I’m kinda confused, what’s this “free” weapon? o.o
The new patch also released some current events, which give you at least 1 asc weapon. You can choose from a GS, sword, scepter, dagger and shield. As necro you can use 3 of them and you can also chose any stat combination on them. At least, I’m guessing thats what he means.
It doesn’t really cost anything to complete it, and the weapon you choose can be changed to any of the other ones for only 1k unbound magic. So if you had a berserker’s sword you can actually turn into a vipers scepter, for only 1k unbound magic.
ty for the info, looks like I’ll be getting the HoT story done first, is the last part still bugged? Coz I’ve been seeing some complaints on that, and is there a time limit to this event?
I’m getting a feeling that the Elementalist nerf will never be addressed in this thread
I’m getting the feeling its the elephant in the room that is going to be summarily ignored.
Ignoring is what you do when you have a ton of data, logic, and facts to defend your actions. Obviously.
No. If you have a ton of data, logic, and facts, you present it succinctly to shut down the initial complaints and THEN you ignore further complaints or drama about it.
necro is actually tied to warrior as the class with the most HP and they have minions to tank for them as well and they also have a separate health bar, so they can survive quite well, though the class itself isn’t exactly in a great spot atm, if you want to have an easier time accessing higher tier pve content then this is not the class for you.
Right now the popular choices that I am reading on map chat for Raids is to bring 4 condi rangers, 2 mesmers, 2 ps and 2 druids. It’s not the best team for sure but it points out something quite stupid: The best profession to run for healer and the best class to run for DPS in the game right now is the same profession.
there definitely was an increase in difficulty, but I handled it thanks to the necromancer’s only saving grace ( and after a while you get used to some of the attack patterns)
I was getting 80 each day from farming the nodes, doing all the quests and getting noran’s chest , only did peach/magic/gathering daily, with 1 character ofc, though I did run out of karma and so I gave up on quests (except noran) today I got 75, but this I did the jumping puzzle on an alt as well.
Already got enough jades for the amulet + bp in 4 days (unbound magic is a kitten…)
welp if the forums are anything to go by then play anything except a necromancer, this could change tomorrow (I highly doubt it though). Also if you use the 80 boost and start the content from there, then you may find it very challenging, so I’d advice starting from the beginning and save your 80 boost for a second character (who you could then use for extra material gathering)
(I’ve yet to even get a full set of exotics btw, so can’t really do anything too hardcore)
Don’t waste hardened leather for exotic craft. Better farm some gold and buy exotics (for zerk stats Zhed’s/Nika’s/Devona’s depending on armor type) from trading post. You can buy a full set for like 15-20 gold. Alternatively you can grind Verdant Brink a bit and buy an exotic set for airship parts (must have Itzel mastery to access the vendor).
Exotic craft is dead, save that hardened leather for insignias to craft ascended armor.
welp I needed a viper’s exotic set, but those are account bound >.< , ty for the info tho
I was surprised too when I saw the leather to gossamer ratio was 5:2, I’d have thought the cheaper one would have the higher requirement…
When the recipes were introduced the cheaper ingredient did have the higher requirement. But the requirements were never adjusted when leather became the most expensive crafting material
has the price of t6 leather gone down since the new leather farm place? If not then… what was the point?
And its still not ok for one of the basic crafting mats to be so much more expensive than the other 3. T6 leather is still 6 times as expensive as T6 wood, 46 times as expensive as T6 cloth, 15 times as expensive as T6 ore. Not to mention that if the price of leather was lower, the price of cloth would go up as demand would go up.
I thought something was wrong when I saw the massive difference between the t6 cloth and t6 leather price. I had enough bolts of gossamer and then some to craft a full set, but barely enough leather to craft 2 insignia’s >.<, they should do something like lowering the units of leather required.
I agree with you, but that is very unlikely to happen. An Anet person stated in the AMA on Reddit that they don’t want to change the recipes, but rather change how we acquire the base mats.
well this is going to set me back more gold than I expected, got more globs of ecto from salvaging than I did the t6 leather (I think there was a quest which gave like 40 t6 leather, but excluding that I got less than 10 from the beginning till now ), apart from this centaur place where should I be farming them? (I’ve yet to even get a full set of exotics btw, so can’t really do anything too hardcore)
And its still not ok for one of the basic crafting mats to be so much more expensive than the other 3. T6 leather is still 6 times as expensive as T6 wood, 46 times as expensive as T6 cloth, 15 times as expensive as T6 ore. Not to mention that if the price of leather was lower, the price of cloth would go up as demand would go up.
I thought something was wrong when I saw the massive difference between the t6 cloth and t6 leather price. I had enough bolts of gossamer and then some to craft a full set, but barely enough leather to craft 2 insignia’s >.<, they should do something like lowering the units of leather required.
For a condition damage build, there is only one weapon set that makes much sense: scepter/dagger. Scepter is the only significant source of condition damage in Necromancer’s toolbox. Dagger has both a condition transfer, which is extremely valuable if you use corruption utilities, and a boon corruption of its own.
Lingering Curse extends base bleed duration. From there, equipment with expertise like Viper’s (and Giver’s weapons), along with sigils, runes, food like pizza, and toxic focusing crystals will get you capped at double-duration (base + 100%).
Whether you need equipment for a condition damage build, or not, it is good to have one to switch to.
Contrary to what many assume, you do not exactly need Viper’s armor but it does help to get to 100% duration. The armor, itself, gives something like 20%. The rest comes from other sources so you can wear Carrion, Sinister, Dire, whatever, and still get close to the duration cap.
Food and toxic focusing crystals get you 30%, which is more than ascended Viper’s armor.
Rune of the Krait gives you 45% bleed duration where most of your dps comes from
Superior Sigil of Agony is 20% also extends bleed duration
Superior Sigil of Malice is 10%
These things, alone, will get you to the cap without spending a single silver on black diamonds.
Even a pair of single-handed Giver’s weapons with a Superior Sigil of Malice add 30%, though the Giver’s weapons sacrifice stat’s for the potent duration increase (10% duration vs. about 5% for a one-handed ascended Viper’s.)
ah okay well I prefer having a clear-cut goal for the gear so I’ll try and get viper’s armour and weapons, as for the trinkets should I be going for viper’s on them as well or sinister?
1) Unless you find a Raid group that isn’t full of stingy people who seek perfection, Necros typically aren’t ‘accepted’ into Raids (and I hear even higher level Fractals but I’m not sure so don’t quote me on that). As far as what build, it comes down to your playstyle. If you’re more into instant damage/bursting your target and moving quickly, Power Reaper is your best bet but if you prefer to play it safely and enjoy messing around with Conditions and melting health bars instead of deleting them, Condi Necro is the way to go. I’m a Power Reaper because I’m extremely aggressive, but because of that I’m incredibly fragile and have to be careful when fighting Champions and big Group Event Bosses.
There are also Hybrid builds you could look into but those got so confusing to me and the playstyle for those builds was way different from mine and even a bit weird, not to mention those builds tend to be rare (from what I’ve experienced) and I’ve yet to find a Hybrid-player with a ‘strong’ build.
2) Zerker, Valkyrie and/or the Zerkerie (Valk + Zerk Trinkets) are common in PvE because of the raw power they provide and how relatively easy it is to kill PvE mobs. It’s also one of the easiest builds to make, whereas crafting Viper’s (or anything with 4 stats) takes more time and effort since you have to get the proper Insignia as well. If you do go Viper’s, then you’re most likely looking into being a Condi Necro, which there are already quite a few builds and guides on (I’m a Power Reaper like I said so I’m not help to you there).
3) It doesn’t matter if you go PvP or PvE for the PvE gear, both ways will get you the same thing in the end. The real question is: which side do you enjoy more? I’m a PvEr, PvP in many MMOs has soured my view on PvP so I just stay away from that side in general, so again sorry but I’m no help to you on that topic.
Yes I understand that part about the raids, but necro seems kinda fun so I’ll gear it up and maybe in the future it’ll be more viable.
Ah I thought it was something like sceptre/dagger & warhorn for the condi build (at least from a guide I looked at, updated like 2 mnths aho), you think I should get huntsman to 500 just for the warhorn? Right now I have tailor/art at 400, thinking about getting weaponsmith to 400 as well for axe/dagger
well after looking at my skills I noticed there was a trait for reaper “decimate defenses”, looks to give a lot of crit so I’m looking to just go full valkyrie . I decided to get the power set done first (exotic one anyway…), like you said viper’s will take some time, so should I just use the power set to try and craft an ascended vipers set and skip the exotic one? I’m assuming the lower level fractals can be done with a power set and they give mats for ascended.
Just reached 80, so I had a few questions in terms of gear:
1. Basically what builds should I be using for dungeons/fractals/raids? For open world stuff I’m using a power build (gs & axe/wh), but I heard for the latter 2 its condition based builds, but I’m not sure which weapons I should be using for that ( or utility skills)
2. Continuing from the above Q I was thinking of crafting an exotic viper set, then farm towards an ascended one, but I heard berserker set is more… pve friendly?
Also should I be focusing more on the pvp side of the game for the pve gear?
Anyway ty in advance
( I would be playing now but my ping disagrees with me on that…)
how much is it to craft a full set of ascended gear? (armour and weapon).
I literally just started a week ago, so right now I was just getting crafting levels.
I was deciding to get a crafting profession for my necro (got tailoring done), but not sure about the second one, was thinking about artificing since I see staff/sceptre being used a lot, but dagger looks good too..
you can, from what I know the fourth reward in every tier is always a tome, now I haven’t done much pvp (less than 10 matches played) but I got 5 tomes in the bank. As for the leveling well I just started last thursday (avg 1.5 hrs a day) and atm I’m level 48, I just did map completion,personal story quests and I decided to also get tailoring to 400 (got a lucky loot from the black lion chest I guess), so got 7 levels from that.
