Guild Wars 2

The state of my lifeforce is inconsistent before entering any given battle.

Aside from attacking npcs or coincidentally being near the death of others to raise it, and using DS to lower it, there seems to be little mobility over how much life force I am able to start with before a pvp encounter.

Are necromancers balanced around 0 life force before battle? If so maybe necromancers should be nerfed and have it be reduced to 0 outside of combat. Maybe nercomancers are balanced around full life force or maybe 50% life force before battle. I don’t know. What I do know is that I can afk outside of combat for 3 minutes until all my cooldowns are reset but my life force remains at its last value.

They want to make it possible to start a fight with zero life force and do decent. Obviously this is not the case as starting a fight with life force is always advantageous. And starting a fight in death shroud again is always advantageous.

They balanced us around having ‘some’ life force but not a full bar.

The necro is ‘supposed’ to have multiple ways of building life force. But this is in actuality not a fact. And some builds build life force so slows its quite sad.

The best way i’ve found of building life force outside of combat is flesh wurm.

Summoning golem and switching elites.
Using spectral trait to give life force on use.

The only reason to use DS in Pvp is to pop fear or absorb dmg. Than drop DS to save it as fear recharges and use your normal skill set. You will not be able to gain LF as much as PvE or WvW. therefore you can only rely on things like Dark Path and Fear. Life Transfer will most likely get inturrupted if you are not full.
I’ve found DS to be most useful when opoing fear or needing Consume conds to finish CD.