Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, I used to play GW2 quite often last summer, and I was pretty active on the necro forums as well.

In September I quit the game for a myriad of reasons, part of it was college starting back up, part of it was the new smash bros coming out, and part of it was that I felt that the necro balance changes back in September weren’t enough to fix many of the issues that the class had.

So now that I have a bit more free time before grad school starts up, I am wondering, how is the necromancer (and GW2 in general) these days? Are you satisfied with the class? Is there still a fair amount of PvE/spvp stigma against it these days? What are the general meta builds these days?

For the record, I’m not sure if I’ll actually come back to this game, even when the expansion comes out. Mostly thats due to me having enough games on nintendo platforms to keep me sufficiently busy and happy for a very long time (so I’m pretty strung for time), and the other part of that is that playing this game on a macbook pro is a pretty awful experience, with less than 20 FPS most of the time on the most reduced of graphics.

But I still care deeply about this game after all the thousand+ hours I’ve spent on the game and the necromancer, doing everything from making a legendary to having fun in pvp and being part of a decent WvW guild, and I’d just feel like a shame to never go back to this game because it really did mean a lot to me.

Take a look at the front page. As it stands, there’s little hope for core necromancer profession. Elite specialisation may be salvageable.

Targuil.3741:

Take a look at the front page. As it stands, there’s little hope for core necromancer profession. Elite specialisation may be salvageable.

That bad huh? I guess I’d probably get a more satisfactory PvE MMO experience from sticking to xenoblade chronicles and its upcoming sequel then..

nearlight.3064:

Targuil.3741:

Take a look at the front page. As it stands, there’s little hope for core necromancer profession. Elite specialisation may be salvageable.

That bad huh? I guess I’d probably get a more satisfactory PvE MMO experience from sticking to xenoblade chronicles and its upcoming sequel then..

I wouldn’t say it’s all doom and gloom for the necro, but Anet is being really hard headed right now when it comes to changes and suggestions even when it’s thrown right on thier desk. I have little hopes for specializations, but it can’t really get any worse than it is now.

CodeHavoc.7926:

nearlight.3064:

Targuil.3741:

Take a look at the front page. As it stands, there’s little hope for core necromancer profession. Elite specialisation may be salvageable.

That bad huh? I guess I’d probably get a more satisfactory PvE MMO experience from sticking to xenoblade chronicles and its upcoming sequel then..

I wouldn’t say it’s all doom and gloom for the necro, but Anet is being really hard headed right now when it comes to changes and suggestions even when it’s thrown right on thier desk. I have little hopes for specializations, but it can’t really get any worse than it is now.

so whats so bad about the next set of balance changes? Sorry I haven’t looked through them.

nearlight.3064:

CodeHavoc.7926:

nearlight.3064:

Targuil.3741:

Take a look at the front page. As it stands, there’s little hope for core necromancer profession. Elite specialisation may be salvageable.

That bad huh? I guess I’d probably get a more satisfactory PvE MMO experience from sticking to xenoblade chronicles and its upcoming sequel then..

I wouldn’t say it’s all doom and gloom for the necro, but Anet is being really hard headed right now when it comes to changes and suggestions even when it’s thrown right on thier desk. I have little hopes for specializations, but it can’t really get any worse than it is now.

so whats so bad about the next set of balance changes? Sorry I haven’t looked through them.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/33qrg0/specialization_ama_livestream_notes/

^Well for the biggest upcoming one this is their idea. No core changes just shuffling around and a few extras. We still can’t use utilities in DS,siphon is still useless,we lack of active defense,we are too slow to react to they add instant traits to do the work for us,curses offer no power GM,conditions specs are not looking good right now etc.

If you want a welcome back laugh : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPna1XlfVYqs

CodeHavoc.7926:

nearlight.3064:

Targuil.3741:

Take a look at the front page. As it stands, there’s little hope for core necromancer profession. Elite specialisation may be salvageable.

That bad huh? I guess I’d probably get a more satisfactory PvE MMO experience from sticking to xenoblade chronicles and its upcoming sequel then..

I wouldn’t say it’s all doom and gloom for the necro, but Anet is being really hard headed right now when it comes to changes and suggestions even when it’s thrown right on thier desk. I have little hopes for specializations, but it can’t really get any worse than it is now.

TBH if you were going to be doomy and gloomy about the Necro, there isn’t a more perfect time to do that than now. I mean Arenanet is actually reworking/balancing classes after so many years and they’ve utterly failed on what they’ve shown us about the Necro. Pretty much the vast majority of necro players agree on this.

The only time more perfect to be doomy and gloomy would be after they show us our specialization and it sucks as much as our trait re-balancing.

There’s been SO MUCH feedback about these changes and absolutely ZERO response from Arenanet. It makes absolutely zero sense for them to remain silent yet here we are, with not a single re-assuring dev post that they actually give a kitten about necros (instead of just stealing ideas from the necro subforum to make the revenant profession.)

Nekrothaft.6390:

CodeHavoc.7926:

nearlight.3064:

Targuil.3741:

Take a look at the front page. As it stands, there’s little hope for core necromancer profession. Elite specialisation may be salvageable.

That bad huh? I guess I’d probably get a more satisfactory PvE MMO experience from sticking to xenoblade chronicles and its upcoming sequel then..

I wouldn’t say it’s all doom and gloom for the necro, but Anet is being really hard headed right now when it comes to changes and suggestions even when it’s thrown right on thier desk. I have little hopes for specializations, but it can’t really get any worse than it is now.

TBH if you were going to be doomy and gloomy about the Necro, there isn’t a more perfect time to do that than now. I mean Arenanet is actually reworking/balancing classes after so many years and they’ve utterly failed on what they’ve shown us about the Necro. Pretty much the vast majority of necro players agree on this.

The only time more perfect to be doomy and gloomy would be after they show us our specialization and it sucks as much as our trait re-balancing.

There’s been SO MUCH feedback about these changes and absolutely ZERO response from Arenanet. It makes absolutely zero sense for them to remain silent yet here we are, with not a single re-assuring dev post that they actually give a kitten about necros (instead of just stealing ideas from the necro subforum to make the revenant profession.)

How did the revenant steal ideas? I haven’t looked to into that class yet.

And is every class going to just have one specialization? Because I feel like it’d be excessive to have every mesmer run around with a shield when that class already has so many offhands.