Guild Wars 2

I’m making a Necro now mainly because they have the coolest gear but with the severe doom and gloom going on about them, I’m worried that it will be a huge waste of time. It takes a lot of devotion in this game to stick to your main character so is Necro worth it, honestly?

Honestly, it doesn’t matter. Make a char and start playing. If you enjoy the gameplay, regardless of how strong or weak the class is right now, you’ll enjoy the leveling process. And by then, who knows what state Necros will be in. They could be godmode by then for all we know. Or completely nerfed to crap. It’s the risk we all take playing an MMO.

It’s entirely possible you just won’t like the gameplay. Something about this class really irks me, even though I can’t put my finger on it.

Even though my necro is still lowish level, and I routinely get beat 1v1 in WvWvW and PvP, I can say playing the necro is super fun. This is a game, right?

Agree with all comments saying that it’s ultimately a personal choice. I been playing Necro since pre-release day 1 and stuck with it ever since. Sure, there are lots of bugs/issues/use not doing enough burst dmg/etcetc — the list goes on (maybe less so for other classes) but who cares — they are a great deal of fun and challenging to play. When I started, I did mostly PvE/story and up until level 50-60, you can easily (and I use this cautiously bc you can be dumb and aggro too much anytime) solo with a minion build. In Dungeons, I am fairly useful as I throw on some Wells to blind enemies and apply nonstop condition/epidemic. I do the same for WvW except I use spectral to get out of tough sitatuons.

It really depends on how you play … in a WvW, if you’re looking to run up to a thief/warrior/mesmser and kill them solo, you’re gna have a bad time. But when you see your tower being attacked and a big zerg at the gate, dropping every mark/well/epidemic you have and watching the damage/XP numbers fly is a great feeling.

That being said, I also started playing Warrior to change things up, and you although play style is completely diff from necs, they are also tons of fun. Comes down to whether or not you like the game itself — but imo (and i only used necro, warrior, and thief), necros are a solid solo char, strong support type, and able to do lots of damage over time.

At the end of the day, have fun it’s a video game!!

Few things:

• If your main concern is coolest gear, you can roll any other profession with light armor and look exactly the same
• Necro does indeed have highest bug list of any profession however I just see it as more fixes / changes coming our way
• Don’t anyone here fool you, necro is solid profession, this is coming from a guy who has 3x lv.80 with full exotics on all of them with 2k+ badges from WvW (I stopped picking them up now)

Hopefully that will convince you to play Necro, I’m so sick of seeing so many War/Ranger in WvW

Necro can perform… by the developer’s own admission, and I quote: “Mesmer may be the most difficult class to learn – but Necromancer is the most difficult class to master.”

Bear that, and the fact that our bug list is about 4x the size of any other profession and our core mechanic is very underwhelming by comparison, and you should be good to go.

Also, don’t try ti 1v1 Thieves. Your best fear is 1.5second specc’d into it, they can steal a 4 second fear from you every 40 seconds or so. You actually make them significantly more powerful.

I have a deep love / hate relationship with my Necros ( yes i have multiple ). I played a warrior all through the bwe’s then for some reason necro just looked awesome on the 2nd day of release. Haven’t looked back since.
While necro does have a long laundry list of bugs/ things that need to be worked on, I still find it a fun class to play everyday.

There is no necro specific gear. An Ele or Mesmer can look exactly the same.

Necro is a great class and a lot of fun to play.
Make on and enjoy it. Very few classes are able to do what we can do in PVE/dungeons and pvp. I rarely lose 1v1’s in SPVP and WvW.

Once you learn the class it will be very rewarding to play.

Yes we have a lot of bugs right now, but they will be fixed and the class will be evolving as the bugs are fixed so don’t worry.

I have more fun playing necromancer than any profession.

Jaha.2840:

I have more fun playing necromancer than any profession.

This is my experience too. If you enjoy a wide variety of tools and options, I think necro is pretty awesome despite its obvious bugs.

That brings me to my next question: What weapons should I be using for leveling (solo typically)? I tried staff but it didn’t really have any solid attacks. It was more like ape debuff kinda things. I don’t really enjoy axe that much.

The autoattack on staff sucks (sooooo much) so you just wanna be switching it to use the marks and then switch back to whatever your other weapon is. I used sceptre for levelling since axe/dagger don’t cleave and at least with sceptre you can use epidemic for more aoe on mobs. I used minions and epidemic as utilities. Wells are good but the cooldown is really long and they don’t do too good damage if you’re condition specced, and minions are meat shields/aggro holders.

The fast way to level is by crafting (if you’re gonna get 20 levels from crafting make it the 60-80 levels). WvW, no point since you will just be at a massive disadvantage and it will be frustrating. If you can’t afford crafting you can try farming exploreable dungeons while you level. They give an enormous amount of xp & u can buy exotics with the tokens when you’re level 80. Also if you’re crafting at same time, craft yourself rares as they do not cost that much more and last longer. When I tried karma heart/events I found higher zones were dead with few events and those which were around were bugged. ALso event scaling is terrible in that with a few people it’s a lot more time-consuming than with many, so not effective means of xp.

One thing that Necros have over all classes, we can do kitten builds (chill focus, weakness focus, even vulnerability focused) while not suffering that much on the damage side because its low either way, lich form is kitten and pretty much the most op elite if you aint against a guardian/mesmer for wvwvw also you are a servant of Grenth and Dhuum, nothing is better than that (i mean who doesnt wanna serve a kitten nerd who can summon a even more unholy equivalent of the 3rd reich and short tempered british incarnation of death that has a scythe so powerful that it bans people with his basic attack).

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Well, as for the “necro has the coolest gear”, it’s the same gear as every other light armor profession has available.

I personally don’t get beat 1v1 in sPvP (or WvW the few times I do it for monthly WvW kills). Played a lot of tournament games, and I beat mesmers 1v1, guardians 1v1, thieves 1v1, HB warriors 1v1. The only ones I have a problem with are tanky CC builds such as hammer warriors, but only if they know what they’re doing (and what I’m doing).

I’ve got over 200 hours played on my warrior, a lot of which is spent in the mist doing PvP, and I personally prefer playing necro over a warrior.

PS: I play d/d power necro in sPvP (and sometimes tanky condition necro, if my team is lacking a node defender). In PvE (explorer dungeons mostly) I also play d/d power necro (with axe + focus offhand for when I can’t be melee).

I switched from a warrior to necromancer. Warrior is easier, necromancer is more satisfying. I find necromancer more effective Pve.

Just make one if you’re interested, you lose nothin in trying it out. That being said, it is a lot more rough in the polish department. Also while there is a lot of QQ out there, it’s by no means unplayable. The valid constructive critisism are onto something though.

I use dagger dagger for leveling and wouldn’t have it any other way op, but that’s me I enjoy the power playstyle, if you prefer more of a conditions playstyle then scepter/dagger or scepter/focus,warhorn.