Guild Wars 2

Condi fits current meta better.

If we shift to more bursty/squishy meta, Power Necro could be better.

Wellmancer is fairly average on any meta unless you build your team around it.

Also, Well=/=Power Necro.

Don’t play with ones who play either Human Female or Asura.

Here, solved problem. You will thank me later!

To Christian Desert!

To Jerusalem!

Sadly, ArenaNet refuses to expand the Shroud mechanic and buff other Lich abilities dps wise.

So yeah, 1111111.

I picked up Warlords of Draenor lately. Pretty nice gameplay and stuff, doing some raids at nights from time to time. ArenaNet could take lessons from Blizzard when it comes to guiding player through the linear story. Maybe the story itself isn’t that complicated, but imo, execution is top notch.

As for recent games… I’m waiting from GTA V for PCs and whole modding community and playing Age of Empires II&III (I’ve never known that there was the Forgotten Campaigns DLC!).

Even Scarlet…

Scarlet Wind?

Necromancer needs player’s attention, understanding and knowledge. Fun and tactics come with experience.

Heh. I guess someone had too much of a free time and troll intentions.

Sorry, but this is such a bullkitten I cannot even push myself into belief territory.

:)

No wonder somebody tries to throw an ugly rock into the lake and make a wave. It’s been still for such a long time.

LICHFORM BACKSTAB BOOM SHAKALAKA!

nexxe.7081:

The Living World was just the beginning.

…interesting.

Happy New Year to upcoming games!

I resolve to solve unresolved.

You could use more mobility in WvW roaming, generally slotting Plague as elite, should expect more condi bunkers, be aware of zergs, you can equip Dire for condi and mix stats for power. You also are likely to use other runes than Nightmare.

^WvW

Best MMO of 2014 is, hands down, Warlords of Draenor. Over 4 million players returning to the game made the choice and brought the award.

Guild Wars 2 is okay, but unless they baked the expansion for 2015, I can’t see it’s success.

Indeed!

More buffs to Power Necro!

Make us scale 2x better!

Pleaseeeee….

Know your opponents’ builds. That alone will make your life as a Necro easier and you’ll figure out best tactics by yourself.

Pay attention to your Proc fears. If you know you have that RProt up, there’s no point in breaking a stun from skullcracker with no stab/zerk as he will get feared on CC.

Focus on boonspammers, always keep your Wurm up, ready to port – don’t save your SA and port only for CC – if you know that there’s burst coming, just use the cooldown.

And play in a patient way. Don’t blow all your cds or fears at once. In 1v1s balance between your LF and HP and take your time.

Just be a Necro.

Harbinger.8637:

Not playing pvp.

That’s da Spirit, mon!

It would be Prismatic Understanding 2.0 .

There’s whole play around kiting INTO traps in some builds or leaving them spreaded on escape.

NeXeD.3042:

I was completely unaware that axe 3 is a stealth detector and “renders” d/p theives are these new features? If all that was meant by that was it hit’s them in stealth well ok. But the words “detector” and “render” are misleading.

SA gives thief stacking might while in stealth. Unholy Feast removes whole stack, cripples them, forcing to either Shadow Shot or Steal/port to close the distance for Backstab (as you’re running at full speed).
It also applies retaliation on hit, so if I get the retaliation upon cast, I know that Thief is near and preparing for opener, so I can prepare myself or do any counter-action, which leads to overall advantage. Damage isn’t bad, too.

Ghastly Claws follows, yep. But the same goes for Rending. Your AA will often show you general direction where the Thief is heading, so you can react better.

NeXeD.3042:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNArYWjc0UebfNG3wfbighSyW4Di+ACgzlykIKA-TJxHwAA3fwYZAxPBAAnCAA

This is basically noscocs build but I use generosity sigils instead of geomancy and frailty. Seems to work well for me, decent balance of defense and offense for a condi necro build.

Personally, I like having Energy on both sets and the Leeching on staff with Geomancy on Scepter.

Blinking Wolves!

Bring Axe. Unholy Feast is a stealth detector and renders D/Ps when givinvg a nice retaliation refund to cheesy P/Ds.

Also, Rending follows in stealth.

People, people…

You should totally start a Skype Conference and stream that!

Here, my cute rabbit of approval 4you!

I recall one guild’s name.

“<Character name> Mounts ur mum”

So I guess there could be mounts out there.

In all seriousness,
You will have to use your imagination.

theoutsider.7849:

glock.6590:

Chaith, It’s not about being easy but too strong compared to other builds. Can you explain why cele ammy users can have the tankiness of a bunker and the damage of a zerker? Might as well delete other amulets .

Or something as dumb as 2 Powernecros and a Mercy Warrior?

I literally stopped reading right here.

And bursted with laugh, throwing chewed pieces of muffins at your post.

EDIT: Okay, I thought I will be a little more constructive this time, keeping it short.

I like Power Necromancer, I main it. It’s crap against Celestials in anything more than 1v1 and, because I have very specific playstyle, it’s also crap in long teamfights outside of Lich.

So in tpvp, I play Terror, like everyone else. It doesn’t have problems with celestials, it’s cool and everything.

The problem with celestials, imo, is just :
1. After 2,5y, there’s still only conquest gamemode, where every cele can be stand-alone bunker and stack with other celes very nicely,
2. Not everyone can play Terror/PoC to it’s full potential. It’s very pro-active, contrary to most GW2 which is re-active. It feels slower, requires setting up, planning…
3. Necromancer’s don’t stack unless you take Epidemic. Which 50% of Necromancers don’t even know about. Celestials do.
4. Finally, Celestial Trio is universal. It’s like jeans.

As a summary, I would suggest you guys to gather some friends, dust off your skiing equipment and cover this game with a gold stream of shame if you don’t like it.

Meet me in Dolomites!

I wouldn’t mind Elementalist getting straight more healing based on heavy investment in HPower, but trading evasions/passive damage reductions in exchange. It would differ it from other supports and make it’s support role more clear when not being good all-rounder as it is now.

Like, Elementalist could possibly keep whole team topped if played around, and heavily specced into, but would need strong peels.

Bunker being heal/CD oriented (something Necromancer was a bit supposed to be but clearly isn’t) while the dps being evasion/rotation oriented.

Just thoughts.

Yea!

They should also pay me to log-in, daily!

GW1 Celestials from Cantha would be proud of this meta!

Give us Grenth’s Balance Elite from GW1 and make it work on bosses.

Here, Necromancer required in every single PvE encounter.

;)
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Grenth%27s_Balance

Soo… if, let’s say, I am unemployed on ladderboards, should I get benefits from ArenaNet? We should have rights!

Well, I’m off to Warlords of Draenor for a while I guess. Tested out leaderboards, they’re cool. But it’s still the same game mode, still same maps, still stale September meta.

I mean, I do above okay with my Necro and Ranger, but…
What’s new?

Also, World PvP has been temporary ressurected in WoW and it’s way more fun than running around t1 WvW looking for any small engagement or duelling against same things over and over.

/rant (?) over

tl;dr :
Guild Wars 2, you’re really doing good. But for god’s sake, you need an expansion.

Confirmation that we’re getting an expansion shortly. Nau.

Oh and some Tengu. After stories in Spires of Arakk and Terokk, I’m really looking foward to what Anet bakes for us, since Tengu have way more expanded lore and possibilities.

If a player leaves, there should be a new player from the queue assigned to fill up the space so both sides can resume the game. End.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Well, no guarantee a “Necromancer” specialist even gets picked. There will be 25 total.

25? That’s quite a number. I’d assign one specialist for each trait line. For example, Varg Vikernes could take Curses.

Bow/Hunter/Ranger classes are hated in general. Nothing special out there, go take a look at us WoW forums.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

I considered it, but I procrastinate too much. May give it a shot anyway.

You’re the most competent out here. Present on forums and with knowledge of profession.

And you play a Charr Necromancer. That’s +1 brofist from my Charr Necro.

For Nightmare runes, just make both duration and cd half of current version. Although it could be a bit too big nerf.

For Nightmare runes, just cut it in half – kitten CD, 1 second fear.

If we’re going to include more skills, I also vote after making both CD and duration shorter. 60 s CD for 15 second transform with 10 seconds of stability.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Mechanically? I’d argue that one that specialized in the same field as the Dervish’s special mechanics (in GW2’s form, stripping one’s own boons and stripping enemies’ conditions to create additional effects (offensive or defensive). All other mechanical things I can think of beyond pure healer is already covered.

Aesthetics? While cliche’d, dark knight concept (heavy armor necromancer of sorts for GW) is the only one that wouldn’t create an imbalance of magical fields or be a duplicate of what we have. Ranger and elementalists hold a shared theme; thief and mesmer hold a shared theme – leaving monk and necro themes, but we have guardian, so if we get another ‘light mage’ concept, it’d have to be scholar or adventurer. The only potential alternative I can think of would be a heavy armored tech, which is probably too close to warriors.

Lore? Ideally introduce such with a new expansion into new lands, but alternatively – especially if it’s a ‘different take of another profession’ like a necrowarrior concept could be – introduce by having key figures becoming that new profession.

I’d go with a mix of Warrior, Ritualist and some kind of demonic energy this time.

Rytlock with 2H kitten sword imbued with Spirits, commanding demonic energies and twisting foe’s power to his advantage? Seems legit.

And….

YOU’RE NOT PREPARED!

Ratchaphol.7846:

so what college do you think fits necromancer the most?

Thank for answer!

Ash.

Or Blood.

dirtynwah.3851:

In the Great Final Battle Of Season 2 we will see Bloomanoo wielding The Predator, two bullet belts crossed on his chest, cigarette at the corner of his mouth, fighting over injured Peneloopee’s body against swarms of Mordremoth’s minions. On the sunrise. That is the only conclusion of their story that I will accept!! If that won’t happen I will quit the game Anet ya hear me!!..

Duke Bloookem with his trustworthy bazooka, Nukem, bringin Murica and kitten to Mordy’s doorstep with sex innuendo jokes, mounting Korm…Traeherne…..

Coming in January….

If you don’t bash new player right off the bat with swear words for dying to Milfhel npc and actually whisper them asking about queueing couple games together, they will last for longer. And prevent pvp from dying off. Don’t be a jerk.

As for mobs themselves, they can hit exceptionally high compared to regular PvE world creatures and some newbies aren’t just ready.

Instead of yelling at the nether, offer them skype call and show what pvp is about.

Two weeks ago I did similar thing and poked a turret engineer in soloq, offering couple games and skype call because he seemed lost. You know what? Pretty cool guy, but he just started pvp (and game in general) two days ago. Since he was a newbie, he got yelled in pvp, not quite playing meta builds. So, for the sake of being any useful, he forced himself to AI build.
After about hour of my time playing and explaining, he got the basics and I know that now he’s pvping regularly, testing a lot of builds and being quite succesful and having a lot of fun.

Here, new pvp player.

No Asura makes sense.

Charr Necromancer does.

Don’t lose faith!

Going slightly off-topic – There was an ongoing strike of Elemental Shamans recently in Warlords, asking for re-work. Because it grew “a little bit”, Blizzard decided to bandaid it with constant, almost daily, buffs across whole class which doesn’t look like it’s going to end in near future.

I wish the same to Necromancers ^^.

As I say, unless you PvE you’ll always want Chill of Death with Axe instead of Axe Training.

Power Necro’s strenght is that massive burst against low armor targets. Rending Claws+double sigil proc+Chill of Death+one LB is already a dead thief.

“I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, monks, hermits and apostles.”

Who cares?

/15charrs

If you want to zerg content or wvw, nothing beats holy trinity: guardian, warrior and elementalist.

For tagging mobs, nothing comes close to beloved hero of farmers, guardian the “111111111311” Staff. Although Engineer with nades/ft may come close.

Heh, if this build becomes any top pick for tournament, maybe old-time necros like me who remember “BM Ranger” from two years ago will have a chance to re-equip my favourite skill in the game.

Epidemic.

I love Empathic Bond <3

And my winrate against Power Rangers as Power Necro is somewhere around 90% and as a PoC Condi vs Survival Condi, I’ve yet to be beaten 1v1 by one in tpvp match. They’re dangerous when coupled with someone else, though.

Maybe because I play both.

As for Engi and Entangle-he can simply use Overcharged Shot which cleanses every movement impairing condition. As I say, matter of skill.

Vapour.7348:

Zepher.7803:

uh yea read first page…..nerf the class not the rune, it’s crap on other classes and barely workable on the others but op on 2 classes…so maybe nerf the class?

So you think a class should get nerfed because you witnessed a team that could play above and beyond what an average player could do? In fairness, NA comp was at risk because a certain class could super smash counter them. But at the end, they won because they are skilled and TCG, also very skilled, dismissed using the counter class

Indeed. EU needs more Necromancers.

And Necromancer needs that healing in Shroud to be able to stay in a teamfight.