Guild Wars 2

Necrochild.1497:

Ironically, the only minion with flippers cannot swim.

Hehe XD
Guys , you just force me to laugh

I’m a MM ( in both gw1 and gw2 ).
I got 5 80es characters ( MM necro , trapper ranger , demolisher engineer , cleric guardian , signet/shout/banner warrior ).
I think that MM is the best one and I’m the last man standing in dungeons.
In PvP , I can kill any one ( I killed 4 players at once while camping ).
You just need to know how to control them and keep them alive.
My build >> http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj
Soldier armor ( mixed with Knight ) will grant you much Toughness and some Vitality so you won’t worry if they killed ur minions.
begin the fight with staff ( land all marks ) then switch to dagger/focus ( you will get might when switching ) , use 4th and 5th skills , 3rd to immobilize your foe , transform to DS and use 5th skills and 3rd ( to increase 5th skill damage by 200% ) , after that use 4th skill to heal your minions , 2nd to tele to your foe , return to your normal form and spam dagger chain attack , then switch to staff …… and so on.. ( This is how I play )
(Remember that Dagger chain attack is the strongest attack for necros even than axe )

Yendorion.2381:

Flesh Golem is afraid of the water while his little siblings are much happy to swim, just sayin’ :P

hehe :p

With this build http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj , I prefer to keep them alive all the time , but when one of them dies , I blow up the other one to be able to summon them again.
When fighting a boss , your damage won’t matter much as the will heal you ( 114*2 per sec ) which will keep you alive.

I’m a MM ( in both gw1 and gw2 ).
I got 5 80es characters ( MM necro , trapper ranger , demolisher engineer , cleric guardian , signet/shout/banner warrior ).
I think that MM is the best one and I’m the last man standing in dungeons.
In PvP , I can kill any one ( I killed 4 players at once while camping ).
You just need to know how to control them and keep them alive.
My build >> http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj
Soldier armor ( mixed with Knight ) will grant you much Toughness and some Vitality so you won’t worry if they killed ur minions.
begin the fight with staff ( land all marks ) then switch to dagger/focus ( you will get might when switching ) , use 4th and 5th skills , 3rd to immobilize your foe , transform to DS and use 5th skills and 3rd ( to increase 5th skill damage by 200% ) , after that use 4th skill to heal your minions , 2nd to tele to your foe , return to your normal form and spam dagger chain attack , then switch to staff …… and so on.. ( This is how I play )

Well , I find necro is op.
I’m a MM btw and I think that MM is the best build for necro. I can kill any one in PvP ( killed 5 players while camping )

I’m a MM ( in both gw1 and gw2 ).
I got 5 80es characters ( MM necro , trapper ranger , demolisher engineer , cleric guardian , signet/shout/banner warrior ).
I think that MM is the best one and I’m the last man standing in dungeons.
In PvP , I can kill any one ( I killed 4 players at once while camping ).
You just need to know how to control them and keep them alive.
My build >> http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj
Soldier armor ( mixed with Knight ) will grant you much Toughness and some Vitality so you won’t worry if they killed ur minions.
begin the fight with staff ( land all marks ) then switch to dagger/focus ( you will get might when switching ) , use 4th and 5th skills , 3rd to immobilize your foe , transform to DS and use 5th skills and 3rd ( to increase 5th skill damage by 200% ) , after that use 4th skill to heal your minions , 2nd to tele to your foe , return to your normal form and spam dagger chain attack , then switch to staff …… and so on.. ( This is how I play )
(Remember that Dagger chain attack is the strongest attack for necros even than axe )

I’m a MM ( in both gw1 and gw2 ).
I got 5 80es characters ( MM necro , trapper ranger , demolisher engineer , cleric guardian , signet/shout/banner warrior ).
I think that MM is the best one and I’m the last man standing in dungeons.
In PvP , I can kill any one ( I killed 4 players at once while camping ).
You just need to know how to control them and keep them alive.
My build >> http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj
Soldier armor ( mixed with Knight ) will grant you much Toughness and some Vitality so you won’t worry if they killed ur minions.
begin the fight with staff ( land all marks ) then switch to dagger/focus ( you will get might when switching ) , use 4th and 5th skills , 3rd to immobilize your foe , transform to DS and use 5th skills and 3rd ( to increase 5th skill damage by 200% ) , after that use 4th skill to heal your minions , 2nd to tele to your foe , return to your normal form and spam dagger chain attack , then switch to staff …… and so on.. ( This is how I play )

spoj.9672:

Ghastly claws is 3 seconds. Or tooltip error? Anyway its still less dps. You cant spam axe 2 forever whereas you can spam dagger auto forever.

Exactly
Dagger chain is the strongest attack we have. I don’t have to worry about healing and dodging thanks to my minions.

Afya.5842:

Which is why I really doubt taking the axe for vuln. The damage lost is so significant I’m not sure the party buff from vuln can cover the lost here. And also have to consider most casual party get ~15 stacks of vuln already just by going through their regular rotations.

This is my point

Andele.1306:

Dagger 1 and 3 have quite the aftercasts, so no you finish a dagger 1 chain in around 1.4 seconds while a Axe 1 attack goes off in around 1 second.
But overall melee damage > safe position of range.

How do you know that ? Is there any source that tells us the cast time of 2nd and 3rd dagger chain attacks ?
Or you just tried it ?

Hi guys , according to wiki , dagger chain attack deals 940 damage while axe deals 236 ( 278 at 18 stacks of Vulnerability > max stacks from the skill )

Axe cast time is 0.75 sec , but I’m not sure about the dagger’s ones
Is it 3(0.25) = 0.75 ? if so , the dagger is stronger than axe by 3 times !
Dagger chain attack (940 in 0.75 sec ) deals more damage than Ghastly Claws (968 ( 1142 from 1st skill Vulnerability ) in 2.25 sec ) >> in 2.25 , dagger will deals 2820 damage while axe will deal 1142 )

But the 2nd dagger skill is a lifesaver in critical situations !

What do u mean by farming ?
Keep killing him again and again ?
How much gold do u get from each kill ?
I finished the meta achievement btw.

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I know that Staff is the best MM weapon , but what about the other set ?
http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj
Now I have dagger/focus as I belive that dagger is the strongest\fastest weapon along with its healing ( 2K ) , while the focus heals us and apply vulnerability on our foes.
Is a dagger better than a traited axe ? Is a traited focus better than a dagger ?

When will Anet increase our minions AOE resistance ? When will they give us cleave attacks ( to minions too ) ?

Bhawb.7408:

Oh my god, I never thought. The torch should… SUMMON A MINION. It can be like Shadow Fiend, but blue and flamey instead and dark and spermy

Edit: more seriously though, I actually am going to flesh out the idea of a minion for torch, I like the idea, and we could summon a “will-o-wisp” flame that inflicts short chill durations (either 1s every attack on longer attack timers like Flesh Wurm, or have flesh-golem like chain that inflicts on last hit), with an active like I described above.

I totally agree with you bro ( I mentioned this idea in another thread )
Most of ( if not all ) our minions attack single target ( normal attacks ) so we need minions that attack AOE.
My Idea was to give us new weapon ( torch ) which summon 2 minions ( 4th and 5th skills ) that burn the area around their targets.

I tried it in PvP too , too rare to get myself killed
Thanks to Anet there is no minions AL issue anymore ( they attack all the time )

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I’m a MM since gw1.
My main character is a MM , I find out the MM build is the best necro build ever !
http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj with soldier gear > I’m the last man standing in dungeons !
But I will be glad with AOE resistance

I got soldier armor set for my MM necro ( P\T\V ).
I land all my marks then switch for dagger\focus and use 4th skill , spaming 1st one then transform to a shadow (DS) ( use all the 5 skills ).
I find my self an immortal in PvE and kind of in dungeons .
http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reaper%27s_Touch
This skill should heal my minions , why it doesn’t bounces between our minions ( even if there is just 1 foe ) ?!

We will be very happy if it does ( as wiki says ).

Hi bro , I’m a MM since gw1 as I found MM build the best necro build ever.
http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj is a very good build even for level 80 and dungeons.
I’m the last man standing in dungeons and it’s too rarely to die.

Necros Stalker.2713:

Anyway I’ll take a stab

Improved Traits
Bloodthirst: Siphoning is 50% better and 2.5% of healing also becomes Siphoning. Life blast now siphons health

Transfusion: Life Transfer siphons health for both you and your allies

Dagger mastery: Merged with Quickening thirst

Vamperic Gluttony: (replaces vampiric precision and move to grandmaster) If your lifeforce is full lifeforce gain instead becomes Becomes siphoning. I.E 4% lifeforce gain would instead become 4% of damage siphons health

Overall those are the changes I would like to see. and doing even 2 of them would see vampuric builds improve greatly. Also Dagger mastery and Transfusion improvements aren’t actually my ideas lol Im just seconding them XD

I agree about all of them, but I also add >>>

Vampiric master : minions siphone health to them selves and to their master on each hit.

And a fix > Flesh Golem learns how to swim / Blood Fiend and Bone Minions get health regen as the others.

It will be good to have a new weapons or just give us cleave attacks on our dagger/axe.
I think that Torch should be a MM weapon that summon 2 minions , each one deals AOE attack via burning.

Bhawb.7408:

I have to agree with ronpierce here. But to specify, I don’t think minion damage right now is too much of a problem because they are easy to kill. However, if his changes were to be implemented to make them much more difficult to kill, then damage needs to be toned down.

What I would love to see is a combination of what has been suggested in this thread about survivable minions, and what we have now. I think both should be viable playstyles, and I’d like to see them both implemented. Basically, I’d like to see minions that can be killed, but have more strength, and then minions that are very survivable, but don’t have that same strength.

Hi bro , as for Tank / DPS minions , I would suggest that tank are melee and the others are ranged so they still alive as much as possible.

Add to that the most important change ( should be there since the betas ) is that Flesh Golem gets the ability to swim !!!

I heard it and replied.
I totally agree on every single word

We really hope to see what the developers think about this
I’m a royal MM since gw1 ( I belive that necro is the best class and MM is the best build ).
I agree with every thing you said.

I really hope that Anet change some MM traits as >
Minion Master ( -20% summoning cd ): We want it to affect their skills too !
Vampiric Master ( heals on hit ) : It will be much better if it heals them as well.

Also I hope that we can use Mark of Blood on the ground without a target so we can heal our minions out of combat ( talking about the blood fiend and twins ).

Any supporters ?

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Blood_Bond for MM necro ( to heal my minions )

I really hope that Anet allow us to make polls so we can see what others think and want without being forced to read every post.

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I totally agree about every thing

I’m a royal MM ( in both gw1 and gw2 ) XD
My build http://tinyurl.com/qeztlzz
I find both conditionmancer ( wells and epdimic >> long cd ) and powermancer ( spectral ) are weaker than MM.
I really hope that ANet add new minions skill ( from a torch > flaming ones XD ).

So ? any one ? what are they ?

How many achievements that don’t include JP ? ( killing , talking and farming )

Hi guys , I already finished Parachute Pliferer achievement which leaves 15 more to get ( Gift of Quartz ).
In your opinion/experince , what are the easiest 15 achievements to get ?

Khisanth.2948:

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Khisanth.2948:

For karma you will need 210,000 karma since you can only get 5/6 pieces.
You will need another 331 badges for light/medium armor and 295 badges for heavy armor.
Not sure how much randomness there is but gettting to 1000 Achievement points seems to be enough to get you 300 badges from the reward chests.

AC path 1 is easy, the other 2 can be easy or hard depending on the team
SE path 1 and 3 are fairly easy.
HotW path 1 is fairly easy and short, the other two paths have a bunch of HP sponges and underwater end boss.

I’m talking about exotic here which can only be purchased my badges/coins.
Anyways SE skin is the best looking one. I should do both path 1 and 3 ? ( easiest )

What makes you think I was referring to anything besides the exotic ones?

Sorry bro , my mistake
240k seems much , specially that karma is soulbound instead of account bound.
For best light looking , I will get :- SE > helm , shoulder and legging << HOTW > chest, gloves and shoes .

Khisanth.2948:

For karma you will need 210,000 karma since you can only get 5/6 pieces.
You will need another 331 badges for light/medium armor and 295 badges for heavy armor.
Not sure how much randomness there is but gettting to 1000 Achievement points seems to be enough to get you 300 badges from the reward chests.

AC path 1 is easy, the other 2 can be easy or hard depending on the team
SE path 1 and 3 are fairly easy.
HotW path 1 is fairly easy and short, the other two paths have a bunch of HP sponges and underwater end boss.

I’m talking about exotic here which can only be purchased my badges/coins.
Anyways SE skin is the best looking one. I should do both path 1 and 3 ? ( easiest )

Mammoth.1975:

Precision and critical damage have nothing to do with your attack speed btw, aside from effects that proc on crits. I know that’s counterintuitive for a lot of people though.

If you attack once per second for 200 damage, you are doing 200 dps.
If you attack twice per second for 100 damage each, you are still doing 200 dps.

Now let’s say your crits do 200% damage, and we give you 100% crit chance.
In the first example, you would be attacking once per second for 400 damage, equalling 400 dps.
In the second example, you would be attacking twice per second for 200 damage. 2×200= 400 dps still.

People seem to understand that faster attacks = more crits but forget that bigger attacks = bigger crits. I’m not sure if that’s it, but I remember people having trouble with the concept way back on the wow forums.

The maximum critical chance/damage I can get is 55/69 , which isn’t high enough ( not tempting ). http://tinyurl.com/qeztlzz

Blaine Tog.8304:

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Hi guys , there were many necro buffs and nerfs which affect our builds.
Which is better for me ? Soldier http://tinyurl.com/bjne78d or carrion http://tinyurl.com/nw75f8m ?
Precision and critical damage won’t affect me much as I don’t have fast attacks except for dagger 1st skill.

Where do you intend to use this build?

If you checked my build well , you will see that it’s on PVE mode !

Hi guys , I heard that I can get soldier armor from 3 dungeons ( there are karma and badges also ) which are AC , SE and HOTW.
What is the easiest/fastest dungeon to farm ? which path ?

Hi guys , there were many necro buffs and nerfs which affect our builds.
Which is better for me ? Soldier http://tinyurl.com/bjne78d or carrion http://tinyurl.com/nw75f8m ?
Precision and critical damage won’t affect me much as I don’t have fast attacks except for dagger 1st skill.

ronpierce.2760:

Just play 20/0/20/30/0 Bunker MM. :P Its sooo fun.

I totally agree.
I run the same build > http://tinyurl.com/bjne78d and I find my self op ( which I love it :P ).
After the minions buff ( regen ) , you won’t worry about re-summon them every battle

Aomine.5012:

Real problem is why the heck drakes are the only pet that their normal attack can hit 3 and skills can hit 5? (Other than jellyfish)
All pets normal attack should hit 3!! (Otherwise many of those pets really doesn’t need to exist in the first place.)

I agree with you as Drakes are the only ones that have AOE attacks ( all their skills )

ilr.9675:

Reef drake are OP …. the ones in Southsun I mean. One of them ticked off 10 stacks of whatever the hell “Used Retreat” means for almost 2k ea. on me… instantly killed my Guardian. Wonder if there’s any exploits to make the Pet ones do that to targets? 0_o

Durzlla.6295:

Reef Drake does the most damage (assuming the mobs are agroed on the drake and thus attacking), then river drake (not far behind), then fire, then swamp (does more than fire if it bounces back and forth between 2 targets), then chill.

It’s the weakest drake if you are smart
Just don’t use any skill and you will be fine , too weak for PvE as most mobs hit very slowly.

Manekk.6981:

I prefered the marsh drake even before the nerf on lightning, it wasn’t too far behind in damage before patch either it’s probably more now but it’s also alot easier to hit with I find, much longer range on the F2 skill plus it activates slightly faster I feel.

I agree , for me River and marsh are the best as their hits bounces , salamander’s weakness is his cone attack.

Puandro.3245:

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

After the nerf for both lightening and march drakes , in addition to their normal skills , Can you give me the total F2 damage ( for all the 5 pulses (2x as it bounces twice ) ?
Are the drakes still the strongest AOE pets ( PvE ) ?

AoE, yes.

I want a comparison between their F2 skills , what is the strongest 2 drakes ( confusion and chill don’t count as I’m talking about PvE ) ?

After the nerf for both lightening and march drakes , in addition to their normal skills , Can you give me the total F2 damage ( for all the 5 pulses (2x as it bounces twice ) ?
Are the drakes still the strongest AOE pets ( PvE ) ?