Look, Imma tell it like it is. This DS excuse is simply a bunch of BS. You cannot, cannot justify leaving Necros in the state we are in because of one darn mechanic. Imma say something else that needs to be said too. DS is NOT this all powerful skill that people shutter when it is used. “OMG DEATH SHROUD!” Yet that is how it is being treated. DS life bar gets eaten to nothing by thieves, warriors and mesmers. The most you can hope to stay in DS is maybe 5-8 seconds against some professions and then do what, oh yeah, life blast. Pffft. When I am getting ripped to pieces in a matter of seconds by really OP skills from Warriors and Thieves and then getting turned into a freaking Moa that seems to last the duration of the fight, Oh wait, there is no fight in Moa form, youre just freaking dead! Then you can imagine how sick and tired im getting of hearing this myth that DS is this potentially OP skill that could change the game somehow. That is simply laughable. Jon is worried about DS being OP in the hands of GOOD players while other professions are OP in the hands of freaking MEDIOCRE ones. I am sick to death of this BS excuse and Jon Peters aka Ghostcrawler (cause thats who he is acting like at this point) needs to get his act together and fix this darn class. Ive personally had it up to here (hand over head) with all this BS surrounding DS. Its garbage and not acceptable anymore.
good post OP. couldnt agree more. JP is totally off his rocker here. the guy probably dont even know what hes talking about, hes just a higher up with no understanding of the game at all, just finances or team managing, but ZERO knowledge of the real game
I’d love to see the statistics that ANet has about class distribution. I bet there are less than 5% necromancers.
and probably the vast majority of the poor souls who are still playing necro dont read the OF and they dont even know how enormously bugged (and even without bugs, sucky) the class is
Yeah, I know plenty of people who ‘have’ a necromancer. But very few that actually play it. We have a small handful of active necros in our guild of 200+.
I think what the OP is trying to say, is anytime someone says necros need a buff every other person they talk to will say something like “omg no you guys get 2 health bars blah blah blah”, and we end up getting pinned as a class that’s just fine because of our death shroud mechanic.
That chart doesn’t at all look like the chart they had during the beta weekend… most people did jewel making stuff (literally 60k+ apparently, compared to very low numbers in the rest). I figured this as Jewelry is used by every profession. But this chart just feels…. off…
The low number of jewelmakers compared to the beta seems feasible to me. During beta, we knew we couldn’t possibly get anything to max lvl – and jewelery was comparably hard to get, and was something everyone could use. Now, crafting is something that is meant to carry us even through endgame – and people probably care more about what stat boni their weapons and armor have. Hence, more people crafting weapons and armor and less crafting jewelery…
I must agree though that I would like to finally see our bugged traits corrected :/
