeded probably need to be arbitrarily picked based off of a crowd favorite or something instead of just randomly like that to avoid what happened with that [gggg] team.

Other than those two things, I’m really looking forward to another trio tournament and possibly a duo one as well. More pls!

I still want fox ears more than bunny ears.

Plz.

Good.

I hope that his Necrid Trap gets fixed too but meh it probably won’t

However as for his Lupine Blast (rapid fire in phase 3) attack… I feel like it’s now actually working properly for a change, as in the past it was highly inaccurate and weird to be like 300-400 range away from the circle and projectiles and still take damage. I think that should be left alone.

Another bug with Lupi is that he sometimes will just randomly shadowstep to the wall, bug out, and then spontaneously reappear in the same spot prior to shadowstepping, ccing you in the process. He does this even if you’re the only one in the instance, with no NPC around, and standing in the middle of the arena.

The soldier gear is the least of my concerns. The staff on the other hand…

Erm, sorry but this looks ridiculous regardless of what game mode you’re intending to use it in.

You will not be tanking damage very efficiently at all, will not be dealing damage very efficiently at all, but there’s definitely a good chance you’ll be focused on in PvP because you have no condition removal and have no defense really besides dolyak signet and shield stance, both of which have long cooldowns.

You might want to change the title of the thread, the video title, the video description to say “Ride The Lightning” rather than “Lightning Flash.”

They are completely different skills.

alcopaul.2156:

lordkrall.7241:

alcopaul.2156:

yeah because tragedies happen everyday, right?

Yes, they do.

People die daily from war, starvation, sickness. It usually don’t go a day without a bomb or a mine exploding somewhere, killing or maiming a bunch of people.

but to your loved ones?

Your point is ridiculous.

Anyone with any common sense would know that the April Fools joke has absolutely nothing to do with a plane crash in real life.

Quit drilling lordkrall and making terrible analogies about his family.

So we all know Lupicus has bugged autoattacks now that hit no matter where you stand, but when I went to test him I had an unwelcomed guest make an appearance…

Sad ending though

Well the main reason it’s not worth it is because it doesn’t prevent secondary effects from enemy skills, so if you use it in phase 3 against Life Suck/Life Drink you will heal, but so will he.

If it weren’t for that, it’d be the best healing skill option. Until this bug is fixed, however, it’s very helpful.

Please please make sure you let us know if you will be fixing the many dungeon bugs introduced in the last patch too.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeons-changes-bugs-on-March-31/first#post4936915

Lord Kuru.3685:

You have enough dodges/evades? I had Lupi use Necrid bolt 3 times in a row with two second recharge in between.

Mace mainhand on warrior has a block on 10 second cooldown, sword offhand has a block on 15 second cooldown, signet of stamina gives 50% extra endurance regeneration (so half of what vigour does), my sword offhand has an energy sigil, and greatsword has an extra evade on a 10 second cooldown. Combine this with Defiant Stance, which is an instant full heal during a phase 2 aoe barrage and you’ve got yourself easymode.

Even if I sit in pornographic costumes and do inconsequential PvE tasks, at least I don’t make flamebait threads. So I’ve got that going for me.

Lord Kuru.3685:

As this will probably not be fixed for quite a while (if ever, not to mention it might be intended — who knows, Anet doesn’t communicate):

Anyone done a solo of the new Lupi? I gave it a few tries and got past phase 2 by ranging him, but didn’t last long in phase 3.

I have, off-wall and with mace/sword instead of axe/sword and signet of stamina instead of signet of fury, but I wasn’t able to do a naked solo like I wanted to for a video. I kept getting RNG’d on phase 2 aoes/transition to phase 3.

>Defiant Stance + Riposte
>Hit by an aoe after both still.
>MRW

Upon trying a naked offwall solo, I’ve discovered yet another bug but I don’t know if he was doing this prior to today’s patch.

After a phase 2 aoe, as I’m walking back to him (I dodged backwards and riposted), he just kept shadowstepping and disappearing. Like, you know how he glitches when he shadowsteps to someone that’s on the wall? He was doing that, yet I was COMPLETELY ALONE and in the middle of the arena. He did it three times b2b.

What the kitten. They completely broke this boss.

Rising Dusk.2408:

It’s really impossible for us to determine intent here.

Considering the plethora of other bugs released today including cast times doubled for certain skills, dungeons being incompletable due to certain events bugging out, and much more, I really doubt this was intended. Actually I don’t think a single dungeon-related change today was intended.

I have no proof of it but at this point based off of how out-of-touch they are with this community there’s no way anyone’s going to convince me that out of all the bosses in this game that needed tweaking to up the difficulty, this is the only one they found adequate to change. Not Ancient Ooze, not the Jotun Stargazer, not Berserker Abom, not anything else?

Seems so unbelievably unlikely coupled with what I mentioned earlier about them still letting people instantly blow him up with a conveniently-placed WoR that they would have thought of modifying his ranged autoattack of all things.

Seems pretty obviously unintended considering you can still 1-shot him in phase 2. If they were going to “fix” anything, it’d most definitely be that.

Also despite whether or not there’s people in here who like it, the vast majority of the players that do Arah will likely not.

They now have an unusually long cast time for no reason of 1 second as opposed to 0.5 second.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Harpy_Feathers_
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Order_of_Whispers_Spy_Kit
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ash_Legion_Spy_Kit

I confirm, his ranged attack does indeed hit in melee range now.

Video demonstration of it:

This bug was implemented during the September 2014 feature patch and never fixed.

Instead of receiving the damage increase for the burst skill, the adrenaline is depleted before the skill actually connects, rather than after the skill is executed.

As far as I know the Berserker’s Power trait is still bugged and does not work with burst skills since september 2014. I will test momentarily to confirm it.

EDIT: Confirmed, still bugged. You lose the 15% damage modifier from having full adrenaline built up before the skill actually connects, resulting in the exact same damage as you would with 0 adrenaline.

EDIT 2: Video of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN8zDHSRt6M&feature=youtu.be

This video basically captures the essence of ArenaNet and the beauty of their creation that is known as Fractals of the Mist.

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/6439290

First thing I suggest is changing from stone splinters to renewing stamina. You’ll have permanent vigour as long as you’re always attacking which is much much better than changing your gear because it costs nothing to change traits.

Another suggestion is to use lifesteal food like omnomberry pie/ghost or slices of candied dragon rolls.

Well a lot of people referred to my team as rT team, but it was more like 50% [iV] and 25% [rT] and 25% [Hawt].

Initially it was an rT team, but Element I had to have replaced because he just wasn’t ever available to practice. Ambro left to go to NA twice, so he isn’t in rT anymore and suffice to say had to be replaced too.

I ended up convincing Sesshi, Der(py Moa, and FallenSentinel to join me a week in advance so our team wasn’t prepared to take down SC who had been practicing for months :P

Least we gave them a decent fight, but yea I think my team is what Dub was referring to when he thought we disbanded.

Sandy’s team was the one repping rT and afaik they didn’t even come close to getting through all paths, shame really but that’s what happens when you aren’t ready.

Anyways what spoj said is primarily true but that doesn’t apply to all of us. Some of us, like myself, are very active still and do a bit of almost everything.

In other news, just hit a 3.8k non-crit eviscarate with 65003, banner of discipline, and fury on Lupicus ._.

Regardless of what my ping is, I’ve noticed lately that sometimes in the middle of a conversation all of my chat tabs will work except my whispers.

I also haven’t been able to use guild chat for the past 24 hours. I’ve tried going offline and online again, but I don’t get a message saying “You are not in a guild.” when I do so. I just see nothing appear.

Also a side question:

Why are the chat bubbles still displaying green text? How difficult could this be to fix?

Rainmaker.7594:

One type of exploit has previously been defined as using terrain to disable a boss’ attacks. He can not use his most powerful attacks in phase 3 if you push him to the wall. Therefore, walling him at all (which is required for the WoRsploit) is an exploit.

edit: also, I don’t mind the jp like stuff, as long as its used just to explore. I don’t like it when its used to skip.

You’re wrong. You should learn a bit more about the boss. Lupicus only uses his necrid trap and his frenzied blast depending on how distant you are from him. There are many spots in the middle of the arena which you can stand directly beneath him and he won’t move away. The wall itself has nothing to do with whether or not he’ll use the attack, it just so happens to be easier to push him to it because it’s easier to accidentally budge him away from the areas in the middle of the arena.

This is not an exploit. This is taking advantage of his AI and there’s nothing wrong with fighting him near a wall.

It’s not a bug but I find it just as pathetic as you do, zengara.

I don’t know if I want them to atttempt to “fix” this because it’s probably going to just ruin Lupicus.

As for the jumping puzzles… meh. I don’t want them to add invisible walls but I would definitely like it if they’d make it required to kill all bosses in the paths.

Silv.9207:

In that game, that is the best game to make new builds and where there’s a large amount of possibility, if you play a warrior and you’re not a brainless warrior with berserker GS and axe/mace no one want you in team.
That’s the saddest thing of the game.

So anyone that uses something that they know is best is brainless?

Explain your logic.

Scepter is really, really, really terrible to use for PvE unless you’re only using it to blast in a fire field with prior to taking out a LH. There’s absolutely no other reason to justify taking it unless you don’t care about having dreadful damage output.

It’s not really something that’s up for debate, it has terrible DPS. If it’s what you like then by all means, do as you please.

I have a follow up on that weird Alphard glitch where she resets to full hp. I was testing around with it and I’m pretty sure that it happens when she does her scorpion wire attack, because as you all know it targets everyone in the party, yeah?

Well, what I think is the problem is that her hook targets a player that’s out of bounds for her (behind bone wall, etc) and it causes her hp to just immediately go back to full. I’m not 100% sure on this so maybe someone can confirm it.

I don’t think that’s what causes Lyssa to bug. During duos when I’m not with a thief I’ve many times just jumped up in the corner and waited for both randall + the whispers agent to die to the abom/trash mobs before killing them and have not had Lyssa bug.

What I thought was causing her to bug was someone approaching the statue without the NPCs there, or possibly the whispers NPC getting killed by the champ spider + elite spiders while her dialogue sequence is triggered. It could be one or the other or possibly both but I’m 100% sure that her dying to the abomination after melandru does not bug her.

I don’t want to see anymore wings.

Seeing all the hideous black feathered wings ingame is dreadful enough as it is.

Yeah you’re right. You still need to wait on GS rush cooldown every single time you try though which is very annoying.

I wouldn’t call it “hard” to do without clerics, just more reliable.

The reality is that it’s just… pure luck. As you can see in my guide video, I demonstrate that the light pulses on a global timer. If you happen to start at the exact moment in between the interval of the second passing, you’ll be fine but if you start just as it’s about to hit the next second on the timer then you’ll begin with the damage pulsing earlier.

To do this without clerics you need to be lucky and start at the perfect instance in time.

Now that I think about it I’m not even sure if mango pie even helps more so than rice ball would because it gives vitality. I may test it if I remember to.

It’s caused the same way that mage crusher’s cutscene after he dies may not trigger. Basically there is a certain and specific sequence in which events are triggered and interrupting one means it’ll be impossible to retrigger it because the NPC gets frozen.

In the case of the ritual not triggering I think it’s caused by someone being at the spot that triggers the NPC running to begin the ritual before her dialogue sequence is triggered, which in layman’s terms means someone got to the altar too fast.

Hopefully that makes sense. Basically just make sure you aren’t triggering any events in the wrong order, as some of them are caused by running to an area. GG design flaws.

As for the wraiths not spawning at the ritual… really not sure. That’s happened to me like 3 times only and I haven’t thought of what could be causing that.