Guild Wars 2

Power necro sucks. No evasion, no speed, easily kited.

Minions sucks.

Hybrid is bad because scepter and staff dont scale well with power.

So conditions is the only viable choice. But with diamond skin we will lose to eles who are rank 1 whatever we do – they will stay 100% health always. With zerker stance and automated response. Necro pvp is going to be kind of hard to play. You wont be able to peel eles off you at all.

Any ideas on how necro can survive post patch?

nah i would say it wont affect us much.
sure staff 4 nerf is just a net being kitten, and enfeebling blood when ds nerf is not really necessary. but 50% spinal shivers is tend to be quite a blow out since when they reach 25% it usually trigger again.
anyway just wait until official patch not released then we can truly know if a net is trying to eradicate necros systematically or not.

I love Power Necro’s in WvW. If you are talking about Spvp, then Power isn’t as good because there is no Knight’s amulet. Imo Power needs higher armor to succeed, but soldiers amulet doesn’t put out enough damage so yeah.

But if you feel underpowered as a Power spec in WvW you should give it another shot, it can be really good in groups and decent while roaming.

The only build I feel really counters me as a power necro is PU/clone mesmers. Other than that, Hammer warriors/guardians give me the most trouble due to all the CC.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Any ideas on how necro can survive post patch?

Yes, we’ll be just fine, just like we are right now. Not perfect, but fine.

Unless you are trying to get onto a competitive team for the big money in #eSports, there is absolutely no reason to care about if you are “viable” or not.

Stx.4857:

I love Power Necro’s in WvW. If you are talking about Spvp, then Power isn’t as good because there is no Knight’s amulet. Imo Power needs higher armor to succeed, but soldiers amulet doesn’t put out enough damage so yeah.

But if you feel underpowered as a Power spec in WvW you should give it another shot, it can be really good in groups and decent while roaming.

The only build I feel really counters me as a power necro is PU/clone mesmers. Other than that, Hammer warriors/guardians give me the most trouble due to all the CC.

I somewhat disagree with power necros being useless in spvp. If you run 30/10/0/0/30 with the 2 wells you can burst down even bunkers relatively fast. And if you have team mates that can help prevent enemies from training you, it is somewhat ok. Because of that, power necros are more a team que thing than solo que, i think. A glass cannon without escape…
But using the flesh worm smartly can negate that a little.

And for the knights amulet argument, as most of our heals suck hps wise, i think vitality is better for as power necro as a survivbility stat (if you have good lf generation). And we can get a vitality/power/precsion amulet in spvp. But then again our survivbility sucks outside of mm builds.
In general necros are probably the only class that scales reasonable well with vitality, thanks to ds.