Guild Wars 2

You know, it’s kinda silly to complain about tempest being support when it was created as supportive spec. Ele isn’t viable for damage becouse none of core classes are viable for damage anymore. Elite specs introduced a lot of power creep, and the issue is universal, not ele-focused.

While minions aren’t MLG-pro build, the amount of cheese it brings allows you to run solo PVE even while asleep. Nothing beats it, and it’s not a question of using staff. I use scepter from my regular condi build, and it’s still faceroll

JirdyBirdy.9120:

Allison The Strange.4519:

Wow… the walls of text…

Read that as well of text for a second. Gave me a silly idea too.

Well of Text (Elite)
Summon an unblockable well that pulse every second for five seconds. Enemies caught within the pulse will have their chat panel open. They must close the chat panel first or their skill inputs will be for chats.

Hilarity ensues.

Well of suffering rebinds all of target’s controls randomly with every pulse. Well of darkness turns monitor off. Well of corruption corrupts game files, forcing you to redownload them with every pulse

Let’s make necromancer literally impossible to play against :P

KayCee.4653:

I’d go for soul reaping and change up between death magic and curses…

Why SR? you can get burns on RS1 skill, and when combined with Deathly Chill and the whirls from RS4 and the frost armor from RS2, and the RS2 being a boon converter if you use curses or kitten being a fear that can actually do good damage 1k per tick and often hits for 2 ticks since you should have condition duration increased by armor and trinkets… it will do nice damage.

I change up curses and death magic and blood magic for what the situations I’m going to encounter are.

For me curses is my normal build for the scepter having nice condition damage boost and for blinds also chilling foes, and fears causing damage as well.

I use death magic when I just want to play around with minions or when I need to do something that I can’t easily do myself. Minions often take agro and all from me, which is a plus for solo’ing some things.

I use blood magic when I need to heal others. I know its not meta or anything, but even a reaper’s healing can help druids and ele’s out some in keeping others alive in WvW.

The choose though to all this is yours. I run with curses, soul reaping and reaper most times, but like I said, that curses trait-line can change to anything else but spite. I don’t like spite as its not really helpful it seems unless you’re a power reaper.

I understand, build variety and all, but think for a moment.

Curses are mandatory for PVE condi. It’s chill uptime on offhand dagger. It’s extra crit for chilling nova procs and extra blids. It’s ridicolously prolonged scepter conditions. It’s damage boost on all conditions you apply. It’s reduced CD and extra damaging condis for transfer on corruptions – bread and butter of condi build. And no, it’s definetely not damage on fear…

Like, how the hell can you trade all of this for any other line? Burning on RS AA? C’mon…

SR is useless becouse condi reaper doesn’t camp shroud – you loose condi damage on everything you apply (lingering curse), becouse RS is a hammer for unknown reason

Death, while nice, isn’t universal (some bosses love to wipe minions, while others wipe you if minions appear at the wrong time), and turns you into tank in unorganized groups. It also requires party member healing your rats to make most of it.

Blood is, IMO, awesome. Extra movement speed, good heals from RS2 and 4, group damage increase with vamp aura, transfusion.

Spite is kinda pointless. Might can be generated from chilling victory/BiP if needed, vuln can come from secondary weapon set (focus).

Choice is usually between blood and death.

You don’t exactly need second set for condi. But – GS or dagger, in case you need to kill objects in vanilla parts of game. Scepter phisical damage is pathetic in such cases.

As my friend likes to explain things, “becouse **** you, that’s why”.

On a serious note, the skill looks and works like huge coding mess. It probably faced the same issues as death charge in beta, and was band-aided untill it became dependant on moon’s phase to work.

Transfusion is amasing, but situational and tied to primary-damage skill. Nice off-heal/reanimator. Terrible main-healing.

As for minion healing, it’s kinda borked. You can solo HoT champs in glass gear without ever dropping below 60%

Can somebody clarify the moment with condi duration cap? I’ve heard some time ago that it’s not worth to go full viper, becouse you run into maximum cap somewhere half-way. Is it true?

I’d honestly like to see complete rework into something condi-worthy, at least from PVE standpoint. Having 2 transforms and minion is lame.

My only personal problem with HoT is ungodly amount of events grind required for anything. Want to level up masteries? Good luck. Want Viper gear? Grind one and the same event chain eternally, and then move to the next event chain, becouse you need 200 asc materials from every one of them

flow.6043:

Good idea, makes sense.
Although, pve necros probably wouldn’t be happy to lose the stat bonus. And icds ruin traits, but other than that it’s a solid suggestion.

Nah, as long as that stat bonus migrates to some other curses grandmaster – we’ll just pick it instead :P

Almost sure they fixed it some time ago. Almost :P

It’s possible to solo HoT hero challanges with death/blood/reaper MM. Takes long, but you can’t die most of the time. And I’m doing it in quite kittenty condi gear :P

Consider taking Lich instead of golem. Skill 4 makes your rat army even more ridiculous

Lol. I could see this sticking as actual build-type name :P

How would number 2 interact with EB on shroud entrance from trait? It does look somewhat wrong to get LF on entrance.

Aidenwolf.5964:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Humphrey Bear.2698:

Just like to think what every thinks about this topic now that HoT has been out for a few months now

I think this…

Windsagio.1340:

@Vayne, it does serve a purpose, it paints the setup in a negative moral light.

Accusations of pay-to-win over anything a poster doesn’t care for that cost money are a bald attempt to generate agreement and/or shame a developer by invoking a buzz-word, in this case an extremely loaded term that reeks of derision and scorn.

Except for one point… In PvP and WvW where balance matters, the OP isn’t wrong. Elite specs are without question more powerful than base specs. More power behind a pay wall is what P2W means.

I think this thread is a bit over the top but balance is broken atm so have at it.

There is a subtle difference between unbalanced payed content and P2W content. It really depends only on ANet desire to balance thing properly, or to make it even worse and push sales. For now it’s hard to say. They are notorious for 1+year overdue balancing :P

Wait, you can get mastery points not from achievements as well? :P

To not create another fashion topic – can anybody advice dress-like outfit for female necro, that doesn’t make her look like stripper? :P

Cecilia.5179:

Staff Autoattack needs reworking and could have some buffs added to its marks. However, our ranged DPS weapon is supposed to be Axe, and it completely fails at doing that, so obviously Axe needs a lot of work.

They talked about axe some time ago. They are afraid to buff it becouse it’s a hit-scan weapon, with no projectiles. No joking. So “a lot of work” is going to be absolute rework at this point.

Ostricheggs.3742:

“utility” staff.

Staff messes people up, it’s a great weapon. The only thing that I could see would be a decent ranged power weapon, because staff doesn’t suit it for power damage.

But really though, asking for a 1,200 range weapon right after HoT came out is a pretty big stretch.

It’s actually pretty good time, now that Reaper is set and we know more elite specs are coming. Surely not tommorow, but Soon™.

Give us rifles

For condi, you will also loose 12 stacks of AOE poison on RS4, stun/break on RS5 and crit from Decimate defences. Last one you can pick up from SR instead of useless Dhuumfire.

Talking about crits, do they work with condi damage, or only with direct?

The blood magic build from above works like a charm. Turned me from dead-weight noob into contributing group member :P

Its only problem is absolute inability to kill objects, that are immune to conditions.

So, I’m currently looking at 2 tormented skins and finishing crafting leveling. It costs 500-600 gold, and that’s with positive thinking.

So, what are current effective ways of money making, outside of playing on TP and Silverwastes?

IMO, it’s also worth explaining what was the idea or meaning behind the name. And go pinn!

So, 8/10 for the OP name )

Name: Lilith de le Soir
Gender: female
Race: human

Idea: Lilith was, according to some versions, the first wife of Adam, and is generally viewed as malign female spirit in christianity. Guess it’s obvious why i picked it for necromancer )
As for De Le Soir, it’s her made-up name, for pretending to come from nobility (orphan and all that). I terribly botched french grammar while picking it, so I just pretend that the mistake was done by character. She isn’t real noble, after all :P

I still think giving Reaper shouts wasn’t good idea. It killed possibility of creating Banshee ES

I personally want rifle ES for necros. Technomancer? It would give us proper ranged weapon, and allow me to roleplay Cryxian :P

Blood siphons also do some impressive healing with RS2 and 4, due to multiple strikes and life force tanking damage.

BTW, is chill damage really such a big deal for condi build? Or is reaper taken for RS4 mainly?

While we are at it, can we also get some way to see shroud cooldowns outside of it?

Make something like extra bar with 4-5 slots, where we can place our chosen skills to always track their CD, regardless of weapon set/kit we are in. All other classes, especially engi, would also benefit from something like this.

So which one is more fit for his raid spot – power or condi reaper?

I’m not close to raiding yet, but I consider starting to learn and gear condi, becouse I suck horribly at melee range. Yet my guild keeps saying me that condi reaper isn’t that good.

For me it’s a point of no-return, becouse no way I’m making second set of weapons and gear any time soon. So, which one would you advice?

So, I bought expancion yesterday specifically for reaper, and started training it. I got GS proficiency, I got reaper shroud, but i can’t use both, and can’t select reaper as traitline. Do I understand correctly, that I need to get to the first trait to get the ability to use anything from reaper, including shout i will get before this first trait?

Meanwhile in ele’s forums :P Or any other for that matter

Guess it helps to be THE first designed advanced class

Between this and Lich-Moa transform, I’m starting to believe this birds are supposed to be necro arch-nemesis. Are they gods of life in disguise?

Problem is, half utilities provide life force. Other half does so when traited. I have a feeling that devs don’t want necros to replenish death shroud while in death shroud. As for signets, Signet of undeath provides the same problem

It’s not that necros are weak – it’s everybody else who are too strong. We have one-man-army classes who can damage, tank, heal, buff and shoot dragons while blindfolded and singing hedgehog song. Of course necros aren’t wanted in such scenario, but that doesn’t mean they should be buffed to the same level.

People here anticipate reaper. We actually have new playstiles to look forward to. We want to try new weapons, skills and traits.

Now look at eles forum. Really, look at it. It’s not that tempest is bad, it’s just that core ele is so OP it simply can’t be improved in any way. So people kitten about new spec and probably will avoid it. That’s not exactly good sign for a class.

We already have bunch of class-specific boons. Why not give reaper class-specific damage condition, applyed with chill and stacking intencity?

Testing reaper shouts

Thanks btw :P

Jackpot

Title says it ) Looking for guild to learn and run dungeons and, eventually, fractals. Current 80 main is necro, also lvling engi, mesmer and ranger. Would prefer guild with +3 GMT primetime, but it doesn’t matter much. Languages are russian(1st) and english(2nd). Sometimes I tend to wander away from the game, but return after 1 week or so.

Let’s say I join dungeon run already in progress (and don’t get kicked immediately for playing necro :P). How can i get to them, other than on foot? Only by waypoints?

While the models aren’t that great, I like the idea behind them. I was always wondering, why most necros settle with zombies and sceletons, when they can create some really unique and more dangerous creatures.