Guild Wars 2

Necromancer’s missing role is mostly raw damage, but the current Necromancer isn’t doing his role as support very good. It’s hard to say if ArenaNet want to give Necromancer a support specc or a damage specc.
I could see them doing something like Enchantments from GW1 Ritualist, which is mostly support spells. Enchantments improve your own effectiveness and also your teams, increasing damage, regen or other boons.

I could see this happening. Necromancer do lack a good AoE damage weapon that isn’t condition damage, so I would assume strong AoE damage on the Greatsword.

My guess is that necro spec will be designed around ritualist weapon buffs and the only reason I think of this is because Belinda because without this plot twist her existance is pointless.

Anything that will help in group stuff is fine. Staff is good for AOE damage, but not really useful when running a power spec that relies on raw damage and not conditions.

I think like how they added wells and shield to mesmer, necro will get:

Greatsword and Elixirs! Toxic group dmg and support.

Just guessing though. Could be cantrips, too.