Guild Wars 2

Caedmon.6798:

Vitali.5039:

Wolfric.9380:

Vitali.5039:

The worst part of skill.. skull grinder is the daze.

well yes … but the combination with such a load of condies makes it too much ..
I play power war and normaly don´t use mace unless only dueling. I acidently forgot to swap weapons before a PvP match and got stuck with mace after going zerk. Well i thought wayne and used skull grinder … Interrupt … mace strike, pomel bash … interrupt …. oponent flees out of meele range for about 2 seconds till primal burst recharged and i leaped on him with another skull grinder … Well he was done … And i don´t play so much warrior and it was a power build :-/ …

Yes, skull grinder can make a warrior more cc-ing then a horde of Volatile Bloodstone Elementals, luckily only on single target.

I hit you, for 1 second you can’t hit me, your next move will miss me, i’ll headbutt you on the nose and if you are still alive i’ll do it again and again and again.
Luckily they’ll don’t add some sigil to gain further advantage of interrupts.. right?

I can understand the effect-overload of a skill like thief’s steal, but it’s a 20 sec (trained) CD skill that don’t improve it’s survival like a “base” skull grinder.

Trait sinergy it’s a good thing, but when you can combo skill and traits to reliably do everything ther’s something wrong.

Lets pretend people dont have dodges,lets pretend people dont have stunbreaks,lets pretend people dont have stabi,lets pretend people dont have ports,lets pretend people dont have leaps,lets pretend people dont have invulns and condi clears,lets pretend people are unable to play properply and eat everything everyone throws at em.

Yawn.

Lets pretend that warriors can break your control, lets pretend that they’ll become immune to that control, lets pretend that they have a good mobility, lets pretend that they can stun you more than you can break/dodge.

Wolfric.9380:

Vitali.5039:

The worst part of skill.. skull grinder is the daze.

well yes … but the combination with such a load of condies makes it too much ..
I play power war and normaly don´t use mace unless only dueling. I acidently forgot to swap weapons before a PvP match and got stuck with mace after going zerk. Well i thought wayne and used skull grinder … Interrupt … mace strike, pomel bash … interrupt …. oponent flees out of meele range for about 2 seconds till primal burst recharged and i leaped on him with another skull grinder … Well he was done … And i don´t play so much warrior and it was a power build :-/ …

Yes, skull grinder can make a warrior more cc-ing then a horde of Volatile Bloodstone Elementals, luckily only on single target.

I hit you, for 1 second you can’t hit me, your next move will miss me, i’ll headbutt you on the nose and if you are still alive i’ll do it again and again and again.
Luckily they’ll don’t add some sigil to gain further advantage of interrupts.. right?

I can understand the effect-overload of a skill like thief’s steal, but it’s a 20 sec (trained) CD skill that don’t improve it’s survival like a “base” skull grinder.

Trait sinergy it’s a good thing, but when you can combo skill and traits to reliably do everything ther’s something wrong.

The worst part of skill.. skull grinder is the daze.

For the siphon they only need to make siphons scaling with power and condition. They can also split the formula mechanics for pvp.

For the siphon healing.. it seems an irrilevant value atm.
Even with a high healing stat..

NeXeD.3042:

Axe and dagger just seem much better options unless you take souk marks.

Marjory Delaqua approved!

I hope they’ll make some overall leeching damage improvement: more damage from dark field’s combo, more group utility and damage from blood magic and a sense to the greatsword’s trait.

Ramoth.9064:

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A BETTER DEFlNlTION OF WHAT lS AFFECTED BY STUN DURATlON?

STONE/REAPER’S FROST/JADE. ETC. KTHXBYE

Take a look here
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stun

Just roll another class after the necro: Elementalist

“Hi guys, i’m a power necro with a Ele alt, if we lack dps I could switch, just give me a try”
0 encounters in this game need a 100% minmaxed group to achieve seccess (if you aren’t after a record), so if you are good you can be the “mentor” of your group and have fun and play even with a necro.

Necro, even the power version, it’s a good class for pug groups.

Dark Spirit A N has invaded your Home Instance!

Dark Spirit A N has invaded your Home Instance!

Ayrilana.1396:

Vitali.5039:

Ayrilana.1396:

Vitali.5039:

Ayrilana.1396:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Its “impact” is one game mode, so you are already just wrong. How difficult would it be for them to just say “WvW uses the PvP version?” Not at all. The split is already there, they’re just changing where the line is drawn.

It impacts WvW and PvE. So that’s two, not one.

Every unsplitted skill affect 3 game modes, i think.

Even Ancients Seeds could be called OP in pvp but i’ve never heard about nerf it in pve.
Deathly Chill is OP in WvW? Why? Because it affect player? What!?
In WvW ther’s pvp activity? Deathly Chill have a pvp version so.. why not use the PvP version then?

WvW tends to be lumped with PvE. It’s more evident by your characters being able to move freely between those modes with minor adjustments unlike if you were to go to sPvP.

Ancient Seeds isn’t OP as it’s not spammable and rangers don’t have enough access as they typically use the skill with lb for rapid fire/quickness.

Nope, WvW stats are lumped with PvE thanks to the stats, cause you can chose how to mix it.

A10 icd trait that can do (even from range) the same thing of a 60 cd elite it could be called OP.
The RS#5#4 combo isn’t spammable cause, even if you use another ice field, the RS#4 have 30sec CD (25 traited) and you need to be melee. You also need to be in the target hitbox to fully hit your enemy.

If the trait need a “fix”, surely shouldn’t be something that kill the gameplay, like prevent the most valuable condibomb of the necro, right? Cause an ICD will kill it.

Not sure what you’re saying nope to. Also not sure what you brought in stats either.

Whether a 10 sec ICD trait is OP depends on other factors than a comparison of their cool downs. For example, with that ranger trait, how often a ranger could actually take advantage of it matters too.

I didn’t say that the reaper skills were spammable. I was talking strictly about the ranger in the post.

My nope was referred to WvW/PvE balance vs PvP.
Seems that the balance are splitted only cause the modes uses customizable stats combination.. not taking into account that in pve you don’t hit players (lower hp)

And a capable druid can proc the trait every 10 seconds, if the target don’t have a reliable source of stability.

jihm.2315:

Vitali.5039:

jihm.2315:

Vitali.5039:

jihm.2315:

go try wow pvp and you will see that gw2 is fine
i went back for legion and also played some wod
i was nothing but a free kill for German and Russian premades
there was nothing you could do since those guys always play with voice chat
you where always getting steamrolled without mercy and blizzard does nothing about it

jihm.2315:

free kill for German and Russian premades

jihm.2315:

blizzard does nothing about it

Should they set the queue limit to 2 or ban who use TS?

they should leave it as it is i dont care any more
2 man q is better than 10-40 man premades
also Russians team up only with Russians there and same goes for Germans
wow pvp is atrocious

Nono, i can tell you that when i was playing WoW i’ve done better game when playing with my guild mates
If you are saying that 2 man queue is more.. fair.. than a premade..
if anyone can group, log TS and play as a team it’s a fair match.

Vitali.5039:

I’m against solo-only or N-only, but why not allow to join as a team?
If someone want to win must chose his teams.. duo que is like playing football with your best friend and the first passing, but you can have way more fun playing with 5 friends vs 5 other random.. or vs other 5 man team!
Footballers have a 11+ “premade” and have individual value.
Unranked>Ranked

and what if they dont?
some people want to play with the skills of their character not their voice
and footballers cannot chat from one side of the pitch to the other
they dont use headsets and microphones

It’s because they act like a team, like you say, without having headset and microphones.
Cause they are a team, not a bunch of sheeps.
They always play together and they known their role.
Also, playing without character’s skill.. well, could be problematic.

Ayrilana.1396:

Vitali.5039:

Ayrilana.1396:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Its “impact” is one game mode, so you are already just wrong. How difficult would it be for them to just say “WvW uses the PvP version?” Not at all. The split is already there, they’re just changing where the line is drawn.

It impacts WvW and PvE. So that’s two, not one.

Every unsplitted skill affect 3 game modes, i think.

Even Ancients Seeds could be called OP in pvp but i’ve never heard about nerf it in pve.
Deathly Chill is OP in WvW? Why? Because it affect player? What!?
In WvW ther’s pvp activity? Deathly Chill have a pvp version so.. why not use the PvP version then?

WvW tends to be lumped with PvE. It’s more evident by your characters being able to move freely between those modes with minor adjustments unlike if you were to go to sPvP.

Ancient Seeds isn’t OP as it’s not spammable and rangers don’t have enough access as they typically use the skill with lb for rapid fire/quickness.

Nope, WvW stats are lumped with PvE thanks to the stats, cause you can chose how to mix it.

A10 icd trait that can do (even from range) the same thing of a 60 cd elite it could be called OP.
The RS#5#4 combo isn’t spammable cause, even if you use another ice field, the RS#4 have 30sec CD (25 traited) and you need to be melee. You also need to be in the target hitbox to fully hit your enemy.

If the trait need a “fix”, surely shouldn’t be something that kill the gameplay, like prevent the most valuable condibomb of the necro, right? Cause an ICD will kill it.

Ayrilana.1396:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Its “impact” is one game mode, so you are already just wrong. How difficult would it be for them to just say “WvW uses the PvP version?” Not at all. The split is already there, they’re just changing where the line is drawn.

It impacts WvW and PvE. So that’s two, not one.

Every unsplitted skill affect 3 game modes, i think.

Even Ancients Seeds could be called OP in pvp but i’ve never heard about nerf it in pve.
Deathly Chill is OP in WvW? Why? Because it affect player? What!?
In WvW ther’s pvp activity? Deathly Chill have a pvp version so.. why not use the PvP version then?

HenryChinaski.4732:

Vitali.5039:

Frost Fan+Ice Field it’s pure love <3

Hm never be careful about that, 42 bleeding?

It’s only 20% chance per hit, sadly.
But 4 times i’ve procced 5/7, never 6 or 7/7

but it’s love

jihm.2315:

Vitali.5039:

jihm.2315:

go try wow pvp and you will see that gw2 is fine
i went back for legion and also played some wod
i was nothing but a free kill for German and Russian premades
there was nothing you could do since those guys always play with voice chat
you where always getting steamrolled without mercy and blizzard does nothing about it

jihm.2315:

free kill for German and Russian premades

jihm.2315:

blizzard does nothing about it

Should they set the queue limit to 2 or ban who use TS?

they should leave it as it is i dont care any more
2 man q is better than 10-40 man premades
also Russians team up only with Russians there and same goes for Germans
wow pvp is atrocious

Nono, i can tell you that when i was playing WoW i’ve done better game when playing with my guild mates
If you are saying that 2 man queue is more.. fair.. than a premade..
if anyone can group, log TS and play as a team it’s a fair match.

Vitali.5039:

I’m against solo-only or N-only, but why not allow to join as a team?
If someone want to win must chose his teams.. duo que is like playing football with your best friend and the first passing, but you can have way more fun playing with 5 friends vs 5 other random.. or vs other 5 man team!
Footballers have a 11+ “premade” and have individual value.
Unranked>Ranked

Frost Fan+Ice Field it’s pure love <3

jihm.2315:

go try wow pvp and you will see that gw2 is fine
i went back for legion and also played some wod
i was nothing but a free kill for German and Russian premades
there was nothing you could do since those guys always play with voice chat
you where always getting steamrolled without mercy and blizzard does nothing about it

jihm.2315:

free kill for German and Russian premades

jihm.2315:

blizzard does nothing about it

Should they set the queue limit to 2 or ban who use TS?

Axl.8924:

Vitali.5039:

You can transfer even fear, immobilize and.. blind.
Dagger #4 and Staff #4 will miss with blind but not the signet.

I just checked you can only autotransfer bleeds and poisons and burns and stuff like that.Doesn’t work on cripples or chill effect.

Link plz.
Can be strange but I always transfer immobilize back to rangers while breaking the LB knockdown or on thief’s stolen fear

You can transfer even fear, immobilize and.. blind.
Dagger #4 and Staff #4 will miss with blind but not the signet.

I need some tips for this build
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAsaVn0MBFmilNBmOB8PhlriybDygPo7mmuAY+5z+uH-TpBEABE8AAMvMAEHCAAOCAMt/gBnAAA

I’m looking for a Bloodborne like build, can someone educate me?

Leeching is currently worthless, but with some adjust it can be useful for a dps increase and to let peoples stay above 90% hp more easily.

Cause they don’t want to take a look at the bar and cleanse smartly.

Why not tag up and explain how to use cleanse and light fields whirl/blast finisher? Or saying to a pair of guardians to pick SYS and CoP? A lot of people actually read what a commander have to say.

My 2 cents
If someone want to tank with necros it really should choose reaper trait line: -10% damage from chilled foes, life force refilling utility, blinds and the best minions. If the necro want its minion to tank it shouln’t go full toughness.

But all builds can work in open world, so its fine

Difficulty slider it’s like set the easy mode just before challenging the final boss, shouldn’t boss supposed to be “hard” to beat?

Its 2 second AoE +1 second (self) per condition drained..
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Demonic_Defiance could also help, but you’ll lose poison duration.

thrag.9740:

As for rev giving itself conditions, that would require a major rework. Necro giving itself conditions is fine because the class was designed to transfer those conditions back. Look at all the condi transfers necro has: staff 4, dagger 4, plague signet, minion transfer, plague sending. Additionally they have consume conditions and shroud to help tank conditions.

But what about rev? They have a lot of abilities to clense and tank (resistance), but no ability to transfer. Self conditions would require a pretty large rework.

I was thinking about Necro/Reve synergy, where with the use of https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pain_Absorption the reve could be immune from the condition drained from the necro & friends, then going into https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Embrace_the_Darkness (gaining further condition), to copy the condition on the target, and gaining power damage from https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bolstered_Anguish
Leaving the transformation to let the condi expire while the resistance is active.. or, thanks to the necro, recycle the condi sending it back to the boss

But an overall rework could only be appreciated.

Malice.8439:

5) I’m a rather casual player. I don’t intend to do much raiding, and I’d rather have gear cover as much condition duration as possible, and not have expensive food with me at all times. With this in mind, is it better to go full Viper or should I be looking at crafting some Sinister things as well?

Duration > All
Expecially if you don’t want to make use of food you should have the more duration possible.

Malice.8439:

1) If I have a long-term goal to gear up my Reaper in Vipers ascended, is there a cheaper, exotic alternative I can use during the transition? Would Rampagers work, for instance?

Viper is optimal, Sinister is good, Rampager is fine. I suggest you to take ascended Viper trinkets wih the currency of Bloodstone Fen, Ember Bay, Bitterfrost Frontier or Lake Doric, while taking exotics Rampager armor with karma from https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tactician_Deathstrider or with Verdant Brink currency/meta event https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bladed_armor before goint to full ascended viper.

2) Can I be a Zerker reaper in fractals until further notice? How far would I be able to go as a Minionmancer? (I have ascended zerker trinkets with AR, so that won’t be an issue).

You can but i fear that every utility minion slot will make your already poor dps drop as a power reaper..

3) Is there any room for the Greatsword in a fractal vipers build?

Viper Greatsword is a meta weapon for raids and i can’t see why that build can’t be used in fractals. You only have to adjust your rotation when you don’t have quickness.

4) Am I right to assume that the crafting priority ought to go somewhere along the lines of Dagger, Scepter, Warhorn, trinkets, legs, chest > the rest?

For condi: Scepter, Dagger, Greatsword, trinkets, armor
For power: Greatsword, trinkets, armor, other weapons

OriOri.8724:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t vampiric presence affect the life leech you can trait your minions for? I’m not saying that justifies the oddly low scaling, I just genuinely don’t know.

And yes the scaling on those are ridiculously low. At the same time, in PvE Necro survivability is already ridiculously high, so I don’t see how buffing their life leech will open up their diversity at all.

Yeah, the two traits stack.. but the minion’s attack rate is so low that you should hope that your vampiric presence (max 5 target) will affect some player.. to keep active the life based bonus. Buffing the leech damage (from traits and non) could open a way to use the reaper’s GS trait (more dps from field, more whirl.. maybe 12 easy vulnerability in fractals), dumping a free 50% crit, making mandatorty berserker gear (less life from valk, yay) and will benefit well’s damage (multi hitting AoE leeching skill) to increase the pve appeal of the power reaper

..you don’t say?

With great power comes great.. corruption.
Don’t tell me that invoke the power of a demon can’t have side effects.

Oh yeah, it’s on the tab.
Use the power of a demon, 100% corruption free, no side effects, try it now!

But Revenant’s condi trait line is named corruption, and corruption skills should auto-inflict condi, right?
This could lead to interesting necro/reve sinergy, where condi jump, are copied, return to necro and then been sent to the boss.

Condi reve: viable
Power reve: viable (+3% damage per condi is strong)
Necro required to increase the dps and manage the condition when the reve doesn’t have resistance

Hey, man! Your armor is pretty cool

Suggestion for:

Necromancer – greatly increase all sources of life siphon’s damage (dark field’s finishers in primis)

Engineer (Scrapper) – Applied Force: garants 2 sec of quickness within 600 range,
15 might required to proc

Revenant – Maniacal Persistence: gain faster stack under the effec of Fury (0,5 sec)
Embrace the Darkness: the revenant is plagued with a random new condition every seconds, while under the effect of Embrace the Darkness condition on you don’t expire

Guardian’s Torch says HellooOOooOo..

Alatar.7364:

S/P could actually make its way to Ranked without being “blamed ‘n’ flamed”?

What do people think I wonder?

You’ll be random blamed/flamed even if you are the best thief and you’re running d/p meta build.
Play what do you want (what make you enjoy the most).. maybe you’ll be the one who’ll bring sword/pistol to be the new meta!

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Solo queue causes so much toxicity from the Solo Queuers, with premade teams player will play with people they actually like instead of scrubs and trolls that can hinder their advancement and fun.

Quoted for truth.

I’m against solo-only or N-only, but why not allow to join as a team?

If someone want to win must chose his teams.. duo que is like playing football with your best friend and the first passing, but you can have way more fun playing with 5 friends vs 5 other random.. or vs other 5 man team!
Footballers have a 11+ “premade” and have individual value.

Unranked>Ranked

Shen Gia.1650:

My word, one of the most powerful necromancers I’ve ever seen!

indeed, and this one was 3 years old

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Sylvari-or-Human-Necromancer/first

Like an “hide character animation effect”, with a list of all the animation from skill, utilities etc. to enable/disable?

I fear that take root will be nerfed soon or later, cause a racial skill shouldn’t increase dps (it’s even more damaging that engi’s mortar)

My connection keep me away from ranked, i don’t want to make my mates lose rating..

when ther’s the pvp season i often play unranked, where meta isn’t so important and you can play your own build without beign flammed.

I really like PvP but I don’t enjoy Player VS Ping
(the screen here below it’s been taken after a disconnection, with only GW2 opened)

I have tried this today, having much fun
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR8ensABVDhFdCeDB8Dhl4B7afNpyBVBgGQBQ+/FAPgA-TZBFABiXGAgnAABXAgEOIAls/AA

If my necromancer can be a condicopter my guardian can be a cleansecopter
(hey, chill and burning are everywhere, why not gain aegis and some resistance?)

Retro.5810:

Hey guys, currently playing a valkyrie reaper which is awesome but i want to change it up a bit so i have a few questions for viper horror build on meta battle. Is this build good for open world HoT?

All builds are good for open world

1. Can it solo the hero points like valkyrie reaper can?

Not so well, but swapping Soul Reapering for the old Death Magic build and Epidemic for “Rise!” can do the job.

2. Is the damage more or less then valkyrie reaper? (for HoT open world only)

It’s good where many mobs are packed.. and for killing Husks.

3. Would you recommend Staying as a valkyrie reaper or switching to Viper Horror in your opinion?

Depend on your playstile, I have a berserker and a viper light set, i suggest you to play first with a exotic version before crafting/convert the set to viper.

Necropost is strong in you, Trahearne could be proud

@OP i was fooling on the build editor tool and i have created a similar build of yours,
i think it could be pretty funny.. can i have your impressions about the build?
Is full sinister heavy gear worth crafting?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR8flsAhyhYzQwSIQQEHxDldDehHtGAbZ9mHjXcGB-TBiAQB1UJI0OCAXT5XCeAAVT9nopbQH7PAgLCApAWUZF-e

Balanced Stance pulses stability and swiftness every 3 seconds, if the dolyak stability its dispelled it’s gone forever.

Justine.6351:

Vitali.5039:

(damage apart) staff is our pvp best weapon, basically is the only “must have” in pvp.

With a statement like that I guess there is no point in trying to help people in this thread.

I’m fine with my staff, but our other weapon need some love too.. to be in line with the reaper design we must have more mobility (like the Greatsword’s 3# as a moviment skill, or making Reaper’s Shroud 2# break immobilize, or Dagger’s 2# transfer some condi), to be the inesorable reaper that hunt down victims.. not like a immobililized thing that can’t even touch enemies or stand melee.

Justine.6351:

What’s wrong with using something other than staff for a change? Yes…There are other weapon set combinations that do not include staff lol.

There is nothing wrong with running other weapon than staff, but staff it’s good for:

-1200 range
-(good) Ranged CC
-Poison
-Condi transfer
-Life force generation

So.. like thieves shortbow we have to rely on this utility weapon, cause we cant find those things in other moveset.

If the daggers 2# could transfer 2-3 condition I’ll be the first to use it.. (damage apart) staff is our pvp best weapon, basically is the only “must have” in pvp.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Edit: are you suggesting a portal in the home instance that leads to a HoT map? That’s an interesting idea. However it seems sort of limited, seeing as there are new maps coming out with each LS and later with the next expansion. More likely imo would be another pass you can buy with map currency that takes you to a HoT map.

Yes, this was my idea.