Guild Wars 2

1) Roll a Necro
2) Join an sPvP match
3) Repeatedly smash face into keyboard.

Seriously though, all joking aside. As someone who plays a thief, and was wanting to branch out and learn something a little “harder”, based on all the trash I heard spoken about how easy thieves are, I was a little surprised at how much I face rolled a brand new necro. I mean, I didn’t even look at what spec I was, I just jumped right in the middle of a hot join match, and took top score from both teams with 11 kills, just mashing pretty aoe’s everywhere.

No this post doesn’t have a point, Just looking to be more active in the spvp community and thought this could be an interesting discussion. I know conditions are meta right now, but geez, did I just happen to join a match with a bunch of horrible players, or is Necro really this easy right now?

4) Warrior

Edit – 4) “Hammer” warrior.

But all that being said, I made a warrior as well, and it was not as face ripping easy as the Necro was. Nor was the Ele I made either.

Conditions are not meta, necros are not op. Stop living in the past.

Blackjack.5621:

Conditions are not meta, necros are not op. Stop living in the past.

Regardless of meta or who is or is not OP (You’ll notice I never said a thing about anything being overpowered), This was last night, and a staff necro was ridiculously easy to do very well with.

So perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension skills before you attempt anymore forum pvp. Thanks.

Blackjack.5621:

Conditions are not meta, necros are not op. Stop living in the past.

Immobilize is a condition.

Staff necro will always feel great in hotjoins because the aoe means you’ll tag everything, so you’ll score a lot of glory. That doesn’t really mean anything, though.

In general, standard condi necros are still extremely strong but don’t get used much because it’s very risky to take one in a competitive match. They’re fairly vulnerable to focused fire and have limited usefulness outside of mid teamfights. So they’re a build that does amazing in the right matchups, or given a strong team, but you don’t see many in solo queues anymore.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Staff necro will always feel great in hotjoins because the aoe means you’ll tag everything, so you’ll score a lot of glory. That doesn’t really mean anything, though.

In general, standard condi necros are still extremely strong but don’t get used much because it’s very risky to take one in a competitive match. They’re fairly vulnerable to focused fire and have limited usefulness outside of mid teamfights. So they’re a build that does amazing in the right matchups, or given a strong team, but you don’t see many in solo queues anymore.

In top 200 EU solo queue you see only Necros, Wars and Guards. Sometime a lucky engi-thief gets into it.

The bravest bring mesmers, but really THE BRAVEST.

Mrbig.8019:

In top 200 EU solo queue you see only Necros, Wars and Guards. Sometime a lucky engi-thief gets into it.

The bravest bring mesmers, but really THE BRAVEST.

That’s strange. I’ve always wondered why I haven’t seen more mesmers in NA solo queue, since they’d do great against most comps. In NA, wars are by far the most popular, followed by thieves, engies, necros, rangers, and guards, in no particular order. There are still a fair number of eles and mesmers as well, but I’d say not as many as the other professions.