Guild Wars 2

Necromancer? More like Necroprancer.

I find it fascinating that people find Lich Form difficult. I have serious issues with Necros, but the Lich Form specifically is so…. negligible. It’s a very high damage nuker, with a ton of downsides to compensate the raw damage.
Very easy to avoid projectile, projectile, lack of utility, lack of healing, lack of mobility, trivially easy target, virtually no AE potential, ungodly slow, really, all it has going for it is it’s raw damage on the AA.

And you know… considering that it’s a single projectile, slow to cast, slow to fly, at best it hits someone for 6k-12k or so before the necro is done for. And that’s one target. For such a long CD, I think even Plague deals significantly more tactical damage to the enemy.

Carighan.6758:

I find it fascinating that people find Lich Form difficult. I have serious issues with Necros, but the Lich Form specifically is so…. negligible. It’s a very high damage nuker, with a ton of downsides to compensate the raw damage.
Very easy to avoid projectile, projectile, lack of utility, lack of healing, lack of mobility, trivially easy target, virtually no AE potential, ungodly slow, really, all it has going for it is it’s raw damage on the AA.

And you know… considering that it’s a single projectile, slow to cast, slow to fly, at best it hits someone for 6k-12k or so before the necro is done for. And that’s one target. For such a long CD, I think even Plague deals significantly more tactical damage to the enemy.

I think the much bigger issue is when one big, mighted up lich hit also procs sigil of fire and air and spinal shivers. It can end up being a one hit kill, which on one hand is totally ridiculous, and on the other is totally avoidable. I suppose it isn’t entirely different from a big backstab from an invisible thief though, since the lich is the most obvious thing in the game and the thief may not be seen until the hit lands.