Guild Wars 2

I’m wanting to start a new character, mainly for WVW after I get to 80. My other 80’s are a Warrior and Guardian, with a Mesmer at 73. I really like the idea of both the Necromancer and the Thief and I’ve seen both just wreck in WVW, but I’m not sure which to go with.

I’d love to hear your opinions and experiences with both classes to help me decide.

Thank you for your time.

Necro if you’re mainly going to be zerging, Thief if you’re mainly going to be roaming. Thieves can sorta zerg with SB, and Necros can also roam well if you know your spec.

If I were to play only my Thief or my Necro in WvW, I’d have to go with Necro.

Those 2 professions are completely different. That’s like saying you are hungry and you want either peaches or octopus to eat.

Both are fun in their own way and I think you should make both and try them out. Personally I bring my necro into WvW more often than my thief.

Thief is great for roaming.

But it seems impossible to enjoy the class as soon as more than 6 people enter the fight. Then there’s just too much random damage and CC flying around for you to do anything.

Necromancers do much better in those situations. And since zerging is a big part of WvW, my vote would go to them. The only time I really find myself logging on to my Thief is when I need to take revenge on some kittenhead who ganked me repeatedly.

Necro…Fearing groups off cliffs is a hoot.

Celeres.2405:

I’m wanting to start a new character, mainly for WVW after I get to 80. My other 80’s are a Warrior and Guardian, with a Mesmer at 73. I really like the idea of both the Necromancer and the Thief and I’ve seen both just wreck in WVW, but I’m not sure which to go with.

I’d love to hear your opinions and experiences with both classes to help me decide.

Thank you for your time.

Necro for synergistic/supportive play with groups and zergs.

Thief for roaming – trust me, I can’t play one and I can’t beat a decent one.

Let me put it this way.
You’re soloing. Havoc Squad(5-10 players) approaches you. You’re Necro, and You’re about to be a Dead Necro. But if you were a thief, you could press a single utility and survive. Or press something else and survive. Or press something that stealths or blinks and survive… you get my point. Oh, except that I’ve seen Necro solo about 50% of enemy zerg by using fear wall(no target cap for walls?) in EOTM… But that’s EOTM, so who cares. In about 99% other cases your necro will get steamrolled.
If You’re a part of aforementioned Havoc Squad. Then things are pretty balanced, both Necro and Thieves are appreciated in them.
If you’re zerging, then being a necro is probably better. But I don’t think you can change an outcome on your own regardless.

Thief is pretty much only good for roaming. Necro is good at everything but roaming. Both classes duel well, but the necro lacks escape which makes it a big ole target that gets run over by larger groups when out alone. The thief simply isn’t durable in large fights, lacks consistent AoE and outside of Venom Share brings virtually nothing in terms of group skills.

With the condition meta right now necros make great roamers. They can shrug off conditions like they are nothing, can flip camps incredibly fast, and between marks and plagueform they eat roaming thieves alive. The only downside is they don’t have any really good way to disengage except fear spamming the enemy away until you can fight your way into a camp or tower.