Guild Wars 2

I’ve only played Guild Wars 2 for a month, and have tried majority of the classes. I’m going to make an Asura, but I’m not sure if they should be Engineer or Necromancer? I’m currently on holiday so I can’t actually make my character now, so I’d like a reply so that when I return I can get started. I have heard Necro is has fairly high DPS and HP, but isn’t as versatile as the Engineer that has a moderate amount of HP, and can heal, do a good amount of DPS or go defensive.

I’m not really sure what class to go though, and it’d be highly appreciated if you guys could help me. Thanks. ^-^

ENGINEER !!!!

cause yar on ENGINEER FORUM !

anyway engineer yar have more fun, bomb / nade / mortar / FT /Egun so many builds to play around and easily to swap around

while nerco you will be a Power nerco only

EvilZombie.6801:

ENGINEER !!!!

cause yar on ENGINEER FORUM !

anyway engineer yar have more fun, bomb / nade / mortar / FT /Egun so many builds to play around and easily to swap around

while nerco you will be a Power nerco only

I was hoping for a more serious answer, but I admire your humor. Anyway, what I was looking for was statistics and actual factors. Like, what kind of stats do Engis and Necros focus? I heard they use Ravaging or Rampaging, but Idk. I’m going to also move this onto the Necromancer forum as it covers both topics.

depends, do you want to move like a corpse dipped in treacle or jet around on rocket boots?

in pve both run zerker gear for meta. for wvw and pvp you have a lot more options build wise. necro is worse for pve than engineer, but has very strong builds for wvw (power wells) and pvp (cele signets). neither are top tier classes for pvp, but they can both work if you’re good with them. engineer is much more intensive finger wise, you have a lot of skills that you have to combo fast~ whereas necro normally seems to get stunlocked and die, but maybe that’s because I’m always ccing them.

i hate necromancer, i deleted mine at lvl 40 years ago and have never looked back. i have three level 80 engineers, so you can see where my loyalties lie. i choose based on aesthetics, feel, play-style, and the nature of their skills.

perhaps have a look at their builds on metabattle.com and see which ones look like they would suit you more. you know, like what kind of skills you would like to have.

choovanski.5462:

depends, do you want to move like a corpse dipped in treacle or jet around on rocket boots?

in pve both run zerker gear for meta. for wvw and pvp you have a lot more options build wise. necro is worse for pve than engineer, but has very strong builds for wvw (power wells) and pvp (cele signets). neither are top tier classes for pvp, but they can both work if you’re good with them. engineer is much more intensive finger wise, you have a lot of skills that you have to combo fast~ whereas necro normally seems to get stunlocked and die, but maybe that’s because I’m always ccing them.

i hate necromancer, i deleted mine at lvl 40 years ago and have never looked back. i have three level 80 engineers, so you can see where my loyalties lie. i choose based on aesthetics, feel, play-style, and the nature of their skills.

perhaps have a look at their builds on metabattle.com and see which ones look like they would suit you more. you know, like what kind of skills you would like to have.

Thank you for the answer, I’ll try both classes out and see what I prefer. ^-^

Totally depends on what you want man.

Necro is down rite tanky high damage and dripping aoe . They can succeed with both condis or power builds. Highly valued in wvw but understand as a necro your job is to murder face all day and stay alive only and yes your slow as molasses

Engi on the other hand is truly a jack of all trades class. The utility offered by the class is unmatched . We aren’t as tanky as a necro and pound for pound necro will have more power and hp but the trade off are things like access to every field in the game more blast finishers then most while still having some awesome damage potential with Big unblock able damage . And all the while you are one speedy sob Perma swift rocket boots and you can even reliably access stealth .

Definitely a good idea to also post on necro forums so you get more of a balanced opinion .

One thing I noticed tho and maybe I’m wrong please others chime in. Engi is a hard mode class. Since you have so much utility your accessing all of your tools to fully maximize the engi damage potential. This translates to a lot more clicking/button smashing and so many different combos options then other classes that I feel it is one of the hardest classes to master. But man oh man so much fun

To the op. What are you looking for from your character ? Maybe answering this can help us help you

i run rabid i can do 15k++ burning within a short period of time specially in Spvp warriors and ranger are kind of easy target

for WvW almost the same if the target cant clear the burning stacks they are going to die fast

if i got bored i can switch gears to power to play rifle/bomb/nade

there are more choices to play as engineer then nerco

Heh, I find it surprising: engie forum while admitting that this class is not as good as it used to be stays quite positive and supports engineers. If you go to necro forum all you’ll get is doom-and-gloom “necro is to weak, fixplznow!”.
Also, necro is bit… boring. Best power build focuses around dagger auto attack that you use to fill your bar just to… auto attack with life blast…

Both.

Pick up Rev as your heavy.

Necro for juicy AoE burst slaughter, Rev for the weird condi brawler playstyle and Engi main, so as to enjoy it’s god-like 1v1 potential.

Good times.