Guild Wars 2

Hello all and thanks for your attention! I open this thread for the necromancers position and upcoming specialization. I will right away say that I am rather new to this class. I have played all other classes to lvl 80 and this class just got my attention. I loved the class from the very start, until I realized / found out necromancers is in a rather bad position.
So.. after some weeks of playing this class, I have realized that it’s more for PvP and WvW than it is for PvE. All the utilities is very selfish, just relying on himself. Where we only have one blast finisher with a 20 sec + cd which makes Necromancer a bad choice for speedruns in dungeons as for might stacking is a thing right now. I am a guy who has a keen eye on meta builds, and it is really sad to see that Necromancer do not have a spot in none of the game modes. I’m happy with the position in PvP, as I play that quite often. But Necromancer has a serious lack of movability and stability. There has probably been a lot of threads regarding this. So what are you guys toughts regarding specialization? I really hope the GS will be a melee weapon, with some nice skills like warriors GS (#3,5). If we get skills like mesmer’s GS, ranged.. and spreading condis… I would get very dissapointed. I hope the expansion will make the Necromancer whole a lot better in all game types. Making them wanted in every game mode. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is my experience with Necromancer as it is a very funny class to play.

Are you sure you shouldn’t be placing this in the Necromancer forums? This is in general discussion.

There is one? Lol.. I didnt find it! My bad

Necromancers are loved in a WvW zerg (or at least when not everyone shows up as a necromancer.) I’ve been in several wvw guilds and they all said they loved my necromancer. And oh if you’re interested that meta build is at: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Wells_Backline ).

As far as specialization goes: Just keep in mind that necromancers tend to be selfish dark-themed casters. So they most likely won’t get much of supportive or group skills.

But most of all: make sure you have fun while playing the game. Meta build or no meta build

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There is one? Lol.. I didnt find it! My bad

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer

As far as your topic goes, right now Necro DPS is trash, while it brings nothing to the party, Necro is a naturally tanky class due to it’s class mechanics, but unless DS can be transformed into more damage by giving up the survivability it’s going to be harsh.

As necro’s bring nothing to the party there is no reason to bring below average DPS in the first place, it’s going to take more then just a greatsword to change all this, and I do hope necro’s get the love they deserve

Honnestly, necromancer are fine in pvp and wvw… While they are lackluster for pve. The best thing that could have happen for necromancer would have been a specialization with Hammer granting access to blast combo. This would have given a bit of interrest for the necromancer due to the hard need for reliable blast in any group play.

The best we could expect from greatsword is some whirl combo that will have synergy with our field. Issue : This will only make necromancer even more selfish and then, this won’t address the necromancer’s issue which is it’s selfishness.

Necromancer’s greatsword doesn’t address the uselessness of necromancers in parties. I sadly don’t have a lot of hope that what come along will do the trick.

Everything works in PvE. If you like playing necromancer, don’t do speed runs with PUGs. If you like speed runs, do them with your guild/friends. Granted, you probably won’t establish a record, but the DPS you give is sufficient, you have a few blinds, and I can see it work well. Hell, you could even run a condi necro in dungeons and you would still get to the end, but slower. Don’t let the zerker elitists get to you: play what you like to play.

Necros are only in a bad position in dungeon speed runs, WvW they are among the meta, in PvP they are very good (personally in my top 3, along with eng and guard) and as Sorel said above “Everything works in PvE”.

I personally dont blame him for posting here seeing as the profession forums dont seem to get any ANET attention except to shut down insults, and moderators are on here all the time.

Necros ARE very bad in pve, as everything relies on putting out as much damage as possible within a limited time window, which necro is not that fantastic at, and prviding group support, which necro has almost none of.