Guild Wars 2

No.
and
Yes.

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The short answer is no. A warrior/ranger/guardian would be much easier. Reasons:
-No escapes
-No mobility outside of warhorn swiftness
-No invulnerability
-Very low amount of CC, exactly 1 immobilize (on a weapon you won’t be using)
-Pathetic damage (Even with traits/gear all damage comes from utilities)

[Incoming: people who didn’t bother to read this thread.]

Most profession’s elites suck. I too wish they made elites more inline with GW1.

New achievement Anet?

I’m thinking “Peacemaker”.

Ha! We all know your name is Sam now.
Also happy birthday.

Four Seven Five Three
type those numbers, nothing shows
Dot Four Seven Five Three
becomes: kitten /p>

Are they the numbers we don’t speak of?

Stop hitting the Play Now button. It hurts me that this needed to be posted.

“Smokey The Necro”

It affects the base so
(1000+35)*1.5

Experts? You mean Jo*is choked to death by unseen forces*

He mainly runs around Lion’s Arch.

Anyone else remember in the BWEs when the horrors didn’t degen life and die in 3 seconds? Back before we mastered death shroud, good times.

Yes, tons. Have you ever spoken to a merchant out in the world? The majority sell nothing consumable weapons.

Unpredictability.4086:

Death Shroud now fits it’s name more accurately. During Death Shroud, the player has an unremovable, exponential health degeneration to their main HP bar.

Oh I like this one. How about the abilities?

Life Blast
Lose 5% of your health, heal the enemy for 5% of their health
Dark Path
Apply blindness to yourself for every step you take
Doom
Player takes the fetal position and yells “Not the face!”
Life Transfer
Drains your health and restores the health of foes

EDIT:

@Dibrom, if it’s inconsistent between classes, as you claim (and I haven’t tested it so I don’t know), then I think that should be standardized across the classes, one way or another. If necro minions are considered different from all those other for balance reasons, that should be explained to us.

The reason is…
Death Shroud!

This isn’t a guardian issue, it’s an underwater issue. My necro also shoots from his hand underwater. (Only on 1 skill, the rest he just balls up ala Renewed Focus)

lettucemode.3789:

Minions aren’t pets – they are utility skills. Like all utility skills, if they’re not on your bar, you can’t use them. When transforming into Lich or Plague form, all of your utility skills, including your heal skill, are removed from your bar. Thus it makes perfect sense that the minions would go away too.

Engineer elite transformation: Turrets don’t explode
Warrior elite transformation: Banners don’t disappear
Elementalist elite transformation: Elemental doesn’t die

Minions are a necro utility so it’s different I guess. WORKING AS INTENDED!

What are you talking about, it’s right there on your elite :o

Flesh Golem:
Summon a Flesh Golem to watch you fight. This minion does not attack.

Plague Signet:
Passive: Apply copies of conditions your allies are suffering.
Active: Stop applying copies of conditions your allies are suffering.

forrae.6708:

it ramps up damage as it casts, and there have been times in pvp that i have seen the last 1 or 2 hits crit for 6k, which when combined with the rest of the damage puts the total anywhere from 10-15k

A) Damage doesn’t work like that. Channeled abilities add damage together, the last tick is ALL the hits combined.
B) Play another class in the mist, 6k crit damage is nothing on a channeled ability.

Welcome to being a necro. Advice: Don’t hold your breath for fixes.

I disagree, there is PLENTY of power/pre/crit gear. There is ONE set of con/pre/tough gear. There is ONE dagger of the same stats. (Exotic levels) Leveling a condition build is expensive as a-poorly-planned-out-system.

Power

(This answers his questions MODs)

Coding that seems way beyond Anet’s abilities.

Chidawg.6315:

Sigh…

@OP: It isn’t easy running away from a necro. You can slow them with mark then place a fear trap in front of them to fear them back to you. you also have scepter #2 which cripples. All this while they are bleeding.

Yeah like Karther says, don’t judge it by low levels. You need greater mark trait… It is impossible to miss if you have it.

If you really have issues in WvW running away, use SW. dumb people will chase you off cliff then just teleport back above the cliff, laugh and go about your ways.

Sigh….

The problem with giving advice that you’ve never actually tried is it usually doesn’t work. For example:
The fear mark doesn’t work that way. Fearing people will always run away from you, the position of the mark has nothing to do with it.
SW doesn’t work that way either, if you run off a cliff SW will not port you back on top of the cliff.

Ignicity.7938:

You played a necro to 80 and didn’t run into bugs?
Did you spam staff #1 all the way to 80?

Lol even staff #1 has had and still has bugs.

Teknobug.3782:

Aga.8641:

Since the nerf to spectral walk I hate my necro

NERF? I like specrtal walk NOW compared to before, automatically teleporting back to where you were kitten me off.

He was talking about the change to SW that just happened this patch…

can we attack once the skill is activated?

Doesn’t seem like an untraitable endure pain would be overpowered as an elite.

There for RP as far as I can tell. If they had an option to autoswitch to town clothes when you entered town they’d see some use. But yeah completely useless.

Another dropped ball anet.

4 buffs = overlooked.

lol, ok warriors.

Tiger.6284:

for several patches necromancers were untouched, we finally got something but nothing much still.

Animation fix for downed skills!

high five

I went with guardian. I’m not running a FOTM build so I don’t care about the nerfs.

It’s nice to play a class where all the skills on my bar actually do something.

I’ve stopped playing my necro for the most part, but I’m glad to see the hilarious bugs are still coming.

Raises to your QA dept Anet!

Necros can corrupt boons? MY GOD…

Oh wait, what happens when a guardian uses Contemplation of Purity?

Yeah bringing a necro to “counter” 1 ability is a great idea.

Yeah, I thought they looked different. (The Black Lion and Audio ones at least)

Defiant is hit or miss with Fear. Sometimes it’ll work sometimes not.

(A bug, no way!)

The mists is not a good place to test anything based on profession. Example: The ele there has more armor then heavy golems.

Haha, I think Necros got their unintended blast dodge finisher from Guardians.

I have to agree with Ezekeel. Necros have the least amount of combo fields, so you’d really be better off as any other class for amazing combo fields (Ele?). I found lots of cool interactions outside of combo fields too but was saddened when they were mostly bugged (most saddened by plague form).

I can send to 1 or 2 people before I get suppressed for sending out too much mail. Are gold sellers joining dungeons then spamming people with mail?

Why is this in the game?

yes

(watch the mods infract me for a 1 word answer)

Wells + Marks. I’ve never had a problem and I’m not power spec’d.

So we could hang out with our friends.

yep…

Nice idea but Plague Signet is broken so the build won’t do much for your teammates.

Edit:
Looks like it was nerfed to 2 per 2 seconds.

Damage output is huge. I can tell you I never have any aggro on my necro until I spread 25 stacks of bleeding to everyone. Mobs will stop and run towards me, lol.

If you can transmute PVP gear.

Did they fix the ‘being able to dodge roll out of the ring’ bug?

Zachariel.5463:

You are forget that the necro has two heal skills…forget what ranger has…warrior has teh ability to get back up if you don’t down him fast enough. And that little glow ball the mesmers do…does crap damage. You do more from the confusion but it evens out. Not to mention it brings you out of stealth if you attack when you clone.

For those that are unaware…the 1 skill in downed state does damage and heals the necro…those red balls aren’t just for show.

Enough healing to not even negate the life loss just being in the downed state, scary. Not to mention their dreaded #3: AoE poison!

Strill.2591

You used to be right, but the devs added an internal cooldown to Sigil of Earth. It is far less effective than your bleed on crit traits because the traits don’t have an internal coolodown.

A necro’s bleed on crit trait is a 1 second bleed with an ICD. It is in no reality better then sigil of earth.

I think slowing the projectile down even further BUT giving it a ~20x increase in damage would be fun.

The hand’s gonna get ya!