Guild Wars 2

I’ve been wanting to try something like this for a while, what stats do you itemize for besides power? Do your run Crit/Crit damage or anything along those lines?

My…

…Murellow: Tom (Morello)
…Bear: Beary White

This does not change the measurable weak points between us in these roles and any other class. It has already been shown that many classes stack conditions (in specifics but not exclusively bleeds) faster, that conditions hit harder (power) and that we are outlived by most any other (but not all) classes with a survivability build. Yea a good player can make due with the tools they have, I do fairly well. We still are playing uphill. Some people would rather not.

mthomas.2763:

Rabid gear can drop in PvE. I have a Rabid upgrade sitting in my bank.

Only that upgrade drops. I can’t see many wanting to use that upgrade over runes either (speaking in generalities).

I am enjoying necromancer for the most part but I have two criticisms of the class.

The first criticism is the way I enjoy playing the class most is as a condition-mancer. It is exactly what I signed up for and I have had large success with it for the most part. The issue I am facing is that I am unable to give my 100% in large scale DEs because you can only put 25 stacks of bleed on a source. Now according to my guildies my bleeds will override weaker bleeds, but even then am I not just penalizing others who use bleed effects. This is a seriously troubling issue to me.

The next, and larger concern of mine is ease of gearing. 80% of my level 80 friends are gearing into epics. Putting in the same amount of work has put me in some par gear because I cannot itemize Rabid. I have read numerous threads about Rabid armor being largely nonexistent in crafted gear and drop gear and I feel like I am being forced out of the style I would like to play because of this. Yes I am grinding karma, yes I am grinding dungeon tokens, the problem is as I do I am falling behind my friends who are far more geared and as such I feel, again, as though I cannot pull my weight.

I have seen some great work as far as quick patches to fix a variety of issues. I can only hope that Anet addresses these concerns not just for me, but for all of my fellow Necromancers.