Guild Wars 2

downloading the game now and was interested in necromancer. just wondering what you guys think of them; are they fun, strong, good at pvp etc.

All classes are good at everything. (if played right for that job).
You’ve got 5 slots, just make one and find out

My personal experience with them was fun

My main is a necro and they’re brilliant. Great support roles or minion masters. Can tank or leech heal as well, better than many classes. Lots of options. I do however find a few of their skills utterly useless, but that’s down to tuning more than anything else.

If you like to play them, they are fun. If you play them good, they are strong.

PvP doesn’t allows for as many builds as you would wish, but he can compete with what he has.

The ground targeting for every one of their staff skills should be fixed. Just turn them all into wells, I’d say. They’d benefit from some of the passive traits that way too.

I dropped my necro as a PvE solo character, so he’s now my main focus in PvP. Really quite good fun for my PvP satisfaction laying out aoe effects and debuffs. Moved on to a thief for PvE because I find it more dynamic for solo leveling (daggers thief that is)

Fun to play but very few viable build options, most of the necros are the standard Scepter/Dagger – Staff conditionmancers.

Dagger/ warhorn work quite well for tanking too. The +400 toughness buff with their 12s c/d lifestealing move is good in single mob (boss) fights.