If you are looking for a profession that sacrifices their defenses, look no further!
Death shroud replaces Vigor, invulnerability, mobility, most stability, stealth and even blocking! With this extra health bar, you will be able to take hits almost as good as 1 use of aegis from a guardian! Tremble in fear when you can’t heal in it so your life stealing’s effectiveness shoots through the ground. You will have them on the ropes as your quickest recharging stun break requires set up before use and can be killed! Look no further, The necromancer is the absolute best at sacrificing their defenses!
Oh, you meant getting a significant benefit from it? What do we look like? A well designed and well balanced profession?
In all seriousness, the necromancer isn’t terrible. The Minion build is something to be feared in PvP. Their condition build is also rather threatening if used right. But its not all sunshine and roses. We suffer from a lot of preventable problems that are built into our mechanic. High end PvPers who use the necormancer as their main have to abuse a bug in order to have a uninterrupted stomp. Which, isn’t the case with other professions. Death shroud also has more bugs with it where occasionally it locks you out of your heal and utility for 3 seconds. The over all lack of defense that we have will lead you needing to rely on your party in order to survive. Although Death shroud is good in 1v1, it scales poorly when fighting multiple foes.
Maybe someone else would be better at selling the necromancer then I am. I’m very bitter and really only keep playing because I’m hoping arena net get their head out of their butt and correct our poorly designed mechanic. its a really cool concept, it is. It just doesn’t work well in practice.
