Guild Wars 2

It seems even though every necromancer ever has complained about long cast times, the devs still didn’t feel the need to relieve us of that burden.

I know, I know “I’m judging too quickly”, but if you think about certain skills like Churning Earth on the elementalist, something like that is always easily avoided. I just hope we don’t have a ton of skills that are TOO avoidable, as they have mentioned that we will indeed have long cast times.

I hope giving us these damaging shouts doesn’t lead us into being nerfed to oblivion again. I mean we have a ton of damage, why give us more?

The video looked really cool, and PvE might be more fun as a necromancer now.

In regards to PvP………..time will tell.

They should give reaper a trait called “Death’s Pace” that GREATLY reduces the duration of slow/chill/cripple/immob by like 66%. That’d help swallow the slowness!

I too am concerned about the slow GS attack & skill cast time, it might make us easier to interrupt and dodge.

They did mention that this specialization is more focused on group combat than solo combat. More people means less ability to dodge the necros slower attacks. It might not be too bad depending on the details.

Interrupt, dodge and blind could become a big problem for us. With the info we have now it looks like we can be countered pretty easily.

I’m thinking it won’t be too bad but lockdown mesmer with be an extremely hard counter to us

Sadly enough – especially with the cast time and chill theme it makes the spec absolutely incompetent for WvW … chill is non existent and interrupts are on mass…

OlliX.1705:

Interrupt, dodge and blind could become a big problem for us. With the info we have now it looks like we can be countered pretty easily.

yep i have the same concern, not everything is out yet so judgment will come after necro stream.

Well interrupts may be less of an issue if we really get a defiance bar. And since blinds seem to work on the defiance bar as well those may also not a big problem.

So it would only be dodges, blocks, invulnerabilites etc.

I have this horrible feeling of dread welling up inside that the necro and now reaper will continue to have no real place in the meta unless they dazzle us with something amazing in the video tomorrow. The general susceptibility to cc the necro has to deal with will be far worse being always in melee range unless most of those shouts count as a stun-breakers and give significant stab or something along the lines of LF=Defiance.

With quickness becoming a more accessible boon it might not be too terrible (crosses fingers)

Worst part of the specialisation…

So they also said that our great sword will replenish life force but I hope to god it’s not a terrible amount or else we’ll be following the pattern of having sub par LF gain

CC,CC,CC,CC,CC still rip no stab lol

Fun fact: Every fear will inflict chill, just use the combination of both to damage spike an enemy, team up with an engi and kitten will get real (pvp wise)

Falcon.8713:

Fun fact: Every fear will inflict chill, just use the combination of both to damage spike an enemy, team up with an engi and kitten will get real (pvp wise)

Oddly enough, the last time they made fear plus another skill powerful (Dhumfire & Bleed) it became so devastating that the player base had tantrums and we got nerfed.

Here’s to hoping that this time around it works out for us, or at the very least everyone else is so enthralled with being a Revenant that they don’t notice we can kill people.

O.o