Guild Wars 2

Hello, I just play Necromancer and I am super psyched about the Reaper.

In team play (PvP) the clutch moment for a Power Necro is rezzing people… I’d say we are probably the most reliable rezzers. However, the reason we are so good is we can go into Shroud and Fear enemies instantly. With the new Reaper specialization Fear won’t be so readily available – it takes too many button presses akin to exiting Shroud swapping D/W to Staff and then casting Staff5.

My question is simple: would giving Reapers a Shout that Fears be too much to ask for? Eliminating the cast time of our current Elite Shout and lowering the cool down to 60 seconds would serve the same purpose (that could lead to some problems with Death Augury but I don’t believe it would be that big a deal).

My second question (as I didn’t want to start two topics) is if there are plans in HotM to start the Necromancer and Reaper with 100% Life Force in sPvP (though I believe 50% is enough and even 25% would help a lot). Currently as a Power Necro the first fight is very tough as you try to build up Life Force as you are typically tasked with either guarding something or to tieing up enemy players at an Objective your team has no interest in.

Reaper’s shroud should honestly make you more reliable, since you can use RS 3 before your spin to win, then shatter it if an opponent/opponents get too close for your liking. And you’ll still have your stability to boot.

I was hesitant to post until after the next BWE as it looks like I should be able to always have RS3 up and be able to detonate it at anytime. First BWE I used it primarily for Fear as I was still playing like a vanilla Necro. We will see with next BWE, but it is never to early to put thoughts into ANet’s head… We were asking for a 2H sword (or rather an axe) since vanilla beta.

Have to see how it is now they said it was bugged before. I used it as a power necro last bwe strictly for the stab and it worked well. I never wanted to fear people away I wanted to pull them all to me :]

Shroud 3 grants some really powerful stability that will go a long way toward rezing team mates. Even better when that stab wears thin you can detonate for another second or 2 of fear. I played the reaper in pvp that last bwe and loved it. It fills the design intent well. When you pop shroud you become a melee death entity that every opponent tries every ability to dodge from and run away in terror. You will like the reaper I promise!

Err… necro is one of the worst rezzers in PvP… no invuln… no blocks… no stability… what on earth makes you think your necro is a good rezzer?

The only thing we are good at is keeping other people off the player so an actual good rezzer can get them up…