Guild Wars 2

Ziggy.7319:

Plus a CoD can still deduct a tax.

This pretty much, I would really like to see a CoD system, sometimes you just don’t want to trade through post :S

1)Looks like the minions don’t scale with any of your stats.They are only affected by your level, and your traits.

2)The best combo to maximize life leeching would be either dagger/focus or axe/focus.
Life leeching of necro in general is pure cr*p.You leech like 25 HP with each critical , and if you trait for 50% more, it goes up to 29.
3)I have played conditionmaster/MM/Well-o-mancer and I think the Wells is your best choice.
Conditionmaster just won’t do enough damage and die fast
MM will do very good damage when the minions don’t bug,and will survive a lot.
Wells will help you get protection almost all the time,change boons into conditions and conditions into boons etc.
My traits:
Spite 20
Death magic 20
Blood magic 30

4)I go for toughness/vit/power.

With a good well build you will have one of the biggest survivabilities in the game and make up for good support,but your damage will be medium.

Lumines I think you are in the wrong forum ^^

Yes they are BoA for sure

Can we get a post from a dev here?
I know how salvage used to work back in GW, but this is diffrent.
The salvage kits obviously states that it has a percentage for rarer materials.
What exactly does this mean?
I suppose rare are the yellow+ materials , but I have only gained some from salvaging rare items.
Some people claim that (e.g) at 80 level armors of white rarity, you have a better chance to get orichalcum , but orichalcum is “basic” exactly as mithril that you have a chance to obtain from higher level items.
So when I salvage something white, I guess I am only to get white, does it up the tier of the material?
Some more info on the salvage kits please….

To be honest I returned after some more testings, and I think we have a new build winner,wells.
Bit of gear changing in SPvP, throwing in an axe and a focus going to melee welling seems really THE BEST build at the moment.
I was amazed by my 28k life pool(without the chief bonuses) and 3k armor at the same time I could make condition on my dissapear and turn guardians into suicide machines.

Please try the following build I really wanna see how other people find it, practice it a bit for you make a conclusion.
If you need any info on how I played this feel free to reply.

Build
I was amazing by this build, if only the traits were working as intended..

Tip:Gear up for power-toughness-vitality

So this karma vendor at Anchorage waypoint(cursed shore) sells this dagger for karma.
Except this dagger, he also sells a sword and a greatsword.
The funny thing about this bug is that the name of the dagger is:
“Shank Dagger Shank Greatsword Shank Sword of Force”
The stats are OK and the skin is a dagger, just a funny typo on the weapon name

Koen.8703:

I think I’ve spent over 350 hours pvping/theorycrafting with this class, I think I’ve tested out all of the possible builds that there are currently available.
This being said, I do agree this class has the highest learning curve, so ofcourse I’m not able to play it to the fullest, but I think I’m getting really close though.

That build is rather close to the build that I’m currently using, but the thing I wonder is that you claim to be decent with a minion build. I tried it, but I found out the minions were increadibly buggy, died way to fast, and didnt to enough relyable damage.

natsos.3692:

I can take ALL the other proffesions , just because I have the best “crowd control” effects and the highest life for a caster.
My heals are not the best, but they are enough.

No. I simply cannot agree with what you just said here.
We have one AOE fear from staff, then a fear from DS, cripple and some frost effects.
Which other class doesnt have the same amounts of interupts/silences/blinds/cripples/knockbacks/.. that we do?

I don’t even know were you got this. No offence, but I think you faced all braindead people in spvp or you havent pvp’d at all. If you would have pvp’d alot you wouldnt definatly not stated that, at all.
Not going to be kitteny here, but I just wonder if you could tell me how much time you have PVP’d with a necro.
This certainly applies to tounament pvp, where the skills of players are still a bit better.
I just think you were increadibly lucky in the few matches you’ve pvp’d, but you haven’t played alot of tournaments

But if you have spended over 100’drs of hours in pvp, I beg you on my kneess, like most of this community of necro’s, if its true what you claim, to make a guide to help us all out.

The truth is, I have not spend more than 10 hours in tournaments, but I have spend over 300 hours in SPvP , WvW and PvE.
I saw people saying that conditionmaster is the best build atm but necros, but really, I mean REALLY I find it terrible.No survability, no meat shield, no damage no nothing.
Well-o-mancer is the second best build for me it can do almost anything.
Even if minions don’t even attack half of the time, they can do some pretty good stuff like immobilize,blind , cripple,charge ,poison and teleport in/out of combat.Half the time they do work, they provide you with NASTY damage, as flesh golem hits for 600-1000 , flesh wyrm for over 1k, bone minions can explode for 2k+ , devourer can hit for over 700.
When I specc with 20 points in death magic, I can reach 1900 toughness and over 2.5k armor, with a life pool of 20k and all the cripple,blind,chill I can provide while dodging my enemies attacks I can focus on keeping myself alive while applies several condition on the enemy and letting my pets do the most of damage.And I haven’t even used death shroud so far.

I really, really don’t understand how you guys can’t rule the world with a half broken necromancer, with one build you can do everything,and that is the build I spoke of on my previous post.

I might be playing with people not knowing their proffesions in SPvP, but I also tried 1vs1 with all proffesions(except engineer) and they where all the PvP guys of my guild.
The only time I had issues winning the 1v1 was once with a tanky guardian that kept healing himself until he died when I reached 50% of my HP, and one second time with a thief that kept nuking me down until I finally managed to get some range and put him in rest.

Try the exact build that I posted before,the weapons I used and the tactics I’m talking about, try avoiding all the damage you can.

I will keep talking about “I” because I just can’t see why you guys say it’s a useless class while they always spam me to go dungeon so I can use minions as flesh shields and condition the monsters to death.

I bet if they fix necromancer completly(as they should) they are going to do some nerfing eventualy.

I don’t even agree with half of what you said, it is kinda late right now so I will try to give just a few details.

I play a MM/Condition necro,it is good in PvE , PvP and SPvP.
My minions offer me high toughness(so survivability),immobilize,blind and charge.
My scepter/dagger combination offers me cripple, lots of bleeds,blindness,chill and weakness.

Any time I feel like it, I change to my staff and use some regeneration for myself,nasty conditions for foes, fear and plague spreading.

Because of my scepter, I manage to have 50+% of life force most of the time, so I can get away from dangerous situations and start annoying my enemies even more from a safe distance.

Yes, the damage is low, lowest than any other class.
Yes I have some broken traits and some that could use some boost.
I have played fully MM with dagger/focus and it wasn’t as good as the one I explained
I have played fully conditionmacer and it wasn’t nearly as effective as the one I explained.

I can take ALL the other proffesions , just because I have the best “crowd control” effects and the highest life for a caster.
My heals are not the best, but they are enough.

From what I have read, even after all these matches you played, you don’t play your character good enough.No offense intended, it is one of the hardest proffesions to learn.

I would suggest trying a build of:
20 spite(spiteful spirit,training of the master)
30 curses(hemophilia,chilling darkness,lingering curse)
20 death(dark armor,flesh of the master)
scepter/dagger
staff.

Other than that option I found wellmancer one of the best-supportive classes.
This proffesion might even need some nerfs on some builds.
Wish you a pleasant gaming experience

I am not having such a problem, are you sure its not an issue of lag or something similar?

I don’t get it..How orichalcum and gossamer are “rare” materials..?
They are white, yes orichalcum is more rare to find than mithril, and gossamer is harder to get than silk, but they are still all white.
Doesn’t “rare” stand for anything beyold white in this specific situation?

What it is ?See bellow
This is a crafting material but shhhh...just use discovery

I don’t know if it is supposed to work like this, but you can complete Experience without Death, all you have to do is get the required experience in just one zone, if you use a waypoint or a portal to move from a zone to an other then the bar resets.