Of course someone siding with Nemesis would think it’s a great video.
there is a fragment I luckily by random time press caught
it’s something like
- If completion of dungeon has to take around 30mins or an hour, it takes 5 mins or even less due to exploits people use. And what’s more, it appears that everyone are using it.
I agree with it, because it’s a rush for rewards like someone already has said before.
But then, it makes people being hypocrites, because they blame Anet for lack of content meanwhile, they simply skip 3/4 of the content just to get a reward.
I understand that there may be people who do content fully etc. But it’s unnoticeable minority.
The “exploits” are a touchy thing, and really subjective, so I’ll avoid that bit.
Yes, dungeons really are just a rush for rewards now, because the content has been out for over 2 years now. It’s stale and we’re bored of it, no surprise there. That’s why we’d rather just get it over with. If I were to give you George Orwell’s Animal Farm and tell you to read it every day for 2 years, how long would it take you to simply start flipping through the book because you’re bored of it and know its contents by heart?
Largest health pool for any class, tied with warrior.
Death Shroud, which to the best of my knowledge, serves as an oh kitten button most of the time. (Gain a second health bar, that’s what)
Decent single target DPS capabilities (with the right build and gear of course)
Exceptionally powerful self heal – Consume Conditions. Speaks for itself.
Cons:
No cleaving autoattacks, forcing you to target and attack one mob at a time. This won’t really matter in open world situations, but in situations like high-end fractals it can sometimes prove difficult to shut down a group of mobs before they shut you (and your party) down.
(Relative) lack of utility. All classes arguably have utility capabilities, but the necro’s set just doesn’t cut it.
Blinds? Outdone by a thief.
Vulnerability stacking? Other classes can apply vuln frivolously, and an engineer can cap it out alone, so yeah.
Wells? They get in the way of most fields and grant comparatively bad effects with finishers. Most pugs have no idea what combo field priority is, but suffice to say that if your party hasn’t stacked might yet, wait for the fire field to go down before you drop a well.
Hardly any of the necro’s utility skills actually support the party, and the ones that do are pretty weak or on excessively long cooldowns or interfere with something your party is doing. The interference bit can be eliminated by being a good team player, but can you count on pugs to have that discipline and knowledge?
Low evasion capabilities. Necros don’t even have direct self-access to vigor, which, coupled with a lack of evasion/invulnerability/blocking abilities, forces the necro to be careful with their positioning and dodges or they end up eating the damage which could otherwise have been prevented by one of the above.
There are more points that I didn’t cover, but this should give you an idea of why necros stink in dungeons. All classes have their cons in dungeons, but the necro’s cons are the kind that prevent it from being optimal in speedruns. I’m not saying you can’t do well with a necro in dungeons, but rather there are classes out that that simply do everything a necro does, but better. If you want to play one, then go ahead. Play how you want, but without infringing on others’ freedom to do so. :)
Edit: General Discussion reeks of PHIW and I find it quite disgusting how a certain someone keeps imposing his idea of fun on others, but somehow I’m still following up on it. >_>
I really like the new ones but I wish that we’d see things like a new Mordrem dungeon :/
Also, a new world boss would be nice.
I did some reading up on GW1. Bloodstone Fen is within the Silverwastes (which was once known as Silverwood). Seems like a nice place to make into a dungeon.
