Guild Wars 2

Only summon happiness in this thread. Say what you love about being a Necromancer.

As necromancer, you are REALLY good at non-competitive non-rewarding PVE.

the theme…… the end….

For me, the sound and green effects of the abilities make me happy.

I love continually freezing my foes and crushing them with the help of my extra health bar. That’s always fun.

Because my main character has her roots in Necromancy (I can’t play a character unless it has a backstory).

I like our downed state.

I can’t summon happiness but minions

The thing that makes Necromancer/Reaper very appealing to me it’s the transformation from mere mortal to bringer of death (start playing the game after see a certain Hollts video ).. and greatswords. I love greatswords.

You don’t have to worry about joining rude elitist groups, simply because they’ll kick you anyway.

Despite all the negative attention Necros get, I find the class to be a blast to play.

Starting off with I play almost exclusively PvE…
I can say I rarely die to any mob. There were many times I have solo killed a T4 fractal boss. Not saying other classes can’t, but I can’t do out on other classes lol. The survivability is just amazing. Yeah we are slow, but you get used it to ( yeah mounts! ). And sure, we have no escape mechanics, but I’m a Reaper of Grenth… I don’t run. And, I played Condi before it was the cool thing.

Guess I’m just a Necro at heart.

Being nearly unkillable in pvp with my tank/well build is pretty fun. And due to the recent changes, most of the time you’ll get some amount of support in your build for free.
No escape? No need! If anyone’s running away, it’s the enemy. Standing in 3 life-draining AoEs and having a sword inside you is bad, after all. Plus we get lich form. If your build is power oriented at all, and you need to kill multiple people or are at low health, you can pretty much turn into a miniboss and deal massive damage while lifestealing(the new vitality leech thing) and spawning minions.

What I like…

I like the fact that spectral walk allow me to return to my position when I miss a jump in jumping puzzle. That’s to the point that I favour my necromancer over my mesmer when I know that there will be no need to help other folks. Beside the fact that I got mre tankiness to resist some dangerous environment that you can encounter in jumping puzzle is another great point.

It’s great to be the underdog in every fight. If I win, it feels amazing (and then I thank whoever added).

I love my necromancer!! In spite of all the Anti-necro hate and people getting antsy over QT most recent “Grand Pronouncement” (inject lethal dosage of sarcasm) concerning Necromancers, I find that I can still hold my own in everything from fractal, to raids to pvp. I don’t let the pronouncements of the mouth-breathing elitists get me down.

BTW I’ve been playing necromancer since GW1 and I will not give up on them. Necromancers are awesome in GW2, yeah, some work is needed, but it’s not all doom and gloom.

The theme and shroud are my sellers.

I exclusively play WvW and boy it’s currently a blast to play Necro there, I can get over it being slow and a HP sponge, but when you’re a walking plague of doom then setbacks are expected. The current condi necro is the most fun I’ve been having on my roaming sessions, granted it’s currently overtuned in some aspects, however being a Necro has always been a synonym of living dangerously since you’re locked into a fight no matter the odds. I’m even more excited now since Scourge is what I’ve been expecting for the Necro, a true supportive spec so I’m definitely hyped for the future of this profession.

Well at least we can’t get much worse, though that is being put to the test…

I enjoy vanilla Necromancer because I enjoy all of the vanilla Shroud skills. I find it to feel rewarding and I like being more of a presence than people anticipate.

I’ve stuck with it for nearly 4 years and I still love it as much as the day I fell for it. You can offer me sweeter candy but you can’t replace my satisfaction.

LOL all the people that actualy happy here plays condi… how suprising….

Zoltreez.6435:

LOL all the people that actualy happy here plays condi… how suprising….

I play Condi cause I just love how it plays mostly, but still hate Deathly Chill. I’m super hyped for Scourge, and hoping they buff Reaper for Power more.

Also I mained Necro in GW1 with Ranger. In GW2 I do the same. Both of those classes I just have always loved.

I love how Condi Necro hurts itself to do more damage, and just love the overall themes of the Traits and skills. I think Necro has the best skill animations in the game. Scourge animations look amazing to me.

No matter the current state of Necro, it will always be my main Profession.

Necro is basically invincible in wvw right now.

Thustlewhumber.7416:

Necro is basically invincible in wvw right now.

At least we have a greatsword

Ghostt.1293:

At least we have a greatsword

A kitten useless one tough lol

I am happy for the PvP reverse splits and the buff to my black balloon, although I still cannot use it to float up and over Tyria.

Edit: I am also happy Necromancer has a serious cleave weapon and elite. That was a big improvement over core, whatever it’s shortcomings as a power weapon.

Edit 2: One more thing to be happy about is the dedicated melee condi damage elite coming with burning. This is something many of us have been asking for for, literally, years and it comes with potential for group support, yet another years-old request.

Edit 4: Scourge finally lets Necromancer use skills on both sides of the health muffin when using LF. Additionally, signets now keep their passive in shroud.

Edit 5: Removed edit 3 – no fields that suck.

Wow, think of all things we have asked for and have gotten!

Edit 3: More happy news is Scourge does not have unwanted combo fields.

It does… dark field on elite skill.

Dadnir.5038:

Edit 3: More happy news is Scourge does not have unwanted combo fields.

It does… dark field on elite skill.

You’re right. Oh, fudge, what is anyone supposed to do with it? Scourge would have no finisher outside of a crap build with minions and staff.

I will fix that.

Tentatively excited to play a boonhate build on scourge/

I’ve mained a condi necro since December of the year GW2 was released. Played a ranger before that and wasn’t happy, so swapped to necro.

What I like about Necro is the class is awesome for playing with strangers, and around players who don’t rez and drag mobs over you while trying to harvest and other things. Straight-up survivabily. I can withstand player meanness, apathy and inabily to play as a team on necro.

When I play with my friends, they like my necro because I can tank and heal and have saved dungeon groups on numerous occassions when we didn’t quite know what we were doing.

I still have my ranger and turned her into a healing druid, but I don’t play that character around strangers.

Good point, Fuzion. Some days I swear people try to MPK me in PvE roaming.

Edit: love how players use me to peel magma elementals while I am salvaging of just chilling on the BLTP.

Dadnir.5038:

I like the fact that spectral walk allow me to return to my position when I miss a jump in jumping puzzle.

I don’t know how I ever got through a jumping puzzle without Spectral Walk. It’s basically an instant redo button.

I also love the minions- having a small herd of friendly undead monstrosities following me around was the thing that got me hooked on necro in the first place.