Guild Wars 2

This is a feel good congratulatory thread.
No not to Anet
Nor NCSoft and their cashshoppage
but yes, to YOU my fellow Necromancer.

TO THE HUNDREDS OF YOU STILL PLAYING NECRO, I SALUTE YOU!!
The class is almost finally working as intended.

Healing Enemies you say? OF COURSE! we are dark arts, NOBODY likes us!
Minion ai is garbage!? OF COURSE! You think the people from The Walking Dead would still be alive if dead reanimated corpses were smart!?!? come on guys!

Ok I cant even joke anymore, ill be on my Guardian.

I think you forgot to mention a few other bugs.

Meh, I really like this class for marks/wells AoE builds, or life-stealing power builds….And I do not feel underpowered or bothered by these bugs that much…what bothers me is the amount of useless skills/traits. The sad part is I have trouble with other professions picking my skills/traits since so many are useful, yet with the necro it’s easy picking utility skills since only about half are useful (so many are counter productive together, or overkill by basically doing the same thing)…and it’s even easier (or should I say harder?) picking traits since only about 20% are useful…

Isn’t it sad that I still enjoy this class the most?

I got so used to playing Necro in the GW1 so it’s kinda heartbreaking to see GW2 Necros being so crippled with bugs… I still believe that Arena can and will fix them. Even if they are taking their sweet time…

never fixing important bugs.. just the little ones

if corrupt boon now dont miss for no reason that is a big important fix but i need to tested it

and spectral grasp?? plague signet?? condition e boon in DS mode?? Minion’s IA??

and lot of useless minor traits? DS be almost useless to condition builds as offense mechanism (easy to correct if arenanet listen player suggestions) ? axe and dagger MH clear unfinished weapons ; dagger OH deatly swarm only remove one condition per enemy hit?

and much much more, just saying if corrupt boon now work as suppose and aegis wasnt the main problem im happy because all we can expect is one good bug fixed per patch, but i bet CB will still miss lot of times

we have 100 buggs.. how many time we have to waiting for?? i say just this… i hope an eye on us.. that’s all.. no one has all buggs like us

I like the class, compared to the other classes I have tried extensively:

- It’s more interesting than the Thief. Thieves are so OP it is stupid, but they are actually really dull to play unless you get your kicks from easy kills.

- It’s more accessible than the engineer. Okay this is my way of saying I lack skills. Engineer has great potential I think, but it takes a lot of skill juggling.

- It’s more viable than the warrior. Warriors in PvP are sub-par and after playing one a while I started actually getting kinda angry that there are so few decent tools in the box. Had to stop before I had an adrenalin rage IRL.

Necro is not the strongest PvP toon but it is competitive, and it has several quite different builds to keep life interesting.

The only thing I HATE about necro is the lazy minion implementation. Anet should fix that but I bet they won’t for ages (the reason being we’re a pretty good class even without the minion build option).

Maybe so, but the important question is: is plague signet fixed yet?

At least now well of corruption and corrupt boon has a better chance of hitting targets. Save yourself should be revamped into a 66% speed boost, because that’s what you’re going to have to do when you pop it.

If the dev team had ignored these other fixes they put in, and had JUST fixed corrupt boon and possibly something like oh I dont know…minion AI…these forums would of had a much better feeling to them this morning.
Instead most necros now feel even more unwanted by Anet. Even more discouraged. No plan or words of encouragement from devs. The only good thing to happen for my necro in the past week has been this Scythe skin I got from the halloween event.

Meh.

Very Meh.
Madame Moorshade Teknomancer.

I like how they dont fix the bugs and events but they remove my post and issue me a warning for speaking the truth. GG

@xetherx: yeah.. i’m agree.. two times already..
anyway.. necro is a beautifull classs.. that could be a 360°.. but without right fix, we have just one build.. the others have too much problem to roll good.. we have to wait.. who knows how much

ATM Conditionmancer is the most viable and balanced build we have which could only be improved by a slight duration increase to our bleeds to allow a more sustainable stacking and either an increase to blind spamability or make blind last for say 3 seconds on all attacks.

Condition/Power Hybrid builds are decent for pve and pvp but due to the recharge on wells and signets its not the strongest build and its value really lies in its combo field utility and slightly weakened condition dmg output. Hybrid is deffinently not for WvW.

Minion master can be meh and is mainly a solo pve build. It could be improved by a major upgrade to minion AI and a few Death traits could use an upgrade to make the attribute more versital.

Power necro is very strong but the cooldown on the wells, signets need to be cut in half to even think of using it on a regular basis. ATM its a build for one vs one that if you dont spike your target down your running for your life for the next 60-90 seconds.

So we have several builds its just none of them are 100% complete and balanced.

I love the necro for farming. just summon all minions an let them keep the mobs at bay while you rush from one gathering node to the next. And with all the materials I can craft/tarde pretty stuff for my thief, yay.

necro with pets is be the worse (even worse than a full condition build) build to farm material at least the “real” farm lvl80 DE for karma and rare material

It’s great that conditions can’t be removed. Because then a big utility for us in pvp would be lost. oh wait…

:)