Guild Wars 2

I think that Bomb kit has the strongest skills in the game as I kill foes in seconds.
My build is focused on explosions >> http://tinyurl.com/d9eb3sl
If you get power shoes + speedy kits traits you can just spamming its last 4 skills and the normal attack while just running ( melee foes won’t catch you ). Even If I stand and don’t move , the auto attack will kill any foe faster than any weapon in the game.
Elixir infused bombs is very good , don’t forget that the Med kit is one of the best healing skills.

Luke.4562:

You really can’t get it..
1) you don’t have utilities to help your team
2) you sacrifice 1 slot wich must be used for Signet of Undeath to get a useless pet which gives you +20 toughness and some little quantity of health each attak, when Blood Fiend and Flesh Golem are more reliable.
3) You waste a Trait to get Transfusion which will help ya once every 30-40 seconds and doesnt even scale well with healing power.
4) You keep grabbing this useless Minion master trait when the only benefit is the cooldown on Bone Minions for more Dps which you don’t even use. It doesn’t reduce the cooldown of the minion’s ability, it reduces the cooldown to resummon the pet when it’s on cooldown.

1) I help my team by distracting foes by my minions and transfusion healing.
2)Signet of undeath has a very long cd which make shadow fiend more important as it heals me and blinding my foes.
3) Transfusion trait doesn’t benefit from healing power as you said , but it heals more than deathly invigoration even with maximum healing power you can get.
4) You said it by your self !! >> It decrease resummoning minions recharge time by -20% which allows you to have minions all the time = damaging and siphoning.

Bargaw.4832:

In pve turrets have lifespan of about 5 sec, power wrench isn’t enough to keep turrets alive. No, exploding turrets aren’t worth it. Only use for them that I’ve found in entire game is to put them in jumping puzzles and try to knock people off ledges.

I got your point , any ways I meant by exploder ( build that focus on explosions traits > bomb , grenade and mine ).

Vicarious.3047:

i dont really find them all that useful, i mean the buffs are extremely minimal and the CDs on the banners are too long to make up for it.

Here where your are wrong !!

I got -20 % banner recharge which allows me to use Banner of Strength all the time.
I’m doing very good with my warrior build >> http://tinyurl.com/ckqnjm9

Actually , no one can help you without knowing your build !!!

I’m using explosions , and this is my build http://tinyurl.com/Bomber-Engineer.
Bomb kit is my main weapon and I’m doing good with this build.

I heard that turrets are very weak and have a long recharge time , but if I get tool kil + power wrench trait , can I keep them alive all the time using this build ( http://tinyurl.com/dyzd697 ) ?

When getting too much AOE from foes the turrets will be destroyed in sec , does this issue make the exploder better ?

Lucky Charmz.5089:

Other than med kit…what’s the point in kits?

We don’t get two weapon set spots, so it’s not like we’re getting an EXTRA set of five skills, and it takes up a utility skill spot where every class gets a utility skill spot…

It’s like we get 1 less utility skill if we use kits, comparatively to the other classes.

Is there something I’m missing here?

It seems that you don’t know Engineer profession well dude !!
All skills are kits and I rarely use my rifle.
The best healing skill ( after MM necro as he got the best healing skill in the entire game which is his minions siphoning ) is our med kit as you have the bandages tool belt skill ( has short recharge time ) and 3 small bandages from the kit too. You forgot that med kit is very important as it’s a condition removal and gives you perma swiftness if you have speedy kit trait.

This is my build >> http://tinyurl.com/Bomber-Engineer
As for bomb kit , I believe that it has the strongest skills in the game. If u get power shoes + speedy kits traits u can just spamming its last 4 skills and the normal attack while just running ( melee foes won’t catch u ). Even If I stand and don’t move , the auto attack will kill any foe faster than any weapon in the game.
Grenades are good for bosses and ranged foes specially when you get grenadier trait.
Finally , mine kit is very useful for interrupting and damaging foes at the same time.

I use D/D ( level 80 ) , many necros were saying to me to change the main hand dagger with an axe because of Ghastly claws as it’s stronger that life siphon.
I checked the wiki and saw the opposite , Life siphon does more damage and gives you some health.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ghastly_Claws
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Life_Siphon

Or is there some thing wrong in wiki maybe that I didn’t know ?

Luke.4562:

@The Demonic Spirit: Khalifahaze was talking about Healnofear..
Btw the Traits Minion Master, Transfusion and Shadow Fiend are thrashes.
To heal your pets you just need Mark of Blood, nothing else.
If we want to be precise, daggers aren’t worth in Pve, Axe would be better by the moment the Vulnerability stacks would emprove the dps of you, your pets and your team.

I know dude , I was supporting Khalifahaze reply ( I was talking about Healnofear too ).
About the shadow fiend , I need every minions I can have because of this trait > Vampiric master which is the main healing source trait to MM necros.( add to that , protection of the horde minor trait).
I know that Mark of Blood is the best healing skill for our minions ( didn’t mention well of blood as it’s not our specialty), but with transfusion trait the healing will be much better. As for minion master trait ( -20% minions summoning recharge time ) , It’s the most important trait for MM as all your utilities + healing skills will be minions so it will save very much time. ( -15 s for flesh golem ).
And as I said before >> Anet should fix the bug that prevent Lifestealing / health siphoning to be affected by healing power. The site where they said that it’s a bug >>http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodthirst and http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vampiric_Master

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

http://tinyurl.com/80-MM-Necro >> My build.
I’m level 80 pure MM necro, I didn’t change my build since level 1 as I chose necro for his undead army.
I have played as a MM in guild wars 1 , honestly I liked him very much.
About minions AL , it often happens and it should be fixed.
I beg Anet to make lifestealing/health siphoning (traits and skills) to be affected by healing power as it should be.

Khalifahaze.6045:

I stopped reading after you said you only use staff.

You are right indeed , my set focuses on condition damage and power , ( toughness and vitality as well ). I use staff 1st ( landing the 3 marks ) , switch to daggers which will give me 3 stacks of might for 20 sec and + 5% damage then use death shroud to use Life blast ( will give me 1 stack of might , total will be 4 ) . Now I have powered up the Life Transfer so I use it to damage my foes and heal my minions. Finally , I use all my dagger skills till the swapping cool down finishes then use the staff again and so on.

tehdirtyfivethirty.3507:

How do you execute pet abilities when you’re downed and watching the golem watch you? I’d be so glad if you could tell me how you manage that.

About that >> as I mentioned before , if u played MM well , you will rarely die or even be in downed mode.

http://tinyurl.com/80-MM-Necro >> My build.
I’m level 80 pure MM necro, I didn’t change my build since level 1 as I chose necro for his undead army.
I have played as a MM in guild wars 1 , honestly I liked him very much.
About minions AL , it often happens and it should be fixed.
I beg Anet to make lifestealing/health siphoning (traits and skills) to be affected by healing power as it should be.

Yeah , our minions should be fixed and making a control panel for them is a good idea.
About our lifesteal >> all lifesteal/siphoning skills and traits ( vampiric too ) should be affected with healing power.

You will not get good traits till level 40.
My build is the best MM build that heals minions too. I’m level 80 pure MM.
http://tinyurl.com/9ure-MM-build > All my set increases condition damage and some power to support my staff and daggers skills. My vitality and toughness are high too.
Minions siphoning will be your main healing source.

I’m a pure 80 MM necro , rare to die or even be in a downed mode.
My healing source is from my minions siphoning as I got 6 minions and all minions traits.
Many players are saying that Blood fiend is to bad and undependable because of his low hp/armor.
What healing skill will suit me more ? or should I keep the minion ?
( just to know that Taste of death ( 16 recharge ) will heal me more than Consume conditions which got 25 recharge time ( without any conditions applied ).

Durzlla.6295:

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Rocklin.4106:

skittlebob.4850:

Finally, I’ve seen videos of ranger pets critting for 4k, but I cant seem to get that amount even with 30 BM and using a bird. How do you maximize pet damage?

get lvl 80 :/

if you are already, than i think you havnt even looked into any of the skills to maximize its dmg or looked into the pets skills …

but a friendly Protip: Pet’s tooltips are sometimes horribly wrong, you have to test them out individually and ravens are by far the strongest birds, their F2’s deal about twice as much dmg than the other birds.

Personal record was 14k on a raven F2 attack (not showing as 14k as its an attack that hits twice, but it was about 7.5k+6.5k)

I think that the strongest pet F2 skill is the Rending Barbs of Lashhtail Devourer , Am I right ?

THE Strongest is the salamander drakes Fire breath, however good luck getting that off in PvP… Highest i’ve hit hit with my salamanders breathe (i was downed and they were attempting to finish me so they didn’t move out of the way) was around 28k or so, granted that’s with 25 masters bond, 25 might and sick’em.

So salamander drake is the strongest amphibious / terrestrial pet , what about the strongest aquatic one The shark ?

Holynexus.8064:

Allright, thank you! I’m going to try the staff and curse build mentionned earlier for my early building, and I’ve got the new Well of Blood spell (the one that heals over time, right?) to replace this old Blood Fiend, which died far too quickly for me to use it reliably.

If you take care of your minions , they will die rarely even the blood fiend.
There are many ways to heal them (you included) which are transfusion and mark of blood , not to mention the healing from your mates.

Guys ?? any one ? what about developers ?

I got Transfusion trait and Superior Sigil of Battle.
If I get Reaper’s Might , will its might stack with the sigil ? I will get 4 stacks of might , won’t I ?

What is the cool down of Reaper’s Might effect ? if it has non , I will be able to reach 25 stacks , right ?

What is the healing formula of blood fiend auto siphoning ? What about taste of death formula ?

I know that bloodthirst affects his siphoning , but what about vampiric master trait ?

I have tried all the classes and found that necro is the funniest and strongest one.
My level is 80 and I have walked all the way from 1 to 80 with MM build.
Even with their AL I rarely die or even be in downed mode , in dungeons I’m the last man standing.
The minions will be weak without their traits as they increase their power , vitality , recharge time and the most important thing to MM which is siphoning health to you which will be your main healing source.
I advise you to get this build >> http://tinyurl.com/9ure-MM-build
And as for healing skill , you are advised to get Blood fiend as his healing will increase 50% from Bloodthirst , not to mention the siphoning from Vampiric Master trait.

Rocklin.4106:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pet

you are very welcome fellow ranger

I have searched in the wiki and got the 1st four answers.
What about these as they are not in the wiki >>
5-Which pet got the strongest skills ( F2 not included ) ?
6-Which pet got the strongest F2 skill ? Is it Juvenile Lashhtail Devourer ?
7-Which pet got the highest DPS ?
8-Which stat is more important for pets , vitality or toughness ? what about power and precision ?

Got few questions about pets >

1-Which pet got the highest power ?
2-Which pet got the highest precision ?
3-Which pet got the highest toughness ?
4-Which pet got the highest vitality ?
5-Which pet got the strongest skills ( F2 not included ) ?
6-Which pet got the strongest F2 skill ? Is it Juvenile Lashhtail Devourer ?
7-Which pet got the highest DPS ?
8-Which stat is more important for pets ? Vitality or Toughness ?

Thank you.

Rocklin.4106:

skittlebob.4850:

Finally, I’ve seen videos of ranger pets critting for 4k, but I cant seem to get that amount even with 30 BM and using a bird. How do you maximize pet damage?

get lvl 80 :/

if you are already, than i think you havnt even looked into any of the skills to maximize its dmg or looked into the pets skills …

but a friendly Protip: Pet’s tooltips are sometimes horribly wrong, you have to test them out individually and ravens are by far the strongest birds, their F2’s deal about twice as much dmg than the other birds.

Personal record was 14k on a raven F2 attack (not showing as 14k as its an attack that hits twice, but it was about 7.5k+6.5k)

I think that the strongest pet F2 skill is the Rending Barbs of Lashhtail Devourer , Am I right ?

Bichpwner.4012:

Dispari.3980:

My favorite headgear is wraith mask! I transmuted it all the way to a level 80 exotic.

Mine too! Although I deleted mine at early levels and had to take a new Necro to lvl 10 to get it again! Worth it.

My Necro in Christmas colours:

What armor skin did u get ?

I have got the staff skin , but what about the best looking daggers ? ( Thank you mates for sharing )

Alkaline.2809:

I have the Modniir staff to and like it. Too bad I could not change the flame to green

How to get Modniir staff ? ( can’t find it in TP )

Thanks , I will get Modniir staff and shadow armor skin without the helm ( didn’t like it )
So what is the most exciting helms for necros ? ( I prefer something which is related with death and skulls >> not arah helm )

At the moment I got this armors set >> http://www.gw2armor.com/asura/male/named/light/display_looks.php >
http://www.gw2armor.com/asura/male/named/light/front.jpg

Halo.8976:

gw2armor.com has all armor skins.

Arah > flame > bones.

But what about these >> http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/4756/craftedarmorsv2.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_Wiki:Projects/Armor_skins

My question again >> What about the best looking armor skins for a necro ? ( share your opinions and I will see what suits me well )

Thank you all for your awesome skins
but What about the best looking armor skins for a necro ? ( share your opinions and I will see what suits me well )
Note: I have seen these armors http://www.gw2armor.com/ > so I need others.

I’m not talking about legendary staffs , but the other ones.
Which skins have the best appearance ? Nightmare and destroyer ?

Laufey.5129:

I understand that they’re not ‘solo content’, but I won’t make my friends run around maps with me to open a couple of presents.

But many of us can solo them easily .
No offense

If I buy armor/weapon from them ( just for it’s appearance ) , then use Transmutation Stone to put it on another item. All of us know that this progression will destroy the transmuted item.
When I buy the same item again ( Dungeon item ) from the vendors , will it be free or I have to pay again ?

moirweyn.9872:

Here’s how I do it:

1) Approach present, hit F, get blown back
2) Run in, collect present(s)
3) Dodge roll
4) Dodge roll
5) Run away

Run away ?! Never
I’m a MM necro , got alt bomber engineer too. I can solo all of them ( dolls , griffons and soldiers ) at once without any problem.

Some help, please !!

kuora.5402:

‘It’s a waste of time and money to get dungeon armors as they force me to get precision which is useless in level 80 for MM/conditionM as it will give you too little critical chance in this level.’

Precision is not useless, think again.

That line killed the whole post for me.

From gw2 wiki >>
(0.0024 × Level2) + (0.06 × Level) + 1

At higher character levels, it takes an increased amount of precision to add 1% to the chance of hitting critically (since the formula depends on the square of one’s level):

3.16 points at L20
7.24 points at L40
13.24 points at L60
21 points at L80 (the amount required seems to be rounded down from the 21.16 predicted by the formula¹).

At 80, the base precision you have is 916, with a crit chance of 4%. At 937 precision, it goes up to 5% crit chance. So to identify if you have any wasted precision, subtract 916 from your total precision, and then check if the end number is divisible by 21.

You will get 315 precision from an entire exotic dungeon set.
What is the maximum precision can you get ?

I got level 70 armor set , looking to get carrion Named exotic armor set (http://www.gw2armor.com/asura/male/named/light/display_looks.php )
I’m a MM who uses staff (main ) and dual daggers as secondary.
Got sigil of corruption on my staff , sigil of battle on main dagger ( swap to apply DS > life transfer ) and sigil of force on the other one.
It’s a waste of time and money to get dungeon armors as they force me to get precision which is useless in level 80 for MM/conditionM as it will give you too little critical chance in this level. >> check > wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Precision
This is my build >> http://tinyurl.com/9ure-MM-build
Will put Superior Rune of the Dolyak on the entire set.
Any advice/commit ?

When using traited bombs and mines ( both utilities and tool belt skills ) , you will cause the highest DPS and AOE.

To be honest , I got both grenade and bomb kits ( mine too ).
I usually use bombs and mines as they didn’t get nerfed. >> Bomb is the best kit specially when got speedy kits and explosion traits.
I just use grenades on champions as it’s too risky to come close.

So ? Any solution ?

Whenever I click on " switch characters " the game disconnects and this window appears.
When I press " ok " it opens the launcher so I have to login again.

Which are better ( appearance ) ?
In my opinion Halloween skins were much better/awesome . What about yours ?

And I really hope that Anet team give us a chance to get them again as there are just few left in trading post .

biggs.4702:

Higher quality sigils also have level requirements so look for any red text in the tooltip to be sure you can use that particular sigil.

That too , forgot to mention it

But If I put leeching on one hand and battle on off hand , I will get their 2 effects. right ?

Give 3 stacks of might to nearby allies when using a healing skill. (Cooldown: 10s)
Give fury to nearby allies when using a healing skill. (Cooldown: 10s)
Is Med kit ( engineer healing skill ) considered a healing skill or I should use " Drop Bandages " skill ? what about " Bandage Self " ?

Sigil of Leeching , Sigil of Force and Sigil of Battle >> if I apply them on dual weapons , will I get 2x of it’s effect ?

Sigil of Leeching >>Heals for 1950
Sigil of Force >> +10% Damage
Sigil of Battle >> 6 Stacks of might

Double-click > then click on the weapon which you want to apply the sigil on it

How to buy skins in TP ? At which section ?

Is there any way to get them now ?

XiL.4318:

I do not agree. There was nothing great about this patch for necro. Even the speed buff was an after thought based on a signet change for another class.

This was a terrible patch for Necro. All it did was add damage to our downed state and Staff 5. Everything else was a sweeping damage reduction in exchange for cooldown reductions that were not even remotely a priority for 99% of Necro players.

This patch did nothing but harm Necro.

Dude , I’m talking about the entire patch( all classes ) as it is awesome.
They should have focused on minions!!

How to fix this problem ?

Any reply from the developers ?