Guild Wars 2

They really missed the mark on Necromancer. Doing well across all gamemodes? We are the worst class in small scale WvW and medicore in PvP because we have no survivability.
Buffing our damage just puts us further into this high damage but no mobility or defense issue. I’m not really upset with the changes that were made, but it’s so incremental that I feel like we were misled about the size of this balance patch.

“I’m not really upset with the changes that were made”

You should be, we’ve been removed from the raid meta. Which is pretty high on the suck list.

Blue.1207:

“I’m not really upset with the changes that were made”

You should be, we’ve been removed from the raid meta. Which is pretty high on the suck list.

I don’t play PvE. That sucks.

Raids are not exactly profitable relative to most other game modes, so there’s that.

I think the assumption is that necros can just take a lot of damage with a high health pool and shroud, but it seldom works out when you can’t mitigate damage and all our heals are pretty terrible. I sometimes use Take Root (sylvari elite) in wvw as a source of a 3 second invulnerability, but that’s the only way to get some defense is racial skills.

Cecilia.5179:

They really missed the mark on Necromancer. Doing well across all gamemodes? We are the worst class in small scale WvW and medicore in PvP because we have no survivability.
Buffing our damage just puts us further into this high damage but no mobility or defense issue. I’m not really upset with the changes that were made, but it’s so incremental that I feel like we were misled about the size of this balance patch.

Glad to know im not the only one who feels this way. Its just going to make necro a higher target in wvw and pvp which means people will compensate by taking more condition builds because you live a bit longer with them.
Necro is going to be forced into the condition corner which will likely get nurfed again it the future in anet’s attempts to get more people to play power which is terrible with no true defensive weapon skills or utility skills.

In short this class is doomed going to warrior now k bye :>

Necro is likely to always be free points to any half decent roamer with the reaction time of a turtle.

We have the absolute worst telegraphs in the game. If you die to a power necro, you made a huge mistake somewhere, maybe you let go of the keyboard. Maybe you decided to take a nap, but in most ideal situations, a necro isn’t going to outplay you in a power build.

Lockheart.4312:

Necro is likely to always be free points to any half decent roamer with the reaction time of a turtle.

We have the absolute worst telegraphs in the game. If you die to a power necro, you made a huge mistake somewhere, maybe you let go of the keyboard. Maybe you decided to take a nap, but in most ideal situations, a necro isn’t going to outplay you in a power build.

Hey, now. We’re faring fine, remember? Patch notes said so. Clearly the Development team has vastly superior players and we’re simply missing something incredibly key.

MeinUguu.8256:

Lockheart.4312:

Necro is likely to always be free points to any half decent roamer with the reaction time of a turtle.

We have the absolute worst telegraphs in the game. If you die to a power necro, you made a huge mistake somewhere, maybe you let go of the keyboard. Maybe you decided to take a nap, but in most ideal situations, a necro isn’t going to outplay you in a power build.

Hey, now. We’re faring fine, remember? Patch notes said so. Clearly the Development team has vastly superior players and we’re simply missing something incredibly key.

LOL Nice ;D

I mean you could go full valkyrie’s with soul reaping and decimate defenses for unreliable crit chance. between 4 and 100% at any given time, realistically you’re looking at about 20-30% and ~70% in shroud.
I’d honestly go full ham with it too. I’d take that one maintenance oil that gives you ferocity from vitality and a food that gives you more power at low hp.
Not because it’s good … but because what else can I really do? Go condi?
Yeah right. That’s almost viable.