There is always two sides to these “necro is screwed/UP” threads.
We have people who are very loyal to the class, play to win to the best of what they’re given, try to ignore the heavy downfalls by structuring to cover weaknesses, and then try to blatantly discredit haters with information on how to get over their “whines”.
Then we have people who are frustrated and tired with the fact that you can play other alts and have a much easier time building a bombshell character that wins in a specific setting much easier than the necro can when similarly built. In turn, they get angry at those who are “pro” for necro and get insulted or annoyed by their apparent wish to keep necro nerfed.
Both sides aren’t seeing the reality of the class.
The necromancer is doing just as well as any other class, except for the few builds from one or two classes that are currently overpowered in specific setups. What this means is, we have players getting OWNED by a specific class tailored to execute a specific kill in a specific setting and once we have people experiencing frustration in that specific setting, they must assume the class is broken since there is no way to combat an unbalanced build with a balanced build meant to work well in all cases.
If we actually check the data SEPARATELY between wvw/pve/dungeons/spvp/tpvp we will find that the necromancer does well enough in all respects, with some slightly better performance and satisfaction among solo PvE players and hotjoin sPvPers.
The reason for this is because of the flexibilility of the class. It encompasses a lot of roles simultaneously pretty well no matter how you build it. The downside is we lack explosive specialty build potential like a berserker gcan thief d/d build or a bunker d/d ele or mace/shield regen bunk guardian.
I was reading some other posts in the other subforums and there are other players discussing the nature of bunkering and burst in the game.
from the material i’ve been reading, the discussions I’ve been taking a part of, and the opinions gathered from many different players, not just Necromancers, the largest issues in the game are as follows, and affects all classes equally except for shatter mesmers and 30/30 warriors in non-competitive PvP settings like sPvP and WvW:
- Bleed cap, non-synchronous play affectation.
- Burst builds not being harnessed correctly. (specialty build that ONLY kill well in a gank fight against most other builds that are not built to bunker)
- Bunker builds (m/s guardian, regen/clone mesmer, PTV necros, 30/30 PTV warriors w/ shout cleansing, permastealth culling exploitative bleed thieves, double pet rangers sitting on their downed states (rock drakes?), harass CC bomb engis, etc. that are so hard to kill, you expend all your tools and instagib yourself or cannot kill each other due to regenerative natures)
- Cleansing, greatly limiting the effectiveness of condition-focused players. The balance is bob-tailed when anyone stacks conditions.
- Cooldown unbalance— variety in builds going head to head make cooldown management awful for many players since key utilities, internal cd traits, and skills are either used too frequently, are not needed at all, or simply do not have any use against a certain build. This is due to poor mechanic implementation with respect to counter builds.
This is all gathered from my research and insight into MANY if not nearly all the subforums as of late, so please take into consideration that we’re not the only ones who feel gimp in some settings.
tl;dr we’re not broken, but we’re also far from balanced. the key right now is to play in a fun, samewhat balanced, strong build that accentuates your specific playstyle. Try to avoid gameplay or fights that you know you will not enjoy. in other words, play to win.
