Guild Wars 2

Well, I’m not sure if that is sarcasm or not SimVanLee but, mostly error on my part I did mean to say that your actual health pool may be +/- or equal to your life force depending on how it actually works. If you had 20k HP, you pretty much have 40k it seems if you utilize DS.

Hold on.. Is it even viable to go with a berserker gear setup for DS, does Vit/Toughness not matter as much? How does toughness even scale with DS? I understand that Vitality = % of life pool, but would this be effective in dungeons with high damage output, high survivability thanks to countless mobs giving you a ton of life force in some dungeons..

I guess you guys are right lol! Our teeth are what separates us from the inferior races hehe.

Me with friends in CoF lobby. I got the hot eyes 0.0

sharky.5860:

Scape.2581:

Monarch.4026:

I will never leave my necro but if you like where we are then you haven’t experienced more polished professions and don’t realize how bad we have it.

Nope, I do realize how bad we have it.

Than don’t create threads like this!

ArenaNet employee scrolls through forums and find your thread “Oh look, he’s happy with it. Hey guys, get back to fix Guardians, Necro’s are happy as it is”

Seriously….

It’s the opposite from RL work where you can do 100things good, but if you screw up once everyone will remember how you screwed up but not how you did 100 other things good.

Right, but apart from the hundreds of other threads that are filled with displeasure, simply telling them what to fix and not necessarily what they like. I’m hoping on the off-chance one of them actually reads this and says, “Hey, at least the class was heading in the right direction, now all we need to do is polish it.”

I feel that if we keep asking for straight buffs, it’s a possibility that they might nerf something to re balance the class that we actually liked in the first place, which I want to avoid. All this class needs is minor tweaks to put it on par with the other classes.

Monarch.4026:

I will never leave my necro but if you like where we are then you haven’t experienced more polished professions and don’t realize how bad we have it.

Nope, I do realize how bad we have it.

If we could have this dance implemented into the game for 100 gems, I would be so happy. Seeing my little Asura do that would be incredible!

Why does my asura look so amazing until she smiles?

Considering the early stage of the game, I do enjoy how necromancer feels in every aspect of the game so far. I am a level 80 Asura necromancer, and I have theorycrafted for hours with what little the trait tree had to offer.

I knew what I wanted at the start of the game and it was to have a vampiric necromancer that would be able to dish out an insane amount of DoT whilst being as “tankish” as possible. After realizing that purely stacking toughness isn’t that effective, I mixed up my gear to have around 2.2k armor, I could probably get away with 2.1k armor, and as high of a life pool as possible.

I found out that a vampiric build is also useless considering how weak minions are and how little health you siphon. I decided to go with a insane amount of bleeding duration and condition damage while trying to utilize death shroud as much as possible considering that you can get a ton of life force if you play it right.

I am able to do well in PvE solo, I can survive dungeons considerably well, sPvP and WvW is also good, but I excel when I play with classes that have great DPS, such as a ranger, warrior or engineer.

So far I have built a “one size fits all” build that works everywhere I go, but build diversity on this class seems extremely low and I’m hoping the first buff or improvement for necromancers will be focused on the AI of the minions. I find that ranger/mesmer pet/illusions are extremely intelligent in PvP/PvE and for necromancers to get short changed on the minion AI is really painful to digest.

Although I understand that the minions are undead and just maybe they are supposed to be brain-dead, but since the risen in cursed shore are so intelligent, why can’t I have minions at least half as intelligent? But that’s just my two cents.