SpelignErrir

I love it when people comment that their build is better and they dont include it, and explain how it is better.

keep up the good work.

The game broke for me last patch. I may come back to it once the designers realize that "progression" is not just doing the same thing but with bigger numbers. This is problem with the entire game. After you've gotten to level 30 with a single character you may as well say that you've beaten GW2 because the gameplay experience doesn't doesn't progress afterwards. The game focuses too much on being a grind-gratification engine.The story is god awful on all fronts (to be fair I think most game developers should be sent back to grade school to learn plot and story structure). It's not worth the time dedication. F&F just proves what a waste of resources amateurish story writing can be.

I'm not going to go into too much depth, but it seems to me like you're trying to be that guy who wants to do everything. You want to deal both types of damage. You want survivability. You want to support. You want to shatter. You want to keep your phantasms up. You want to both WvW & PvE. This ideal is bad and you will be gimping yourself in every part of what you're doing. Focus on one thing.


Now that's over with, my main issue is the lack of Duelling traits. Duelling is - or should be - a staple in every build. Pair that up with that you're using Sw/Sw and lacking Blade Training is astonishing. That extra 2 seconds on Blurred Frenzy can be life or death - especially when dealing with higher level Agony damage.

Contrary to belief, Condition Damage is very bad for a Staff Mesmer. The whole point of using a Staff is to abuse the massive damage the iWarlock can do. These puppies benefit from your Power & Critical Damage. Only 2/3 of your Winds of Chaos, 1/3 of your Chaos Armor and 1/3 of your Chaos Storm benefit from damaging conditions.

If I was running your ideals I'd be using more along the lines of THIS.

Important:
You can't be a hybrid.
Vitality is bad.
Condition damage is bad.

gurufu, on 10 September 2012 - 04:25 AM, said:

Nope.

Just wondering OP. Why would you care about perma chaos armor anyways? It's only activated when you are hit and you are supposed to avoid being hit as much as possible Thus I would focus more on this than having perma chaos armor.

Icon sure looks like double chop to me

Not sure why im being asked to post proof of numbers that are quite typical for axe warriors, but whatever.

Well first id point out that even in the best case he quoted hes hitting 7k, Where as in the best case quoted for warrior its at 7.9ish.

Thats all really quite silly however. Because what matters is real DPS in game and the main reason behind warrior DPS being so high is not the fact that other classes cant just about match it. The real reason is that no other class can match it so easily and in such a versatile way.

First of all all the warrior attacks are at least Frontal cone 3 target, and WW is 360 5 target. So in therory 3 targets == 3 times the damage. For many other classes this is not the case.

Secondly the warrior rotation is really quite simple. Not much complexity to it. This is true for other classes as well however in this instance keeping the pet alive and on target while still managing your own rotation and keeping yourself alive can be quite difficult.

Lastly warriors synergize quite well with each other. 2 Warriors can maintain 100% fury and ~25 stacks of might on themselves as well as 20ish vuln on a boss. And 3 warriors can nearly do it for the entire party.

Where as with some other combos you need more organization to get the best buffs.


The TL;DR edition: In a well organized group, many other classes can nearly match warrior. However its just easier to use warriors and they are more available.

Xephenon, on 14 April 2013 - 02:25 PM, said:

you must think chess is a very simple game...
number of buttons != game simplicity

anyway, never played aion, but WOW is much simpler than GW2 for any DPS class.*
tanking can be hard and decent healing was challenging.

* so simple there was a single button macro for each DPS class that just went over the skills in a certain rotation


this one is from pandaria but there was one in every expansion...
you cant even dream to make one button macro in gw2...

170 Precision and 15% crit damage for the entire party is one of the worst things you can waste a utility slot on. Didn't you get the memo?

Necromancer's support comes in the form of boon/corruption manipulation.... all of our other support functions are lackluster in comparison to something like the guardian and probably will be for the foreseeable future.  If you keep that in mind, and don't try to play a support necro like you would a support guardian then you may feel differently about how "strong" you are.  Smart players (even mildly smart ones) will stand in wells since they know they can get benefits.... them not doing it is their own fault and you are doing the best you can so shouldn't let their failure reflect on what you are doing.

For what you are going for, your trait setup looks good... Death Magic is a nice support tree.  The rest of the traits you chose make sense... Weakness is an underrated condition sometimes but it is very nice to have with Weakening Shroud.  The only real thing I am "eh" on is the gear... healing power scales very poorly.  Transfusion has a static tick of 292 for a total of 2628 health for each ally in the area... it's not terrible, but since you can only do that every 40s it isn't amazing.  If you have a mix of shaman/apoth armor with apoth weapons/trinkets and all sapphire gems you will have ~1380 healing power.  For your regeneration abilities like reaper's touch or mark of blood, this means your ticks will be ~300 (math = (0.125 * 1380) + 130).  If you have NO healing power gear on, then your regen ticks will drop down to ~175.  So, the difference is about 125 HP per tick which is NOT a large amount.  You can decide if it is worth it or not, but  even with Apoth/Shaman gear, your bleed ticks will only be around 82/s.  

If you are really wanting to do a support build, focus on what necros are good at.... boon/condition manipulation.  Grab Epidemic for trash mobs to spread conditions around and pick up Corrupt Boon regardless.  Those are very powerful tools we have to manage effects on targets.  Spectral Wall is nice, but your allies or the target have to physically pass through the wall to gain any effect.  Trade out wells depending on the situation as usual...  Well of Darkness I usually avoid since it has a long 48s cooldown for a massive 3 blinds... not very useful to me and highly situational.

Puandro, on 30 March 2013 - 04:36 AM, said:

I never said it didn't need to be buffed, you assume too much.

Puandro, on 30 March 2013 - 02:01 AM, said:

This is the PvE forums. It's a fair assumption.

Well, I honestly cant say anything about the sword but for the focus...

I find that I always have more focus after having a nice brew.

Buran_Grey, on 13 March 2013 - 09:36 AM, said:

The prison crystals aren't a problem because they are instantly killed by melee cleave damage.  If you have people in your party not meleeing Alpha, that's a failure of those party members to play the encounter correctly.  And note, even if they are total scrubs who insist on using ranged weapons, they can still stand in melee range and be easily freed from the crystals.  If they refuse to melee, and they refuse to stand in melee range... well... they are bad players and bad players should expect to struggle instanced content.