No, Salamander I dont agree; a bit more it is necessary that just see the utilities. We need far much more than that: where is our stability – we get cc’d so easy, where are our elite skills -we have none, where is our mobility, why do we have such high casting times, what is the point of these pitiful minions, where are our merged traits (why are they so poor), why do we keep being nerfed at every step. Do you see a pattern? Has ANET EVER LISTENED TO THE NECROMANCER FORUM? Have they ever changed/reverted/buffed a skill at our request? I for one, don’t see the point of a forum being there. Sorry folks but this is the truth.
You dont believe me? Read someone else’s opinion: http://www.tentonhammer.com/feature/guild-wars-2-are-necromancers-really-so-bad#disqus_thread
So you don’t want to see our utilities in death shroud? It sounds more like you do agree but want other changes also. I’m afraid that the purpose of this thread isn’t to highlight every single change the necro could possibly have (other threads do that better), but to garner forum support and attention to fix this detail.
After all, no one, including myself, is arguing that allowing us to see utilities in DS will fix all of the issues with necro’s as a class, or that it should be done instead of any fixes to the issues such as those you mentioned.
But it still needs to be done.
It’s fine if you have no faith that a forum topic could provoke change, but when I see 100+ posts on two seperate useless QQ threads about mesmers in the PvP subforum, and <50 on this [constructive] topic, it makes you wonder whether we can’t try a bit harder. So let’s see if we can’t get everyone to respond and make this thread huge to get dev attention. Even if the experiment fails, you’re only losing 10 seconds of your time to +1. Thanks to everyone who has done so thus far.
Cheers.
EDIT: Bagheera, I read the link you provided, and one of his major gripes was primarily being unable to use his utility skills in DS. I’ll note, however, that even seeing the cooldowns would alleviate this disadvantage because then we’d know when it would be best to exit DS to use a utility. Ultimately, the change we’re all promoting would do wonders to mitigate some of the issues with necro. Of course we would all prefer to use utilities in DS, but my logic is that it will be harder for ANet to say no to such a harmless QOL change as seeing the utilities. On the other hand, using our utilities in DS is a much larger change, and may be considered by ANet to require more extensive rebalancing and testing.