Guild Wars 2

I feel necromancers are underpowered for, what should be, a DPS profession. I feel that they need a buff as i reached level 80 the other day and i attack monsters and take 2-3x as long to kill them compared to other professions such as warrior or mesmer.

(I currently run a condition damage build as i felt a power build didn’t do enough damage to kill my foe and although i kill monsters faster now, i still feel it is no where near as fast as other professions)

Grant

No class is underpowered. There is no such thing as a dps class in GW2. Have you misunderstood what Anet were aiming for, I wonder?

Try experimenting with your build. I’m not hearing complaints from guild Necro’s. Moreover, I’m playing what is, apparently, the worst broken class of the lot, the Engineer. I’m not having trouble surviving or killing. The game has not been out long enough for people to have explored all the builds. Every MMO has people complaining about OP / UP classes. This close to release, I suggest that anyone who thinks that about their class is being impatient, or has chosen the wrong class to play.

Either change your class, or accept that the strongest suit of your class is not quite what you thought it would be. If you don’t, I guarantee you will be shouted down by others who think your class is fine. Whatever the class you’re talking about!

I think you should just fit your build to the situation sir. Condition damage is kinda slow way of killing, as its mostly damage over time thing…

Have you tried minion master builds? From my experience they are kinda overpowered :P If you strike a foe with 4 minions he will die quicker than if he would be attacked by fire elementalist. Really. Add to it minion special abilities and your personal weapons skills and enemies should not be a problem :>

Anyway, I repeat, condition damage killing will NEVER be as instant as the stright damage. Which doesnt mean it is worse… it jsut takes slightly more time ^^

I might try a full minion build and see how that works out and i understand that condition is obviously not the most powerful but i have used staves, axes and daggers aswell and these didn’t seem all that powerful.

Also i do know that there is no class that is defined as dps but i just felt that a necromancer should do more damage but as i said i’ll try a minion build and see how that goes.

Thanks for the responses (: