The Nec has 3 issues imo:
-mostly single target dmg. While on bosses alone this isn’t much important, it makes clearing trash with usual “stacklosandcleave” extremely uneffective. You can use some other skills to ease the issue (WellofSuffering, Life Transfer, Life Blast if traited, Locus Swarm) but the problem is still there.
-lack of self and team buffing. Self buffing is limited almost only to BloodisPower (which i’ve seen being dropped in some builds), traited Life Blast might stacks and 5sec fury on DS swap. And..that’s it. No more self buffs, no more team buffs. Which leads to…
-a zerker Necro has, most of the time, to be babysit by teammates in order to perform on par. Fury uptime is terrible, but lack of Vigor and Stability on demand are the 2 most glaring issues. It’s not alone (Guards needs external Fury too), but it’s probably the profession with biggest “burdening on teammates for offence”.Still a fun class to play, still effective in right hands, still useful in non organized/speedrun situations, but those issues are quite annoying.
That said would take very little from anet’s part….making a necro skill cleave (read: Dagger auto please) would already improve dramatically the class imo.
Better self or team buffing would be the cherry on top, but considering how powerful is considered already in pvp (which is where we all know Anet do the balance) i fear that’s just a dream.
Add Axe cleave in there as well and I’m 100% with ya
Nothing to add to the above. My necro is my fav character but it’s for the flavor. My other classes simply bring more to the table and easily.
