All you need in WvW is toughness and Vitality combined with ranged AoE traits. Everything else is personal flavor or the avoidance of broken Traits. And in a very real sense none of those Traits matter as much as the stats on your gear. You can swap jewelry and turn and conditions build into a power build, tank build, etc..
And they are all played exactly the same.
So what this means kiddos is you slot as much Vitality and Toughness as you can, then you just flip a coin for whether you want physical AoE damage (power) or Condition AoE damage. And it really doesn’t matter which you pick. You are still dependant on DS and having more than 30k health.
you’re pretty close to the gist of how to build a necro
but just flipping a coin on the third stat doesn’t really work. there is no CTV gear, and when you start to flush in Conditiondmg, you lose out of toughness and vitality. As soon as you do so, you also have to rethink your traits to make the use of Cdmg more efficient. All of a sudden, you’re losing a couple hundred stat points in a needed area from trait flushing.
Extremist silliness.
You don’t need CTV gear specfically. You can PTV and run C/?/? Jewelry. There is no need to max condition damage either because you will be using power based damage as well.
Like I said. You stack as much Vit and Tough as you can, the third stat matters very little as far as overall usefulness. You are still essentially doing exactly the same thing only trading some wells damage for condition damage or vice versa.
And this “pretty close to the gist” necro is a 1 player zerg. There is no number for the scores of butts I have touched in WvW. I have so many kills the number rolled back over to 1 and errored out. It just says 1e.
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They could do both, don’t you think ?
Indeed some things need fixing in order to be good, but with the current met, for istance, what could a trap thief bring to the table ?
Let’s say what they do, you’ll say.
But how long is people going to wait before going away definitevely ?
You have to understand a constantly shifting balance emphasis will NOT make this game better despite what you all think. This is what happens to most games that shift class strengths quickly on perceived imbalances based on “visceral” responses(combat log whines, people whining about 1v1). Things imbalanced are often propped up through a combination of interacting elements. This is why things like meta are so important, where mechanics/gameplay interactions are at their most apparent, and system flaws are exploited ruthlessly. Unfortunately, even this is even deceitful, as environments supporting “meta” will often crumple when certain counters become more prevalent. Hence, why slow balanced design is more important.
A game must establish a relatively reliable framework so developers can establish how utilities and traits will interact within the contextual framework of how the game is being played. This is about design, people. Very few games get it right, and justly so. Its very hard.
This should have been done much earlier, but unfortunately this game released with a ton of PvE content as well. We’ll see how things go when we get better metrics, a spectator mode, and ratings.
We’ll just have to hope it develops, but I’m hopeful. Its still fun for me.
One thing this industry has taught us is gamers don’t give MMOs a second chance. If you drop deuce out of the gate, no one will come back later when you claim to have cleaned up the mess and the smell is “hardly noticeable”
GW2 PvP has completely missed the mark and there is nothing definitive on the horizon that suggests anything will change in the near or even far flung future. They might end up building the best PvP any MMO has ever seen, but no one is going to be around to care that wasn’t required by fanboi law to suffer the wrath of garbage games until the bitter end.
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Damn, Savan… Take a day off.
Yeah, the defiance mechanic was obviously changed without necromancers in mind. In all likelihood it’s an oversight they’ll fix.
They screwed over Minions in beta without regard to Necro as well. Guess what? Ranger pets do everything Necro minions are supposed to do now, yet Necro Minions are still 100% garbage outside of Flesh Golem for charge (every 45 seconds you get a single useful knockdown… and Flesh Worm which offers you a teleport escape. That is it.
So where exactly are you pullin your optimism from? And does it involve the processing of fully digested food?
Because if I wasn’t optimistic, I would probably have heartburn like you do.
I have been playing MMOs since March 1999. My esophagus was replaced half a decade ago with polyurethane. No more heartburn.
Damn, Savan… Take a day off.
Yeah, the defiance mechanic was obviously changed without necromancers in mind. In all likelihood it’s an oversight they’ll fix.
They screwed over Minions in beta without regard to Necro as well. Guess what? Ranger pets do everything Necro minions are supposed to do now, yet Necro Minions are still 100% garbage outside of Flesh Golem for charge (every 45 seconds you get a single useful knockdown… and Flesh Worm which offers you a teleport escape. That is it.
So where exactly are you pullin your optimism from? And does it involve the processing of fully digested food?
Yeah I also thought of this thread after reading the patch notes! From the changes to Terror it sounds like someone in the balance team has read Nemesis’s suggestion!
Which is horrifying for the future of Necro as a class.