Guild Wars 2

Not to sound like I’m picking sides or anything but I pretty much agree with Kravick. I do not play PvE so I can’t speak on that, but PvP Necro isn’t that great. Personally I think condimancer is the only real viable way to play them, and that’s my main beef with the class.

I saw a lot of huge numbers in this discussion (like 4k well ticks, 5k+ lifeblast ??!) and if you’re really getting those numbers, you must be literally made of paper and have huge stacks of might, vulnerability stacks, etc etc. Basically perfect scenario that really doesn’t happen that often. Meanwhile a thief (or even an ele/engi) could drop in without boons or anything, drop that same amount of damage, then have multiple ways to disengage.

Power build needs buff plain and simple. It doesn’t even need a lot, just simple kitten. Like why are all our spells so slow? Maybe if dark path didn’t travel at the speed of a snail we would have a halfway decent gap closer. Maybe if Dark Pact didn’t have EASILY the MOST OBVIOUS slow animation, it wouldn’t get dodged/blocked 95% of the time by halfway decent players. Maybe fix the 2nd trait line, (I forget the name) so that it had some good power traits and people might actually see a reason to put 30pts there for non condi builds.

All of our siphons simply do not steal enough health to make up for our non existent mobility/escape. So we essentially have a useless trait line. Speaking of useless trait lines, we have a trait line with our best sources of defense paired up with literally useless minor traits (Death magic). Lol, I mean at the very least make Jagged Horror considered a “minion”. Maybe take some of those nifty dagger traits and put them into the curses tree ? (Haha I remembered the name)

Iunno man, basically I think our trait tree sucks. All our skills are so slow and easy to avoid. (lol signet of locust, you take more damage while channeling the cast than you actually heal) We have no mobility, which is coo imo if we got some real damage mitigation or better siphoning. Gah .. Oh yea, I want to be clear this is all speaking from a Power builds perspective.

So to answer the OPs question. I think Necros are fine if you’re playing condi. If you’re doing anything else (power, MM) you are just doing it worse than any other class could do it.