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Konig Des Todes.2086:

And let’s also not forget that the interview basically tells us that all GW1 PCs and half of the NPCs from EN and on were effectively geniuses in magic given how many secondary professions there were. Unless somehow magic became harder to learn, yet easier to access (which itself is contradictory).

Well, IMO, this actually has some sense to it. Before the dragons awoke, people were more powerfull, as there was more magic flowing. They could master more than one discipline, because of all the extra juice. Now, when magic is weaker, perhaps mastering more than one arcane is not possible. That would mean, that it’s not necessarily harder to learn, but that the individuals simply can’t achieve power levels from 250 years ago. I agree however that it kinda looks like a theory made in hurry to explain some game design changes.

In my opinion the gradual rise of magic power in Tyria is already visible. Perhaps not purely lore-wise, but in the form of player development. We received ascended items, legendaries, and we already know that more will come, and that the crafting, which is purely magic-driven, will also be expanded. We ARE getting much stronger, and we are the part of the lore.
It was actually the first thing I thought after reading the interview about the Elder Dragons being the natural regulator of magic in Tyria. It’s an amazing tool for the developers to support the introduction of new, more powerful features for players, and actually that it is already being implemented.

Oh…well, considering you’ve mentioned it into the event related post, and made further reference to Halloween being Necro’s holiday, we all thought you actually crafted something related.

Leiloni.7951:

zao.2710:

What kind of armor if I may ask? Care to share screenshots?

I’m curious as well what he made for his Necro considering there’s no Halloween specific armor recipes.

Well you can create shoulder armor, but I thought that’s about it…

What kind of armor if I may ask? Care to share screenshots?

I believe that these are the ones crafted with gifts (so called mini legendaries)

The skins are posted on Guru:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/842-official-update-notes-database-updates-including-new-skins/
They look cool, but I’m not sure if they are really worth the effort.
There are also recipes for new craftable potions, runes etc.

Does anyone know how do the crafted weapons look like?

This is my main character. I actually wanted to do a mix of Citadel of Flames and Arah armor, but after getting 3 parts from CoF and doing some tailoring, I kinda like the look which I’ve achieved right now. It’s full exotic, some parts transmuted.

The set is:
Head & Shoulders (lol) – Feathered crafted
Chest – Winged crafted
Legs, hands and boots – Citadel of Flames

Painted pitch and gold

Sorry, I understood that each one of them costs 12g per your calculations, reading fail.

Cisza, then check again. Artificing costs waay less.
I would also like profession specific titles, for example Master Artificer. It would help master crafters get some additional jobs.

Yeah, but my main weapons are staff and scepter + dagger, so I don’t really care that much about axes.

I agree. The point is that necromancers would like some more legendaries, so that the whole struggle and quest of making them would actually make sense in terms of maintaining the dark and gloomy feel about this particular profession. Bifrost, as well as Meteorlogicus (the legendary scepter) might I add, do not fit that well.
Of course dark and gloomy is not a mandatory, go-to necro look, but most people rolling necromancers seem to like it this way, and I am one of them.

And what about the situation when your minions will decide not to attack your target and stand idle?
Also, it may be a bug on my side, but I can’t see your trait build.

Just as the other people stated in this topic, the way I see it, is that you don’t have to get a legendary weapon. It’s not required. If you think the amount of collecting, grinding or whatnot is too much, then simply you are not entitled to receive a legendary item. Simple as that. I guess it’s an issue of the mindset developed while playing other MMO’s, where legendary items were common (Shadowmourne anyone?)

I agree however that perhaps you should be awarded with something more than the weapon itself. Something epic. Also, creation of certain parts, as well as the whole final product could be conducted in some special location, accessible only for people owning required items, or achievments. The vision of bringing all those hard earned items to Lions Arch and just, you know, like
“- Hey Zom, here ’ya go mate, I brought you all these things.
– Oh, thanks. Here, take this for your effort.
- Thanks, bye.”
Kinda takes away the pleasure from this moment.

Other idea would be to connect the creation of ingredients with instanced stories. I would feel then that the game actually responds and notices that I’m trying to do something big.

Yeah, It’s relatively cheap, and I find it pretty rewarding. I just wish the potions would give better buffs to be usable by people and sellable on TP.

I have no idea what Oltar is, but I also disagree on your general idea. We already have wells + minions.

Care to share your build? I also tried to emphasize more on DS mechanic in sPVP but I didn’t have much time to test it though. I played a few games in which I was either pummeled, or did ok, but perhaps it’s a matter of training. What I would like to see is getting at least some amount of life force at the start.

Yeah, we got what we wanted! I feel much more confident right now.

Haha, Mark of Flood would actually be awesome!

Unhealthy Feast – you eat fast food created by cook. Required item: hamburger/cheeseburger. Effect: you become a line of sight blocker and your team can hide behind your back.

Signet of Sprite – spray your foe with this sweet soda drink and apply slow.

Summon Plush Wurm – summons plush wurm to put around your neck. It’s pink and fluffy, and you now become a pimp.

Gankplank ate all the oranges and it was k.

I’m kinda dissapointed with AN attitude. Most of us is really trying to politely point out the wrong things about a class we love and want to play despite the odds, and instead of getting at least a hint of understandig and “it’s ok guys, we’re on it” attitude, we got a long awaited red post but written in a hurt-prima ballerina, drama queen sort of way. This kinda puts me off. (this is regarding the recently locked shout-out thread to AN)

What made you think you made the wrong choices?

I choose exactly the same type of items as you, but I put more emphasis on the condition damage over power. Of course if you take too much beating, you can always try to mix some toughness and vitality, but personally I don’t feel the need to get those stats at all.

If you feel weak or underperfoming, my suggestion is to change your traits into a more balanced mix of curses and blood magic with emphasis on curses.
You also use a lot of wells, therefore I would suggest changing axe+focus for a staff, because marks combo with wells. Investment in Curses trait line would also help you as you get targeted wells.

Plus, my personal thought – I just dont like flesh golem. I roll with Plague elite, as it basically gives you third life bar and is super useful in AOE-multiple foe combat.

I go with condition/supportive build with staff/S+D and switch my skills accordingly to the oncoming challenge.

Necro’s are quite good kiters and pullers, and we are very usefull especially in fights where you have to place the boss in specific place like keeping Vassar away from Ralena in AC or pulling Brangoire to the middle of the room in TA. You can do all of this with Spectral Grasp.

Other than that i often rotate between Signet of Spite+Epidemic+Well Of Suffering; For boss fights I switch to Well Of Darkness + WoS+Well Of Power, or for example Spectral Grasp as mentioned above. Signet of Undeath can also be a tide breaker on particulary difficult fights.

I usually take consume conditions for healing purposes and ALWAYS Plague elite, as the AOE condition (blind!) spam is extremely usefull when facing multiple mobs.
I am also a designated resurrector with trait spawning well of blood on successfull ressurection.

Frumz your research has failed you. Poor AI of minions is mentioned in almost every topic as one of the most painful bugs currently affecting the necromancer.

I go with condition/supportive build with staff/S+D and switch my skills accordingly to the oncoming challenge. We are quite good kiters and pullers, and we are very usefull especially in fights where you have to place the boss in specific place like keeping Vassar away from Ralena in AC or pulling Brangoire to the middle of the room in TA. You can do all of this with Spectral Grasp. Other than that i often rotate between Signet of Spite+Epidemic+Well Of Suffering; For boss fights I switch to Well Of Darkness + WoS+Well Of Power, or for example Spectral Grasp as mentioned above. Signet of Undeath can also be a tide breaker on particulary difficult fights.
I usually take consume conditions for healing purposes and ALWAYS Plague elite, as the AOE condition (blind!) spam is extremely usefull when facing multiple mobs.
I am also a designated resurrector with trait spawning well of blood on successfull ressurection.

Konrad Curze.5130:

I think they just hate the class and plan on deleting it soon

Well that escalated quickly…
Inb4 red post pretty pleasee

Oh, great, thanks!
After reading the OP and follow-ups I understood that there are still some recipes that can be discovered by accident, using different items of uknown purpose. Recipes which are not listed anywhere on the net, and are not purchasable through vendors…is this correct?

Hey redfenix, did you discover the recipes for godskull weapons in the discovery pane, or is a purchase of some specific recipe required?

You just need to wait untill the economy will stabilize. It’s only two weeks into the game, and considering the fact the trading post was not even working all the time, we shouldn’t make assumptions that it will be like this all the time.
In my opinion the prices of runes are fine, and the prices of final product (bags) will grow up in the future. Therefore the profit margin will also grow.

Yeah I was also wondering what made him choose golem. I place my bet on missclick

Yeah, these are some interesting ideas!
I also thought that perhaps they didn’t want to capitalize on undead raising due to the Zhaitan lore correlation, which kinda puts Necromancers in general in bad spot

The word on the street is: In the current meta you can’t win 1 on 1 versus Mesmer, unless he is terribad, or you have achieved absolute perfection with your class and timed all your skills correctly.
Necro unfortunately has his bun handled to him mostly vs any other class at the moment.
I guess I’m still a newb sPvP’er but the few times I won 1 on 1 vs Mesmer was when I got extremely lucky with placing my staff’s 5 and interrupting him in crucial moments.

THOOOOM THOOOM THOOOM
+1 at least please make the sound change from time to time

It is a prime example of traits not synergizing well with each other and skills.
My 2 cents:
- health degen should be smaller

- cooldown can remain, but the horror’s spawn should be triggered by a factor happening mid-fight, such as crit
OR
- cooldown can be lowered, but there should be a possibility to maintain horrors and spawn multiple at once during large fight after every kill

In both cases the death nova trait would finally be usefull and jagged horros would have bigger presence in fights.

Yeah, this migt be the case. I kinda feel that necro does not have enought thought process put into it. It seems that they just thought “OK, lets make an undead raising mage and be done with it.” Traits not working properly or not synergizing well with skills are a good example.
Now, the unfortunate output is that the class is somewhat lacking other classes versatility, especially in sPVP.
Now don’t get me wrong – I have an excellent time in PvE (altough I dropped minion master in favour of conditionmancer, I just couldn’t bear the stupidity of minions). I just believe that there is more into this class that we currently can use.

Perhaps the charge ability caused buggs in 3 dimensional environment such as underwater settings.

Erebus, I’m sorry but either this is a failed troll attempt or you have 0 experience in sPVP.

Venom, I absolutely support all you said. I would even like the necessity of having a dead body nearby to raise a minion being brought back if we’d get a strong and respectable undead monster in return. Not friggin necrorabits that are cannon fodder.

Nekroseth.5186:

Nekromancers “trademarks” is supposed to be undead minions.
And not only they look “sigh could be a LOT cooler” Exspecially considering how totally amazing some pet animations and textures are.
But also they are quite weak. Even if 4 minion is attacking my target they eather die quite fast or wont even get hurt. The “sacrefice” skills for them are a joke to. I keep forgetting them.

Another problem of them is : They TAKE YOUR UTILITY slots. Why do i have to waste all my possible utlity skills to be what i am supposed to be?

What I think is that minions could be turned to another F-ability like the engi’s kits or ranger pets. Perhaps some down scaling would be necessary, but generally that would leave the utility slots opened, and more builds would be possible.

Also this: http://www.teamparadigm.net/forums/Necromancer/374/The-Sorry-State-of-the-Necromancer-in-SPvP-Long-Post/

It can’t be intended – classes should be balanced and in my opinon this also includes the possibilities to build your character in multiple ways and still be somehow beneficial to your team, especially sPVP wise. There are so few necromancers in the tournaments that something must be wrong.

I kinda understand how you feel. Necromancer was my favourite, and most played character in Guild Wars. I didn’t even think twice when I decided what to roll in GW2.

The first dissapointment was the look of necromancer – in Guild Wars necro’s were hunched, skinny and pale, with clawy hands and dark markings on their skin – it was the complete look of a necromancer. In GW2 I produced a well built gentleman, who does not look dark or mysterious at all.
Furthermore, what bothers me is the voicing and animations. I sound like a kitten Jolly Golly with all those funny remarks my toon makes on different occasions. I am also charming and lovable and there isn’t really a way to make me more rugged or laid back or whatever, you get the point. Also the spell animations are kinda caster – genric. The hover-jump style of casting from GW was really cool and fitted the Necromancer perfectly in my opinon. I would like to see something similar, and however strange this may sound, it would actually be cool to see that casting some of the spells is hurting my necro. You know, he bleeds, weakens and poisons himself, and he just pops that spells like nothing happened.

The looks and AI of minions are another small thorns – We have either chickens, two type of whiptail devourers, WoW Voidwalker ripoff and mr. giant chicken aka flesh golem. Oh and a flesh wurm, but I don’t know anyone who uses that. I just don’t understand why the minions couldn’t look like those in the original guild wars. And be bigger. And actually attack things when they should.
I remember the sweet times in Guild Wars when the amount of minions was only limited by your ability to heal them. In GW2 reality it would be overpowered to the max, but I would like to see the minion master and his minions receive some tweaks and hugs from Anet.

I’m staying with my necro, something will be done eventually.
I think that reworking some and fixing other traits would make a significant difference for the class.
However I would like to see a red post here just to maintain my comfort level and high hopes for all the good things that could possibly come.

As a tailor I also feel the pain. Jute scraps farming was a nightmare and a terrible terrible waste of time. I took the easy albeit pricy route and purchased dozens of light armor from vendors in Queensdale. For 40copper per pair of gloves I received 2-3, sometimes 4 scraps of jute. It was before the TP was functional so I believe I overpaid sorely. Then again after finishing 100% of another location I had 120+ butter and 23 scraps of cotton, so I believe something must be done with the scaling.

lambofodd.7640:

That was one of the big selling points on humans for me: A defeated people, decreasing in size and power but always retaining an inspiring, yet equally tragic, tenacity. It’s alot more romantic than the Norn or Asura, at least.

This. Plus I felt strongly connected to my GW character, and I couldn’t imagine rolling anything other that human necromancer as my first character in GW2.

I actually unlocked the avatar of Grenth on my necromancer, and after using it once (literally) I never used it again. Maybe it was my mistake that instead of checking how this particular skill works I decided to unlock it straight away. I hoped it will be something more like the avatars from GW, and boy was I upset when it actually turned out to be less powerful combo of Plague and Death Shroud.
I really feel I wasted those 10 skill points. It would be nice if the avatar at least looked cool…