In WvW the "real" attrition class (P/D thief)
I notice people always seem to beeline for me as a necro. Gotta have good defences LOL. Active and passive.
I can see why people get discouraged playing a necro anyway, zergs seem to try to kill us first in a crowd. I think a part of it is just a caster with a staff is a big tell to people that youre an easy target.
alts: Fangyre (Necro), Hardrawk (Ele);
Jade Quarry
Somehow I think that many thinking the necro are uber face the same things I saw on the mesmer forums when a guy bragged about doing a 1v4, probably not realizing that those 4 happened to be far below lvl 80 given the crap amount of dmg they did.
Yeh, I can kill below 80s with my eyes closed since they hit me for like 200-300 dmg whereas I hit them for several thousands, anyone can do it – even with a semi-broken class. Mostly broken due to bugs and messy trait lines and generally low dmg/short range where it counts. Rifle warriors outdamage any axe necro at twice the range and hitting more than 1 target with ease, I mention axe because that weapon has similiar skill sets to a rifle.
Yeh Kilger… Necros tend to get focussed fast. Why? Because we are so slow and are generally the easiest to get down fast.
Yeh Kilger… Necros tend to get focussed fast. Why? Because we are so slow and are generally the easiest to get down fast.
No, drachish we are focused, because left alone we will wreck zergs. We are amazing when left alone. Warriors damage burst can be avoided. Theives can only take down one at a time at best. Elementalist are either dead in seconds or not worth the time invested to kill them since the damage they do is minimal. Rangers are extremely weak outside of condition specs of which they can only do in spurts. Engineers are never seen, and the ones that are seen are bunker builds. Guardians are bunkers usually, and so trying to force you to attack them.
That leaves the necro. Condition and Power mancers can do a lot of damage if left alone, we can focus targets down and our damage is consistent so hard to avoid the burst. Epidemic is extremely powerful. We are the hard counters to the opposing teams bunkers. Therefore we get focused down first. Everyone else you can avoid the damage with a simple dodge or lockdown. you can’t dodge the necro consistently. They control and reapply conditions so you have to remove conditions overremoving them.
Quit oversimplfying the answers. We are not focused down because we can’t run. We are focused because the alternative is a bad choice. If the idea was simply let’s kill the guy who can’t run than warriors and guardians would die first every time. The difference is the negatives of leaving a necro alive versus leaving every other class outweighs the negatives of other classes.