Guild Wars 2

Ok, so this was ever so briefly poked at on another thread, and it got me thinking.

Not going into the bugs and weaknesses currently inherit with the class, I think we could benefit greatly from a psuedo-adaptation of the Engineer’s Kit system and the Elementalist masteries.

F-Bars

F1 – Death Shroud
- Devs have stated they’re going to give us Boon/Con displays, so this can go largely unchanged.
F2 – Unlocked at Level 5, Summon Bone Minions
- Skill replaces with Detonate Minion
F3 – Unlocked at Level 10, Summon Bone Fiend
- Skill replaces with Rigor Mortis
F4 – Unlocked at level 20, Summon Shadow Fiend
- Skill replaces with Haunt

Utility Skillkits

6 Pt – (Unnamed as of yet) [Wells] (30 Second Swap Cooldown)
Pull out a sacrificial dagger, slice the hand, and draw a sigil in the air (similar to mesmer mantra)

Num 1 – Well of Blood
- Greatly lower self heal (As one could still use their main), slightly increase party heal.
Num 2 – Well of Power
Num 3 – Well of Darkness
Num 4 – Well of Corruption
Num 5 – Well of Suffering

Wells persist after switching kits.

6pt – Spectral Mastery (20 Second Swap Cooldown)
Create a small profane circle under the character before taking on a spectral form (Spectral Walk character effect, mins the tron tail)

Num 1 – (New Skill) Spectral Bolt
- Ranged high-impulse auto-attack, low to mid damage
Num 2 – (New Skill) Spectral Blast
- PBAoE damage moderate damage, low cooldown
Num 3 – Spectral Grasp
Num 4 – Spectral Armour
Num 5 – Spectral Wall

With all the issues with lack of build options, and the loss of the iconic horde of minions following the necromancer around, I think this may go some way to opening up the class and putting a new level of skill management into the mix.

In hindsight, having the tier 1-3 minions on permanent availability may be a bit overpowering in some instances, though the mindless zombie AI more then makes up for that.
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It’s not a bad idea actually

Necromancer probably should be heavily intertwined with minions regardless of build, and giving more class powers would be a good way to do that.

Having all wells on 1 utility sounds overpowered, but I really like the spectral kit idea.

I like the idea of having minions pulled to the “special” keys (long since re-bound mine.) Would give me something else to press every now and then.

This is actually a very good idea to have minion skills in the F-keys, and I agree with Mathemagician, minions should always be a big part of being a necro no matter what build you are running. However I think it would not work out well to have necros use a kit swap like the engineer, it would make both profssions feel alot less unique and would bring alot of balance issues

I think the theme of the Necromancer has always been the minions. I think we should have them available regardless of your build but give you options to for builds that do not utilize them.

For example, we can have multiple builds here:
1. You get more minions
2. You get stronger minions
3. You get short-lived minions (minion bomber)
4. Your minion skills are unusable but you gain some sort of bonus… maybe additional condition damage