Guild Wars 2

You’ve taken away our shroud, taken away our food. What’s left for this class anymore? There isn’t anything. In a single patch you have completely broken a class which I have mained since launch

I don’t understand why they are so afraid to buff the necro? We are barely wanted in any game mode, tolerated at best, and we got some of the worst nerfs out of every class this patch.

I understand that out of 3 traits if one is more powerful by a country mile (vital persistence) you don’t NERF it, you BUFF the other 2 traits so they become just as viable as the other one.

Why should I buy PoF and give in to the power creep?

Anyway, rant over I’m not going to be playing again for a while.

Necro is so bad now that it makes the Bear bow look good lmao
Balance team don’t really care about us, they had to nerf so they can make the new elite spec look good.

R.I.P. to the never wanted class

This is why I quit the game 2 years ago After a while you have to accept that they are just bad at developing this game and quit. It makes for a happier existence.

Yeah this has hit alot of us hard. I myself came came from a break of mmos gw2 being tht one till i tried reaper. Man was i elated tht we had a somewhat quick moving, power spec, been here since. Now with this..its taken the wind outta my sails. I was looking forward to getting into the new expac with a build tht ive held since forever. Really amazed at how they came to this. I agree with lord they (devs) really are just that BAD.

Yup, I’m quitting my Power Reaper main. The profession I used to love so much now feels awkward and annoying to play. If I can’t find a new main, I will search for a new MMO.

Blastbase.1936:

Necro is so bad now that it makes the Bear bow look good lmao
Balance team don’t really care about us, they had to nerf so they can make the new elite spec look good.

R.I.P. to the never wanted class

+ 1.000.000

that is the one and only reason about this patch necromancer changes

Mea.5491:

Yup, I’m quitting my Power Reaper main. The profession I used to love so much now feels awkward and annoying to play. If I can’t find a new main, I will search for a new MMO.

and this is also my problem. i have spent over 3000 hours on my necro, and every kittenign time i got some kind of nerf. I can run every single necro build on the game on every game mode but still get nerf on each of them.

I usually istant pre-order new expansion but this time it will be very hard, haven t ordered yet and i will consider what to do only the last days beafore the release. But if i do not see the Scourge viable this weeked i m done with this game since i do not find fun any other classes.

RIP gw2

ilmau.9781:

I usually istant pre-order new expansion but this time it will be very hard, haven t ordered yet and i will consider what to do only the last days beafore the release. But if i do not see the Scourge viable this weeked i m done with this game since i do not find fun any other classes.

I regret buying the expansion because I don’t feel like playing right now… I don’t like Scourge because of the lack of Shroud and I’m not a support type of player. Until yesterday I was like “that’s okay, I’ll just stick with Reaper”. But now? My Power Reaper is completely destroyed. There are no options, you can only go Scourge because Shroud is not fun anymore. I still have my Engineer as a secondary main with my own custom build which did not change so that character is my last hope in this game…

Lets face it the most fun part of necro and main selling point of necro and the necros most iconic ability IS………………… Shroud…. and they nerfed it to kitten and the new spec also totaly removes it….

GZ devs….

Anet don’t know what they are doing when it comes to Necro, we got left behind along time ago, and Anet have never done anything to improve us, it seems every update they do just puts us further and further behind other classes, why did they change Lich Form its just another Elite now that wont really be useful ( just like that sad excuse called Plaugelands like who stands in that field ), the summon madness skill is poor, yea lets spawn minions that last for 6 seconds, but wont move anywhere as you are more than 1200 away from an enemy, ok so lets run into the enemies oh wait we are dead already,

The nerf to shroud is another shocker, why do Anet not just come out and say it, we want to remove necro from the game, and do it already, its clear they are nerfing us harder and harder every turn,

Yet other classes get even more damage added as they where lacking behind, looking at thief here.

I truly regret buying the expansion now, Anets history should have told me what to expect but I guess I got burned again, I wont make this mistake again in the future,

The worst thing about this is, Anet wont even acknowledge any of these topics, so we don’t get any answers.

GG Devs GG

You can get an expansion refund before it launches. I’m happy I waited.

Doomsayers one and all. Still play condi and power builds to the same effectiveness. (Not taking into account min/maxing. Just that the results are the same).

Sucks about the shroud decay trait. Ah well. :/

Famine.7915:

Doomsayers one and all. Still play condi and power builds to the same effectiveness. (Not taking into account min/maxing. Just that the results are the same).

Sucks about the shroud decay trait. Ah well. :/

Stop saying this. It amounts to a troll post, and it would be best for you to depart from the threads that are discussing the nerfs by the presentation of evidence.

The results LITERALLY are not the same because significant nerfs were made to a spec. You can’t get the same results with a build that gained nothing of importance but lost everything that made it function.

Tiresias.6473:

Famine.7915:

Doomsayers one and all. Still play condi and power builds to the same effectiveness. (Not taking into account min/maxing. Just that the results are the same).

Sucks about the shroud decay trait. Ah well. :/

Stop saying this. It amounts to a troll post, and it would be best for you to depart from the threads that are discussing the nerfs by the presentation of evidence.

The results LITERALLY are not the same because significant nerfs were made to a spec. You can’t get the same results with a build that gained nothing of importance but lost everything that made it function.

Incorrect. This is only doomsaying. In my post I agreed they made a poor choice in nerfing vital persistence and they certainly should have buffed the other two rather than nerfing the one. It was a nice trait to have but nothing that I would personally consider build defining. (Can’t speak for spvp).

As for Scourge not having shroud, there really is no evidence to be had. Until we can play the spec and see how it works in a real environment, all points made are speculation.

As for your use of the word “literally” out of context, if I was being literal, I would say: “yes. A good spec lost something really good.”, But my wording meant that I could do all the same things I usually do and I get the same outcome. As I mentioned, I know that numbers fluctuate with balance changes, but I was not referencing numbers.

I’m glad I’m not playing a Shroud reliant build or I would be totally kittened like most are, unfortunately it’s an intended nerf to help Scourge set itself apart from other builds and probably to lessen the effectiveness of shroud traits on the specialization since I don’t think they want to make the same mistake like they did with Reaper and chill damage on HoT release.