vanilla necro vs reaper
If you want to play backline, then yes: vanilla power necro is (besides broken epidemic builds) your best choice.
Spite – Blood – Soul Reaping – Wellomancer has great synergies and is still strong if you don’t get focused.
(edited by KrHome.1920)
Core necro has been receiving some nice updates, making him more viable. Heck i even made a pretty good spvp build for him because he met it’s requirements unlike reaper.
However core necro still does suffer from few serious issues that prevent him from being a fair reaper alternative:
a) absolute trash access to stability – mesmers get more, eles get more, everyone save maybe thief gets more..
b) death shroud is still horrible. Having amazing reaper shroud as alternative only adds insult to injury.
c) minions make you wanna cry – reaper can spawn up to 5 with one button press. Core necro gets 6 if he places a minion on every slot he has..