Guild Wars 2

Yeah the initial burst of necro damage is very visible and neat, though not as bursty as ele and I really love that, cause it allows effortless roaming in open world/living story, even a veteran dies in 4-5 secs ^^

Maybe name your account “dontkickitsaltaccount.2323” xD

The necro’s role is rolling other class. :*

Bubi.5237:

Pelopidas.2140:

Revenant is actual proof that devs read the necromancer forum

I’ll use this as my sig. thanks~

I’ll use it too, it’s too true to just let it sink somewhere

Skipping arah p2 inquest will be ebola, just saying…

Ohh, okay. Still op xD

Rym.1469:

I’m not quite sure how Embrace the Darkness (Mallyx elite) works… Does it only copy conditions stacked on you or transfers them? If it doesn’t transfer, Revenant could really heavily rely on that Resistance in some builds.

Hammer auto throw looks a little bit ridiculous. Not only it looks weird on anything other than Charr or Norn (the tru races) but it’s also a very reliable 100% chance projectile finisher when having the rate of fire comparable to our Staff with only 20%.

Looks solid and nice, has strong downstate which will be usable against stealthed since you can aim a projectile without a target.

The thing that concerns me a bit is that Jalis no cooldown on taunt as long as he manages energy right.

It increases all your stats by 10%
It gives you self torment each sec
It transfers all your condis to your enemies each sec

Blueshadow, please use this guide to build your dungeon build: http://dulfy.net/2014/06/30/gw2-necromancer-pve-guide-by-spoj/

fire field
3x blast finishers in a row
stability
group condi cleanse
lightning field
projectile defense
group dmg reduction
teleports/mobility
control – stuns, taunts
cleave

necros are going extinct

+1 for mini clown car

I meant 66002 but 62006 is ok too
But you know you can run with whatever you like, you’ll just kill things slower. Nobody will care too since it’s open world pve. Husks aren’t entirely resistant and it’s kinda bad decision to gear just for 1 enemy type

No, it’s Boomerlang now

It’s better to just stick to power meta build, it has the best damage.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

No, that is the case now. It very much can change with different design. PvE can very easily become a place where debuffs are much more effective than buffs.

I agree, Necros do need a few things, namely finishers (blasts or whirls, either would work) and some projectile defense (since they are literally the only class with none). I don’t agree that AI changes would not be able to drastically alter the meta.

Care to explain how PvE can “very easily become a place where debuffs are much more effective than buffs”?

DeathPanel.8362:

I find the OP’s story hard to believe. I had the game since release and I’ve never been kicked from any FOTM group ever

Now THAT is a story hard to believe

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Norjena.5172:

Kaldrys.1978:

A zerker necro is better than a 2nd warrior and I see multiple warriors all the time in zerker pugs. If a pug would allow multiple warriors there’s nothing wrong with bringing a zerker necro to that group.

Pugs don´t stack might via PS or Ele. And a necro without might from other players is worse then another warrior.

I’ve been in a lot of pugs that stack might. Even without, a Necro can self-stack better than a warrior can. If Warrior 1 is bringing the banners, then yes, a Zerker necro is better than a second warrior.

Are you kidding me? Assuming dagger build, necro has only blood is power which means 10 stacks for 12secs per 24sec. Warrior has 239849287 might just by simply swinging his greatsword and ability to blast his own fire field many times. not to mention signet of rage and for great justice. even with death shroud build the might gain would be subpar compared to warrior (1 might per life blast 1 sec cast vs. 1 might fer crit with gs that cleaves and generates might faster)

Kaldrys.1978:

A zerker necro is better than a 2nd warrior and I see multiple warriors all the time in zerker pugs. If a pug would allow multiple warriors there’s nothing wrong with bringing a zerker necro to that group.

you are incorrect

http://dulfy.net/2014/06/30/gw2-necromancer-pve-guide-by-spoj/ – spoj’s guide to power necro
this one – lifeleech sustain option for harder battles

this one – lifeleech with minions ultimate sustain option for very hard battles

this one – it’s only for soloing crystaline entities in arah p1 – since they are immune to conditions, you don’t need to take Target The Weak. if you have lifeleech food you can solo them without leaving the light even once. the rotation is something like that: locust swarm > spam auto until you’re like with 10 light stacks, use heal and go into plague form. when it ends, immediately locust swarm, both wells, heal, after wells disappear go into death shroud and cast 5 and 4. now leave death shroud and finish them if they’re still alive. if all went well you should be at around 25 light stacks
i just made a video on that (with an unfortunate lvl up but it doesn’t matter)

condition build – quick guide yet it has most important things like rotations and traits

NeXeD.3042:

You don’t need siphoning for pve at all, in fact it sucks in all areas of game as far as I am concerned every point you put in death magic or blood magic in pve is pointless useless silly ridiculous downright ludicrous. It’s not underated it’s a dps loss….. if your just having fun do whatever you want but there is a reason why the elite pvers just go pure dps. In a decent party you should have fury all the time anyway.

I disagree, siphoning is sometimes needed when you solo/duo something difficult like high lvl fotm and need a sustain (like 65030 for small sustain or 64040 with minions for ultimate sustain but bigger dps loss) almost nobody soloes on necro anyway but its a thing when u do. i duoed se p2 with a necro, without 64040+minions I would never survive the aoe spam of one of the golems (last boss)
when you solo old tom you also need it, and so on.

yes you can

ac p2 boss – just pull him with spectral grasp/scorpion wire/magnet/idk and put relfects on. all his attacks are projectiles. ice bow the skritt out of him and done

Hyped, so I will play whole PS again after all!

100 interrupts is too much. I think 10 or max 25 would be ok.
Maybe if kill counted as interrupt worked, then sure.

Yeah it looks awesome, would be great to visit Jade Sea again, or Echovald Forest…

Item: Imperial Outfit
Race: Sylvari
Gender: Female
Hairstyle: Scarlet’s Hair
Issue: When running, hairstyle clips horribly through the shoulders. It looks awful especially when it’s night and the hairstyle glows.
Shame, because this hairstyle looks great with this outfit when idle.

My Eternity is new, fresh and ready

Tharinock.9306:

Sublimatio.6981:

Remember how Rytlock speaks of sylvari in the concept art trailer? I thought it would be epic if our first meeting with him as a sylvari begins with a fight as he wouldn’t trust us, forcing us to defeat him and prove our loyalty.

To be fair, I hardly think beating someone in combat would prove your loyalty. I’m certainly not inclined to trust you any MORE if you punch me in the face a bunch of times.

You didn’t get it. In my vision, Rytlock attacks first and we prove loyalty by not killing him

He won’t, I’m skilled enough to dodge 1shot attacks :>

Remember how Rytlock speaks of sylvari in the concept art trailer? I thought it would be epic if our first meeting with him as a sylvari begins with a fight as he wouldn’t trust us, forcing us to defeat him and prove our loyalty.

Sorry Oberon but I really dislike most of your ideas. Especially greatsword bringing no block/evade/leap. Elite skill too op as others said. Some of the utility skills are ok, but the immobilise skill would have too long cd. Your trait ideas are mostly illogical, how for example would Well of Profane trait work with the Well of Corruption?
ANet clearly said they want to make specialisations bring something the profession didnt have at all before. Thats why I would rather see necro having leaps/blocks/evades/vigor/unique buffs to enhance dungeon meta (i like your soul barbs idea as long as it would work with each new condition stack added as well)

Btw. yes the elite skill is overpowered and you can’t defend it – i could cast well of power and transfer all my vulnearbility into long protection, gg
(not to mention we already have Dark Pact skill, it’s dagger 3. and we have spiteful spirit trait already. you need to think of other names)

I’m going to level up with tomes. I’m not going to level up with this broken NPE and especially out of order personal story with a deleted chunk of it. I don’t want to break my immersion even more.

Every profession can solo a path that doesn’t need more than 1 player, though i’m not sure about ac p1

You’re just lucky

<deeply impressed>

Lindbur.2537:

Aren’t you supposed to be dead?

your joke literally wynne the internet

Maybe it was some kind of unusual hammer skin? (you know, there are whisky bottles as focus or mace)

Zui.9245:

Phil, do you main Necromancer?

Bhawb.7408:

I need suggestions for GS skins. I have 1.4k gold so its not like money is a huge issue.

Dusk xDDD

Brujeria.7536:

I like GS a lot, but i dislike the idea of giving us more group support. Thats just not what a necromancer does imho. We do have a few problems in PVE, sure, but these should be fixed in another way. Foe example by a higher base damage then all other classes, or a stronger self buff.

I hope you’re kidding. Necromancers desperately need group buffs. Yesterday I entered ac p3 “zerk only” lfg (didn’t specify anything else!) and was immediately kicked and PMed “no necros, especially ugly ones”. We are too selfish in buffs and we also lack blocks/evades and mobility.

I am extremely happy about necro with GS and can’t see why some people dislike the idea. For me, I think every class should be able to use everything. We already can pick up environmental hammer/spell tome/anything. There are many necro/dark themed greatswords!

I craft Twilight for like a month now cause I predicted necro GS inc My friend will fuse his Sunrise and he will send me Eternity back. I’m like 480g away from it

It’s mursaat 100%, the doors rytlock opens are with the white mantle sign

no dungeons, no build templates

Buffed spectral armor you mean reduced cooldown by a little

I’d love necromancer to be truly cheating death. That includes ressing defeated players in PvE, turning defeated players into (controllable by them) zombies, adding a downed skill that turns you into a swarm of bats so you can escape like ele, etc.

and a flying rotten brain xD

Zaxares.5419:

It’s not the Master of Whispers. If you play through the Personal Story and choose the Order of Whispers as your order, you find out who the Master is.

It doesn’t mean it can’t be her/him

Konig Des Todes.2086:

All in all, my opinion on the matter is “if it was planned from the beginning, then they went too far to try to keep the fact hidden, because if you look you can find a dozen differences between mordrem and sylvari alone.”

My opinion is that you can’t deal with the fact that sylvari are just different and that’s it – reason might be the Pale Tree spawning them in the human image, after all she is their creator, not the dragon. And the Pale Tree herself was planted on human graves + Ventari taking care of it. Knowing you from your posts, you would probably say that only Altar of Glaust and the forgotten ritual cleanses corruption, but we already saw with Mawdrey that it’s not true and there are other ways of doing that, which means there may be many ways of undoing the corruption that we are just not aware of

You buy skills via Skill Points. Press H > Skills and Traits > Slot Skills.
There you can find various minions to unlock.
You get skill points via map completion, leveling up etc.
Once you unlock a skill, you can load it on your skill bar when out of combat (click the tiny arrow above your skills and select the minion-summoning skill)

Hire him, ANet!