Guild Wars 2

Hello, I’m Safer Saviour and since launch, my main has been my necromancer. For a very long time, I’ve stuck to various condition based builds because I enjoy sadistic and subversive playstyles. However, looking at these recently revealed notes and reading over the worried speculations of my fellow necromancers has me, well, stumped. I’m really not sure what direction to take my necromancer in that would keep me as a viable option for dungeon, Fractals and WvW groups.

Advice would be very much appreciated.

+50% downed damage, 6 runes of afflicted and bowl of fire salsa.

Targuil.3741:

+50% downed damage, 6 runes of afflicted and bowl of fire salsa.

this is fun!… and sad

Im in the same boat and am currently building up a warrior. Necro’s were always kinda bad for PvE, and now terrible.

Conditions builds have low direct dmg compared to other classes, and have their own penalties such as stack limits, a terrible startup time, poor structure dmg, and condition removal/transfer. Ele’s will outclass a necro in AoE dmg in many if not all cases. dmg output on zerker is out classed by warriors who also happen to get nice team based skills like “For Great Justice!” These other classes also get access to stun breakers and such.

To add insult to injury, we get nerfed. I know a bunch of depressed necro’s ceasing to exist is kinda a part of the theme of a necromancer, but come on arenanet, throw us a bone so we can use it to destroy stuff on par with the rest.

Roll a ranger…

Or a guardian. Wait it out till the next patch and hope ANet pulls their head out of the ground.