Guild Wars 2

One of my only issues thus far with a necromancer, despite the negative feedback , that I don’t like is that your skills while in the death shroud are weak compared to you regular skills the only reason I go into it is so I don’t die. Which leads to my second problem with it. Which is the fact that it is way to easy to be pulled out of it… Also there is not enough life force taken from the enemies to make a difference. For me necros are my fave riot class no matter the criticism but still would like to see this improved

I personally think that DS was only ever in tended to be dipped into, throw a skill or 2 (fear or shadowstep) and pop out again to regen it. Before going into DS make sure u equip ur staff for the highest dmg (assuming it’s not a shamans or clerics’ staff^^).

However i am noob at DS and use it as a panic button when the sht hits the fan and stay in it too long most times probably. This is probably because i can’t see what conditions i have and that i haven’t gotten used to using the skills properly. I guess i use DS as a proactive downed state, this will prob change when/if i start doing any form of pvp.

At 80 geared, I find DS is a nice thing to switch too after I stacked my bleeds. Due to might generation from power is blood (and allies) i can generally get 23 stacks of might. Count that with the stacks of vuln you already placed on your enemy and your DS 1 can hit quite hard.

Fenixsis.7056:

One of my only issues thus far with a necromancer, despite the negative feedback , that I don’t like is that your skills while in the death shroud are weak compared to you regular skills the only reason I go into it is so I don’t die. Which leads to my second problem with it. Which is the fact that it is way to easy to be pulled out of it… Also there is not enough life force taken from the enemies to make a difference. For me necros are my fave riot class no matter the criticism but still would like to see this improved

Depends on your build. Dont expect to trait into anything other than Vitality or Power and expect DS to be a miracle. For example, DS in Rabid builds suck. What needs improvement on your part is to understand DS better and what affects it, and on ArenaNet’s part, to fix the bugs.

For me to get a strong DS, I need Power + DS traits + (Might and/or Vuln).

• Reaper’s Might (RM) & Unyielding Blast (UB) are a necessity.
• Might stacking from RM, BiP, Sigils (Strength,Battle) and Runes (2xFire + 2xHoelbrak + 2xStrength).
• Vuln from UB, axe, focus, sigil (Frailty).

Axe range needs to be further than 600….

power/vit/tough necro with max power. use BiP, signet+3 might trait, get 13 might to boot. Go to town with Ds4 and Ds1 with staff equipted.

as for your comments about life force generation, you just need to learn how to play the necro more to understand where you’re getting LF from. after a while, you’ll be able to build that bar up in sometimes less than 3 seconds.

get toughness, it makes incoming damage much less, therefore making your DS last longer.
secondly, get vitality because DS is a % of your max health bar. more vitality= spongier DS bar.

DS can definitely be strong offensively.

I hit a 4.4k life blast on another necro in spvp today.