Guild Wars 2

As all you faithful necromancers know, playing with a Necromancer requires skill and dedication. I will state here that the Terror/Dhuumfire chaining is borderline OP, but a simple fix with soon sort that out (yes, the nerfhammer is coming).

So the reasons;

1. Necromancer’s have had to deal with a substandard amount of buffs previous to the recent addition. Whenever we had buffs, we had quite hard nerfs too. However, after Necromancer’s have had to deal with this for over 9 months, we became skillful with the limited resources we had.

2. Trait lines still need fixing. Personally i think greater marks should be inherent and Well’s should feature with staff traits. We could go around in circles for possible fixes/adjustments. Minions? just no.

3. 1v1 is still a bit meh, however now we have more viable solutions to some class problems. e.g. Necromancer vs Thief = Thief win 98% of the time. I believe that there is still a long way to go. Attrition < DPS.

4. We don’t have perma-stealth… (Insert other professions insane abilities here).

5. Stigmatization of the class. This class has been neglected in terms of variability which has not been addressed. We always got beaten left, right, and center (See 3.). Because Necromancer’s now have a chance, we are considered to the community as OP, due to the initial stigmatization of the class, which left it in ruins in the first place.

6. Weapons are a shambles, need at least a sword to get us back in contention with our light armored friends. Hard to redesign skills without having an overhaul. So meh.

To conclude, we are not OP for above reasons, which is my personal opinion. I have put a severe amount of hours to be a moderately competitive Necromancer. This has taken us time. 9 months of time. That’s a long time.

Torment is a great addition, however after reading that it might be available for thieves, it made me want stealth. Please keep up the continuation of improvements Arenanet/Developers, you are slooooowly getting there!

This is a polite and fruitful discussion. If anyone has thoughts, please be nice and respect other Necromancer’s opinions

These threads never work. At this point, people are just bandwagoning on the OP train. They heard that necros are OP and so they blame that instead of the 6 times they walked into spectral wall for the reason they lost.

It’s worth a shot? If they nerf spectral wall, which they won’t, they have to nerf that Guardian bubble that i can’t remember..

I REALLY want to see a dev answer how in the kitten is terror OP when it was not changed at all in the patch. We got access to one more fear. In sotg Chap even said they are fixing the signet bug which was adding 20%+ to terror builds. And they want to nerf the damage too? Isn’t that kind of overkill for an ability that was seemingly perfectly fine for the last 10 months? Now maybe terror+duumfire is borderline OP, so why not just swap terror to a grandmaster trait? If they nerf the damage they are essentially killing a currently viable build which is the exact opposite of what they have been preaching about wanting more builds.

Fear builds will be useless next patch, as you said.

What annoys me after just re-aligning my traits, is that Wells feature in the Curses and Blood instead of just one. That’s like saying to an Elementalist; We have Meteor Shower specifics in Water and Fire…

Yeah, i just got really annoyed re-traiting.

Im just surprised people dont consider the soul reaping builds OP

That time will come in the next patch! yaaay!