Guild Wars 2

They keep doing it. This reminds me of the time when I bought Guild Wars 2 at release, started playing a necromancer and quit the game because my class just s*cked.

Bunker support necro safestomping every 7s was too much for meta to handle.

Flumek.9043:

Bunker support necro safestomping every 7s was too much for meta to handle.

^Is truly tragic :’(

It was a good run, ladies and gents…
(We’ll adapt though and all that huggy feely bubblegush stuff)

Karl has been playing on his necromancer recently. Maybe he’ll see how bad it is and give us love? :P

Go Karl!

ronpierce.2760:

Karl has been playing on his necromancer recently. Maybe he’ll see how bad it is and give us love? :P

Go Karl!

Or we could hunt him down and help him learn… I mean… have tea and discuss.

bokkieskitten.8023:

ronpierce.2760:

Karl has been playing on his necromancer recently. Maybe he’ll see how bad it is and give us love? :P

Go Karl!

Or we could hunt him down and help him learn… I mean… have tea and discuss.

Karl’s honestly a good guy. He actually seems to communicate well one on one. He’s careful to say anything though for obvious reasons, but he had just finished 1k games on all classes apparently recently, last of which was his Necromancer. So maybe it’s our time! Maybe he sees our needs!

For now though, at least we have downstate build. Go 6/0/0/3/5 for max modifiers and Downstate1 people to death

ronpierce.2760:

Karl has been playing on his necromancer recently. Maybe he’ll see how bad it is and give us love? :P

Go Karl!

Who’s Karl and how do you know he’s been playing Necro (and why does it matter?).

I use this forum and reddit for GW2 information, do the devs post somewhere else?

There’s nothing in the class subforums about possible balancing or whatnot.

Nekrothaft.6390:

ronpierce.2760:

Karl has been playing on his necromancer recently. Maybe he’ll see how bad it is and give us love? :P

Go Karl!

Who’s Karl and how do you know he’s been playing Necro (and why does it matter?).

I use this forum and reddit for GW2 information, do the devs post somewhere else?

There’s nothing in the class subforums about possible balancing or whatnot.

Karl is one of the head PvP devs.

While I too would like to see where you got this information, I am definitely glad to hear it.

It should pulse one stack for one second every two seconds while in Death Shroud. That way, it feels Grandmaster, but isn’t broken I don’t think.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Nekrothaft.6390:

ronpierce.2760:

Karl has been playing on his necromancer recently. Maybe he’ll see how bad it is and give us love? :P

Go Karl!

Who’s Karl and how do you know he’s been playing Necro (and why does it matter?).

I use this forum and reddit for GW2 information, do the devs post somewhere else?

There’s nothing in the class subforums about possible balancing or whatnot.

Karl is one of the head PvP devs.

While I too would like to see where you got this information, I am definitely glad to hear it.

I was just chitchatting with him yesterday in-game. I wouldn’t really expect tons of buffs, it’d be scary if the Devs rushed to buff whatever they played last haha. He just said though that he had been playing necromancer and finished his last set of 1k games on it. Everything else is inference, he at least played it a lot and might see our short comings. What he does or doesn’t do is a mystery. Either way, the only thing we can do is say GO KARL! And hope for love. :P

I’m not expecting anything from it, but knowing that one of the head devs does have significant experience on a profession does mean a lot in its own right.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

I’m not expecting anything from it, but knowing that one of the head devs does have significant experience on a profession does mean a lot in its own right.

Yeah, and it’s recent. He seemed like a great guy, I had a lot of fun talking to him about miscellaneous things. But we talked about necro a bit, and he said he sees us, obviously. And he’s getting in his own experience. Of course, that can only mean so much, power and usefulness is really subjective. Either way, I think it’s nice he hit 1k on ALL classes. Gives me a lot of hope for the future. Obviously that took him a while to do, having just finished. HoT might be a good time for balance. Or at least… try to be. A lot of unknown variables and “hidden builds” will keep that from really happening until the dust settles, but its fun to look forward to. I have hope. I think GS will be used to address a lot of our major concerns. Though unfortunately, unless GS seems AMAZING and MM gets some pretty hefty changes, I’ll probably be on a Revenant at that point. :S

Wasn’t #BelieveinKarl a thing for a while?

Bhawb.7408:

Wasn’t #BelieveinKarl a thing for a while?

Well, he’s been playing Necro recently. Now is the time to #BelieveInKarl. :P

I have a feeling at that time he was playing med guard. :P that’s when they got buffed into usefulness.

Yep it is a totally useless master trait now
I dont get what the devs do.

Make it 4 secs with 5 stacks.

Make it a master or minor trait

Now? Ever since they “fixed” DS, I never saw a reason to take it over Death Perception. Though that is definitely laughable.

I’ll buy 1 stack if it also breaks stuns on a reasonable cooldown.

It should break stuns on DS entry, it’s a grandmaster trait. Besides, why is it OP for a class with no vigor, no real teleports, no mobility to be durable against CC trains?

If you’re not gonna give the necro escapes, then they need to be able to stand their ground.

Nail In The Coffin….PERFECT name for it now. Revenant here I come!!

I don’t understand why they don’t combine Near to Death and Foot in the Grave as a GM trait. They can’t properly balance Foot in the Grave because Near to Death exists. Just combine both of them and then balance from there.

This trait should be an adept trait or minor trait.

To actually be a good grandmaster traid I’d suggest adding a stun break to entering death shroud, or changing it to pulsing stability in death shroud. I’m more in favour of the latter.

Just remove this useless line(s) of coding already and replace it with a meaningful trait.
stunbreak upon entering DS would be a nice start…

I command as a necromancer in T1 and I just want to say that this stability change, and how they handled FitG, is a massive nerf to necrommanders. I think the reasons are probably pretty obvious.

I agree. With the changes to stability, it would be fitting for this trait to pulse 1 stack of 3 second stability every 3-5 seconds while in death shroud.

It was already underpowered and should never have been a GM trait. Maybe with HoT we will see some additional changes. Pulsing stability would make this worthwhile, however it does not fully address the existing DS issues.

Grand master trait should be like earth armor or the original trait called shade. Check it out. That is grandmaster worthy.

Gryph.8237:

Grand master trait should be like earth armor or the original trait called shade. Check it out. That is grandmaster worthy.

What I’d do to just get to play with Shade on a modern power necro.

#necrorevolt