New necromancer looking for some answers.
Hello everyone,
I just joined this game and made a Necromancer, because it felt like the right class for me.
I just became level 21 and I have a full con dmg gear from tailoring. My weapons are a scepter/dagger+staff for making lots of dots. I have noticed that my healing pet (the first one that you get) dies alot and dies pretty fast.
I dodge and try to heal myself, but it feels like everything that I do is just wrong. So my guildmates adviced me to come here and ask some questions.
1) What is the ideal setup (build, skills, weapons) to have a leveling build where I can survive? Because I tried soloing a veterens and I get killed, but my warrior and guardian guildmates can kill the veteren without losing much hp.
2) How is the necromancer at endgame? I have known from reading other class forums on other mmorpgs, that almost everyone thinks that their class is underpowered. Is the necromancer underpowered, or is everyone whining?
3) Can I be a support necromancer? If the answer is yes, how?
4) How is WvWvW as a Necromancer, will I have a fair chance in a 1vs1?
5) Is it true that bleeds and other dots have a limit on them? If the answer is yes, why would the developers put such a restriction on a class that does alot of dots.
Thank you for helping me.
Elena Clover – New Necromancer
1) It has been a while since i did any pve in my necro, but back then either a cond build or minion build would kill a vet, but keep in mind 2 things : if you run minions their poor AI will give you headaches when facing many mobs, and if you run cond you will have trouble dealing damage in big bosses becouse contions do have a cap, this might mean you have trouble getting gold medals.
Like i said its been a while since i did pve, somepeople say you can deal fine with a power build, i haven’t tested but i believe you can do fine in any build in pve.
2) people are whining! necro has as many problems as any class, just keep in mind that an mmo is a work in progress, check out for bugs and make a build that fit your playstile.
keep in mind NECROS CAN’T BURST, it IS POSSIBLE with a well-minion build, but it won’t be as good as the burst of other classes since you don’t have panic buttons and runaway tools, necro is an attrtion class, people don’t accept that, and this is the source of all whining.
3) yes you can do awesome suport, specially with wells and marks, but since both well and marks are static, it takes a while for your team to make the most out of your suport, but when they get the hang of it it is pretty awesome (cd’s are pretty long though).
if you want to suport your team in a more agressive way, we have a decent amount of cc’s, boon removal and some gamebraking skills like epidemic and corrupt boon.
4) WvW is gear dependen’t to a certain point, but admiting that your enemy is at your lvl in gear you’ll do just fine.
Keep in mind that 1v1 one is not common in WvW.
5) it’s true, but as for the why i can’t help you.
(edited by Vilar.2680)
if you want to solo veterans staff and scepter/horn work very well together for me, heck with that setup you can solo any melee focused champion without it ever touching you. i also use consume conditions because it lets me heal more frequently than any other skill.
some people claim that minions are great but its rare that you will find a lv 80 using them, they die very quickly (especially in dungeons) and their AI is terrible. I stopped using them around lv 30 after becoming frustrated that my shadow fiend wouldn’t attack anything, and my flesh golem was more interested in attacking the scenery.
with wvw most of the time I struggle with 1v1 situations as most classes can either quickly escape, leaving me no way to stop them, or their skills, cooldown and boons simply allow them to outlast me in a fight. other people say they can dominate in 1v1 fights but I have never seen a necro do anything but die quickly. I mostly just follow the zerg and use my marks to try and force the enemy to take a different path now.
bleeds and so on have a limit but I wouldn’t worry about that because if you are running solo you will never reach that limit anyway.
1) What is the ideal setup (build, skills, weapons) to have a leveling build where I can survive? Because I tried soloing a veterens and I get killed, but my warrior and guardian guildmates can kill the veteren without losing much hp.
2) How is the necromancer at endgame? I have known from reading other class forums on other mmorpgs, that almost everyone thinks that their class is underpowered. Is the necromancer underpowered, or is everyone whining?
3) Can I be a support necromancer? If the answer is yes, how?
4) How is WvWvW as a Necromancer, will I have a fair chance in a 1vs1?
5) Is it true that bleeds and other dots have a limit on them? If the answer is yes, why would the developers put such a restriction on a class that does alot of dots.
1) Every build does its job quite well. You just have to choose which is your playstyle.
If you prefer to play defensive, than Minion Master is the way. Else, you can build focusing on Death Shroud and the decent damage output of Life Blast or build around conditions.
The only advice I can give you is don’t focus that much on the vampiric concept because it isn’t worth that much.
Keep in mind, as said before, that Necromancers aren’t that good in bursting down mobs fast.
2) Most people whine, but the Necromancers are in a quite sad state, but this is mostly about PvP. In PvE Necromancers act quite good in endgame. Also, as said before, don’t expect any huge damage numbers.
3) Wells. I suggest you to spec into Death Magic and Blood Magic if you want to play support, but don’t expect to deal any damage.
4) You definitely have. But in WvWvW 1vs1 fights are always unfair, because equipments makes a great difference.
5) They have a restriction, but you won’t get that cap alone. Anyway every profession can build around bleeding in the same way, so this isn’t a Necromancer specific problem.