Guild Wars 2

I was playing in a fractal 48. I only have 40AR since I put the gilded infusion in my amulet. When Maw shot us with his agony, I popped down Well of Blood, and hit Deathshroud. I was able to tank the rest of the agony without going into downstate after that.
So, one thing Necros can do is survive Maw agony at high levels while the rest of the team dies
Yay us!

But if you get downed, your HP will melt in a blink of an eye due to the downed state HP bug =)

Jokes aside, yes. It is a great perk and I’m taking advantage of it all the time running 40+ Fractals. This is the necro flavour I really like.

Ohh and the topic should be ‘One OF THE good things about Necromancers…’

Yeah, there’s just been so much hate on Necros on the forums lately. Most of which I agree with though. I would like some access to vigor and betters CDs and all that. But when you spend 10min on the Necro forums you get the impression that the class is so bad you should kick any Necros you see.
But I love the class and barely play any of my other alts since they don’t compare.

Well, another good thing about necromancers (in the current state) is brought by one of the main bad things about it: you can’t make 1-2 cookie-cutter builds that are actually on par with other professions in tournament play, but you can make 10+ builds and variations of similar strength (in some cases very situational) that are almost there. This pretty much makes it the most fun to play class outside of tourneys imo, because whenever you get bored of one build’s rotations/playstyle, you still have a dozen other builds and their respective playstyles to go to.

Honestly, necro isn’t half as bad as people see him. It is more of a misunderstood and misperceived profession that has a very distinct gameplay not everyone will like and be comfortable with.

I agree with Gabi, the build possibilities are vast and I don’t have as much freedom on my war and ranger as I do on my necro.

Necro, just like every class, has a lot of tuning and quality-of-life changes coming. Things can only get better from now on.

I agree with both Gabi and leman.
I love the flexibility that necros have.
I feel so trapped in other professions because it’s one build or don’t bother.
I have 2 armor sets for my necro and still want more for other build types

Yes…. I love our versatility…. and I think the impression that we are a weak class gives us an advantage there. People aren’t as likely to know what to expect from us. I love the experience in spvp of someone charging in thinking “ooh necro easy kill” and I end up taking them down. Hint: the trait that grants wells life siphoning is my favorite thing in the entire game basically. I think we have a lot of strengths in pve too, considering I’m often the last one standing in a given fight, which I think is a lot cooler than dying 5 times but killing your boss faster.