Well, I also love the class. SFX of it, to be precise. Most people do – otherwise they wouldn’t sit here waiting for bugfixes etc. The idea for “how a necro should work”, more or less, suits what I wanted to get. I like how skills work (or how they should), I like how they look. This is what most people mean by “loving the necro” I think.
What I don’t like are numbers behind it – and I think this is a common concern. It’s not that necro is inefficient – he can be, many people proved it. The real issue is that necro doesn’t have many ways to be efficient and lacks variety. People get tired of using the same build over and over again for hours and hours on end.
After that, risk : reward and effort : reward ratios seem to be off. I like to work for what I get and I enjoy a “hard class” (as opposed to a "mash two buttons repeatedly class) – OP is probably the same kind of person. Necro is not an easy class and most people find it challeging and thus – fun.
The discrepancy between “loving the class” and general consensus that necro is subpar is not really that great. Many people assume that necro players are complaining because the class sucks. It doesn’t. Most of complains are towards bugs, invability of many builds and incompatibility of class mechanics with few of the builds that work. That is why people are complaining, not because they don’t like the class or are “emo kids that would like to rework it”. The “rework” ideas concern the Death Shroud, which is a good mechanic and can be liked, but only as far as one’s build improves it. It’s not a mechanic that suits all builds, and that is the problem many people have with it. We all know that DS was initially a “downed state” mechanic for necros and it mostly stayed that way – we don’t see our UI in it, we can’t see our hp, boons, conditions, can’t use our build – only the 4 skills we were given with it. Many poeple don’t like that – especially those who like their necros built towards minions or conditions and are seeing DS as a mechanic which impairs their build (which it does).
I wouldn’t call those people “whiny emo kids” as spoink did. I think they have all the rights to expect a class mechanic which works with every build, not only DS-centric builds. I also liked DS because I built towards it. But then I wanted to try something different and … it’s either making DS viable or doing what you like. As long as both work toward the same build it’s ok. But if not – you start thinking if DS could be designed better.
Most of the people (aside from trolls) would only like to get what they were promised: a couple of varied, viable builds, a class mechanic that works with each of them (not with one or two), bugfixes and proper Risk : Reward and Effort : Reward playstyle compared to other classes (it either has to be High Risk : High Reward / High Effort : High Reward or Medium / Medium or even Low : Low – but not something like High Risk : Medium Reward). That’s all.
Edit: well, and maybe a few combo finishers. These would be cool ;-)
