Guild Wars 2

Love Reaper PvE and PvP.
Love dagger/warhorn dps
Love build variety, finding minion builds insanely good for solo play.

Hate Greatsword
Hate having no minion command, even something like dismiss or explode.

Btw is anyone have any luck soloing as anything other than minion orientated builds? I’m sticking as D/W and Staff lately with a typical minion setup.

Spite/Soul Reaping/Reaper can work well when soloing and you don’t want minions. GS is far from bad, yes the AA is slow but you gain some great utility and damage on it. D/F for the other set except you need more CC. Spite/Death Magic/Reaper is by the far the most relaxed solo setup for Necros, though.

Actually, you may enjoy minions to your heart’s content…for me, they are part of what makes the Necro fun to play. Also, you CAN explode your bone minions for two blast finishers. ANET also just fixed the ability to detonate them in this situation, making MM even stronger:

“Putrid Explosion: Fixed an issue that caused the blast finisher on this skill to fail to combo with the field generated by the trait Death Nova. This skill now properly displays the combo floater when a combo is achieved.”