Guild Wars 2

What does it matter that the op is on blackgate for this title to mean anything? Some people enjoy server pride and it would be neat to see who has been on a server for ages.

Oooh, fancy troll is fancy. I like the name you put at the bottom. GG sir. #yarrsteamcaptain #yousogood #iloled

Terrahero.9358:

Kincaidia.3192:

For some stupid reason, condition damage and duration affects bleeds on siege. Arrow carts especially, with wvw traits, can push up to 1 minute duration and be ridiculously painful.

Another reason why condition damage and condition duration are out of whack and should be significantly scaled back.

This is a ridiculous conclusion.

If siege scaled with power, and a full zerker would get massive hits against other players or walls/gates, do you blame the siege scaling or power as a stat?

Also boohoo you have 3 stacks of bleeds for a minute. Condi clears are okay to run guys!

The Ferg Blackgate rivalry. It has been pretty intense, but I think FC will overtake BG in the end.

I think “beastgate” needed a taste of humble pie and got it this week. Well done TC and JQ.

Falcon.8713:

Got same build, my damage is still the same, even more because I now have 230% crit damage ?
(PvE/WvW)

You had the same crit damage before. There was a hidden value for crit damage you couldn’t see. It was 150% crit damage base before. Now you just the 230% because you add the 80 you saw before.

All the corruptions skills have a downside. Not having a downside is a bug that should be fixed.

Some commanders have given me nothing but pain. No thanks.

Jappy.6907:

I’m from TC and its really fun playing wvw on high populated server. Hopefully anet will reconsider merging lowest population server or they can merge like no. 1 and no. 24, 2 and 23, 3 and 22, 4 and 21, something like that. Or at least that was the format of the tourment. So the swiss system could have work much better with 12 teams fighting

I’m on FC and it is really fun playing on a low populated server. I hope anet will consider splitting up all the tier 1 and 2 servers into 3 or 4 new servers. Then everyone can enjoy what I like. The balance will be far better for all the low tiers.

IKR! Lets all just wait while the other two servers duke it out. Lets be respectful guys.

Phlogus.2371:

Try learning your community. Back in my day we had to memorize phone numbers to call people we talked to regularly. There are around 90 guilds that play WvW regularly on my server. I know the leaders of over half of them and the symbols for at least a couple dozen. It is call familiarization and memory try using it.

Would you like a cookie? Being able to memorize a dozen different guild emblems doesn’t get anet off the hook for not doing something that the community has done. I think that anet can manage a lord message saying __________ has claimed this objective rather than another guild has. The keeps already update the banners, why not a bit of text?

3 questions for you:

Why do you feel the need to toot your own horn for something that is completely unimpressive?

Why that god awful music?

Why do the graphics look like something powered by potatoes?

It combines wxp not ranks. You would have only added 5k wxp to your main character’s rank, so you would be rank 101.

sAdam.5876:

Since when Necro can dash out 15 stacks of confusion? Am I missing something?
It’s so powerful only for Condicionmancers so no need to be so afraid.

He means using perplex. You get confusion on interrupt and since fear is now an interrupt we can use them more.

The trait is still going to blow.

Jeknar.6184:

Dinks.2478:

Yeah, kitten NSP, only your server is allowed to actually have a chance. Nobody cares about the free transfers, nobody is dumb enough to transfer to a losing server.

Then why people are transfering to HoD/CD which are lower silver just as NSP? Your argument is invalid…

Because wizards. Silly ET not knowing their place and talking about NSP and their 1337 server who obviously deserves to stomp other servers that have absolutely no chance of fighting back. Good stuff.

Now that isn’t to say FC and DH won’t rofl stomp anyone lower than them in bronze, but NSP won’t even let them get out of spawn. SF is at least somewhat fun outside of prime time.

Reverence.6915:

Ynot.8397:

Fuzzion.2504:

JQ can do blackouts to allow folks in but u need to talk to the ministers of communication. I think folks are really gearing up of an all out war in season 2. It will be a make or break situation for Anet if there is blunder.

Ministers of communication…
And you all thought T1 was crazy before…

A label for a person who does a specific job for his or her server. That’s one of the biggest differences between T1 and other tiers, the organisation.

Sooooo crazy to the non t1 people? Got it.

Fuzzion.2504:

JQ can do blackouts to allow folks in but u need to talk to the ministers of communication. I think folks are really gearing up of an all out war in season 2. It will be a make or break situation for Anet if there is blunder.

Ministers of communication…
And you all thought T1 was crazy before…

Arius.7031:

Crunk n monkey.3749:

Gold – Jade Quarry, Tarnished Coast, Blackgate, Maguuma, Sea of Sorrows, Dragonbrand.

Silver – Fort Aspenwood, Stormbluff Isle, Isle of Janthir, Borlis Pass, Yak’s Bend, Henge of Denravi, Crystal Desert, Sanctum of Rall, Sorrow’s Furnace.

Bronze – Darkhaven, Ferguson’s Crossing, Gate of Madness, Devona’s Rest, Northern Shiverpeaks, Kaineng, Ehmry Bay, Anvil Rock, Eredon Terrace.

Seeing the downward spiral that SoR is in, they should actually be in Bronze during the Tournament, but their rating won’t be low enough for quite some time. Shame. It will be close to between Dragonbrand and Fort Aspenwood when it comes to the Gold/Silver league cutoff. Same goes for Sorrow’s Furnace and Northern Shiverpeaks when it comes to Silver/Bronze. I would throw Ferguson’s Crossing into the mix, but after hearing they are purposely tanking so they can stay in Bronze (and try to get free transfers).

Why would you think FC is tanking? We’ve defeated them every time we’ve met them for months now and they’re currently ever-so-slightly ahead of us… how on earth does that equate to them tanking?

Everyone knows that once leagues roll around FC will evolve into its final form and hit 600+ ppt day and night. At least, that is what the rumors tell us.

insanemaniac.2456:

Arius.7031:

insanemaniac.2456:

Arius.7031:

Halo.8976:

So… Do you have less or more 5 people on lower tiers?

You’re not serious, are you? o.o

i think he was
its cute

Can we keep him you think? Will Anet let us?

idk man i got a bad feeling hes gonna turn out bad… you know like hagrids spider… hell spawn a bunch of trolls thatll eat us or something

The trolls never stay in the dungeon. #iaredissapoint

Halo.8976:

Hey Mr. Hurt Pride
I made my statement based on OP’s question and his description of the situation on his server.
Good making a post without adding anything constructive.

Hey zerg tier face.

You obviously made your post based on assumptions. If you were" surprised to find our it has enough people for pvd," you had assumptions on which you based your post.

The lower tiers have also changed quite a bit. They used to be far more static and boring. People have transfer off and down to the lower tiers and it is quite a bit more fun that it used to be down here.

Glad you made a post without adding anything constructive.

Take that!

Banzie.5248:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

We duo’d ET’s bay keep last night, then were in the process of duo’ing ET’s hills keep before one guy showed up and managed to make us reset the lord room. There were no other players from any servers (including ours) running on that map.

This was less than an hour past NA primetime (around 10:30pm CST), by the way.

As much as I’d love to protect the awesome small fights we get in the lower tiers, the time window for any actual gameplay is limited to just about 2-3 hours per night and then just completely shuts off. We NEED mergers at this point.

We love you long time taquito. Join the bunses in the glory of IoJ!

Taquito doesn’t even steam anymore. He is lame now!

It is all about spacing out your fears, chills and cripples. Don’t just spam them. We use those to keep that warrior from rolling us over. If he is using dogged march it gets a bit trickier. You really shouldn’t win against any really good warrior using that sort of build.

You just need to remember that the warrior needs to use immobilizes and swiftness to lock you down. You should always corrupt boon when he has swiftness. The immobs and cripples are what you hold on to your transfers for.

The last factor is the hammer. This is the strongest part of the warriors build and the hardest to counter. You should always have 1 stun break around and you have deathly swarm. Swarm gives you the blind to stop the hammer spam and the stunbreak for getting away. This is also where fears become most important. When he is on top of you with a hammer this is the easiest way to make space. Hold on to your dodges for when he is using the hammer.

This is all you can really do. Once his zerker stance is done you are pretty much fine. Don’t spam your skills and play it smart. DON’T SPAM. Also don’t spam. If you try to use your skills like I said you should be able to take out almost any warrior, even the hammer spamming kittens.

Arius.7031:

EFWinters.5421:

Darek.1836:

FC unofficial duelers server (I heard TC has a lot too? haven’t been there so idk)
SF unofficial gank server
DR unofficial thief server..
GoM unofficial cyah later when new PvE content comes out server
AR unofficial perplex everything server
Ebay unofficial we’re the new kaineng server

FC is the perplex everything server. They all believe they are top notch at roaming because of it too.

So true. Made me laugh cus it’s soooo spot on. I love FC, don’t get me wrong… but they spam a lot of super cheesy builds (that usually involve plex), then get it in their head that they’re better skill-wise than everyone else by a country mile.

It is because we beat you all the time. #comeatmeonmypowernecro
#yarr4lyfe #2legit2quit #imissanbu

insanemaniac.2456:

…want some form of server alliances or mergers?

simple yes or no please. and what server youre on, if its not in your sig.

might link thread in the cdi if it goes places.

SHAME ON YOU RIK! I can’t believe you would post something like this. If i could lead an SF zerg to you right now I would.

Hop on over the darkhaven or NSP. They have a bunch of nice roamers and there is quite a bit of roaming in your competition. I’m on FC and I’d like to see a bit more competition as far as roaming goes. The nice thing is that we are all going to fight each other a ton in the coming weeks so you shouldn’t lack roamers to fight with or against.

Don’t move to some silly high tier. That isn’t roaming!

You killed them without the legendary defenders whilst under a buff that makes you invuln. Not much to brag about :p

Rigel.3092:

I utilize a wvw frontline necro tank build that would have those condi’s you spam out amount to being worthless cause they would roll off like beads of water.

Congratz. He said it was for small scale in the op, not zerging.

You should say your server Gornok :P

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

[Yarr] is a zerg guild now, and that makes me sad.
I’ll always remember the times we shared at north camp. <3

You won’t fight us!
#tacoislamenow

melodey.4652:

Ynot.8397:

melodey.4652:

Ynot.8397:

It isn’t really a huge accomplishment but gongrats I suppose.

SF and DH both smell and they have bad roamers.

This thread is silly and you are all dumb and smelly for getting upset over it.

Seriously, you are talking about being walking bags when we know the only walking bags are GoM!

You all smell.

/endthread

[Yarr] is bad. /endthread

You are worse!

/endthreadx2

At least I’m not vidded trying to 7v2 joe and mugi and losing. >__<
knock on wood.

I have killed both mugi and joe 1v1 on a power necro!
#2legit2quit
edit: Link the vid!

melodey.4652:

Ynot.8397:

It isn’t really a huge accomplishment but gongrats I suppose.

SF and DH both smell and they have bad roamers.

This thread is silly and you are all dumb and smelly for getting upset over it.

Seriously, you are talking about being walking bags when we know the only walking bags are GoM!

You all smell.

/endthread

[Yarr] is bad. /endthread

You are worse!

/endthreadx2

It isn’t really a huge accomplishment but gongrats I suppose.

SF and DH both smell and they have bad roamers.

This thread is silly and you are all dumb and smelly for getting upset over it.

Seriously, you are talking about being walking bags when we know the only walking bags are GoM!

You all smell.

/endthread

Dalanor.5387:

Actually thats not true. Sadly, most of the builds are useless, but necro has the most build available in the entire game.

By that logic everyone has the same number of builds. You can only count builds that are useful.

You thought condi bunkers were bad before? Now with better stats! 30% condi duration, 300 condi damage, 300 vit, and 300 toughness! Full zerk set up not do 8k crits like you wanted? Not anymore! 8k crits for everyone!

No. Sorry, but that is a terrible idea.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Reverence.6915:

Darek.1836:

No I never play for PPT. But its nice to know everyone is making a difference. Fights suck btw, transfer to NSP, Belle, we get matched with them every week!

Wait, you don’t play for PPT, but fights suck?

Anyway, the best is to play a hybrid of both PPT and fights. You can get good fights by hitting structures and luring your enemy server out to play. Or you can force fights by bashing down gates/walls and force them to defend, or on the other side, defending a structure is a hell of a fight as well.

It depends on the servers you play against. Down here in the lowers, there’s less people to go around, so each server tends to develop a stronger “personality” (for lack of a better word) than in the upper tiers where you have enough players to fulfill all types of play.

For example, the current matchup: GoM/AR/FC. Anvil Rock doesn’t really care much for PPT, but loves to paper things up. Shortly after primetime each night, they will happily give up their own borderland to run around and knock out enemy garrisons because they find it fun.

FC’s particular flavor is their small groups. While their zerg is running around, small groups of Ferglings will set up shop in high-traffic areas and just pick fights regardless of score. One group, in particular, loves to cap north camp, drop a box o’ fun, and treb the enemy citadel until people come out to play. And if you fight them long enough, everyone eventually turns into moose (meese?) and starts running around.

Down here, you tend to get to know your enemies a bit better because… well, there’s less of them. Aside from the grand-scale fights that happen during a 2-3 hour window in primetime each night, WvW pretty much shuts down and the borderlands become giant playgrounds. That bizarre randomness that happens during the off-peak hours, not the scoreboard, is what makes some servers much more fun to play against than others.

And taco never comes to play anymore. Never ever.

I would run something like this for wvwhttp://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAW7YjMad7tbib87JApCXH9g4gVm6B8sfOA-j0BBYhCy0Cwk0Q0HApoFRjVJjIqWpETKAYmDA-w

That build has pretty awesome dps for its survivability. That comes from a ton of life force regen. Just remember to not spam your cc. Use chills cripples and fears at different times and it allows you to keep distance. Hit people from range and spam scepter #1.

I don’t run dire for all the armor because the toughness scales better with all the life force. Either sets work or a mix of sets. The sigils are good because the scepter/dagger will stack condis but also give you increased damage(6%) while you have it equiped. The staff sigil gives you an added dodge which helps in a sticky situation.

Don’t bother with siphoning. It is useless in anything wvw related. I’d bet that it sucks in pve too but I don’t do a ton of that so I’m not sure.

I’d imagine you want a condi build if you are looking at a necro. Those builds are pretty tanky naturally and you can’t go wrong with either dire or rabid sets.

What kind of wvw do you want to try? Zerg builds are easy to roll with and they work all the time. If you want to roam and survive we can give you other builds.

Are you open to swapping between two different sets of traits or are you set on only using one? If you don’t mind switching we can get two really nice sets lined up for you and you will enjoy your time more. Most wvw builds will work in pve but not as well. The same is true in reverse.

Easterbunny.6170:

Hi:

We don’t condone cheating, but how exactly do you know he wasn’t hiding in there already? Not sure where you show the actual part where that person does something wrong…

Someone stood in a tower until it got reinforced walls to port people in?

Zephyrus.9680:

Yea you’re the one claiming condition necros lose to any CC in 1v1 because no stability. I guess it’s news to you that most classes don’t spec stability for 1v1. I always forget some people don’t know how to dodge.

We claim it because it is true. Most classes don’t spec for stability? LOLWUT. Most classes get stability through their elite or have blocks. That or perma vigor so they can dodge 40 times and the constant stuns don’t matter. They don’t need to spec into some silly traitline to do this. It all comes from nice builds.

Necros have no stability outside of elites which are easily left alone(we have no swiftness and can’t chase) and a 30 point investment into a traitline. That is a 3 second stability which you can easily get around. We have 1 blind to block the cc spam. There is also the amazing 1 dodge every ten seconds because we have no access to vigor. That’s just lovely. Our last major flaw is the lack of blocks. Necros can not block a skill or go invuln.

You are so very wrong.

Try http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNArYWjMah7dbub87JAJFX/ckCiVm6B8sfOA-j0BBYhCik0g0HBKTtIasVTFRjVdDTHjIqGA-w.

That build works for any type of wvw but focuses on using spectral skills and marks to give you sustain. Run through the wall and you will have decent protection uptime and the wall can fear people around. Switch out epidemic for corrupt boon for more 1v1 oriented fights. It also focuses on using just condition gear which does a lot better than that power condi mix you had before.

Use your chill and cripple to keep distance and fears to interrupt or get them off your back. Scepter dagger will be your biggest damage, so be sure to swap to that and just auto-attack people.

borrok.9267:

Zephyrus.9680:

Ynot.8397:

Zephyrus.9680:

vincecontix.1264:

Condi necros are really strong in combat but that is offset by the fact they don’t have great mobility.

This. They’re one of the strongest 1v1 classes and have the ezmode button but they pay in lack of mobility.

Except that anyone with cc should have no problems fighting a necro. Necros have no stability and then they need to pay for it by not having the ability to block/invuln/run from damage. Necros without using signet of spite need to pay for all the necros who use it?

Dat logic.

Dat logic, I don’t even know what you’re getting at with who needs to pay for what.

This is 1v1 we’re talking about. Stability means very little and clearly from your claims you haven’t seen a good necro because that’s ridiculous. Dodge needs to be beating CC. How many builds/classes can actually invest in stability for 1v1?

Trolling?

I’m really not sure. Stability means nothing now. Good stuff.

Deli.1302:

Foot In Grave trait
Plague
Lich Form
Spectral Walk
Spectral Armor
Well Of Power
Plague Signet
Blind
Dodge
Melandru Runes

Great. Now lets go down your list as to why it is bad. Plague form is easy to run away from and when it is gone we are back to the same problem. Lich form only works on power builds and while the stability is nice, any non power spec will hit for pathetic damage. Spectral walk and armor are both great but 1 stunbreak just won’t cut it against a build that can stun you 6 times. They both have a 60 second CD. Well of power lasts 1 second that is gone by the time you finish casting. Blinding can be avoided by using any non stun attack first. Dodge with our large endurance bar and no vigor. Melandru runes are nice but only -25% stun duration on a rune set where the other buffs are bad for a necro(-condi duration is never needed when we have the best heal and two condi transfers) is silly.

Foot in the grave is fantastic and I think everyone should use it.

OP, you are not going to beat any CC heavy warrior who is good at this game. It just won’t happen. The nice thing is that if you grab spectral walk you can run away because these warriors are slow as heck. Pop down some chills and fear him away and you are just fine.

If you really want to beat him the name of the game is kiting. You gotta space out your chill and cripple for keeping him at a distance. The fears should only be used when he is on top of you. If CCing is becoming a problem for you I’d run a build like 0/20/20/0/30 or something where you can get that Foot in the Grave trait. It is my favorite trait as a necro who roams a fair bit.

Brando.1374:

Ynot.8397:

Brando.1374:

Ynot.8397:

Zephyrus.9680:

vincecontix.1264:

Condi necros are really strong in combat but that is offset by the fact they don’t have great mobility.

This. They’re one of the strongest 1v1 classes and have the ezmode button but they pay in lack of mobility.

Except that anyone with cc should have no problems fighting a necro. Necros have no stability and then they need to pay for it by not having the ability to block/invuln/run from damage. Necros without using signet of spite need to pay for all the necros who use it?

Dat logic.

signet of spite also has a 3/4s cast so its easy to dodge

Easy to dodge 1v1. In group fights its almost impossible to dodge.

then your group needs to spec for a bit more aoe condi removal.

I’m not complaining about it. Just saying that to be fair. Most fights in wvw are not 1v1s for me and I can see how people would hate the skill. That being said, a well placed kill shot would hurt even more than that signet of spite.

Brando.1374:

Ynot.8397:

Zephyrus.9680:

vincecontix.1264:

Condi necros are really strong in combat but that is offset by the fact they don’t have great mobility.

This. They’re one of the strongest 1v1 classes and have the ezmode button but they pay in lack of mobility.

Except that anyone with cc should have no problems fighting a necro. Necros have no stability and then they need to pay for it by not having the ability to block/invuln/run from damage. Necros without using signet of spite need to pay for all the necros who use it?

Dat logic.

signet of spite also has a 3/4s cast so its easy to dodge

Easy to dodge 1v1. In group fights its almost impossible to dodge.

Zephyrus.9680:

vincecontix.1264:

Condi necros are really strong in combat but that is offset by the fact they don’t have great mobility.

This. They’re one of the strongest 1v1 classes and have the ezmode button but they pay in lack of mobility.

Except that anyone with cc should have no problems fighting a necro. Necros have no stability and then they need to pay for it by not having the ability to block/invuln/run from damage. Necros without using signet of spite need to pay for all the necros who use it?

Dat logic.

I just wanted to let HoD know that I am VERY disappointed with them. You are supposed to lose ranking so I may kill you again. Try to fix this by next week.

SOOOOO we need some duels in the sanctum right now. Come hither!

You can absolutely run condi builds without terror. Most of the time I run without it and I squish most people I fight. The damage you get out of that vs survivability against a group focusing you is not bad. I wouldn’t use the wurm and warhorn, but just one of those is a lot.

That build is not selfish at all. That build is made to survive. If you can’t survive a group fight you are adding nothing to the group, rather than the loss of signet of spite. That wurm can be set up far enough away that no one will have a clue it is there and you can still deal out silly dps. All of our skills are aoe so it isn’t hard to passively kill a few people if you target correctly. The builds that most people use are just as selfish. The reason why they can be so selfish is because they can survive the focus.

That build is wonderful for roaming but if you want dps use dps. Switch out wurm for 1 signet of spite or corrupt boon and you are golden. Build still works just fine.

TakeCare.3182:

Well, sir, I do believe you have outdone yourself this time. Now if only it was as easy as you make it look.

It is easy! You just run away like a jerk… but yeah, easy stuff!

Just play super aggressive and you should kill every necro. That is the key. We win by dealing DoT, not burst. You can negate our biggest burst through the use of utilities. If you really want to stomp a necro throw on hammer and axe/shield. All you need.