I am new to this game. I picked this class because it looked like it would be fun to pay. I do not have any baggage towards this class such as you described others having (perhaps including yourself?). I will grant you, before I got elite specializations I was slow, took a long time to kill things, and that was okay with me because I am into exploration, crafting, and events, etc. I do not care if I ever am competitive with other classes, I don’t care about the meta, I don’t care about elitism and dungeons, or PvP. This is just my view on things, if people didn’t want to play with me because of a reputation a certain class has, even though the expansion shifted things quite a bit in this game, I just wouldn’t give a kitten. I haven’t had a problem finding people to play with.
I think this is a very different statement than what you made earlier. There is a difference between saying “I like necros because they can be built to have a play style that I, personally, enjoy” and saying “Necros are good in dungeons and provide good dps because they dont go down.” The first statement is all well and good, if you enjoy playing a tankier necro, you go right ahead and do that, more power two you. The second statement is false and built upon faulty logic.
As for necros not being good, thats also false. Necros, especially condi necros, got a huge boost in both DPS and utility and are now certainly a viable class, if not one of the better classes, in most game play styles. Of course, it will take ppl some time to get used to, and time to learn what builds work well in which situations because a lot of these changes are new.
I have some questions.
I have seen lots of people claiming that condi reaper have pretty good DPS compared to condi engineer or druid. But, when I try to run my condi reaper in Vale Guardian, I only get about 12k dps in green circle duties. And about 15k dps in Gorseval(including epidemic to clean adds).
As you can see above, an ele can do about 18k dps and it’s 20% more dps than reaper.
I currently use all exotic viper armor, ascended viper weapon, viper amulet, rabid back and sinister accessory and ring. Runes are 4 nightmare/ 2 trappers. It’s an cheaper alternative, though.
Here is the question:
If I upgrade my gear to optimal build(change the runes and get ascended viper armor), would I make comparable dps to ele(less than 10% difference)?
Reaper in Sabatha is incredible, yes. But there isn’t any video to prove that reaper have very good dps on Vale Guardian and Gorseval.
I know reaper is way beyond viable in any raid boss. In fact, any profession is viable. Even all exotic gear is viable in pro raid groups. The question is,however, “Is reaper really a good choice and can do good dps compared to other professions?”
I don’t want to play condi reaper just because I like it and it’s “OK”, but because it is a reasonable choice to pick up a condi reaper when the team have all the group utility.
I like condi reaper very very much and right now consider to invest all my ascended armor box on it. But I also have warrior, ele and chrono that need to be geared.
So, if condi reaper turns out to be not a good choice because lack of dps, then opening my ascended armor box for reaper would be pointless. People will be affected by meta anyway. If the meta says reaper is not good enough to earn a spot in raids, then it will be pretty hard to find a group to fight, especially in hard game mode like raids.
Another quick question, rune of thorns is superior than rune of the berserker?
Thank you for reading.
(edited by jim.5041)