Guild Wars 2

Im getting into this game, but just for the wvw. Is leveling a necro even worth it? I’v read alot on the forums saying they’re useless

Nothing is useless, though some classes/builds are more challenging to play than others, and some only really shine in specific circumstances (but when they do—wow!).

I enjoy a sylvari necromancer in WvW for pulling things to me and then entangling them and then necro’ing them to bits I also enjoy running into zergs, doing some stuff, then running away with the vast amounts of hp necros have.. although admittedly it’s usually mostly pointless

Necros aren’t super high DPS, although all the marks at once are pretty good, and dagger can be fun, although you’re a clothy so you can’t take a huge amount of damage, and necros don’t have anything that increases dodge amounts or evasion in general. Necros can however go into shade mode for another hp pool, and plague mode gives a good amount of bonus toughness, although it shares your general hp pool and you can’t really do much in plague mode. It can be good for escaping, though.

The most useful things unique to the necro are the lich form (tons of DPS, also makes you a huge target), shade form (good AOE damage, good single target DPS initially), marks (good for taking out stealthers and fearing people off of siege and cliffs/walls), spectral grasp (pull people off cliffs and walls), and plague form (good all-around skill, doesn’t make you a huge target like the lich, can aoe cripple/blind people).

Necros lack the versatility of the elementalist and can’t match the DPS of the warrior or the healing of the guardian. However, I find mine fun and play it in WvW every week or so.

You can try a condition build if you want. Plague is vicious and epidemic can be fun. I find that conditions are only sort of useful in wvw since people like to heal them off rather quickly, and there’s the condition cap..

If you do level a necro, don’t bother with minions in WvW, although they are quite good in non-dungeon PvE.

Overall I’d say play the necro for a bit, try it in WvW at low level and see if you like it at all, if it just doesn’t click with you on any level, try something else.

If played well necros can do a Ton of condition damage and can be one of the hardest classes to kill, they are definitely useful

No offense but shouldn’t you look on the necromancer forums for that?

Plague wins battles