Guild Wars 2

People keep going into hysteria over burning and terror, but don’t realize we already were nerfed last patch, despite also getting stronger.

Corrupt Boon was nerfed, its nowhere near as effective vs bunkers now, already unreliable to hit. Epidemic and Corrupt Boon were also indirectly nerfed by moving Terror up to master slot (itself a nerf), as now you can’t have it and Master of Corruption for 20 points, and if you go 30 lose lingering curses or another desirable trait.

As a Necro running both those corruptions I hardly feel the adding of burning and torment even made me that much stronger.

Also the Putrid Mark nerf (or bug), doesn’t really matter which until or unless its fixed.

Necro’s ability to deal with conditions actually took a hit last patch, even though our number of conditions and DPS went way up.

That is why they must be extremely careful about any future balancing down, as not to forget these significant above cutbacks were already made.

I think the perception of necro’s being OP is that there are so many of them running around in WvW and PvP right now. Players get ping-ponged around by numerous fears and get melted by conditions because marks are everywhere.

There are perhaps a few things that were slightly over boosted. But in true anet form (look at rangers) things will likely be changed drastically I fear (pun intended).

That’s very likely to happen in the next patch which is why I simply re-shelved the Necro a few days ago, might as well since I’m not into getting shellshocked with a nerf immediately after getting up to standard. Noting I’ve had the upper hand with my Mesmer over some Necro’s in WvW I don’t see any need for change, and all good of they didn’t take place.. means I can bring my Necro out again.

No I don’t do much pvp honestly & I’ve always done well with the Necro there. If it must skill seperation should play a bigger role in balancing, the rest is not my problem.

Yeah, it’s really just that one build that people are finding problematic. Whatever ANet does, I really hope they prioritize limiting collateral damage.