Guild Wars 2

Jugnificent.2061:

pdavis.8031:

While necro doesn’t have the stun breaks, invulns, damage avoiding mechanics as the other classes, they have some awesome things that work really well. If coordinated. (i.e. wells minions, and condi pressure. @ Drarnor yes I lumped them together because those are some of the tools that the necro has at his disposal. And yes they can and do work together.)

How exactly do they work together? If you are specced to do good damage with wells, your condi pressure will be negligible. I guess you could run flesh golem + one or two wells + celestial and do all of those things but you won’t do anything very well.

I agree totally with what Bhawb said. No other class folds up as quickly under focused pressure as necro. If you run plague that buys some time but at the expense of losing basically all offensive power.

I run condi. I take well of corruption, and well of power (sometimes well of suffering or darkness) Blood is power, and Flesh Golem.

Yeah the wells might not do as much damage as they could, but it does help to strip/apply conditions, which add to the damage. Flesh golem doesn’t do as much as it could, but having that extra damage and a knock down can be very useful. Knock down foe, and place a well. They are stuck there for at least a couple of seconds, enough for the wells to do what they need to do.

Sure there are other utilites that might be more useful in a condi build, but I find those to be useful for how I play. Plus it adds dark fields for some area blinds, which can be usefull in a pinch.