Guild Wars 2

I like my Death Shroud as it is except for Life Blast, that one could be faster. Right now it’s slower than the Staff auto attack and doesn’t attack in a line or combo with fields, making it so much weaker.

And gimme Life Transfer underwater. I don’t want to have a skill that is useless when I’m alone which debuffs me at the same time.

What annoys me is that Water attunement daggers for elementalist does the EXACT same thing as our axe, but it’s a line effect that hits twice. That’s right, it copies our axe and does it a hundred times better.

I want our axe to send out a black scythe

Sebyos.4089:

What I noticed here again is people mixing PvE and PvP. The necro is fine for me in PvP, but lacks a bith in PvE. I used to think otherwise, but then I geared in power crit and realised we suck. It’s amazing the lack of options we got when we want to go power/crit builds.

Really?
What weapons did you use?
Dagger/dagger + Axe/focus is awesome for my power/crit build. And fills my life force to the boot.

Fine so I read part of it wrong, but you still forgot to add that it slows the endurance bar, meaning less dodging which again leads to taking more damage and being easier target for combo’s, in pvp, that’s comedy gold.

Not sure you should be under the illusion that they will change a gameplay mechanic on someone’s input. They’ve spent years on this thing, what we who didn’t think doesn’t really matter.

But hey, as long as we’re wishy-washy, I wish there was an assassin clone outside downed state.

Right, why waste time on another class when you can post random, meaningless kittenkitten here.

I don’t mind it, get a few enemies, use Vampiric shrimp, then spear spin, swap to trident and use the number 5 for mass aoe. Whatever survives eats poison from the dash and feared with wave from deathshroud. Repeat.

Sad OP is sad

Ansel.4351:

Corruption boom is really bad, nothing become a really usefull for its cd.

I corrupt a warrior with 22 stacks of might and it become 1 stack of some useless condition, instead of 22 stacks of bleed.

Weakness makes it so half the time, their abilities do 50% less damage and cannot crit.
If you think that’s weak, you should play a warrior, cuz clearly you’re just interested in damage.

I like all the points people have posted so far, especially the Aoe havoc on wvw keep walls, that is comedy gold when combined with Epidemic to spread the conditions even more and targetable wells.

I personally enjoy the aoe of a mage type with the health of a guardian, it’s just so much fun to pull large groups and then maim them, made a few people stop and ask me how I did that.

I personally don’t look bad at the bugs, but rather happen to think more along lines of “If I can do all this bugged, ermergerd the stuff I will do when we’re fixed!”

Consider this a grace period to let the other classes feel good bout themself before we roflcopter them

9) Plague, just such an awesome skill, AoE blind spam is amazing
10) I have so much that I like about this class that I don’t feel like sitting here typing it all out when I could be playing my necromancer

Wooooorm?
What worm?

Maybe they just don’t agree with the massive amounts of pvp whine and cheese?
I for one kickkitten in pvp and have fun. Just because warrior and thief are stupidetly easy to play as a one trick pony doesn’t mean necro sucks.

Argun.5781:

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2. a
3. necromancer)

just kidding… :P

1 staff skills and poison clouds…
2 bite someone… (ghost bite :P) Scepter + horn skills fast pvp and pve…
3 Immortalty (if you get mad)

I have a norn warrior too but necro is the most fun playable class i ever see… i dont say most power… i say most fun…

And fun is everything…

I do love the bites, the animation and the sound, like a giant chomp, especially with #3 Axe skill.

I’m curious thought, what do you define by power? The most damage in short bursts?
I personally find the ability to keep seven enemies constantly slowed and Weakness’d (50% to hit for 50% less damage and no crits) very powerful. When the champion enemy can’t crit for 30 seconds, he’s hilariously easy to take down.

Aireroth.7596:

1. Visuals (dual dagger attacks, staff scythe, dark theme, etc.)
2. Death Shroud (so much potential! Shroud-dancing ftw~)
3. Doing well despite all the Q.Q

Seskahin.9570:

1# Minions are stupid as hell
2# Every other class outdamage us
3# Most of our Traits dont work

Yap love it

Why are you playing a necromancer then? o:

Clearly so he has something to complain about, how else will he have something meanful(questionably) to say online. The fact that he can’t shut up when having nothing good to say in a thread where good things were asked for speaks for itself.

Shhh now. <_<
Gimme three things you like bout the class!

First, this is intended for pve mainly, pvp will never be balanced and people will never stop crying, I may have my own opinions, but I don’t want devs to enforce them onto others.

Secondly, don’t worry if you just stumbled onto the forums, Necromancer is a darn good and fun class, sure we have some bugs, but that doesn’t make the whole class bad or poor, and if you want to keep your sanity and opinion unpolluted, you should probably leave this forum, because unlike other class forums, people have joined the hate bandwagon and it’s on a highway to hell.

I’d like to hear the good parts of the class!

#1: Summoning a black scythe while using staff is just so darn cool!
#2: I can viably swap between a heavy condition aoe staff and a hard hitting, fast double daggers for two very different playstyles.
#3: Insane survival rating with Death Shroud.

@ Shep
I deal with mesmer using a few ways, one is to mark them with ctrl+click. The second is careful observation, clones don’t strafe or run backwards, just turn and forward.

If they dual wield, you can also look for offhand weapon, clones don’t have those.
When they are downed, and this is the good part, never go for the 1st one to come out of stealth, that’s the clone. Mesmer will always be the 2nd person to come out of stealth because of cooldown on attack/animation.

We don’t have any reliable speed buffs(i’m a 50 mesmer), so I always found a good solution to use Elixir B for swiftness and a flamethrower or bomb kit to stick close and aoe, the clones die fast.

Rerolled from a level 45 mesmer and 45 engineer to Necromancer which is now 22. This is SO much more fun

@ Tilron – Yeah, same bout gw1.
This character I can reliably kill 7 enemies at once without breaking a sweat.

Tilron.2738:

What is the problem with Necromancers?
I have a necro at 80 and I have zero issues with the playstyle. WvW I can hold out against a larger force for longer than any other class, I can kill one vs one without issues against most classes. Nothing in PvE can hurt me unless I am trying stuff that I know is out of my range.

What is the issue people are having with the Necromancers?

There seems to be a few buggy traits and a few totally useless ones like Jagged Horror and Protection of the Horde. (Okay so protection is good, but only for a minion build, I want toughness without being forced to use minions.)

Other than that, the class is very fun, unlike a warrior or thief, we can easily kill, kite and maim groups of six enemies without dropping below 90%

I’m sorry, but I don’t think you should have big hopes for what’s essentially a total class rework to make a “dark” engineer/elementalist/guardian.

I also disagree with well, pretty much everything but the floating scythe, which I’d love to have. We have two weapons and Death shroud, that’s 14 abilities not counting utilities, it’s plenty. More kits doesn’t mean the class is more fun, I for one did NOT enjoy Bomb & Flamethrower kits or Earth Shield & Flame Axe weapons.

I got a mesmer and engineer up to level 45, a thief to level 30.
I’m having so much more fun with my level 23 necromancer than any of the above.

It might be because I don’t care what people on this forum say about the class and make my own opinions about it.