Guild Wars 2

Up until a couple patches ago, if we chose to let our life force completely drain while in death shroud instead of saving any, it wouldn’t go on cooldown; we could get a little more from a skill or a kill and pop back in. That feature used to be the thing that kept us power necros in competition with warriors’ 5 second swap timers, thieves’ initiative. arcane/fresh air eles, engi kits and toolbelts, etc. It gave us range, damage, and sustain, and now we can’t keep up with the cooldown rotations and sustain of other classes, especially at high-level play. Hardly anyone played power necro besides as a lich form turret, but this feature is what made them viable and fun! Now they’re just weak.

The balance team has made mention of wanting necros to ‘sustain themselves through death shroud’ as a reason for not giving them strong escapes. But this nerf, though I’m guessing it seemed to whoever found it like a regular bug to fix (like the fgs and mesmer sword leap), severely lessens the necro’s ability to do so, and really lowers the skill ceiling of the power necro’s kit. Please, balance team, consider reintroducing this feature to the necro’s kit.

Yes, completely unecessary. It is so weird how after 2 years of the game this becomes an issue all of a sudden.

I mean we don’t have any blocks, evades, vigor, or strong movement abilities. We have deathshroud. And now it’s been nerfed for no reason while being perfectly balanced. It’s not like anyone was complaining about necros being too hard to kill! That was all the active defence we had, and I’m really failing to see the reason for the giant nerf.