Anyone set for a raid group tomorrow?
Our guild has something like 4 raid groups ready I think, I think there are like 7 reapers so we have to split them apart. Team composition obviously matters to us but ultimately based on experience on past vale guardian attempts, any class can do it as long as you meet the tank and condi requirement. Rest comes down to skill.
I’ll play Reaper tomorrow (cookie cutter power DPS build), unless the group I’m intending to play with specifically asks me to fulfill a different, more specific role than “general DPS” (condi Engi probably, we don’t have enough people with proper condi gear afaik).
I wont be recording/streaming though, my current system just can’t handle that =/
Maybe Choxie or one of the other regular Necro streamers will show some raid game-play, idk.
Yeah we have a guild B and C team forming up hopefully. Still waiting to see if I make those. I think the A team is more about politics than it is skill/gearing lol.
I know I managed to pug in the BWE with 2 reapers and we made it to 50% and that was pretty much a worse case scenario for necros so I am hoping necro/reaper becomes more desirable as the raid progresses.
I’d love to watch some of the high end players raid as a necro though. Particularly as a condi necro/reaper.
LOD did have a Reaper on their team when they did their kill during the BWE, right? Maybe the guy stuck with it and will put out some more pov Reaper footage in the future.
On the topic of condi Necros in raids, I think it has some potential for being the designated “aggro-control guy” of a raid party, as does power Reaper. From a pure damage perspective though, I think there is very little reason right now to take a condi Necro over condi Engi e.g. (the two classes I play condi on), assuming the person playing it roughly knows how to play the class.
I have ascended Viper’s/Sinister on both my Necro and my Engi and I have played both for a reasonable amount of time now since I converted my two old Sinister sets. I am mediocre at playing condi Engi at best, but I still get the impression that when it comes to pure damage output Engi is way ahead of Necro. With Engi I essentially just use all of my good condi application skills on cooldown and stuff just melts away. With Necro, even while maintaining a good rotation, the ramp up time still feels a bit sluggish and the overall damage is not that great comparatively (maybe I’m building/playing it wroing, idk =/).
But, that being said, since raid bosses don’t just melt away in seconds (at least I hope so lol), who knows. Maybe if my group allows it I’ll be picking condi Necro over Engi after all, simply because I feel more comfortable playing Necro and have a better understanding of the class in general.
Skill and knowledge of the class > raw numbers, so to speak.