Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve not been playing Necro much, as my girlfriend leveling by my side has been, and I want to let her enjoy it on her own for a while… but after some recent underwater events, we’ve both realized a major problem with the Necro’s underwater weapons.

They are both designed for close-ranged PBAoE. This is… well, like I said, it’s a problem. Only two underwater weapons, and they both are designed for the exact same purpose! Now, the Trident’s auto attack has 1200 range, to be sure. And the #4 ability is 1200 range CC.
But the other three abilities are all short-range PBAoE: one applies weakness to all nearby enemies and drains life force. Another is a forward charge that poisons enemies in it’s wake. And the last is a PBAoE Chill + Vulnerable.

I don’t have a problem with that, except that the Spear skillset is practically the same thing: all about getting a large group of enemies close to the necro, and beating them down with AoE.

This was a particular problem for the two of us on the champion krait queen (or whatever it is) in Kessex Hills (though it’s also been problematic on other, harder events), because she couldn’t manage to survive within range of the boss for anything but her Trident auto attack. The result being she got a bronze medal.
Meanwhile, my Thief gets a gold medal with his Speargun, lazily firing dozens of harpoons from a distance.

I guess it is just me, after all. :<

Nope, it sucks. From what i understand it is lack luster on a few other classes too.

I would be happy if my underwater staff did more than 1 tick of bleed’s worth of damage on the #1 attack… how about 200 damage on it non-crit pleeease?

We had a fairly big thread about this a few days back. Most people agree with you: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Underwater-combat-with-a-Necro