Guild Wars 2

why dagger power build is better than axe.

No explanation necessary.

Don’t use minions. Use a scepter/dagger(focus) for conditions or dagger/warhorn for power/crit builds. Take a staff on the second slot. If you like seeing tons of enemies dot to their death, go with conditions. if you like a ton of burst and sustain and like to use death shroud a lot, use power/crit build.

Staff is very useful for events and long-ranged combat for vets and bosses mostly.

I’ll put a video up soon to show you guys how it works when I find fraps on my computer and get into some action

Using the utilities Spectral Grasp, Spectral Walk and Any of the two damaging wells, you can have a lot of fun instead of standing at the back sending your necrotic grasp and wells.

During large battles between your team and another side, you can score some easy kills while being safe at the same time. Go in from the side and use Spectral walk about 900 distance from the crowd. When you hit the middle, drop the well and use Spectral recall. You are guaranteed to hit a ton of people because they can’t move anywhere else. This is a good way to score some easy kills and laugh at people getting caught in the well.

During small encounters with teams, send out spectral grasp on a foe and then immobilise and focus on him/her. When the other enemy teammates rush to help, drop the well and then use DS to hold out while strafing and dodging. When the well finishes, use spectral walk and run in one direction and they are guaranteed to follow you. When you have 1 more second for spectral recall time limit, use it and run in the opposite direction and drop marks if you can.

These are just some ways I like to have fun and get away from casting necrotic grasp in the crowd for 10 minutes. Post some feedback and share some of yours

“My life siphon has double the damage of a warrior’s 100B.”

“Quick! Target the necro first!”

Since there’s no Power/Pres/Toughness armour and only Toughness/Power/Pres, it’s a hard time deciding what to use.

I am a power/pres build btw.

In PvE I run Berserker’s and usually have no trouble but as soon as more than a couple mobs come my way (usually about 5-6), I’m screwed.

In PvP I run Knight’s with Berserker’s Jewel mostly because with only berserker’s I manage to get killed very easily and it’s quite a big difference in terms of survival.

So my question is: Should I use Knight’s for my overall set in PvE and then offset the damage loss with Runes of the Pack/Eagle? Or should I use berserker’s and use Pack/Eagle for a bigger punch? (overall means everywhere, wvw, dungeons, normal gameplay)

I just messed around with plague and I basically did a defend rejection and a team fight opener. Run into their area and then spam 2 so they all get blinded while team attacks. And I’m standing on the zone so they can’t defend it. Hilarious.

@digiowl Quote broken so..

I bind my death shroud to Q or W depending if you’re using wasd or esdf. It makes it easy to reach as well.

@Aoi I agree. I want a buff even though I last fairly well with necro. It’s just that necros have a high skill level requirement

In theory it works and complies with “master of death” theme, but in reality it doesn’t. Because at the point where you have really low health, the chargeup time for attack1 means you pretty much don’t even get a single hit before it kicks you out for having too little LF.

Axe is useful for engaging, but if you’re using daggers as well it means giving up a staff which is one of the most important utility/LR damage tools.

I think there’s a bug with the report system. I’ve been reporting botters and gold sellers all over the place but I have not seen any “wave” of bans that anet promised. There might be some problem preventing anet getting the report.

Klawlyt.6507:

I’ve done street rat and noble, and both wacky sidekicks were obnoxious in my book.

For street rat, Quinn was just idiotic, despite living on the street for ages he has no street smarts. He obviously deserved to die.

For Lord Faren he was just plain aggravating. Every time he opened his mouth i musted the volume because anything that comes out of his mouth is just liquid poo.

You should try middle class, but it’s a bit cliche.

Titles are anet’s version of the perpetually running hamster wheel, but it comes with a door. You’ll be working hard and it will be tough, but getting all of the things to get the title means that you are truly dedicated. Think of it like a legendary.

I run normal gear but with pirate runes so I get 50% magic find + food which is 26% so that’s a total of 76%. I can sustain good damage still, less than if I used eagle runes or something but it’s still not bad. With MF% extra, I’m finding myself finding a ton more greens and less rare yellows than before. May be a placebo though

The problem at hand is that Anet requires you to buy gems then transfer. If they wanted to do it better, they would have an option to buy gold OR gems.

Whispers is mainly humans because of being able to sneaky sneaky
Vigils are mainly charr/norn because they’re big, dumb and powerful
Priory is mainly asura because of their tech.

You’re probably possessed by balthazar, you should post it on the bug forums

First time I’ve seen in-game prejudice against other races. We did take over their land first, so taking it back would be like native americans taking back NA.

I want pink dye. I don’t see why not. Humans have existed for millenia and made clothing dye. Why not hair dye too? (Hinting at gem shop barbershop adding)

Ranger sucks!
They got nerfed so badly

Warrior sucks!
Missing their 100B means death

Guardian sucks!
All their attacks are support and building power gets them killed fast

Elementalist sucks!
They are limited and have barely any viable builds

Engineer sucks!
They have bad damage

Mesmer sucks!
They have kitteny PvE damage and their clones are useless in PvE

Thief sucks!
They die to easily no matter how they build

As you can see. Necromancer is the only viable class. You can build it with full power and it’ll still have a large health pool. Times 2.

MK was pretty fun for me, I watched my friend’s hybrid tank do measly damage while I was autoattacking for 1600,2400,3600+ using daggers.

warrior.

After playing necromancer, I played necromancer, because necromancer is awesome and denying it means you are unworthy of playing a class that requires skill.

give us greatswords or a scholar only weapon like a book that the elite guardian has. It can cast poison storms and stuff. That would be awesome.

I don’t. I just die. jk

If you know they are invisible, put marks down.
If they are coming at you with daggers, quickly use DS and mitigate the damage or fear them. Combine this with staff 5 fear and then stack conditions.
I use wail of doom then dark pact in any order because they only have a single condition removal.

CLS.7681:

Know it would not be ideal but could they just turn additional bleed stacks into direct damage (damage would have to be discussed). So you do not lose out but the scaling would not go over the 25 limit ?
This could also give us a chance of doing some damage to “bleed immune” targets like cannons….

Damage could be all of the DoT in a single instant but the damage produced would be halved or 3/4’d

- A non-hindering DS UI
- Dagger cleave or damage bonus
- Staff autoattack speed bonus or projectile speed bonus
- Reduction on cooldown for wells or increased uptime
- Viable and useful axe.
- Cleaned up synergized traits

At LEAST one of these.

My maths is bad and I should feel bad but if they raised the cap from 25 > 50, the damage exponentially rises because of some mathematical formula associated with it. It’s on the forums somewhere..

What would it be called? It’s not like they can have every stat on every single one, can they? You would need a lot of names for different combinations.

There’s no healing power, critical damage and vitality either, which sucks.

XXVI Red.5718:

I dont really have too many QoL issues. The glowing thing sounds cool. I personally just would like to look a little more evil in our forms. A nice touch to Deathshroud would be some green glowing eyes shining out from that cloud of blackness around us. Also nice to throw onto Plague. Kinda weird how it looks like I am stealth inside of a black bug swarm too. Wouldn’t mind that being removed entirely and just keep the swarming black cloud flying around.

As odd as this will sound, that “AaaaaaWHOOOO” sound doesn’t really bother me. I am most of the time looking at buffs and debuffs and not entirely focused on my character so the sound at least lets me know im still attacking.

Use staff autoattack in a large crowd. Most likely your staff will generate the most loud and annoying sound within 2000 range.

With daggers I can drop 1v1 almost as fast as a thief. BUt then my AoE just sucks really badly. So this is not the class you’re looking for. If you want an easy class with bugs that get fixed as soon as they are reported, warrior is your choice

I feel that wells should last 10 seconds instead, because it takes so kitten long to cooldown. Or at LEAST cut the cooldown by half. or give us a trait that makes the well bigger or faster or something. I drop it and I watch people walk out of it, it’s just so stupid.

6000 damage. Wow, even with my best gear and statistics with 25 stacks of bloodlust, I only do a measly 5.6k with life siphon. Jeez. I want cleave on dagger please

Staff 1 is so horrendous, why would you give 2-5 good skills then make 1 terrible. WHY? All I want is the projectile to be sped up to lich form speed.

put it in the suggestions thread, devs aren’t allowed to visit here. I don’t like it. It makes us another thief clone. It also means I can’t drop wells and use DS4 at the same time.

Sounds like my build for sPvP, I hope that it works out for you. I’m running berserkers or knights amulet, but I’m not too sure just yet, which one are you using?

Axe/Focus is not viable.

You want fast kills? Dagger/Warhorn with full berserkers.

You get a ton of sustained from dagger. Go full berserkers for full effect, you have so much health that it really doesn’t matter.

Use dagger/dagger and staff to build LF at superspeed rates. Switch to DS and launch your 1 until 50% is left. You should crit for something like 4-5k per hit. Not very high but sustainable.

As a necro it’s physically impossible to do the burst that thief has because thief is just so faceroll. You’ll have to actually play to do good sustain.

There are real camera bugs, external forces creating problems as well. I personally don’t mind those who gloat, but as soon as they say L2P and call me kitten or something like that (someone did in another thread) I go and report them.

YES. IT’S AT 6AM IN THE MORNING…when I am already on the train… not happy.

I think I’ve actually got the hang of it.

- I trigger and untrigger every 10 seconds to get fury/retaliation and enfeebling blood.
- For large crowds, I use warhorn 5, run in like no tomorrow, drop my wells and use ds4. pretty much a ton of hurt.
- For strafing in team fights or boss battles, I use staff to charge up then ds1 (hits for 3-4k bursts each which is a ton of hurt).
- For stragglers in pvp I use dagger 3 to immo and strafe while ds1 and watch them suffer. (also works with dsfear)

Enemies don’t get any points until you’re dead, so downing is fine. They get 10 for killing and 5 for finishing (I believe)

If you’re gonna play hardcore, at least push it to the max.

- No armour, at all.
- When you die, instantly delete your character and all existing items.

It is very viable, I found running around with a dagger to be fairly safe because of the high health we have. However, if you are a kitten, pick up staff and scepter/warhorn(dagger) for survivability/kiting.

If it isn’t broken, the description is ambiguous and probably designed it that way to make necros even more useless.

If it is broken, it will be made worse.

Live with it, or rather, die with it.

Fixed a bug where necromancer was playable. Added multiple detrimental bugs to fix necromancer

The camera problem only exists on the first section, it doesn’t happen after. I still haven’t finished it due to massive max height/width norn blocking my camera.

Support the many forumers who want a nerf to the jumping puzzle. The difficulty is ridiculous because of external factors as well. I hope they add a achievement mode only where there’s no gloop

SKuDDer.1860:

easy peasy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akpORGEvrgQ

You were probably the cause of other people failing it. You are the cause of the rage.

Do it on a minimum height asura with at least 5 charr/norn on max width and height settings and I will believe you.

Yoke.4671:

My god is every warrior in here utterly crap?

You have 4 skill slots you can fill with banners, use them lol.

Elite warbanner skill will last you the whole time if you wack it down just as bar hits 99% done, hit ‘F’ and bring it with you for the ride. Will get you to the top if not near enough to it and if you jump unlike a total spaz you will be ahead of the mob in seconds and not have to deal with massive norns and charrs.

l2p pls.

My necro doesn’t have this. Please suggest a solution for me.

fatmalewarriornorn blocking my way. oh yay, so fun.

You can’t do this while thinking about where to go at the same time. It’s simply impossible

This event is so fun. Except it’s not.

The problem is that my camera angle goes mad and pulls in super tight at random places, after that it’s pretty easy.

My other problem is the massive norn who use full height and the fattest/most muscular setting. They’re brick walls, I can’t see where I’m going.

I’ll try again at like 4am when there’s no massive norn awake.

BTW: it’s no longer called a puzzle when you can’t think because if you do, you die. Call it something else please.

I finally got the joke about warriors..

I hope something happens soon.