Guild Wars 2

First off, I’m new to GW2, picked a Necro from the start and “kinda” enjoying. Struggling in sPvP (Not comfortable trying tPvP yet) but I still put that down to inexperience and general suckage on my part.

What I want to know from the pros is that why, when you jump into conversations about Necro balance, you are quick to make statements like “This/that build doesn’t work, my build is great and I do so well”, why you don’t post what your build is (And if you feel like sharing, some of your tactics – I know that will take a long time so it’s not something I would demand).

This isn’t a challenge, I’m eager to learn, but simply hearing “your build sucks, my build is great” is pretty useless as an educational tool.

If we want to figure out the nuances of the class as a community, we need to share what works and what doesn’t.

3 Different main Tpvp builds.
Conditionmancer- Support/Over-time sustained Damage. good for team utility
Power Necro- Aggresive playstyle, the 1v1 killer, Team burst with (area blindness/blind/leeching bolts) Dark Combo-field
Tank Necro- Bunker/No damage. If specc’d right 2 different ways you could do this. IE Minion Master MM or Well tank/healingpower necro

I myself is a power necro i wrote a comprehensive guide to play necro.
Also for the use of deathshroud i have posted on a thread that explains what all DS skills should be used for/as.

Because most people compare Necros to other classes when they don’t focus on the strong points. You really need to find out which play style you prefer. As Tony above stated we do have a few viable routes, Conditionmancer being a bit more organized tPVP friendly and Power being good too but a completely different play style.

I enjoy Conditionmancer and Power and regularly switch between both. Like any class you should play it and play it your way and see if “YOU” are viable, everyone is different and succeed where others fail. You need to put quite a bit of time and testing into the Necro before you can really see its potential and viability.

Thanks guys, been reading your Power guide Tony, and I’m sure I’ll try it out, for now though it sounds like it’s a bit above my skill-level, but once I’m more comfortable I’m definitely giving it a whirl (I tried a dagger/dagger + axe/focus health siphon build once a while ago and I was SOO bad! :P).

I love the “feel” of the Necro, tried an Ele and just couldn’t get it (I always gravitate towards the magic classes in MMOs). Admittedly, this was my first day and I would jump into PvP right after the tutorial, so I used the default builds and didn’t exactly know any of the abilities so I would just spam and see if I like the general playstyle.

The Necro just stuck and I enjoy it more than any of the others I’ve tried (Tried everything apart from Guardian).