Guild Wars 2

looking at other classes forums and expecially in spvp forum, there’s a big hate against the necromancer.
And is growed from the reveal of AA condi corrupt in scepter (that is good, but not so good as everyone say).

Actually the necro is a class that can only deal damage. Not a single defensive skill, not a good movement skill, not a chance to survive to a focus.

There’s only one thing the necro do that the other classes can’t: Convert Boons!
The reve and the mesmer can remove boons but not corrupt them.

But… is it enough to become the hated one?

There never was a Necro fan club, we all know that, and frequently ANet nerfed us after giving us a buff, or give us useless buffs.
The reaper is good and is the reason why we’re still played in sPvP, but is not enough.

Now there’s that boon corruption, the celestial amulet removed and the ele Diamond Skin “nerfed” (in 1vs1 it will be a buff, but ANet is bad in balance and we know) and every single elementalist is screaming that now the necro will become meta, making him totally useless.
Pointing that still if the necro become meta the ele will always be really viable (and frequently OP), what is the problem is Necro become meta?

In the last years the necro had always been hated in PvE why don’t bring anything that other classes don’t do better and ignored in sPvP why it’s totally without defences.
There was only 2 moments in the past when the necro was viable:
1) when conditions was discovered to kill berserker builds (and after few weeks everyone discovered that there’s better condition classes than necro)
2)when with the new trait system anet gived us the corruption signet (but only why we was able to kill elementalists, the Op class of the moment, nothing more)

Then… why a class that from years fight for a spot in a team is so hated by the sPvP community?

I really want to play the necromancer and love it. But I don’t like to be hated by the community only why there’s a Chance that the necro become “meta”.

Stop that Hate!

Necro being meta would be awesome, one of the few meta builds that isnt actually broken: he has some huge strength, and sume huge weaknesses. Pretty much how this game should be balanced.

I think the same

in my private hierarchy, necro has always been meta

All I remember from what you wrote is that theres never been a necro fan club and I toss salad at you sir!

I have been a pain taking necro lover forever.

unless you met at anet, yea, youre right

Necro still dies from ranged pressure, so Rangers would be very happy if it’s meta.

We aren’t supposed to have nice things, remember we have skills and traits that hurt us for using them… lol.

I think necros will have a good chance to have a spot in the upcoming meta. However, keep in mind our counters will be daredevils, warriors, and druids. Expect teams to carry at least 1 or 2 of these classes in spvp, and honestly I’m not looking forward to it. If you’ve fought good dd’s you’ll know they’re already hard to deal with. Luckily for us this meta they aren’t as popular, next meta expect to see more of them.

I suppose changes are a good thing, as we’re all tired of the current bunker meta. We’ll see how it goes. I’m just not that excited until I see the full patch notes, because Anet has a history of nerfing something that really hurts us. For an example, the blighter’s boon nerf really hurt our group sustain in team fights, as we continue the “Kill that necro first” strategy.

necromancer never won’t be meta because we are weak profession. Half of us playing with necro because we loving black magic – dead thing we loving being necro and other half playing because its pretty easy class.

So why? because we havent’ block, evade, invul, regen, mobility, stealth, quickness, slow, resistance, giving ferocity-power-toughness etc self or for teammates..

gw2 pvp is team game if your profession cant give anything to teammates then never gonna be meta

Darkside.7182:

gw2 pvp is team game if your profession cant give anything to teammates then never gonna be meta

I checked up on google for GW2 past metas. It seems that necromancer have never been meta pick.