Guild Wars 2

It will make so much sense. Whether through specialization trait or mechanic

I don’t even have to argue about it. It fits the class and will make up for what we’ve been lacking for a long time

I’d call it a bandaid on an infected wound.

Sure it may make it look better in the short term but in the long run it will turn into Gangrene.

The root problems really cannot be solved without a real overhaul & removal of death shroud (a mechanic that cannot be balanced) in favor of new mechanics that work off of life force.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

The root problems really cannot be solved without a real overhaul & removal of death shroud (a mechanic that cannot be balanced) in favor of new mechanics that work off of life force.

The root problems very much can be solved with leaving Death Shroud mostly as-is. ANet just keeps balancing based around situations that don’t occur instead of ones that do.

For example, Signet of Vampirism, Spectral Walk, and Spectral Armor are all balanced around having a single attacker. Siphon traits are balanced around a hypothetical 5v5 where each person is only focusing one other.

Balancing those to instead be appropriate for a single foe, but be able to scale with multiples (no ICD or per-opponent ICD at worst) will do quite a bit for Necro defense.

One of the few skills that actually scales well with multiple opponents that we have, in my opinion, is signet of the locust active. Even with no healing power at base it heals for 970 per opponent hit, so just shy of 5k vs 5 ppl. Granted if we are getting trained on by five people the 5k hp will not help all too much but it is a nice push in the right direction in terms of skill scaling.

I think ANET might have noticed this a little bit seeing as how our new signet grandmaster trait has all of our current signet traits rolled into one with an auto proccing signet of the locust at 50% hp on top of it. That and according tot he traits tooltip its cd got lowered to 30sec(and the trait itself lowers by another 20% for a 24sec cd).

Regardless of our cc defence issues it sounds like something a warrior would get. For me a defiance bar would be so boring for necro :/. I hope we get something more interesting that will still help us as a class.