Guild Wars 2

Hello necromancer community, I have been looking to get back into the game for a bit now and I really want to play necromancer, I really like the aesthetics and play style of the class but I have been searching here on the forums for a bit and finding out that for what I want to do apparently necro is not very good .

I have read a bunch of threads stating that necro is a very weak class in sPvP and tPvP two things that I would like to do a great deal coming back to the game. I have heard they are alright in WvW but in groups and that’s fine since I will be running in a roaming group of friends.

But I wanted to ask if necro is really as weak in some areas of PvP and PvE as people are saying? Am I going to never get a group for fractals because I am a necro? Am I going to on a constant basis be sat in tPvP in favor of another class?

any answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated as its a pretty big decision on what class to pick and play until 80.

I only play pve but it’s not much of a problem finding group. But if I run condition build and run into another necro, I usually ask what build the other one runs and try not to cripple both of us.

We are fine in PvP. The main thing we are lacking is mobility, other than that we are in a pretty nice place overall.

Arago.3706:

I have heard they are alright in WvW but in groups and that’s fine since I will be running in a roaming group of friends.

It is my impression (at least for the build I run) that necromancers amplify their groups strength against other players.

But I wanted to ask if necro is really as weak in some areas of PvP and PvE as people are saying?

I suspect that people who say that just havn’t figured out which build works for them.

Am I going to never get a group for fractals because I am a necro?

In lower lvls “we don’t want a necro” is a synonym for “we are noobs and we hope that with 5 guardians our fractal run will last shorter than 3 hours, kthxbye”.
In higher lvls (30+) the air is thin enough so people appreciate just getting a full group. Also they know at that point that a necro is a valuable asset.

Am I going to on a constant basis be sat in tPvP in favor of another class?

nope.
When the new BoC all-necro videos come out you’ll see that pure necro teams are the new meta

Thanks for all the responses everyone consider this topic closed. I am going to add my self to the necro legions! =D