Guild Wars 2

With all the negativity on this forum, I thought I’d make a positive thread for once!

For me, the thing I like most is the sweet shadow scythe animation. I run around with my staff mashing the 1 key and yelling “I AM THE DARK LORD SAURON!” and pew pewing at nothing in particular

Of course, this all takes place within the comfort of the potato farm in the Valley of the Queen. I wouldn’t dream of setting foot into PvP with my necro

What about you guys?

Go lich form to 3 shot most of the dragons humanoid minions and then see how it just pops into nothing when i touch water and get eaten by risen sharks?
Nahh it must be the cute Shadow Fiend wiggle (despite it looking like a giant demented sperm if you run) and using Transfusion/Life Transfer to aoe heal in dungeons when team wide damage appears.

I like Death Shroud. There. I said it.

At 44, I really enjoy my Staff/dual-dagger Necro. (I don’t PvP and I’m just learning WvW.)

My build (of course only partial now at 44):
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MMVm0Mz0mFMvMm0MvMaf0fxomMoMb

The huge phalus symbol on my flesh golem’s nose. They may all beat me up…but we all know who has the biggest “staff” in town .)

I am also specced for Greater Marks, ladies.

http://en.gw2codex.com/build/18307-bleed-heal-minion-necromancer
it is my current best necromancer. most skills are immobilize and bleed. i just gave up many builds because of bugs. only this build worked in PVP. but i got bored at this build again because it has low damage. i will make more strong and critical build soon.

My 4-5k Might stacking, Vulnerability stacking, piercing Life Blasts probably comes in first for me.

So mark me down for Death Shroud, too.

I love my wells, 15 secs uptime of dark combo field, followed by 10 secs of light combo field = wonderful. Oh, and trolling with plague form #2 ability

How awesome they where in Guildwars 1

Currently: The fact that he’s already 80.

I’d used to love Plague Signet and how it made this class special, but since it is bugged as hell I don’t use it anymore.

I love the spell effects, especially Necrotic Grasp’s staff effect and Grasping Dead’s burst of arms.
I love the minion models.
I love the voice acting. (“Oh, you killed my minion? I’LL MAKE SOME MORE!”)
I like the idea behind a lot of the mechanics, even if the implementation is lacking.

I charge big clumps of players in WvW under Spectral Walk, dump a well, a couple of marks on them, thrash about with life transfer and pop back to where I was.
The other similar variation on the same trick is when they enemy are all over a champ mob loaded with conditions is to do the same, except epidemic the area and run off laughing as they all die of ‘teh aids’

Having a HS thief try to HS spam me with his two button only to realize I am not a squishy condition spec, proceed to stack vuln on him while ignoring the bleeds, give him back his bleeds while stabbing my dagger in his face, they usually die or run.

For me its using the axe with skill 2 (Ghastly Claws). Whoever designed that clearly loved the movie “Thor” (I do too

I love tanking unogranized blobs in WvW, being able to push in for kills and escape unscathed.

The versitility of necromancer is amazing with a dagger / staff combo. I can switch my combat style on the fly.

Death shroud is scary when used correctly. Even though the fear is short there is ALOT you can do with it.

Wells and their traits are plain scary when used correctly.

All around I wouldn’t want to be any other class.

I love the insane survivability. There is not much that can kill me in PvE (outside of dungeons). Running in a group of enemys, often collecting some more to save time, and then kill them with all my AoEs without dieing. Even in dungeons, i’m often the last Asura standing. Ok, maybe thats because an Asura is smart enough not to die, but thats beside this thread. And also in WvW my repair bill is quite low.

I totally like to pull people of the walls or out of a zerg with Spectral Grasp in WvW. Most fun skill in WvW for the Necro. Just wish more people would pay attention to their sourrondings, because often those who were pulled down from a wall just run back in through the whole zerg without being attacked by anyone but me.

Seeing a Guardian that has just popped alls his buffs and is running around with an endless amount of boons run stright in to my well of corruption.

Generally, as soon as the bugs get fixed, the Death Magic minor traits are changed, thieves get toned down a little bit, and warriors stop running away all the time, the Necromancer is in a fine place (At least for me. Im not playing sPvP).