Guild Wars 2

The necromancer has way too many useless traits, especially in the spite/blood magic trees, and more specifically in their static/minor trait slot. Spite has almost non-existent healing buffs, blood magic forces you to use 2 useless minion traits even if you are not looking to use minions. Some traits related to removing conditions, when half of your skills already are all about removing conditions. I have tried to go around it many ways, but I have only found that the typical conditioned build with 30curses/30bloodmagic/10Soulreaping. Every other build, you are forced to pick something useless. 30 points could be invested in the soul reaping tree for 100% effectiveness in PvE…but as you said you dont always get to fill your DS bar in sPvP, and DS is half useful for necros that dont build around power. That tree would be fine if the DS system was revamped. I like the Marks/Wells build, it is incredibly strong, it only benefits from about 7 or 8 traits, which is a good number for any build on any profession…except that those 7 traits are spread randomly all over the 5 trees. I thought that, since the necromancer has several marks and wells, shouldnt it be logical that the 1 or 2 trees should be designed around such AoE builds?

It bothers me not because I feel the necro is weak, but because I have too many useless abilities and traits compared to other professions…every other class I played has more useful traits and a variety of builds (and I have played every class except the mesmer). Looking at the elementalist alone….I could pick my traits at random and Id still get a benefit from pretty much everything one way or another.

Am I missing something? anyone care to guide me to some other builds that wont make me feel like I am wasting trait points? I am even surprised that I do well in PvP and PvE with the necromancer…I really dont care for the necro to be buffed, just have some of it’s mechanics/traits/skills redesigned.

we in the necromancer community have communicated these issues ad nausea. Read the 10000 other posts stating the same information. ANET does not comment, nor care what the necro community has to say. I highly doubt they read these forums as we have not had any communication from developers in months. I don’t feel we are weak, I just feel we are not at the level as the classes ANET loves (guardian, thief, mesmer). Thus, if you’re hoping they will make changes to the class and that is what you’re waiting on to enjoy your necro, just roll another char and play. You will likely be more satisfied.

Judging by yet another let down patch. It’s not going to change any time soon unfortunately.

Warrior, guardian, thief and mesmer (great for PvP). Anything else is really a waste of time right now. Maybe ranger, they’re good, just plentiful and boring.

The main issue in most of the lines is crippled tier 1 traits that don’t have any synergy with other traits in the line, and sticking most of the synergies next to each other in tier 3. It’s not that bad though.

Don’t forget the luaghable Major traits like 1% LF with a third of every critical hit.

And the passive constant heal that eles get with 5 points in Water is more effective and scales with Healing Power, while we have to hit at least 5 enemies critical to get even close to that ammount, no matter if we are traited and equipped for heal to the brim!

Jagged horror, enough said.