Guild Wars 2

You could try something like this
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.0|c.1g.h2.e.1g.h1|0.0.0.0.0.0|1n.71g.1n.71g.1n.71h.1n.71h.1n.b1g.1n.b1g|1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67|a2.u6ab.0.k28.a6|0.0|v.11.17.16.1i|e
You have good DPS via Fiery Wrath, Radiant Power, Blind Exposure (F1 Spam) and the high crit rate via Right hand strength.
You have good support for dungeons via your shouts (superior aria) and group might (empowering might).
With your shield equipped you have 3 sources of group protection, shield 4, Hold the line and virtue of courage. Retreat and virtue of courage grant aegis for your group and can save your group if timed right. Wall of reflection is a great skill and with master of consecretions readily available, can be swapped for another shout if not needed.
For runes I take 2 superior monk, 2 superior water and 2 major monk for additional boon duration – a total of 50%.
When your familiar with dodging and survival you can swap your knights armor for berzerker for more damage.
As secondary weapon set I use GS, staff or scepter/focus as needed.
I have a lot of fun and success playing this way. A lot more DPS than the AH hammer / gs build I was running before and still a good offensive and defensive group support. And of course a bit more challenging in terms of survival than AH builds.

I think this was an unnecessary hard nerf. Since the update I haven’t done maw at all. It’s just never up when I’m there and as I only play for 1 or 2 hours a day I don’t want to stand there and wait for it to happen. Before the patch I did it once everyday I was online.
It was a great and fun event. Was great for your dailies as it has a champion, a veteran, a group-event, 6 events in total (down-leveled events daily, shiverpeak-events daily) an you could gather while waiting for the chain to start. So it helped a good bit in doing your dailies if you don’t have that much playtime.
And it was great for leveling, got about 20 levels for my necro from alternating maw and the svanir dome chain while picking up events on the way between.
Maybe it spawned to frequent and needed a higher respawn time, but that additional random 1 hour on top of the 1 hour respawn timer killed maw for me

Just wanted to thank you for this build idea.
I’ve been running a 0/15/30/20/5 AH-hammer build for dungeons. But this is way better in terms of damage and support.
Only done AC by now, but pugging is much smoother.

Tried the dagger / minion combo but failed as I don’t survive very well when melee between all the gravelings :-/
So I guess I’ll try bhwab’s suggestion.
That would be 30 Blood Magic for bloodthirst, vampiric, ritual mastery (20% CD on wells) and vampiric rituals. Then 10 in Death Magic for the Staff Mastery and 20 in curses for the ground targeted wells.

Will be enough time to learn to play until i have the tokens for the armor ;-)

btw it seems a lot of (pick up) groups are struggling with the burrows / hodgins part since the patch. as I don’t have a guild group i’m always pug-ing.

BOC member but on EU server, so no chance to play with you bhawb ;-)

I think my problem with the axe damage is the lack of vulnerability on the burrows as they are objects.
Some good ideas to try, thank you. It’s always great getting help at the necro forum here.
Always open for more tips, so keep ’em coming ;-)

I’m open for a build change if you could recommend something that does better in that situation. Didn’t use dagger because I’m not sure if I’m good enough to survive melee in dungeon. I thought about wells, but they have long CD and so will only help with every second burrow. Flesh golems charge is something i will try definitly

I’m doing AC with my necro (she’s level 69) for leveling and to collect tokens for the AC armor. I’m doing fine for the most time except two encounters, mainly path 1 with hodgins and the burrows and to a lesser extent path 3 again the part with the burrows.
I’m specced for hybrid (nemesis build) with scepter/dagger and axe/focus, level appropriate green gear with rampager stats.
Especially on path 1 it feels as I don’t contribute much on this encounter. I seem to do very low damage to the burrows with my axe and if I go the other route and try to protect hodgins I fail (could be due to me playing the necro, not the necro it self ;-) )
The last runs it ended with me changing to my guardian who seems to do more damage against the burrows and I do better in protecting hodgins.

I would really like to do it with the necro as I’m really enjoying playing this class.
Any tips that help me getting better are welcome.

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I have to agree to the OP. Did path 1 yesterday for the first time since patch. Group (PUG) consisted of 2 80s and the rest 40 (me) – 56. Was a very smooth run.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t add any weight to the argument that a team of 35’s wouldn’t be able to do it as a team of 35’s

Having 2 80’s can help greatly. Especially if they’re one of the most desired classes (guardian, warr, mes)

If I had found more 35’s I would have tried. Got kicked out of several groups because of my level of 40 as everyone thinks it’s too hard below lvl 80.
Btw. no mes, warr or guard in the team. 80’s were ranger and engi.

And I’m really not a good player, still learning how to play the necro. I’m doing AC for leveling and the armor with rampager stat. But with everyone thinking AC is that hard I hardly find groups.

I have to agree to the OP. Did path 1 yesterday for the first time since patch. Group (PUG) consisted of 2 80s and the rest 40 (me) – 56. Was a very smooth run.

I totally forgot the conditions. Haven’t played with them the last 30 levels, always dagger or axe with wells.
You’re right I think I’ll be more usefull for a team if I support them via condition spreading untill I got more levels and trait options.
For utility well of blood, well of darkness, epidemic and bip?

Hello my fellow necros.
I would like to level my necro (now lvl 36) via dungeons especially AC as I intend to buy 1 or 2 sets of AC armor P/T/V and perhaps Pre/Pow/Cond.
Now I need some help in finding a valid dungeon build for low levels without access to master traits (< lvl 40) or only 1 of them at < lvl 50.
Open World I’m mostly using dagger/wh and staff with wells, but don’t know if going melee in AC is the right way.
I could take my guardian and change to the necro before the boss fight, but that wouldn’t help me in learning how to play the necro in instances. I’m already too used to dodge whenever i want due to 100% vigor uptime on the guardian ;-)

Thanks in advance

Thanks Bas, will check for invite this evening. I’m excited to see if it’s possible for me to do the new AC as a freshly lvl 35 necro ;-)

As a lvl 32 necro on his way to 80 i’d like to join to learn more about being a necro.
Ingame Saedra Discordia on Europe Server Whiteside Ridge

Batteries are new, tested different ones. The keyboard has no lags.
If I can’t solve this I’ll stick to my wired mouse, but the extra buttons would be very handy for Guild Wars.

My father-in-law bought a Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000 for his laptop but didn’t use it, so he gave it to me.
Now i have the problem that this mouse has severe lags in Guild Wars 2. It’s very unresponsive. Sometimes the cursor is jumping over the screen and when moving with the right button pressed sometimes the cursor reappears as i would have released the button. Looks like the mouse is loosing connection. This problem only occurs in Guild Wars 2, no problems on desktop. Can’t test in other games as i don’t have any installed.
I tried other USB-Ports and un- / reinstalled the driver. System is Win7 64. My PC is on the desk about half a meter away from the mouse, so i think range is not a problem.
Any thoughts what else i could try? I would really like to use this mouse as it has 2 buttons more than my wired one.

Sorry for entering this thread. I’m also searching for a dungeon build. At the moment I’m level 26 and running a dagger/warhorn build with wells and BiP and open world i’m tearing through mobs 2 – 3 level above without a sweat. Just a few minutes ago I’ve sent a lvl 30 veteran ettin to his ancestors.
As I want to level through dungeons as I reach lvl 35 I would like to know if such a build is valid for a dungeon at level 35 or should I go for something different. If so, what would you recommend?
Or should I stick to my guardian for the dungeon and change to the necro before the last boss until i’ve gained more levels and traits?

Yesterday I did 4 combines of rare armor, 3 times I received rare armor back, the 4th time I got nothing back.
Some minutes ago I did 4 combines of rare armor 2 times I received rare armor, 2 times I got nothing back.
It was all armor in the low level 50 range, don’t remember the exact names but I think it’s in the server logs.
I thought you get always somthing back from the forge.

I have one question about guesting.
Can you guest on any server in your region or are you limited to the servers you have someone on your friendlist from that server? I remember reading somthing like this during beta.
And guesting is definitly free?

Exotics are lvl 60 – 80 according to wiki and in trading post you can find exotics from lvl 62 up.
So anyone knows if you can get exotics from mystic forging low lvl rares?

As Exotics are lvl 60 – 80 and rares are lvl 30 – 80 can I get an exotc from throwing 4 lvl 30 rares into the mystic forge or is it only possible from lvl 60 – 80 rares?