Guild Wars 2

Hello dear masters of dark arts. I have loved my asura necro so far. I do have some questions

1. Can necro be effective support/buffer/healer?
2. Does necro have any cool skills/mechanics like i.e thief has shadowstep and stealth
3. Does necro has good utility skills?
4. Is there any good looking evilish armor for asura necro?

I do appreciate your answers

1. support and healer a lill not as good as some others tho.. buffer sadly no we dont have any buffs we give to our party unless its a combofield, debuffs on the other hand…

2. we can get our own shadowstep with fleshwurm.. kinda anyways and sure necro got decent skills mostly its cc based tho necros can choose when they want to engage an enemy if their good in kiting.. at least.. against some classes.

3. sure we got some decent ones quite a few of em are useless tho.

4. yea corrupted orian armor.. from paid pvp.. you can probably get it in pve too but that one looks pretty evil. also the witch docter set looks kinda evil.

Necros are effective support, and can manipulate conditions better than most. (Not just eliminate them, but turn them into boons, or send them to enemies, or turn enemy boons into conditions.)

The unique Necro mechanic is Death Shroud, which changes your GUI in a bad way while you’re in it. Tip: DS is not meant to be entered and stayed in until you run out of Life Force (the juice that enables it). If you think that way, it will suck.

Utility skills that I like: Well of Darkness (AoE pulsing blind), Chilblains (a Mark that does chill and poison when entered), Epidemic (spread conditions from one enemy to nearby enemies), Spectral Walk (30 seconds of swiftness for you, but during the first 8 seconds you can Spectral Recall and jump back to where you started, regardless of elevation change, LOS, etc), Plague Transform (turn into a cloud that poisons and can blind nearby enemies), Poison Cloud (20 seconds of AoE poison), etc.

You also have AoE abilities to turn boons on enemies into conditions, conditions on friends into boons, and to transfer conditions from friends to enemies. I haven’t found these to be useful in my play, but the could be powerful.

Not sure about the armor. I’m not sure Asura can look evil. (Which I love on my Asura Thief: it’s like the scene from Galaxy Quest where the cute little furry creatures suddenly bare their teeth and attack.)

1. Necro got some nice healing abilities. If you focus on blood magic and healing, you will be very valuable to your team.

Well of Blood when paired with Vampiric Rituals trait (Healing each time the well pulse) and receiving the greatest bonus from +healing stats, is a bombo for team healing. Lettuce, a necro, made some test about it, but I can’t find the link.

You can also use death shroud #4 ability paired with Transfusion trait to heal nearby allies for a good amount.

Except Well of Power (transmute condition into boon for allies), we don’t have much buffer abilities. But we can help a lot with ally condition removal. Plague of signet passive will remove condition from ally (well it’s bugged right now but still kinda work) and put them on you.

Signet of the undeath can be used for quick rez in dungeon or WvW!

2. Yeah we have some!

Death Shroud is kidna cool, tho not everyone like it. But since you play a necro, you know it.

Epidemic, this skill might not look like much on paper, but it’s incredible. It take every condition on somoene and transfer it to 5 other player around. Looove this skill.

Flesh Worm, unique summon with a lot of utilities, but mainly for WvW.

Other then that, I’m not sure what you are looking for :`P

3. We have a lot of pretty cool utility.
Epidemic like I said before.
Wells do heavy damage and have a lot of use.
Summon AI are bugged right now, but it’s still good for PvE.
Spectral utilies are good, tho I never used Spectral Armor since it has an enormous cooldown.

Necro utilities are pretty good overall.

4. no idea :P

@Kardiamond: I just started experimenting with Signet of Undeath, which I hadn’t paid much attention to. Not sure how well it works in practice, but dropping it on 3 dead friendly NPCs resurrected all of them at full health. It has a cast time and a LONG cooldown (150 seconds, I believe), but works at 1200 range. Its target area isn’t huge (I’ve been spoiled with the trait that increases Mark radius), but if you can fit multiple friendlies in it, it’s rather amazing.