Guild Wars 2

[Icepaw]

still not a fan of Elementalist's attacks underwater, they are very underwhelming.

Yeah underwater combat kinda sucks, I've had moments where I'm a god on land but second I gotta fight under water I'm tissue paper. Sadly the term god is figurative as I do go down a bit like everyone else but being able to take on a titan without it murdering my butt made me feel like a god so..yeah great I still loathe Decima and I got Ura stuck on the rim of the stage so she didn't move and I basically laughed at her as I struck that one down. I..am looking forward to the next story update though I ran out of new stuff and now being reminded I hate Orr as I gotta tread through it again on Elementalist lol. I mean not the zombies or the zone just the dumb statues and the fact there's never anyone around to turn them off when they ignite. Also finding elementalist doesn't got much for defiance break so... this is going to suck at one point.

I've also started collecting but not using essence of luck, thought I could craft legendary luck but sadly nope but exotic luck is needed for a ton of stuff so I'll convert lesser ones to that and stockpile it lol

 

[Empress Mother Jin]

Also finding elementalist doesn't got much for defiance break so... this is going to suck at one point.

Best I can try for this is hammer :

• Air attunement, skill 4 is an AOE knock-down, and skill 5 is an AOE stun.
• Earth attunement, skill 5 is an AOE cripple.

As for utility, I use Glyph of Storm (specifically with Earth attunement).

 

[Icepaw]

Spear gives me some for water, namely a whirlpool that yanks foes and limits movement but yeah wind and earth seem to be the ones for that. Weaver allowing me to use both at once has saved me a couple times but I've yet to actually get the moves for it yet. Weave Self sounds wild but we'll see how that one goes whenever i reach it. Is Harbinger good btw as I hear people talking of it a lot lately?

 

[Empress Mother Jin]

Is Harbinger good btw as I hear people talking of it a lot lately?

A whole lot of fun, definitely my favorite. The Blight effect that reduces your max health doesn't sound all that bad, to be honest. I run two builds for Harbinger :

- Base Necromancer gear (vitality, power and condition damage), with pistol/torch and scepter/dagger, focusing on condition damage. The trait Parasitic Contagion (5% of condition damage heals you) of the specialization Curses works very well with this.

- Reaper gear (power, toughness and precision), with longsword/longsword and axe/longsword, focusing on raw damage and health-siphoning. For this, I use the specialization Blood Magic with trait Vampiric (siphon health with all attacks) and Vampiric Presence (same as Vampiric but for allies too) to increase my damage output while keeping myself alive, and pair with trait Deathly Haste (quickness on interval) to attack as fast as possible to optimize the health-siphoning damage and heal.

Though, personally, I prefer the one with Reaper gear. Always super satisfying to have constant quickness.

 

[Icepaw]

Hmm is it a good idea to touch it before you master it as that blight might eat you alive without the abilities to cleanse it at times. Spent so much time looking at Reaper I haven't looked at the other two although the path of fire one talking of its cloak being a cloak of sand seems odd in its own right

 

[Empress Mother Jin]

Oh no, Blight doesn't kill you, since it only REDUCES MAX HEALTH, not directly damaging you. It has a cap at 25 times for a total of 37.5% maximum health reduction (PvE), and there is the trait Alchemic Vigor which heals you every second for every Blight stack you have. Pair it with the traits Vampiric and Vampiric Presence as I mention above, and you can reliably heal yourself while focusing on attacking. Also, you can't remove Blight on your own either, it only goes down when you're out of Shroud.

Scourge (from Path of Fire) is for support, I think, since it focuses on granting barrier to negate damage. I prefer Reaper and Harbinger though.

 

[Icepaw]

Ah okay as what I tend to do is when my character enters End of Dragons I swap their class to the spec from the expansion to at least try it out but also as the collection for the ascended weapon each hero spec offers requires you to beat the content as said spec. I normally always use vampiric and the aura as well so sounds like it'll work out alright. Just didn't know how far blight went but yeah I'm avoiding Scourge as more often than not people want damage out of me in group events not support, some groups seem to bring their own support as well. Gotta love the leech a necromancer has though, my sister would of fallen in love with them if she'd not quit two minutes in unaware the red thing on her gal's face was a mask she could toggle off. Really no pleasing her as far as games these days, she demands I play WoW with her but she's never on or up for it when I am... I offer the idea of guild wars 2 to her and she barely touches it then says it's not for her lol.

I at least try out EoD specs but ones I'm more inclined to stick with atm may be the one for Mesmer as well as the ones I already use like engineer's mechanist and the Willbender guardian. Not sure atm how the revenant one will work out for me, the thief one involving scepter kinda messes with the idea I intended them to be like an assassin with a sniper rifle, then the ranger and elementalist ones invovle hammer which I've got no idea about as I never got to really make much use of it before. Warrior's one might be interesting to see how it plays out and well Harbinger as well but again we'll see how things go. Quietly hoping the voice lines make it into the game in spots they were missing although it was odd but well...one of the ladies in Repentance is missing her lines but she's not charr or sylvari. Has me wondering if their voice actress is also upset atm, not saying who or well...their race as I don't wish to spoil anything. Doubt it'll be a thing but all the stuff with Poised Arrow makes me wish for playable Kodan