Guild Wars 2

I have a warrior and a necro about mid-30s, haven’t played the game in a LONG time (few months after launch I got busy in RL).

I’m curious how Necro is doing lately? I loved their talents and spells back in the day, but sometimes I felt a little weak / slow compared to my warrior.

Would you recommend I play him, or my warrior?

Hey…welcome back.
If you compare Necro and Warrior you will never get to the direct damage of a 1k Blade (which fells very powerful)… but the necro has been buffed since you left and is really at a good point IMO. Condition wise i dont have much experience, but necro power builds are viable and a LOT of fun.
I am actually leveling a second necro at the moment.

The decision you make should be on Style (and playstyle)

PS: Would be helpful to know what you want to do @80… getting to 80 is easy with both classed

As of right now all necro builds are in some form viable, however some are better than others.

in order I’d say it goes:
conditions build>direct damage (death shroud) build>minion master> wells support*

*please note that this is the GENERAL over view of those build types. I.E. most condition builds are better than most of the other types of necromancer builds. Outliers do exist, but are far and in-between since most of the few variations are hardly that different.

I agree with the above posts

I have a Necro main and i also play War & Engi, War is pretty buff atm but its just not my speed.

If you have a necro your strongest build will be conditions, its great for PvP and meh for PvE (you have to run with the right group makeup)

If you go War you will be the fotm and as such you will have an easier time finding groups for PvE content.

Hope this helps, if you go necro level as a MM btw

In PvP necro is apparently broken OP now, so i am 80% sure we will get nerfed to the ground and be unplayable in the next patch (3rd september)

The one necro build that doesn’t really work right now is a non-MM siphon build. Our siphons outside of the minions siphon trait are just too weak.

This is why I don’t come to the forums anymore, it’s always about damage this damage that. I went back to my warrior yesterday and then tried my necro that I didn’t play for about 5 months and let me tell you this, my zerk warrior kills about 5 seconds faster than my necro with a new shiny condition build. If killing so much faster (5 seconds) is what you need, roll a war. Let me just remind you this tho, my necro doesn’t feel like he wears paper armor at least.

Daxxter.8920:

This is why I don’t come to the forums anymore, it’s always about damage this damage that. I went back to my warrior yesterday and then tried my necro that I didn’t play for about 5 months and let me tell you this, my zerk warrior kills about 5 seconds faster than my necro with a new shiny condition build. If killing so much faster (5 seconds) is what you need, roll a war. Let me just remind you this tho, my necro doesn’t feel like he wears paper armor at least.

Its not about damage its about viability of the damage and how much the build provides in other areas. Currently our support is plain crap since people are starting to understand not to stand in giant green/black shiz (and sometimes they even remove conditions), the cc we have cannot deal with the amount of stability and blinks that can be dished out and last but not least, its usually best to move a new player to the top dog of current dps builds because they are (in general) very easy to play.

Daxxter.8920:

This is why I don’t come to the forums anymore, it’s always about damage this damage that. I went back to my warrior yesterday and then tried my necro that I didn’t play for about 5 months and let me tell you this, my zerk warrior kills about 5 seconds faster than my necro with a new shiny condition build. If killing so much faster (5 seconds) is what you need, roll a war. Let me just remind you this tho, my necro doesn’t feel like he wears paper armor at least.

I agree with you, its sad but that’s how most MMOs work. DPS is king because in order to make the game accessible to a mass audience you have to make it feel like a action game. The best defense is a good offence. I agree with the marketing but not the outcome.

I think it’s more of a l2p issue, you don’t have a perfect class in GW, my necro can’t burst like a warrior but I can keep the dps up even if I get knocked down or miss 100b. My necro can rez 3 people if kitten goes bad and mass heal/blind with wells. Necros aren’t guardians or warriors, each class can do something different than the other, it’s up to the player to figure out what strengths you bring to a party. I’m just going to finish by saying that any full zerk that tells you that you don’t add any value to the team and spends half the dungeon on his kitten then gets saved by a necro with a mass rez should go play something else.

Decent feedback.

I’m not really sure what I want to focus on, I really liked PVP at first but felt a lack of rewards and stopped playing the game shortly after. PVE I’ve only gotten to 44 on the warrior as my highest.

I’ve never done a dungeon completely, I think I hopped into one on my necro once and it was a clusterkitten (selfcensored) in there. Kittens were flying left and right, other kittens dying… it was just a big pool of bloody kittens, which is sad.

With that said, I think I’d like to try the PvE Dungeons and such again and be useful in there. I think I got a little bored playing a signet build on the warrior but yes, very efficient kill speed with Greatsword, but I’ve got some dual wield axe kitten going on right now that’s pretty fun too.

Thats a lot of kittens bro, the auto mod broke a sweat on that last post.

That must be the best description for a dungeon I have ever read. You nearly broke the kitten filter on that one!

Well kitten, that’s a lot of kittens.

I think often times that a profession’s “viability” is completely dependent on if it’s fun. Leveling as a signet warrior is not viable for me, because I would die from boredom. And while people say that Engis require too many button presses to do something another profession can do with 1 press, I think it’s fun.

So every profession is in decent shape. Some are just better than others in a specific area. Necro vs Ele for condition spamming: Necro wins. Necro vs Warrior for direct dps speed runs: Warrior wins. But they’re all viable.

Your dungeon clusterkitten was not a result of Necros being unable to compete. It was a result of a bad PUG, poor communication, not knowing the fights, not knowing the profession enough, or trying to do something specifically that a Necro can’t do (like dodge lol).

Seras.5702:

Well kitten, that’s a lot of kittens.
I think often times that a profession’s “viability” is completely dependent on if it’s fun.

You are using that word in a way so wrong that it makes incest seem right in comparison.