Guild Wars 2

This is a funny thread. So don’t take everything here seriously. But I am out to prove that the current necromancer does not fulfil any of Anet’s vision for a necromancer.

Official description:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/the-game/professions/necromancer/

Practitioners of the dark arts, necromancers summon the dead, wield the power of lost souls, and literally suck the life force from the enemy. Necromancers feed on life force, which they can use to bring allies back from the brink or cheat death itself.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Necromancer

Necromancers are masters of the dark arts. They summon the dead to fight for them, channel blood energy and rend their enemies’ souls. Necromancers draw on life force and use it to strengthen or heal themselves and others. As a scholar profession, necromancers wear light armor.

1) Practitioners of the dark arts: Not really. Look though the whole skills list of necros. Which skill would you ban because it is so evil and dark? I would ban mesmer portals before any necro skills, because it messes with space-time continuum.

2) necromancers summon the dead: Not really. The minions were never alive, so they aren’t dead. They are just summons made from flesh of the dead. They are closer to golems, made from flesh, than anything else. If they can summon an undead warrior that uses warrior skills, or if you can summon an undead mesmer that uses mesmer skills, then yes we are summoning the dead. A flesh golem was never alive before we summon it, so it wasn’t dead.

3) wield the power of lost souls: Not we don’t. No ghosts ever came to fight for the necromancer. We do not have blinding rituals.

4) and literally suck the life force from the enemy: No we don’t. Life force is only used by necromancer, not anyone else. So other professions do not lose anything at all when a necro gains life force. They don’t become weakened or anything.

5) Necromancers feed on life force: No we don’t. None of the skill uses life force.

6) which they can use to bring allies back from the brink: No we don’t. There is no skill that uses LF or DS that brings back downed allies.

7) or cheat death itself: No we don’t. There is no skill that uses LF or DS that brings back dead allies.

8) Necromancers are masters of the dark arts: Like I said no we don’t. If you want to see true dark art go see Kakuzu, Hidan and Danzo. You must be willing to sacrifice absolutely everything, including yourself and allies, for that extra bit of power for it to be dark art.

9) They summon the dead to fight for them: I repeat no we don’t. The minions are just summons made from flesh of the dead.

10) channel blood energy: There is no such a thing as blood energy in this game. Our life bar do not give us any extra powers.

11) and rend (tear) their enemies’ souls: ooooOOOOoooo sounds scary. Doesn’t do anything in this game though. We don’t tear anything. None of the skills in this game allows us to tear some souls up.

12) Necromancers draw on life force: No we don’t draw anything. We gain LF while fighting yes. But the enemy is still not losing anything when we steal their LF, so no we don’t draw anything.

13) and use it to strengthen or heal themselves and others. No we do not get stronger as we use LF. Sure there is a trait that gains Might as we use Life Blast. However it only benefits ourselves, not others. Not to mention Life Blast doesn’t actually costs LF. Sure there are two traits that heals with DS, but none of those skills actually uses LF. Life Transfer does not cost any LF, and DS relies on cool down not LF itself (unless you run out of LF). It is a farcry to say LF leads to strength and healing, when it is far from the case.

14) As a scholar profession, necromancers wear light armor: Yes we do, which makes us a poor class for melee combat. There is no reason why our dagger is single target and deal less damage than a warrior’s sword.

All in all, none of Anet’s vision for the necro has been fulfilled. There is no clear objective for being a necromancer. And without a clear objective, purpose and goal for the necromancer, their traits and skills are all over the place and in a mess.

Funny thread, but you are so much right, GW2 is not a Necromancer game, it’s just a smoke and mirror trick to catch people here.

lol

and den?

We could re-write this.

Necromancers are masters of covering large areas of land in red circles. They then return to cunningly hiding behind nearby terrain features and hope patiently that really stupid people and mobs will walk into the red circles so they might collect the bags of the dead without risking life and limb.
Necromancers draw on charisma and use it to convince others that they really are useful at doing stuff with conditions, healing and hope none of them is an engineer. As a suicidal profession, necromancers wear light armor, which is the nice way of saying they basically rely on happy thoughts to protect them if someone gets around to hitting them or the equivalent of riding a motorcycle in y-fronts and hoping you never fall off.

@Spoj, I’m like… 92% sure that this entire thread is just a joke. Even as a pretty outspoken proponent of necromancers , I chuckled reading this; it is supposed to be humorous, not taken seriously.

no understanding of creative description.

This post IS a creative (and realistic) description. It has to be taken both humorous and seriously, because the contents and the situation descripted are sadly true.

I said what i said because it could of been done a hell of alot better. His points dont make sense. Dark arts refer to any form of slightly shady magic. I know he was trying to make a joke and be humorous but the only part which made me laugh was how poor an attempt it was. I find it curious that i got my post deleted when ive seen people be far more directly rude to someone before and never seen anything come of it. And yes his general point is true which is quite depressing. But like ive said, it was a poor attempt but amusing all the same.