Guild Wars 2

Hello.
Sorry for the break to all my fans. I only played a dozen games at sapphire as I didn’t touch bunker wars during summer. Anyway I felt surprisingly viable with some random base power builds against the usual suspects.

What’s currently the necro tourney meta? Is necro picked at all? Anyone spaming 1 again?

Pro tourney meta? Signet reaper build, most used Blood Magic instead of Soul Reaping, and loaded well of corruption. A necro’s job in pro tourney was to corrupt boons, drop well of corruption on downies, die, rinse, and repeat.

Is base necro stronger? Not by a long mile. Is it viable? Seeing how this season the competition was really low, many regulars didn’t even play that much, anything was viable this past season. But against competent players & teams, base necro gets destroyed mainly due to their lack of stab & mobility.

If you’re talking about unranked, well, anything goes in unranked.

Hm guess I’ll need some reliable spars then to see how much off I am.
The main job of ripping boons is same tho.. Thanks

Give every necro auto chain a boon rip on final hit! Make it happen anet.

Base necro is quite good, but still inferior than reaper, and way underperforming compared to a babysitted reaper

The necro in the current meta is a corruption machine, nothing more. if you’re out of corruption when they’re needed you’re useless. It’s really bad in 90% of 1vs1/2vs2 and can only work at it’s best on a good premade team that can protect him and focus properly, using the boon corruption of the necromancer (and poison spam) to obtain a fast kill.
Anyway the current meta is a direct damage burst meta, with few condition damage but a lot of cc conditions, with so much boon spam by revenants that sometimes corrupt boons is useless. That make the necromancer a free kill for almost every dps build, that can burst down a necro in few seconds.
You have to pay attention on where you are, where are all your enemies and to Never be catch alone (you’re the worst 1vs1 class of this meta).
That’s more or less all.
Ah, and we haven’t a power build seriously viable, only few condi builds.
That’s one of my favorite, if you want to try it in unranked:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBLhZ6kjGocTszGwmGgeTscMYR9stVAgaJ8EmVx5wfYRE-TZxFABA8AAYb/hCOEAlXG4gzAAA
It’s one of the few builds not focusing on boon corruption and is really good in unranked or soloranked