Guild Wars 2

Right now i picked up Gw2 again…did not play for like a year, and still not sure i really should be, but sme of my friends came back to play and its becoming fun to play. I level my Ele to 80 and starting to realize i wanted to play Necro since i saw Gw2 is coming out (old gw1 player.)
But when the game actually came out i was disgusted by the way Necro was implemented, and kind of took my whole mood to play the game at all. Right now i am thinking maybe i should look into it again, so i am considering rolling one.
I am probably going to pop my scroll to 20, and craft my way to 35 ish from 0 to 400 not sure how much exp that is with booster?) Not sure what is the best way to speedlevel to 80 after…but any way, my problem is :

1, i Feel like i am forced to use skills i dont like…more like hate actually.
2, Staff attack animation, kind of kittenes me off, looks ugly as hell, but its a must have sooner or later.
3, Character looks kittened, swinging around the scepter that should supposed to be a majestic style weapon. (Might actually go for the general theme of the Necro…since the 90% of us fantasy lover players imagine it as a refined pale girl or noble man. -_-) And scepter is also kind of must have…you simply can not get araond without using staff and scepter
4, Dagger…no comment…destroyed my image of “caster” i wished to play.
*5, All the above i can get on with….trough irritates me,…but i feel like the system itself is bad. I am forced to use certain builds to be viable. Its like i dont have a choice to pick a “role” in combat like other classes can.
I also really hate Death Shroud, but i am forced to use it since its one of the core viability skills. without it the class kind of sucks to much. So i am not sure what to do….

I also have a question : Does Death Shroud still look the same way irritating when activated? (since i didnt saw any effect besides a plus hp bar when going against Necros in Spvp). Are there viable spvp builds that dont rely on DS to much? Can you disable the effect on yourself?
Oh and do Necros wield dual dagger like Thiefs? Kind of looks amazing…like assassin from Gw1 in Human cultural t3.

Nekroseth.5186:

Not sure what is the best way to speedlevel to 80 after…

Tomes of Knowledge.

Nekroseth.5186:

you simply can not get araond without using staff and scepter

…if you’re running a condition build.

Nekroseth.5186:

4, Dagger…no comment…destroyed my image of “caster” i wished to play.
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Oh and do Necros wield dual dagger like Thiefs? Kind of looks amazing…

Umm.. what?

Double dagger is rather common in power builds, so yes it’s possible to use them this way.

I am forced to use certain builds to be viable.

True for every class.

Nekroseth.5186:

Are there viable spvp builds that dont rely on DS to much?

No.

Nekroseth.5186:

Does Death Shroud still look the same way irritating when activated?
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Can you disable the effect on yourself?

I don’t understand what you’re asking here.

From the sound of it you both don’t understand Necromancy in guild wars, and also don’t like it. Maybe don’t play Necro then?

What skills do you dislike?

There are, frankly, a lot more ways to build a viable Necromancer than some other classes have. If you don’t like any of them, it’s not the class for you.

You can do fine without a scepter, with a power build. I hate the animations too, and the “tennis ball” sounds that they have at least with Mesmers :P

Dagger makes a lot of sense to me thematically for a necromancer. Blood rituals! Dismemberment! Carving dark sigils into the flesh and bone of the fallen! What’s not to love? It makes a lot more sense than mesmers with their levitating 1200 range greatswords.

And Death Shroud is freaking awesome. Maybe that’s a matter of opinion, but the opinion is right.

I love the pact knife-across-palm animation for dagger #3, it sets the mood immediately for daggers. I actually love daggers in general for Necro. It just feels so cool, very elegant in swathy cloth wear.

If you are worried that you have to live in Death shroud (I initially was) that is simply not true. It’s always a useful tool for various things, but Necro has so many tools at their disposal and not only DS does good damage (Dagger is very hurty to use the above example).

I kind of agree with scepter. I actually like playing condi, but especially the impact feels so uninspiring. The staff scythe visual isn’t bad at all to me but slow-moving projectiles beef me in any game setting so I’m glad i don’t have to use it for a main weapon – it makes for a nice second though, for some builds. I would be happier with it if it was better at cleaving things with its projectile, like a cone or sweep.

You can make builds that do not focus on ds. Will you use ds yes, it will ne your emergence button.
I personaly dislike being forced to use ds so i dont most of the time.
Scepter can be used as a condition or hybrid weapon.(go to the ‘toughness’ post in this forum if you disagree, i dont wanna start another argument on it here)
Builds i like that alot of people dont use.
Vampire wells
Hybrid scepter/ staff
I do alot of spvp. And wvw on my 80s. I play games for pvp so i like to go find diffrent non’meta’ builds

Experiment find what works for you

Sounds like you would be better off playing a dark themed elementalist.