Guild Wars 2

necros are in this weird spot in the meta when it comes to certain game mode type. PVE and fractals are fine for necro’s, due to the heavy reliance on co ordination and synergy to get objectives done.

this is mainly to due to being able to be a huge damage sponge, where the trade off is having a lack of defenses

however with the result of the expansion in PvP and WvW, necros are put in this werid spot where. if you dont have a buddy, you will die. because being a damage sponge when you soak a lot of damage with very little way to mitigate damage or to protect yourself. you need boons from other classes for you to be able to even do anything.

and yeah. it probably sounds stupid, that Gw2 is a team based game and requires teamwork, but the reality is, No other class has this burden. the fact that any other 2 classes already have the luxury and choice to synergies with any other class. with minimal effort in comparison to what a necro must do to be as viable

if i could recommend a fix. give necro’s more ways to protect itself in the specializations. as opposed to relying on conditions to a distance from a single target

Necromancer always performed better in the presence of trash mobs, whose deaths fuel shroud. Greatsword and shouts further improved that crowd control specialty.

Similarly, it’s weakness is in scaling up against more active and capable opponents where deaths are absent, crowd control skills and AoE have little or no effect, and boon-sharing dps professions synergize.

On the topic of crowd control, a lot of the important skills that necro has, has long channel times. which means you are forced to run one of the only 2 two stability skills just so you can cast your other channel skills