Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to compose my own “State of the Game” post about Necromancers, and I’d like to talk to some other people who have played and enjoyed this class as much as I have. I’ve played Necromancer for 1625 hours, and I cannot say I don’t have complaints. I’d like to consolidate with other Necromancers and discuss some of the things we all can agree need to be improved for this class, reworked, replaced, removed, etc.

My in-game name is Lugus Equinox. Please send me a mail or respond to this post if you have or someone you know has played this class for over 1000 hours. I need people who can confidently say that they’re in an good position to assess this class for everything its worth; people who have experimented, played with, and even pioneered this profession. I’m looking forward to responses from the community.

Not sure If I’m at a 1k hrs. yet with my necro, i am def. avid. I really only PvE and WvW but i’d do a SOTG about it if you need help.

I’ve got over 1000 hours spent on my necro. I’ve been necromancer since release. I’m willing to help you with this. I also have multiple level 80s that I have spent a little bit of time on so I’ve got some pretty decent knowledge of a few other classes as well for comparison.

I’ve been playing necro since launch, and I’m very happy with it.

I have over 1500 hours logged over 2 necros.

I have alot of insight on ways to improve the power necro and DS builds.

I have roughly 750 hours on my necro, but he is definitely my go-to character. I would be happy to talk about anything necro related.

Jamin, Kravick, and Dredlord, I’ll message you shortly. Is there anyone else interested? I’m looking for people versed in various aspects of the game. If you could include what areas of the game you use your Necromancer, that would be fantastic.

I’ll help you, gladly. I’ve got loads of hours on Necro, and a lot of experience with fiddling around on it.

I’m still looking forward to any responses to this post. I’ve gotten a lot of great responses from some people who know a lot about necromancers, but I’m sure more are out there, and I’d love to hear from you.
Even if you aren’t someone who knows a lot about necromancers, but you know someone who does, please refer them to this post. I’d greatly appreciate that.

I’ve played nothing but necromancer in both GW1 and now in GW2. I’d be happy to talk to you darling.

Keep the responses coming, I’m loving the discussions so far, and once we can get enough Necromancers together, we can start all getting together, sharing our ideas, and coming to some solid conclusions.

2k hours. 95% of it necro. Love discussing the class.

Equinox – hit me up I would be interested in helping with this. I love anything that opens up discussions. If you want a place to broadcast from sittingonacouch.com is more than willing to help.

Let me know if there is anything we can do.

Over 1000 hours since CBT, 98% necromancer play, all builds.

Feel free to message me on forums or whisper me ingame, I’ve got alot of necromancer pvp games played and over 1k hours (mainly pvp) :-)

my ING “toxic allen”, 17k + wvw kills… i stopped wvw though, 1.2k hours i think in game with necro

P:S: i have all lvl 80s cept engi …… i wud love to help with anything, i want people to play necro simply cas i love it, even if its weak n so on, but all my necro time is in wvw and ONLY wvw

Players who’s opinions I would definately respect are Kravick, nemesis and oblivion.

spoj.9672:

Players who’s opinions I would definately respect are Kravick, nemesis, oblivion, and obviously anything Bas says is amazing.

I fixed it for you :P. It looks much better this way.

This sounds fantastic, well if you want someone for the competitive tournament scene from a necromancer’s perspective you can hit me up. I think I am around 1k hours on necro, I only play necromancer but I don’t know much about WvW or PvE but in terms of tournaments I know most of it. Anything to help the necromancer community grow is always great and I would love to be a part of it.

dont forget bas u guys

yes we must never forget bas, does great things for the necro community

Gibbly.5480:

yes we must never forget bas, does great things for the necro community

Unless it’s jumping puzzles or super adventure box ugh!

Bas.7406:

spoj.9672:

Players who’s opinions I would definately respect are Kravick, nemesis, oblivion, and obviously anything Bas says is amazing.

I fixed it for you :P. It looks much better this way.

Pfft minions. That is all. :>

spoj.9672:

Bas.7406:

spoj.9672:

Players who’s opinions I would definately respect are Kravick, nemesis, oblivion, and obviously anything Bas says is amazing.

I fixed it for you :P. It looks much better this way.

Pfft minions. That is all. :>

Dont forget his love for Axe Mastery, a trait that gives a 15% damage boost on a medicore weapon that is used for damage for 1/4 of his arsenal instead of the execution trait that works on his entire non condi kit and his main food being the Bowl of Fire Salsa, X3

(for bhawb who refuses to see when i try to make a joke, yes this post was ment to be a joke)

Nice thread, I`ll bother some of you guys with some whispers later on.

I’m hoping my opinion is useful. I’m not sure if I represent the opinion of many other necromancers, but for the majority I’m just really disappointed with our traits, and how many of them are bugged.

Wow! Lots of responses since I last looked. Haha.
I’ll get to whispering you guys immediately. Thank you!

I can help out with anything PvE or WvW related. I’ve done a fair bit of theory crafting and build testing, particularly for bunker builds. ^^

Did i pass?

Heavy WvW player, design multiple builds for alot of people and have played pretty much every major build style there is for Necro.

I had to look it up: with 8,5k achievement points, Ascii is currently rank 10 on NA!

And the other wvw stats on the right side… wow xD

I think I speak for everyone here when I say: sorry bro, only top 3 make the cut :P

Can I goes =D 1.3K hours, im good with WvW such as solo roaming/small mans and tad bit in PvP from a wellomancers point of view that is!

But but but, i do cool stuff on Necromancers.

Yes, Ascii, you pass :P lol

I’ll get to you guys when I’m not busy since it’s reset night for WvW, and I’ll be leading my guild on the battlefield.

I’d be glad to help. I’ve been playing a Corruption Conditionmancer since launch and am currently sitting at about 1k hours played on him. I’ve also played every main point of the game (PvE/WvW/sPvP) but I definitely focus more on WvW/sPvP.

I dont nearly play this game enough for my opinion to matter, but i’d love to see the results and i applaud the effort. Good luck in your endeavor to create a Well of Knowledge.

Is anybody else interested in contributing? I would love to bring together as many people as I can.

GankSinatra.2653:

I dont nearly play this game enough for my opinion to matter, but i’d love to see the results and i applaud the effort. Good luck in your endeavor to create a Well of Knowledge.

I play a lot and but don’t quite have the hours or experience with Necromancer yet. But I concur I really want to read this article. Mainly to see if people have the same irritations, likes and dislikes I do. What is the ETA on the writeup?

Ive been playing Necromancer since beta, eventually maining it on the day of launch with my first character Feros Corpsereaver. Im thoroughly convinced that Feros is either one of the first, if not the first Necromancer of Desolation server, considering he was created so quickly after launch.

I played Necromancer to 80, eventually maxing out most of my gears before making any alts, and ive tried many different builds in that time, such as Minion Master, Condimancer, various DPS builds, etc. eventually formulating my own build, which I use currently, as a result of that ive also used every weapon.

Throughout the time ive played, ive acted as a kind of mentor to newer Necromancers in the guilds ive been in.

Ive enjoyed Necromancer very much, and its definitely kept me interested, keeping me from making alts until getting deep into “end-game” content.

I generally play PvE, occasionally going to WvW.

Argon.1563:

Ive been playing Necromancer since beta, eventually maining it on the day of launch with my first character Feros Corpsereaver. Im thoroughly convinced that Feros is either one of the first, if not the first Necromancer of Desolation server, considering he was created so quickly after launch.

I played Necromancer to 80, eventually maxing out most of my gears before making any alts, and ive tried many different builds in that time, such as Minion Master, Condimancer, various DPS builds, etc. eventually formulating my own build, which I use currently, as a result of that ive also used every weapon.

Throughout the time ive played, ive acted as a kind of mentor to newer Necromancers in the guilds ive been in.

Ive enjoyed Necromancer very much, and its definitely kept me interested, keeping me from making alts until getting deep into “end-game” content.

I generally play PvE, occasionally going to WvW.

Bit of a bold claim to say you were one of the first when loads of people had 3 day early access before release and necro was actually pretty popular on release along with ranger.

I was in the 3 day early access. I created my Necro immediately after the launch at 5am that day, I had planned out my character design in the final stress test, so I could get in as soon as possible.

a bold claim, but its plausible.

I was very active in Tpvp on release and for about 3 months untill my Tpvp team quit gw2, we were actually a very good unknown team ironically ran 2 necros on our team which ive suffered only 1 loss with. We even managed to beat super squad when they were on the rise although they played 4 eles 1 thief when ele’s were relatively a unknown class. The 2nd necro played an engi this round,

PoV is of our ele who actually popularized a couple ele builds and had a controversial thread claiming ele will be nerfed when everyone else thought they were garbage.

I’ve created many posts in the past introducing builds i’ve never seen posted at the time whether or not people use or know any of them to this day is a mystery to me, but most builds are still viable.
I’m constantly experimenting and theory crafting and still continue to map out builds and gear sets mainly for WvW
I’ve been focusing on pve and wvw and crafted my legendary frostfang.

I feel i have enough experience with Necromancer in all areas to be able to join your discussion if you are still looking for people

Argon.1563:

I was in the 3 day early access. I created my Necro immediately after the launch at 5am that day, I had planned out my character design in the final stress test, so I could get in as soon as possible.

a bold claim, but its plausible.

You should of done what all the cool kids such as myself did and completely skip designing your character. Just race > class > storyline & name.

Thank ANet for makeover scrolls. :P

Alright, I’ll play ball.

I have no idea how many hours I have as Necro tbh, but I’m fairly confident I know Necros as well as the game in general. I have one of every class, all but 2 (ele and engineer) lvl 80 and fully exotic/some ascended pieces, all of them played and tested in PvP, WvW and PvE. Necro was the second character I made, and is one of my most played. While I won’t say I know everything about every class I can provide a more holistic and less biased view of the game than most people who have played Necro exclusively.

That’s as much “kitten waving” as I’m willing to do. Feel free to contact me if you are interested. I’ll probably drop you a message in-game at some point to facilitate contact. Interesting idea, let’s see how it goes.

Cheers.

ProxyDamage.9826:

I have no idea how many hours I have as Necro tbh

Type /age into the chat window, it will tell you how many hours you’ve played total since launch and how many were on the character you used the command on.

Ascii.9726:

ProxyDamage.9826:

I have no idea how many hours I have as Necro tbh

Type /age into the chat window, it will tell you how many hours you’ve played total since launch and how many were on the character you used the command on.

Really now… Now that is useful. Ty.

Thank you for all the replies. I think I’ve gathered enough people now to discuss. If all of you whom I’ve talked to in-private could message me again if you’re still interested, that would be fantastic.

I didn’t get into GW2 until much later due to funding issues, so I only have 400 hours on her. However, I have almost 3k hours on my necromancer from GW1.

And I have to say, before I got into GW2, I was very skeptical about the usability of death shroud in GW2. The Alpha tests convinced me that it would be an exciting and fun mechanic to use. Then Beta rolled around, and loads of nerfs happened, and the skepticism of death shroud returned. I decided not to pass judgement on it until I actually used it myself. After I did, I felt right to have been skeptical of it.

Death Shroud reminded me of the GW1 assassin. let me explain. Although mechanically, these 2 professions are worlds apart, there is one thing they have in common in terms of play ability. The assassin was a rather loner profession. When you took one on your team they wouldn’t provide any party buffs or use hexes that incentivized your party to attack the same foe. Where as every other profession has some sort of party combo support. The assassin was very much in a vacuum. Death shroud feels the same way. Although if you are traited for it it can heal your allies. But it still feels like its own thing, independent of even the necromancer using it.

Since death shroud no longer can be used in the downed state, it doesn’t feel like a death ability any more. It feels more like a power shield. And when it replaces your skills for a short time, it feels like I’m slogging through mud using it. Even giving us a skill on the downed bard to enter death shroud would be nice. Hell, replace the 3rd skill with enter death shroud.

The other problems I have with it is how little of the old necromancer remains in the new. The old necromancer had amazing party support through damage and life stealing. the old would never have given protection to their allies. They would have given them a vampiric aura instead, telling them to kill in order to heal. They would have placed a hexes on their foe that would punish for physical contact. The necromancer was a force of pure spite. They didn’t help you because they liked you. They helped you in spite of their enemies.

I’m hoping the update to the necromancer fixes some of the balance problems they have. I’ve talked about that in other posts. I doubt I will ever get that gleefully spiteful sociopath that was the GW1 necromancer ever again.

I like your idea about replacing the 3rd downed state ability with an option to enter Death Shroud.
And GW2 Necro definitely lacks a lot of what GW1 Necromancers were, for sure.
Funny you mention Vampiric Aura, as that’s something I was going to throw out when we finally begin discussing.

Well if elementalists can have shocking aura, I wouldn’t mind a vampiric aura. Actually any excuse to replace dagger two with something relevant to melee will tickle my fancy.

I don’t mind the dagger 2 where it’s at currently. Honestly, I think it would be best to give Necromancer another weapon option; something melee with cleaving. Biggest reason I don’t play my necro as much in WvW now that my Warrior is level 80 and geared, I can’t cleave. If my necro could cleave with a Scythe or Hammer, I would never touch another class again. Hands down.