Guild Wars 2

Thor Rising.7850:

First off, everything depends on your build and your spec. Thieves and mesmers just take some time to learn how to fight against them well, though mesmers are very strong atm.

In WvW for zerg based gameplay, just run full zerker armor and trinkets with either axe/warhorn and staff or dagger/warhorn and staff. Use well of suffering and well of corruption and basically stay on the backline dropping heavy aoe wells onto the enemy zerg in fights.

If roaming in WvW, I consider a mix of dire and rabid armor with scepter/dagger and staff or scepter/warhorn and staff to be the best build. Run things like spectral armor or walk, plague signet, and corrupt boon to help your 1v1 chances.

For pvp, the best build currently is the celestial signet build. http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Celestial_Signet

I personally prefer taking terror in the curses line, and spiteful renewal in the spite line. Your signets will turn their boons into conditions, mainly use them for converting stability into fear if possible. Plague signet to dump a load of condis back onto your opponent, especially good against the burn classes (guard and ele) that love to dump 10 stacks of burn onto you within 3 seconds. I would also recommend using Consume Conditions if you don’t have much experience with necro and SoV as it can be hard to get used to the offensive heal skill. Signet of locust is a great backup heal and AoE boon corruption that can completely turn around teamfights while keeping you alive. Makes mesmers your best friend because each of their clones and phantasms you hit with it will heal you a cool 1500 hp (up to 5).

Learning to tank some enemy skills with deathshroud, and only dodge the important ones is the hardest learning curve of this class imo. We don’t have any blocks, invulns, evade skills, or stealth. You need to manage your energy well and remember to save your 4th mark for transferring a lot of conditions. Maintaining weakness on things like thieves, mesmers, and warriors is very important as well. With the signet build every time you pop into shroud it will drop aoe bleed and weakness near you, so make sure to shroud close to your opponent.

Good luck, and stick with it, this class can be very rewarding but it is hard to get used to being the primary focus in every teamfight.

Yeah. I’m trying to focus on the spectral skills and specialization. Lich form has made everything so much easier (except that it’s so short)

To Whom It May Concern,
I am new to this game and I heard it was great (watched the angry review on YouTube). In my naivete, I chose necromancer as it looked like a class I could enjoy, so far, I have never been so wrong in my life. PvE is totally alright but I am getting cooked and eaten i WvW and PvP by even little asura thieves (Zhaitan take them!), and MESMERS! Don’t even get me started about those 1-man armies, I defeat one and I am defeated by another one, with an unknown number of them casting magical lights and other things, the only thing I see for sure is my health dropping to zero. As you can see, I am in desperate need of help, less in WvW, I am more worried about being a better necromancer in PvP.
Thanks for the assistance,
Mohamed Ali
(UPDATE: Sorry if this has been answered in another forum, I find it difficult to navigate this place)