Guild Wars 2

Silv.9207:

The necromancer is a class really hard to play in a large number of situations and is the first that the enemy team focus, then if the enemy team know how to play you will be down more or less always.
That’s why if they let you play you are able to ruin they’re game corrupting boons, covering the field with minions (and eventually poisonous clouds when they die), inflict a large amount of direct+condition damage, poison everyone in the area making healing skills lesser efficent. But the necro is also the easier class to kill with a fast focus, simply why don’t have defensive skills (only the wurm, that’s not a real good defensive skill).
That all make the necro the first target in every fight.

Then, the necromancer is strong and can do really good things in 1vs1-2vs2 and teamfights.

i don’t know your build, but if you use the m"meta" build (I use a personal build and I’ve a lot of fun, unless when I fight mesmers). Your basic strength is corrupt boons and spam some conditions. Your damage is more from the boons you corrupt, weakening the enemy, than from your dps. Also your condition damage is strong but not the best but you’re the best to send-back conditions, making you a really good class to counter condition builds.

Basicly, the necromancer depend a lot from the team. If the team protect you and make you free to play, you’re really strong and your damage and ability to corrupt boons will grant you the victory. If the enemy team let you play, you can also do a great work. But if the enemy team is better than your allies, you’re a wasted slot (unless you’re a really good one).

The necromancer is strong and can kill different classes/builds in 1vs1-2vs2, but there’s classes that inflict much more damage, faster and with better self sustain.
The thing that make the necromancer able to stand against them is the support that give to the team corrupting the enemy boons. Focus always the target and corrupt it’s boon, making him unable to attack, defend or flee. But pay always attention on where you are, don’t put yourself headon into a fight and, if possible, wait always for someone to help you instead of engage someone alone or in 1vs2.
Also, your strength is to send back conditions. use your skills wisely and send back to the enemy all the conditions you can. Sometimes fight a condi-burst build is easier than fight a direct damage build, if you learn the trick.

The necro is really a class that can be in god-mode during a match and totally useless in another match. All depend on your team, the enemy team and the class composition of both. If you find more classes that use conditions is easier for you to win, but a thief or a good guardian trapper can kill you really fast if you don’t pay attention.

You have to do a lot of practice to learn how to fight as a necromancer and you’ll die a lot to learn. But then you’ll be a really useful resource for your team.

what is the meta build atm? i didnt know we had one. myne doesnt use any minions atm which might be part of the problem.

i mean some games i do great. then most games i get wrecked by everything. esp warriors. im talking ranked pvp here.i try everything i give it my best. i try my hardest and yet it feels like other classes dont need to try at all. i feel like im dragging my team down.

FlOwMaKeRs.8623:

I hope the devs get a pair of glasses and start watching what is happening in the game, Cuz Apparently They Are Blind.
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yeah lets just remove necro while were at it.

Telemin.7380:

Gambino.2109:

Yeah, it’s hard to find four others that know their stuff and their class… You’d have to be in a crazy pvp centered guild for that, and practiced with them.

I clicked Yes at the end of a match (You know, those 15 seconds that people really want back). Bam, the next game I had a premade. No voicecoms, no practice. Several wins.

everyone who clicks yes on that leaves after for me.

Gambino.2109:

Yeah, it’s hard to find four others that know their stuff and their class… You’d have to be in a crazy pvp centered guild for that, and practiced with them.

last mmo i played had that. was in a major guild in the leagues. i was obviously in the beginners guild. they put everyone in their squad and you didnt get a different one until you were in the top1% of everyone in the game. become a absolute beast. good practice too.,

finding one might be a bit difficult.

Ashamir.9574:

As a Necro just kite the dragonhunter with staff. Unless it is your point and there is no other team mate there to keep it capped just stay away from the DH. “You can’t kite a DH” only applies if the DH doesn’t need to hold the point. If they have to they are rooted in there, can’t port to you as then they leave the point open, and so 1 of their weapon sets as well as their traps are petty useless. Apply condis to them from the sidelines and once they run ot of cleanse byebye.
If you have to engage then wait for the traps to be on CD, go shroud, 5+4 and nuke them down. Don’t stay melee. Don’t let them knock you back with the LB.

you do realize the goal of the game is to hold a point right? so if the enemy is always holding 2 points on a 3 point map they win. since your forced to kite the dragon hunter and he never has to leave the point because hurr necro cant force me off.and since they can just pull you into their traps what good does running do?

Fluffball.8307:

He’s complaining about the amount of effects that proc without the player doing anything, like the endure pain trait.

I think the reason they exist is because it makes beginners able to compete instead of just insta-exploding.

so wheres the necro endure pain trait? ok what about mesmers? thief’s?

Artemis Thuras.8795:

So I’m seeing people QQ that necros die in 1s..

As a necro I’m dropping DH’s pretty easily.

Must be I’m getting a skewed view and just seeing the terribad DH’s drop like flies..
I am seeing my team mates losing 3 vs 1 and stupid stuff like that.. so.. Who knows.

as a necro i drop some bad dh’s. but if they put all their traps down and pull me into it to 1 hit me its gg. im having more issues with his teamates then him. i have to focus him or else his traps get off cd and if i focus him his teamates will completely destroy me while hes just healing himself up constantly.

Jourdelune.7456:

Art.8961:

so whatever i play pvp i lose a lot, i got 11 loses 3 wins on this ranked season
i dont play pvp much and im noob, i tried play unranked and it was worst than ranked
is there any skill balance or just random skill players ?

Unfortunately, since the game balance is completely gone, build matter more than anything else.

Take a “net” META build.

Like you find on metabattle.com.

Then train that build for 2 or 3 hours in hotjoin (don’t play cap, simply try to kill people).

Then do some unranked until you feel confortable with where to GO.

Then rank queue will get better for you.

Sorry… BUILD > Skill in this game. Sad, since it was Skill > Build before the june 2015 patch.

lol and pick a class other than necro. gaurdian is all the rage atm.

Jourdelune.7456:

BadSanta.6527:

Recently I have seen a lot of complaints about dh. But the truth is that dh is quit avg. honestly I have seen more reapers and mesmers then dh (I’m Druid main) , this is redcules that the meta is condi and yet dh dose not apply condi that good not even meta build and yet people complain about it and even lie about to many dh in match and that the truth…..

DH wrecked conditions build. Like all power build.

Conditions build should wreck bunker support. They got deleted from the game.

So, Conditions users play build that don’t have use anymore.

It’s why they QQ. They are simply wrecked without use.

Say thank you to PVP team. Kappa.

id love to know a better build for necro. atm there isnt one.

Ubik.8315:

So should I make a video that shows a thief dodging over a set of traps? A warrior using block? Traps are the last thing people should be complaining about with DHs.

make a video about a necro doing it with no shroud at the start. im curious. ive killed guardians but only because they werent very good.

Alin.2468:

Nobody forces nobody to play PvP. Anyone is free to choose PvE and have much more fun there with new dynamic content (unlike same maps and easy 123 in a weird balance).

goes to the pvp section bragging about pve. please stay on topic.

Jourdelune.7456:

Please, many many many DH don’t run the same build.

We see some marauder, some menders, some berzerker, some paladin (yeah, really), some carrion, some wanderers…

Most of all build use sword and shield or mace focus, so you don’t even know if it’s a mender sustain or a dps one until you fight them.

If they play with Bow, they don’t play the best optimized DH build.

It’s funny, some people cry because DH is unkillable while others cry because they die to them.

This is a good sign, that Guardian got buff enough to get viable in META right now.

Even, Vanilla Core Guardian can be something again.

What is kittenly broken is REV or Druid that can sustain like a mender guard but do damage like a marauder one.

Or Reaper, Warrior sustain like mender guard but can condi burst you faster than a condi guard (or kill you faster than a marauder one).

So, Please NERF HoT and give us back BUILD OPTIONS.

id like to know what sustain reapers have when the match starts. because not everyone can build up our shroud instantly like every other classes sustain happens when the match begins.

corrupt boon on necro sounds really good here tbh.

LetoII.3782:

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

EremiteAngel.9765:

Are you tired of fighting tanky druids that heal all day while their pets kill you?
Are you tired of fighting condi chronophantasm chronomancers that dish out so much condi burst and yet have so much defense?
Are you tired of fighting Adrenal Health pumped berserkers with durability runes?
Are you tired of fighting full evade condi and power daredevils?
Are you tired of fighting high sustain scrappers?

Note the lack of Necro on this list of cheese builds Arenanet

OP mains reaper

the point here is that necro is most likely going to be receiving more nerfs. when we dont even have a cheesy op build atm.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Do you have HoT or are you on a vanilla account?

hot deffinetly haha.

im looking for some direction. atm im using a longbow and a greatsword but idk if its any good.im just lost with this class.

Elyssa.8307:

Ubik.8315:

kurfu.5623:

Revenue dipped significantly below what it was pre-HoT… that’s not good. Looks like HoT actually did drive away a large portion of players.

I doubt HoT drove people away, more likely the content drought post HoT caused that.

HoT drove away a massive number of people. They gutted WvW and dungeon communities by killing the game modes, and the extreme grind drove away casual players.

im curious what you consider to be casual. because gw2 is the most casual mmo ive ever seen. the grind to get ascended items is very small. the “grind” to get exotics to do basically all content in the game is not even there.

Taxidriver.2043:

spawn is fine ppl just want everything in 1 hr. Get in squad and go do ur normal stuff till spawn is up.

it does not work like that. not even close.

Bruno.3812:

Yes. It would be great if we could wear our armor headpiece with an outfit. It should be possible since the outfit headpiece already has a toggle.

yup. i know this isnt easy but let us toggle between the outfit headpiece and reg headpiece and make it so the bloody eyes or other things would work with the base headpiece.

Bruno.3812:

There never has been a time that armor and outfits could mix and match. I’m not sure why you thought it would be different in this one case.

honestly it just sucks in general.doesnt matter if it has never done it before.

i found out i cant use it with a outfit. it wont work. so i have the choice of wearing a dress and having blood eyes into a all out war. or i can wear armor and not wear my blood eyes. thanks anet.

id rather them have put the elites as bosses for 5 or 10 people to do and just make it rather difficult. as is we just wait forever.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

You mean because you don’t just stack and spam 1? That’s it’s not pug friendly? It’s not a difficulty thing it will be normal once people learn the mechanics everything new is difficult to begin with them people learn the mechanics and it is easy. All you have to do is dodge the easily telegraphed attacks and to move around and collect the wisps. Even for new players one wipe if gotten far enough will show the full fight.

Anchoku.8142:

Necromancer is better at managing conditions than inflicting them.

Where other professions sweat conditions, Necromancer eats them, donates them, or duplicates them.

Necromancer’s main condition dps comes from bleeds but they are relatively weak. They take time to stack into a high dps. Burning, on the other hand, does a bunch of damage so it’s dps ramps up fast. Other professions can do more condition damage but Necromancer is always there to leverage what is on the field with condi-mastery skills.

General Health.9678:

Paulytnz.7619:

sophiewhite.3149:

The V.8759:

Gaile,
I am asking the following question just out of curiosity :
Can’t things like this be taken to Court to shut down the site? Fighting it at the source sounds like the most efficiënt option.

(I’m assuming it’s not easily done, otherwise it would have happend, but I’m just wondering how that works)

the most famous gold sellers move to china because china gets paid so they dont care who gets scammed.

Not only that even their government gets accused of hacking into business’s and such of other nations. So you would imagine they may even hire people to do so.

Seems kinda racist, without any data to back that up. Could just as easily be US personnel operating on US soil. And are we forgetting all the bad stuff the NSA, CIA and FBI does? Probably best not to try and attribute any of this to a particular country.

there was a short documentary i watched on gold sellers in china. they interviewed one who said thats why he moved there. because china doesnt mind. everyone big in the business moved there to avoid prosecution. and china isnt a race.edit: because society today loves calling people racist ill clarify. i do not dislike the chinese. i dislike the gold sellers. who are most often not chinese but live in china most of the time. sure sometimes they live in other countrys but china is the main one.

hardy.7469:

I haven’t really bothered with the central Tyria masteries. You’re right, it’s far more annoying to get them than the HoT ones, and the XP grind for them seems more annoying too, since the majority of endgame stuff happens in HoT maps rather than ones where you get XP for Tyria masteries.

agreed but i want the autoloot and i already have 2 in fractals for better loot. running out of ways to gain them here xD

much more so than HOT masteries. unless of course you want to shell out even more cash for season 2.

The V.8759:

Gaile,
I am asking the following question just out of curiosity :
Can’t things like this be taken to Court to shut down the site? Fighting it at the source sounds like the most efficiënt option.

(I’m assuming it’s not easily done, otherwise it would have happend, but I’m just wondering how that works)

the most famous gold sellers move to china because china gets paid so they dont care who gets scammed.

idk i hadnt had a single spammer message me before today. somehow today everything changed.

KickzNGigglez.4958:

There are condi pvp builds that use the same weapons. Seeing as how stats, runes, and sigils are free in pvp you’d just have to make some minor tweaks to your trait line. PvE and PvP builds are saved separately so it’ll work out fine.

pvp: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Corruptionmancer
PvE: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Viper_Horror

this works great ty!

farm resources?

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Beats the hell out of me you’re too lazy to write a post?

i changed my mind and deleted it. a mod will remove it soon. i got the answer i was looking for.

Vayne.8563:

sophiewhite.3149:

General Health.9678:

Djinn.9245:

The objection is how the game has gone from being able to get XP for your character by doing anything you want in the game, to not being able to get XP/Spirit Shards unless you follow the very narrow path that Anet has dictated.

Maybe many players don’t mind this lack of choice. Or maybe Spirit Shards aren’t something that they need or want. But going from complete freedom of choice to a single path for progressing my character is not fun game play for me. I prefer choices.

Apples and oranges, you can’t compare pre-hot to post-hot and add shards.

I’m really unclear whether you’re complaining because this is affecting you or if you’re complaining on behalf of everyone because the wider playerbase doesn’t seem be complaining about this, it’s mentioned in a couple of places and people are either “do a simple raid”, “who cares about shards” or “oh my god this game sucks because anet forces us to raid (or whatever flavour of the month thing it is people suddenly take offence to)”. If you personally need to raid as the last thing to unlock spirit shards and you really, really want shards.. join a guild that offers training raids and just run one. It’s one tiny thing being blown out of all proportion.

Maybe there will be another way to get spirit shards in the future, maybe there’ll even be a need for them in the future.. in the meantime, try raids, might even enjoy them. Chances are if you are already frustrated by the rest of HoT you will not be able to but plenty of people here will show you round the HoT maps if you ask and the metas are really good fun, missing out if you’ve not tried them.

honestly im not sure how people can hate raids when they clearly never gave them a chance. find a guild. theyll group you up and youll never need to do it again.

But I have done raids. I don’t hate them, but I don’t love them either. I’d simply rather not spend potentially hours doing something I don’t enjoy. Why would I want that?

people have commented you only have to do it once though.

General Health.9678:

Djinn.9245:

The objection is how the game has gone from being able to get XP for your character by doing anything you want in the game, to not being able to get XP/Spirit Shards unless you follow the very narrow path that Anet has dictated.

Maybe many players don’t mind this lack of choice. Or maybe Spirit Shards aren’t something that they need or want. But going from complete freedom of choice to a single path for progressing my character is not fun game play for me. I prefer choices.

Apples and oranges, you can’t compare pre-hot to post-hot and add shards.

I’m really unclear whether you’re complaining because this is affecting you or if you’re complaining on behalf of everyone because the wider playerbase doesn’t seem be complaining about this, it’s mentioned in a couple of places and people are either “do a simple raid”, “who cares about shards” or “oh my god this game sucks because anet forces us to raid (or whatever flavour of the month thing it is people suddenly take offence to)”. If you personally need to raid as the last thing to unlock spirit shards and you really, really want shards.. join a guild that offers training raids and just run one. It’s one tiny thing being blown out of all proportion.

Maybe there will be another way to get spirit shards in the future, maybe there’ll even be a need for them in the future.. in the meantime, try raids, might even enjoy them. Chances are if you are already frustrated by the rest of HoT you will not be able to but plenty of people here will show you round the HoT maps if you ask and the metas are really good fun, missing out if you’ve not tried them.

honestly im not sure how people can hate raids when they clearly never gave them a chance. find a guild. theyll group you up and youll never need to do it again.

Farzo.8410:

Natto.5819:

How do you get that much gold in game?

Oh you know, it’s super easy anyone can do it, the easiest simplest way ever that nets you a billion gold in five minutes, it’s so easy, you just do what you like, and sell some greys to a vendor, and loot something.

Yeah, that way.

its easy. just buy 1 billion characters and all loot 1 grey and sell it for 1 silver per. ez pz

DoctorDing.5890:

sophiewhite.3149:

DoctorDing.5890:

Not sure we should be using such insulting and politically incorrect phrases such as “Rock Throwers”. Surely we should be calling them “non-indigenous occupants”, or perhaps “travelling invaders who still have basic human, or other species’, rights”.

please be sarcasm. please please please be sarcasm.

I’d prefer to think of it as wit. In fact, I’m surprised you’ve managed to stop laughing enough to type.

ill admit took me a bit XD

its because your name is katniss.

Garambola.2461:

Well, first of all it is extremely unlikely there will be another profession. The plan is to go with more elite specializations. Second, the next expac is not happening for a long time. You can easily have staks of tomes of knowledge by then. I think the shared slot is more useful.

what do you even put in it?

DoctorDing.5890:

Not sure we should be using such insulting and politically incorrect phrases such as “Rock Throwers”. Surely we should be calling them “non-indigenous occupants”, or perhaps “travelling invaders who still have basic human, or other species’, rights”.

please be sarcasm. please please please be sarcasm.

farming bunnies.
jk. i hear farming chests and unlocking them on a lvl 49 char is the most profitable way atm.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Gather all the mats you come across. Salvage everything you loot. On the TP sell the mats you can’t use for what you’re crafting and use that gold to buy the ones you can. The only thing crafting costs is time.

~EW

say that to the ascended gear im wanting to get.

to everyone whos pro inspect option go look at every other mmo that has one. chat is nothing but looking for a certain gear level. new max lvl players cant run anything to even get the gear because of this. its extremely painful to put your own pug parties together when no one has even played the map before and no one who has will play with you. even content anyone can breeze through.

Galtrix.7369:

“Real good?”

I’m at around 87% and I haven’t seen an increase or a decrease in the amount of valuables that I receive per day. I’ve only had two exotic drops in the past 6,500 hours, one of those being 3 years ago at the very beginning of GW2, the other one 2 days ago. From my experience, MF doesn’t work.

thats some bad luck dude.

Khisanth.2948:

It should unlock as soon as you walk into Tangle Depths. Did you walk into it from Auric Basin?

i walked into it from silver wastes.

Belzebu.3912:

You select the nuhock lore to learn and then you just start to progress …

Click in the right bottom corner icon, a list of mastery lines will pop up and one of them is nuhock lore

its locked for me atm. says i need to go to tangled depths but when i go there it doesnt unlock it.

i went to tangled depths and it didnt unlock. what am i supposed to do?

Danikat.8537:

TP prices are set by the people selling the items. A few months ago a green longbow with a generic skin appeared for 3,000g (in fact it’s probably still there, I doubt anyone bought it).

In this case I suspect the first people to get them knew there would be a lot of demand and set the price high in the hope that people desperate to be early adopters would pay it, or that it would prove rare enough to justify that price.

You see this a lot with items where the price is largely arbitrary – mini pets for example. The first few that go up are sold by people who essentially have to guess at the price. Then it will either drop like a rock or rise rapidly based on demand and availability until eventually info on the benefits (if any) and availability are more widely known so people have a better idea of what’s a reasonable price, and there’s some past sales data to work from.

The same thing happened with precursors. The first ones to go up for sale were offered for about 30g. Which was partially because at launch that was a lot of money, but also because I don’t think anyone realised just how rare they were and relatively few people were even trying to make legendary weapons.

oh how i wish i could get a precursor for 30g.

Paulytnz.7619:

If the loot was too good and we were all swimming in wealth don’t you think we would ALL be swimming in legendary’s by now? That’s not the case.

If prices on things such as silk, ectos etc are a bit on the low side don’t stress about it. Save them or use them. You don’t have to worry about not making as much cash off them as you usually do. Why do I say this? Well because if what you say is true and drops are far too good now, we are all swimming in cash now right? So why even bother about the prices of things, get out there and bash things!

this if you have excess gold buy some silk/ectos and sit on them. as time goes by the cost will go up and you can make a good profit.its called playing the market long term.