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I dont dare look back that far. Im afraid of what I might find.

put stability on locust signet..

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Nice to see even with evidence of the difference between classes. People still seem to be unable to accept that necro has a severe lack of damage avoidance.

put stability on locust signet..

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Just thought id go through all active damage avoidance in the game and i decided to add cleave aswell.

Cleave
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cleave

Guardian – 4 weapons
Warrior – 5 weapons
Engi – 1 Kit
Ranger – 2 weapons + 1 pet type
Thief – 1 weapon
Ele – 1 weapon + 1 conjure
Mesmer – 1 weapon
Necro – 0

Active Defence
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reflect
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Block
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Invulnerability
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Evade
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vigor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endurance

Guardian – 5 Projectile block/reflects, 6 Blocks, 1 Invuln, 0 Evades, 2 endurance regen 14 active defence options
Shield of Absorption, Zealots Defence, Wall of Reflect, Shield of the Avenger, Sanctuary, Protector's Strike, Shield of Wrath, Shelter, Retreat, Virtue of Courage, Communal Defences, Renewed Focus, Vigorous Precision, Save Yourselves

Warrior – 1 reflect, 3 Blocks, 4 Invulns, 1 Evade, 5 endurance regen
14 active defence options (16 if you count 3 reflects)
Missile Deflection (3 blocks), Counterblow, Riposte, Shield Stance ,Defy Pain ,Defiant Stance , Endure Pain, Berserker Stance, Whirlwind Attack ,Quick Breathing ,Vigorous Focus, Call to Arms, Signet of Stamina, Building Momentum

Engi – 4 Projectile block/reflects, 2 Blocks, 2 Invulns, 0 Evades, 7 endurance regen
15 active defence options (20 if you count turret reflects)
Fortified Turrets (6 turrets), Magnetic Shield, Elixir U, Air Blast, Static Shield, Gear Shield, Self Regulating Defences, Elixir S, Invigorating Speed, Gadgeteer, Experimental Turrets, Elixir H, Elixir R, Adrenal Implant, Adrenaline Pump

Ranger – 1 reflect, 1 Block, 1 Invuln, 6 Evades, 5 endurance regen
14 active defence options
Whirling Defence, Counterattack, Signet of the Beastmaster, Signet of Stone, Lightning Reflexes, Power Stab, Hornet Sting, Serpents Strike, Stalkers Strike, Quick Shot, Lightning Reflexes, Primal Reflexes, Vigorous Renewal, Vigorous Training, Natural Vigor

Thief – 2 Projectile block/reflects, 0 Blocks, 1 Invuln, 6 Evades, 5 endurance regen
14 active defence options
Dagger Storm, Smokescreen, Drink (Steal), Disabling Shot, Flanking Strike, Pistol Whip, Death Blossom, Withdraw, Roll for Initiative, Bountiful Theft, Vigorous Recovery, Signet of Agility, Wild Strike, Feline Grace

Ele – 4 Projectile block/reflects, 3 Blocks, 3 Invulns, 2 Evades, 6 endurance regen
18 active defence options
Magnetic Aura, Magnetic Wave, Swirling Winds, Ring of Earth, Arcane Shield, Final Shielding, Stone Sheath, Mist Form, Obsidian Flesh, Fortify, Burning Retreat, Updraft, Phoenix, Renewing Stamina, Soothing Disruption, Vigorous Scepter, Zephyrs Focus, Arcane Energy

Mesmer – 6 Projectile block/reflects, 2 Blocks, 3 Invulns, 1 Evade , 2 endurance regen 14 active defence options (18 if you count all signet invulns)
Phantasmal Warden, Temportal Curtain, Mirror, Feedback, Mimic, Masterful Reflection, Illusionary Counter, Illusionary Riposte, Distortion, Blurred Inscriptions (5 signets), Triumphant Distortion, Blurred Frenzy, Critical Infusion, Vigorous Revelation

Necro – 1 active defence option
Deathshroud!

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Bess class for FotM and Dungeons?

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Warrior can maintain perma fury on itself. Banner of disc should lasts for the full duration of almost every fight. Check warrior lupi solos for reference (perma fury and good uptime of banner). So crit chance is going to be around 100% for the majority of the time. If you have a low dps pug you can take inspiring banners in adept for perma 100% self crit chance.

My group often goes lazy mode with a phalanx warrior in our casual runs and that means the only one providing might after the start of the fight is the warrior. And it stays at about 20-25 might for the full duration. And even if it was only 15 might done by the warrior, thats good enough if we see ingame that everyone has 25 might most of the time. Please play the game Guang. Its all well and good calculating with maths, but you should back up claims with ingame testing aswell.

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Necromancer - Is it the most balanced?

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I was actually thinking about this the other day. And i somewhat agree. Every skill and trait that has a use on the necro is neither underpowered or overpowered. They are all well balanced. The class itself with its current kitten nal is also quite well balanced.

The problem surfaces when you compare to the other classes. They all have traits, skills and weapons which are so good that it makes no sense to take a necro instead. This often comes in the form of utility. They all have a wide range of options and have a way to do almost everything. Necro doesnt. Necro falls short in a lot of areas where it shouldnt and if these areas were improved on then necro could easily become as stable and well balanced as the guardian.

The problem is these things cant be fixed until new utilities and weapons come along. This is because adding cleave, utility etc to existing weapons and skills would imbalance them. And as ive already mentioned. Most weapons and skills on the necro are very well balanced individually.

Traitworks: Dead Last

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  • Parasitic Contagion: Makes no sense putting a second condi trait in the power line. Wrong place for this trait.
  • Path of corrution: A good wvw/pvp trait. Would of preferred something useful in pve aswell but im happy with this.
  • Unholy Sanctuary: Nice concept. Not strong enough and relies too much on heavy lifeforce generation.
  • Unholy martyr: Seems pointless as we already have utilities and traits which do this. I would put Parasitic contagion as the blood magic grandmaster and get rid of this one.
  • Renewing blast: Complete trash.

Overall all new grandmasters are either terrible or pvp focused. Last time I checked necro needed the most help in pve and some help in high lvl tpvp. So why no new utility? Utility is something that would help necro in both pve and high lvl tpvp.

Combo's

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Personally i think some of our weapons should just get some finishers on them. But im also ok with buffing spiteful talisman and banshees wail to make reapers touch a projectile and warhorn skills blast finishers. Same with axe i guess, but i really think unholy feast should be a blast by default, the weapon is bad enough as it is.

Necro any good in PVE???

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necro is the least wanted and most useless of the 8 classes if you are considering organized groups.

That ‘honor’ belongs squarely to Ranger. I haven’t had any real problem getting into groups as a Necromancer. The only time it’s an issue is if you get 2 conditionmancers in one party since the 25 stack cap essentially makes one of them worthless.

Nope, ranger is highly useful in an organized group. They are just somewhat more challenging to play because pet management requires a lot of attention and sword auto can be difficult to time dodges with. But yes most pugs will kick rangers more than necros simply because 99% of rangers are bearbows which give the class an atrocious reputation.

@Blood
6/6/0/0/2 yields the highest dps for power necros now. I assume you either thought it was unchanged or followed Brazils video guides. Brazils video is out of date and inaccurate. 6/5/0/0/3 is only better when you have a ranger providing spotter.

Bess class for FotM and Dungeons?

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Few things you overlooked Guang. A warrior can have nearly 100% crit chance in a solo situation. Also phalanx warrior takes a strength sigil on gs to boost might gained on crit. Everyone who has actually played one or with one knows they maintain between 20-25 might. And its not hard to suppliment that with a few blasts before the fight. Also im not sure your number of hits per second is right either. But then I havent bothered to check because I can simply go in game and see that a phalanx warrior maintains 20+ might instead of playing Spreadsheet Wars 2.

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Necro any good in PVE???

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Everythings viable in pve. But necro is the least wanted and most useless of the 8 classes if you are considering organized groups.

Necromancers

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Nah its really weak. Does much less than burning speed. And its unreliable to hit due to the golem facing the wrong way etc. If you do get it right it can be quite hilarious at burning 15 defiant stacks at once, so continuously knocking down a boss.

put stability on locust signet..

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You guys are missing the point were trying to make. Necros dont have any form of active defence other than the base dodges. Every other class has a wide range of options for active defence + the base dodges. Im fine with necro having less methods for active defence but having none and no decent access to stability has created a huge weakness for the necro.

I could make a huge list of things that necro has none of but all other 7 classes do have. Its kind of depressing when people dont see how much a necro lacks. Im actually surprised they hold up as well as they do with the limited options they currently have.

Stacking has ruined player skill levels

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Yes you could beat ac with 3 people but you might have a hard time on burrow events if you dont have power mainstat gear.

And yes the pug community is like this simply because its the same dungeons its always been since release.

Nearly 2 years on and the same 8 dungeons?

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Oh right hotw 2 & 3 maybe, but cm 2 is pretty kitten easy and fast, don’t see why it wouldn’t be ran a lot

Cant barrel the final boss to death anymore. Hes pretty nasty without super deepz.

Nearly 2 years on and the same 8 dungeons?

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And cm 2 and hotw 2 & 3.

So people run about 27/33 paths. But yeah would really like some new instanced content. Either new dungeons or a new elite zone/dungeon.

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Cleaving

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Our aoe is also rather inferior because its pulse based. Whereas aoes like eles meteor shower and ice storm can hit a single hit box multiple times. Wells wont do this, so they dont really act like aoe on single targets. Which is a real shame. Cleave would definately bring necro up in terms of dungeon viability, but they will never be used in speedruns unless they get something special in terms of utility or team buffing.

[Guide] DPS Necro for PvE

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Put a perception sigil on your underwater weapon and you wont lose the stacks when you unequip your terrestrial weapon with perception.

Stacking has ruined player skill levels

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The only example i can think of where they have tried to discourage stacking in regular groups is the alphard change (if that was intentional). Its still possible but a pug group will consistantly wipe unless they know what they are doing and dodge/reflect the pull.

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 1

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Sam you owe us 20g for leeching p4 last night.

Fire fields?

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The light fields are good. Very useful on volkov in SE p3. I would like the option to choose priority order of fields though. But the devs stated the reason they wont add that feature is because the player base is too stupid to use it.

[Guide] DPS Elementalist for PvE

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Probably wont ever use it but it was helpful seeing as I never know what skills to use for ele underwater. Other classes are a bit more obvious when it comes to the good damage skills underwater.

Watch out: Thief Exploit in OS

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Yea the guys been trolling since the start with invisible golems etc

Is there any hope for gw2 pve(dungeons)?

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Hmm, one of my message got removed due to sharing some exploit.
Either mods dont get my sarcastic post about reflects or reading is now officialy an exploit. Where can i ask for an answer what got deleted?

Same for me. No idea what post it was. Pretty sure the only post i made in this thread is still here. xD

Is there any hope for gw2 pve(dungeons)?

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Dungeons are hard. There is no hope.

Dungeons Forum Bingo

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Bingo!

Elementalist supremacy in TA

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Reflecting malrona was too slow x)

Elementalist supremacy in TA

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Hey guys.

We went back and did TA Up after the patch with our new tactics seeing as noone else was interested in beating our previous pre patch record. Its a much smoother run than our last and we almost cut a whole minute off our previous time (6:20). Final time is 5:26. Do you think we can squeeze any more out of it? Enjoy.

Elementalist 1 – Badarka Goes Ele (Dara Slice.8306) http://youtu.be/4Zcz_Yunc2k
Elementalist 2 – Nova Firebender (dutchiez.7502) http://youtu.be/BcyC-mMHWl4
Elementalist 3 – Spoj (spoj.9672) http://youtu.be/Jo325oLRMGQ
Warrior – Lokohh (LoKoh.9176) http://youtu.be/lBLRMi6r1Uc
Thief – Jeremy Blutschatten (Jeremy.5063) http://youtu.be/Pfs5MXA9v68

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Fractal Weird Damage

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If you see dub skill clicking it means hes speed kitten with the other hand.

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 1

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pug rangers =/= 1 guy you know who can play ranger

Is there any hope for gw2 pve(dungeons)?

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wtf

[Guide] DPS Elementalist for PvE

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Whats the underwater rotation? I must know this! ;d

[Guide] DPS Necro for PvE

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I did the math and perception is almost always better. The only time bloodlust is slightly better is when you have a ranger providing spotter. Necro tends to lack crit chance without perception and precision food. Different situations call for slightly different combinations but for simplicity I would just recommend precision food and perception most of the time.

@Makai
Ranger runes still work. I removed them from the list of options in the guide because they require a companion now. Flesh golem wont always be alive or wise to use in some situations so you would lose the bonus. However there is a bug where mini pets cause the bonus. So you could just carry a mini pet around and use ranger runes without issue. I didnt include this in the guide because it may be fixed soon.

bank npc in pvp area

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Id like this very much for my pvp character. Thanks to the megaservers I have longer loadscreens due to everywhere having 100 people. So leaving the mists just to go to the bank is a real pain in the kitten .

Most difficult boss in the game?

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Hotw story final boss. :P

LFG Language Flags

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This annoys me simply because the american flag gives me eye cancer. Soz :P

phalanx warrior new meta

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Dub has the record for engi lupi solo. I think hes quite aware of what engi is capable of. :P

Easiest dungeon that can be done within 15min

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Why dont you do cof p3 and arah p1/p4?

Creating a Fractal Group

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Because running 5 warriors is harder than running 5 of the other 4 classes. Projectile defence op.

Flag for English in LFG (EU)

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Interestingly English isn’t actually the official language (im defining official as de jure, i.e. in law) of the UK. There is only one de jure language in the UK and that’s in Wales and it’s Welsh.

I don’t understand how people can be confused at the use of the US flag to designate the English language. This is the case all over the internet. I could understand if you were new to the internet but chances are if you’re playing an MMO you’re not.

Its not confusion of what the language is. Its confusion of whether you are seeing the right groups. I dont expect to see US flags while playing on EU. Its as simple as that. And i cant imagine its hard for them to do a separate and more relevant flag for the different client.

Also from a personal opinion i find the US flag hideous and would rather not see it. xD

Flag for English in LFG (EU)

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Maybe it’s because the game uses American English? (Armor instead of armour, fries instead of chips etc.)

I’m not that bothered either way, but if it’s confusing for people then I agree it should be changed.

The american flag has no relevance in eu. However im sure even americans can work out the uk/english flag means english. It should be split between the two servers anyway just to avoid confusion. When i first saw it I thought my lfg was bugged and showing NA groups, then i noticed the german groups and thought wtf.

"4 Warriors, Zerker only" story

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Secondly, why aren’t you using axe/wh + axe/mace for fotm? GS doesn’t do enough to be worth taking.

Should be using axe/mace + GS or hammer. :PP

Creating a Fractal Group

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We tend to run a mesmer in fractals simply for the utility. Last night we tried out the new phalanx warrior. It worked amazingly with our usual comp. Guard, mes, d/f ele, thief and warrior. We had a ranger instead of thief last night but honestly having a phalanx warrior is hugely helpful in fractals. We always capped might thanks to it and the difference in kill times was pretty noticeable.

Ps. If you want to faceroll fractals i recommend a party composition similar to this. Stacking guardians and warriors is actually not as comfortable as people make it out to be.

Warrior obsession in AC.

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AC is such a joke now we run it on low level characters. Every boss dies in under 3 seconds when using fgs, almost as fast without. Just take 1 lvl 80 ele and the entire dungeon is faceroll no matter what you take in the rest of the party, whether its low lvls or just a duo run. Its actually pretty depressing.

phalanx warrior new meta

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The staff ele covers the fury.

How fast can you flip a camp with your necro?

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LoS them behind a wall and aoe burst. Also if you have an ele friend you can melt the entire group with fiery exploit rush.

phalanx warrior new meta

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It would depend on the dungeon. A speed run of a dungeon that doesn’t need reflects should still be stacking DPS and that would mean 3 eles. Even without FGS they’re still sitting at the top.
@iris In b4 guang says nade engi is top dps

FTFY

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I dont really see the difference. Your gear is just a reflection of how much damage you expect to take. If you are an experienced player and comfortable with the encounters then there is no reason to use valkyrie instead of berserker. You can use more defensive gear with this build if thats what you feel you need to do. Its completely up to you. Id personally never recommend DS camping builds for pve and especially fractals where you probably will be forced out of DS a lot of the time, but if you want to play one you can. Theres no real benefit to a might stacking build seeing as you cant grant might to your teammates.

Other alternative builds for fractals that I would recommend over DS camping builds are condi builds. They arent perfect but they are effective enough in fractals and pretty safe in pug groups. But using condi in certain dungeons will render you completely useless in a few cases. Some dungeons have bosses which permanently clear condis or are completely immune to conditions and other times your groups will just overwrite your stacks.

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You know what's Fun?

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If the ele was below 90% hp then vital wont apply. So thats most likely what you witnessed. I couldnt get damage modifiers to carry over when testing lingering elements. So it seems the testing others have done is accurate.

Warrior - GS + A/M versus A/M DWA

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Good for you. Noone should blindly follow others advice.

327 days playing a Necro, and im feeling Meh

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I sidelined my necro for over a yeah due to its state in pve. Recently me and some friends have been doing some wvw and thats brought be back to playing it. Im especially enjoying the new curses grandmaster for tpvp and small group roaming.

But yeah overall i feel necro has become rather dull. It needs a lot of work to be viable in pve and until that i feel I will always sideline it most of the time just so on the odd chance i do play it im not totally bored kittenless with it.