Guild Wars 2

Please help. I honestly feel like everything around necro has gotten buffed. I feel useless in a team comp. I love the class but this build is starting to become frustrating. Any good pvp builds out there that can sustain alittle bit better than the typical “meta”? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

There’s no build that makes necros able to sustain being focused in team fight in PvP without support. If you watch the pro tourney you’ll see necros require babysitting by an engi for insta downstate rezzing. Unfortunately when you soloq you don’t get that kind of support 99% of the time so you just have to kite, juke, and use line of sight to stay alive more.

Also meta changed a bit. Those playing at pro level are using rune of scavenging and many necros are taking blood magic running a signet build. I’ve been testing this build in soloq, it’s interesting, does give you a bit more sustain. But like I said, without support you’re going to die a lot when opposing team outclass yours.

I was a long supporter of the Corruptionmancer build, but it just doesn’t cut it against all the bunker play we have lately…

I’ve been having much better success in solo queue running a Condi Signet build with OH dagger instead of warhorn. You lose the extra interrupt of WH, which you really do miss, but the extra condi-transfer, bleeds, and AoE Boon Corruption more than make up for it.

The signets though… They really swing team-fights in the current build, because you can call target and melt the druid/guardian/engineer/ele that is giving your team trouble in mid. It sort of builds around the philosophy of taking the one thing we still actually do better than other professions—corrupting boons—and runs with it.

As an added bonus, you can handle yourself a little better in 1v1’s through might stacking/so many transfers. Power Warriors and Thieves still dump all over you tho. =(

I’m just afraid that for devs that watch the pro tournaments, and see how teams abuse the engi+necro fast rez mechanic, I hope they don’t find that acceptable. I don’t want them to balance us based on the notion we’re going to do die. That and the fact that overwhelming majority of the necro players will not have engi babysitters that revive & support them in pvp.

I don’t think necros are happy about being balanced to go downstate, just as I don’t think engies are happy they’re a rez bot.