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Have a Coke and a smile…
My bf and I played necro thief a while back and we found it an excellent combination. Thief has pretty low survivability (especially without traits) so necro is a brilliant pairing as you can offer minions to tank, you have great survivability yourself and you can even offer a bit of regen if you use staff #2.
For this combo I use staff condi/mm build and my bf used a d/d zerk/assassin type build. Of course he did a lot more damage than me but back then d/d was limited to single target damage- it left me in charge to control any group aggro and knock their health down enough for him to finish them off. I’d assume this kind of set-up would still work but with the benefit of daggers now having cleave (yay for more damage
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I would certainly not suggest using staff in dungeons, but I’ve seen dagger/warhorn and dagger/focus (I think) and they do some brilliant damage. Being a necro shouldn’t hinder you for most dungeon runs unless you specifically go for speed-clear pugs or pugs who demand meta. Arah and high level fractal pugs will be a bit pickier too, but if you run dungeons with a guild group they’ll probably be very accommodating: From my experience guild groups don’t mind what professions a group has as long as there’s a couple of guardians.
Ele and Engi are fun to play too! Ele has excellent damage capabilities no matter what you do, Engi is a bit trickier. BUT… if you want to “master” either and run meta builds, be prepared for a lot of kit swapping/attunement swapping and a long string of keys to press (and keeping an eye on cool-downs). These two professions are much more in demand when it comes to high level fractals, speed-clears etc because of their utility for the group (might and vulnerability). Necro can also offer this, just not to the same extent.
Even though Ele has a low health pool, eles have a lot of tricks up their sleeves when it comes to healing. I have two eles- a celestial staff ele and a zerk s/d ele. My celestial staff ele is probably one of my most survivable characters and still does a brilliant amount of damage. My zerk ele does mountains of damage and is survivable as long as you time your dodges and evades. Glass cannons are expected to be smashed, but that’s why you have other party members to pick you up
Basically just play what you want! If you want to play necro, play it- don’t feel you can’t play this awesome class because it’s not perfect for hard dungeons.
Swap those weapon sets around on your Eles Zerk Staff Ele Drops the Bombs On ‘Em and Celestial S/F Ele is an invincible, destructive ball of MegaCounters and if you’re gonna use one dagger, equip the other and just duke it out
*No offense meant in any of that btw? I’m usually more eloquent with pointers, except after a couple he’s sleep and kids are still high on sugar.
How do they do this? We walked around in the 20 degree weather for almost four hours then get to bed at midnight. 6am…running around like they just woke up from a coma. O.o
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An Ele that could wear Celestial gear and could be able to stack a bunch of Might and Fury….oh, wait…uhmmm nvm
I find it funny that so many complain that Anet’s current system of Living Story and temporary content is useless and only worth half an hour ‘playable content’, so the destroy this new content as quickly as possible. Then, low and behold, those same people are here QQing about how they rushed through it (instead of taking there time to explore what it might actually have to OFFER) and then spam QQ threads about how they can no longer access the content which could have proved valuable to their own ends.
After reading so many threats about how the implement so much “content with little value that can be grinded out in less than an hour”, I have no sympathy for you. Furthermore, I absolutely LoL at all these threads about, “Plz roll back [X Content] because I veraciously consumed it thinking it was just ‘more’ of my preconception of ‘junk’, but now I realize it had the potential to be very valuable!”
There are PLENTY more groups of ‘ambient creatures’ in the world. I’m sorry you were so adamant about knocking out that Meta Achiement within 2 hours of the patch going live. You’re not entitled to call a ‘Mulligan’ on your impatience. Those who realized that that this is a two-week event, and where in no rush, will be happy to sell you the bags that you’d like to have. Furthermore, you should appreciate their ‘slow and steady’ handling of this event, as they are keeping the prices of these bags low/reasonable.
There are plenty of other places with groups of ambients you can farm as well. In fact, there’s an entire thread full of suggestions of decent locations for those who wanted to demolish the story instance ASAP.
*If ALL ELSE FAILS, ‘Go tell your mommy…’
Well, if Tman has taught me anything, it’s that I will be waiting to consume all future content and checking for reports of similar non-exploits.
I didn’t demolish the story instance, I completed it. By doing the bloody story. I know you’re just going to continue to be insufferably smug about how you spent your time more wisely by opening your trick or treat bags, stumbling upon the consumable, staring thoughtfully at the consumable, and then, when you did the story, you were the one who saw all those rats and thought, “Hey, I better throw this balm at these rats and see what happens!” and then thought, “It’s probably not an exploit to keep doing this thing that has a 100% drop rate and can make me upwards of 40g per hour.” and then you came to the forum to find this very issue raised and already blessed by Mr. Cleary.
Yes. You’re so much better than the rest of us, Tman. I salute you.
Actually, last year, I used this ‘pile of rats’ to farm some of the more difficult Weapon Master achievements such as torch, war horn, and shield. It wasn’t till after a few hours of this, this year, that I even found out there was this Maize Balm and what it did when a friend invited me to Godslost Swamp to farm with him. I’m sorry I hurt your feelings and that you took my post so personally. I was just pointing out a bit of irony that flies in the face of identical threads that pop up two or more times a week.
*I sent you a hug if you check your in game mail…
First: It’s not an exploit. An exploit is the benifitial abusing of bugs. And there is no bug.
Second: Through this, no gold is generated, it’s the opposite. What farmers do, is to sell the stuff they find to other players which then pay the gold and 15% of the price simply evaporate. So the amount of available gold in the game actually drops through this.
In FACT, to add to this point, it is ACTUALLY those that are “farming the Labyrinth for hours on end” that injecting huge amounts of gold into the game’s economy. I’ll just chalk the OP’s misunderstanding of the vast difference between these two activities as ignorance or jealousy.
Nothing to see here folks. Carry on.
lol you are seriously going to say that running random drop in the labyrinth out farms getting 15 trick or treats in like 10 seconds flat? I want some of what you are smoking.
Except farming the Labyrinth drops REAL COIN, adding gold to the economy. Farming and selling ToT bags transfers wealth between players. Instead of ‘smoking things’ maybe you should read some books.
I have no problem stating that i cant access the exploit, does not make it less of an exploit thou.
Pleading ignorance of the whole subject was an alternative I gave as well…
I run the maze for candy corn.
A side benefit is that I will never be hungry again.
Running the Lab gives you chances at Rares, Exotics, and even Precursors. That’s something ‘bag farming’ can NEVER do.
Well of course.
Running the lab has dropped a few rares for me. No exotics : (
The Kitten corn is dependable though. Bought all the shiny toys and have lotsa 20 slot bags now. plenty of change left over.
I’m not the one complaining.
Sorry. All the sillies/whiners got me worked up.
First: It’s not an exploit. An exploit is the benifitial abusing of bugs. And there is no bug.
Second: Through this, no gold is generated, it’s the opposite. What farmers do, is to sell the stuff they find to other players which then pay the gold and 15% of the price simply evaporate. So the amount of available gold in the game actually drops through this.
In FACT, to add to this point, it is ACTUALLY those that are “farming the Labyrinth for hours on end” that injecting huge amounts of gold into the game’s economy. I’ll just chalk the OP’s misunderstanding of the vast difference between these two activities as ignorance or jealousy.
Nothing to see here folks. Carry on.
lol you are seriously going to say that running random drop in the labyrinth out farms getting 15 trick or treats in like 10 seconds flat? I want some of what you are smoking.
Except farming the Labyrinth drops REAL COIN, adding gold to the economy. Farming and selling ToT bags transfers wealth between players. Instead of ‘smoking things’ maybe you should read some books.
I have no problem stating that i cant access the exploit, does not make it less of an exploit thou.
Pleading ignorance of the whole subject was an alternative I gave as well…
I run the maze for candy corn.
A side benefit is that I will never be hungry again.
Running the Lab gives you chances at Rares, Exotics, and even Precursors. That’s something ‘bag farming’ can NEVER do.
First: It’s not an exploit. An exploit is the benifitial abusing of bugs. And there is no bug.
Second: Through this, no gold is generated, it’s the opposite. What farmers do, is to sell the stuff they find to other players which then pay the gold and 15% of the price simply evaporate. So the amount of available gold in the game actually drops through this.
In FACT, to add to this point, it is ACTUALLY those that are “farming the Labyrinth for hours on end” that injecting huge amounts of gold into the game’s economy. I’ll just chalk the OP’s misunderstanding of the vast difference between these two activities as ignorance or jealousy.
Nothing to see here folks. Carry on.
lol you are seriously going to say that running random drop in the labyrinth out farms getting 15 trick or treats in like 10 seconds flat? I want some of what you are smoking.
Except farming the Labyrinth drops REAL COIN, adding gold to the economy. Farming and selling ToT bags transfers wealth between players. Instead of ‘smoking things’ maybe you should read some books.
I have no problem stating that i cant access the exploit, does not make it less of an exploit thou.
Pleading ignorance of the whole subject was an alternative I gave as well…
First: It’s not an exploit. An exploit is the benifitial abusing of bugs. And there is no bug.
Second: Through this, no gold is generated, it’s the opposite. What farmers do, is to sell the stuff they find to other players which then pay the gold and 15% of the price simply evaporate. So the amount of available gold in the game actually drops through this.
In FACT, to add to this point, it is ACTUALLY those that are “farming the Labyrinth for hours on end” that injecting huge amounts of gold into the game’s economy. I’ll just chalk the OP’s misunderstanding of the vast difference between these two activities as ignorance or jealousy.
Nothing to see here folks. Carry on.
lol you are seriously going to say that running random drop in the labyrinth out farms getting 15 trick or treats in like 10 seconds flat? I want some of what you are smoking.
Except farming the Labyrinth drops REAL COIN, adding gold to the economy. Farming and selling ToT bags transfers wealth between players. Instead of ‘smoking things’ maybe you should read some books.
I find it funny that so many complain that Anet’s current system of Living Story and temporary content is useless and only worth half an hour ‘playable content’, so the destroy this new content as quickly as possible. Then, low and behold, those same people are here QQing about how they rushed through it (instead of taking there time to explore what it might actually have to OFFER) and then spam QQ threads about how they can no longer access the content which could have proved valuable to their own ends.
After reading so many threats about how the implement so much “content with little value that can be grinded out in less than an hour”, I have no sympathy for you. Furthermore, I absolutely LoL at all these threads about, “Plz roll back [X Content] because I veraciously consumed it thinking it was just ‘more’ of my preconception of ‘junk’, but now I realize it had the potential to be very valuable!”
There are PLENTY more groups of ‘ambient creatures’ in the world. I’m sorry you were so adamant about knocking out that Meta Achiement within 2 hours of the patch going live. You’re not entitled to call a ‘Mulligan’ on your impatience. Those who realized that that this is a two-week event, and where in no rush, will be happy to sell you the bags that you’d like to have. Furthermore, you should appreciate their ‘slow and steady’ handling of this event, as they are keeping the prices of these bags low/reasonable.
There are plenty of other places with groups of ambients you can farm as well. In fact, there’s an entire thread full of suggestions of decent locations for those who wanted to demolish the story instance ASAP.
*If ALL ELSE FAILS, ‘Go tell your mommy…’