Guild Wars 2

You only get 1 guess

Butcher

You’re quite the little " Phantom Menace" aren’t you?

If I had to guess I’d say the greatsword will focus heavily on life draining and life transfer abilities. A throw back to life steal necros from GW1. It’d drain health from enemies while channeling that life energy to the necromancer and nearby allies as a bunch of small heals. Utilities could be shouts that enhance allies and weaken enemies, or maybe glyphs inscribed with the necromancer’s blood to activate them that provide a chunk of the necromancer’s health to nearby allies or converts Life Force into health.

New mechanic could be an F2 that allows the necromancer to impale their opponent with a shadowy spear that drains and immobilizes the target and that becomes stronger the more life force is spent when used. That way the necromancer has to choose between the defense of Deathshroud or the offensive potential of rooting the opponent and doing high damage.

Names could include Bloodletter, Vampire, or Impaler.

Reaper-
Weapon= Great Sword
Skill Type = Spirit Weapons
Mechanics = F2-F3 are different transformations that are additional forms to Death Shroud and still uses Life Force.

Reaper/banshee
weapon-greatsword
skilltype-shouts
mechanics-f1 stays the same, f2-f3 will slowly deplete life force to benift the player and the party I.e. f2 siphons life force off to party members to heal. Something like that

from another thread, there is a Necromancer with Greatsword in the trailer and it appears to be using VENOMS… oh no…

Post below:

GS Necro actually appeared in the trailer
http://i.imgur.com/QvLJHSw.png
Screenshot taken from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2z1t70/greatsword_confirmed_for_necromancer_and_bow_for/

oh no,,, that Melee Necromancer is using Venoms,,,,,

I wouldn’t panic (just yet).

It only seems to be the autoattack chain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIsgotF-AXw

RITUALIST! Pl0x

If you look at this trailer (2:55) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmv_eqfW6tc Necro uses an animation identical to Mesmer’s GS auto, so there will be at least 1 ranged skill.

Skill Set – Spirits (similar to offensive Ritualist spirits) or Consecrations (maybe, possibly but incredibly unlikely renamed to be Desecrations but functionally the same).

Mechanic Change – Orders. Instead of / in addition to DS, Necromancers will get Orders that they can cast on their F2 – F?. Life Force will be either used as a resource to cast these or Life Force gets consumed when the effect triggers. These Orders would provide unique buffs / debuffs – allies remove buff on attack, allies lifesteal on attack etc.