worth it?
I’ll say this right off the bat. I haven’t played this game for 6+ months (prob longer) but I remember before I left necros weren’t that great. Meaning they were underpowered compared to many of the other profs. How are they now? This was the prof that made me decide to play this game in the first place and I want to give it another go. Thanks
Necro’s are good and i love to play, but pug-parties still prefer war/guard/mesmer
80’s: Sylvari Necromancer (Main). Human: Thief, Warrior (PvP Main), Engineer. Charr Guardian
In PvE necros are at the bottom of the list for providing useful utility. In PvP and WvW they are very strong atm.
Necros are fine in pvp where condition builds are strong atm, and are actually targeted for the nerf bat currently, so if that’s what you want to do they are fine.
In pve though, conditions are as horribly broken as they were on release day, and necros can’t bring any of the things people like to see in groups (power dps, cleave, utility like reflects, buffs) so they are generally considered the most useless class by most.
We do bring good power dps in pve when built properly. Its the lack of useful other utility that makes necros at the bottom for pve. Why take a dps role which stacks vuln worse than an engi and doesnt help buff the team. If you take a necro just for dps you may aswell take a thief instead seeing as they have much greater dps and spammable blast finishers. Only thing necro has going for it is good single target dps in a power spec and control conditions. But of the control conditions only blind is really wanted in dungeons and other classes like thieves can get better access to it while doing more for the group.
I gave up for about 6months myself, due to just getting ‘mad bro’ at necro bugs.
Were playable now.
PvE we still have no ‘role’ within the group. Things like the rework to death shroud, stopping us using it as a block. Means after about 30sec, we miss a dodge/block/invul that all other class’s have to avoid the ‘non-avoidable damage’. So lot of nice groups just ask necro’s to sit out on boss fights…
PvP we make a good ‘affliction warlock’ ikittend of glass cannon. I still actually enjoy a more balanced tanky/dps power & death shroud. But I think all necro’s can agree, without a good group to ‘peel’ people off you, it’s a pretty sore bum time.
Minions have had a huge re-work. Still got to be worst pet/minion/etc in any game in the past 10 years, but slightly less frustrating, and wont actually go off and get you killed.
Few new bugs, give us less synergy to other class’s. (Putrid Mark for example, no longer removes condi’s from Allie’s)
Anyway, I still play my necro as main. I do love it. I do love the GW world/game. But were still not exactly on par with other class’s.