“I want to see a viable Vampiric build.”
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I REALLY REALLY want this. I sort of have it, but doesn’t work since have the traits are broken. Please ANet, PLEASE listen to the players. PLEASE. Whose kitten do I have to blow to get the necro fixed already???
At the rate the bugs have been fixed for the necro, aka NONE, never.
If that one trait that is broken that is suppose to increase the amount of healing actually worked, then as Lukin said, you can get 28HP per heal XD.
I do find it very lacking. It isn’t like the necro has a way to do so much damage that they heal a lot from it, so you would think it could be a lot more than that. Sucks though, because I want to be the tanky healy type, but the healing traits are broken/underpowered.
Tony: Sweet! You found a single viable necro build to help (almost) balance the necro! Oh? All the other classes can play as more than 1 build and be good at it? Well kitten.
Ok, I can’t fully agree with people around here saying the necro needs a buff (yet). But I will say that the necro needs the bugs fixed ASAP, or else we will fall to the bottom of the gene pool, because a single build isn’t enough for people to enjoy the class. However, if after the bug fixes, the necro still lags behind the rest of the classes, then we can complain that the necro needs a bit of a buff.
And I see what other people are saying around here: A good necro vs a good any other class would probably loose if fought straight up. Of course, fighting straight up rarely happens, and you may be able to catch someone off guard and completely dominate them. Even so, the necro needs to be fixed.
Thinking about it… fear is just a stun… you can’t attack, or control yourself. And I am pretty sure Plague Signet (though the passive is bugged) does break stun and fear. So, though I agree with this thread, we can counter it at least a bit.
^^^^^ So very this! XD
Oh, that is good to know >.<
I will be the first to admit I am no expert. However, I will do my best to give some feedback.
The first thing I notice, which I have seen a lot around here so maybe you can enlighten me on why, but you use Epidemic, but can’t stack a large amount of conditions (as far as I can tell). I find that Epidemic+Signet of Spite work great together (I actually went for the signet build, to find out that some of them don’t even work right). Since you are going condition damage, maybe change out spectral walk for Signet of Spite?
I am happy to see you go Lich form, as it is the coolest thing ever (and can do the emots as well XD) and will help with DPS. I would also recommend Plague for underwater/ pre Lich form.
I don’t think they necessarily need to Nerf any classes (unless there is an exploit), but instead, fix them…
Bad link.
I enjoy a healing + power build, but most of the traits don’t work atm, so I can’t really tell you how effective it is. I would comment on your build specifically, but you provided a bad link.
Kisses: for you to say don’t give you advice when you came to a public forum to complain is a bit… weird. People discussing things here are not trying to be rude, so you taking offense is no ones fault but your own…
Lich Form. This is what make the necros stand a chance in WvW. I have mainly went down the health and power lines to try and improve my healing (in fact, half of the traits I went for are apparently bugged according to the sticky). I definitely see that the necro lacks in PvE. I get one shot all the time, and I am not a glass cannon. It is really annoying to be killing something by slowly chipping at its health, then another class comes by who is a lower level than I am and they 3 or 4 shot something… Makes me feel useless, even with condition damage.
However, there was a few times in WvW where I felt incredibly useful to my team. We once got flanked by a very large group of people while attacking a gate. Since I was in the back using my staff, I was one of their first targets. However, I just turned around and ran, which ended up making nearly EVERYONE chase me, and making it so most of my team get away. Using lich form (actually downed someone), then death shroud almost right after, then the rest of my health ended up making me survive for over a minute against 10 people. I would probably blame this more on them sucking, as we were mainly out gunned, but kept being able to push them back to their gate.
That said, the necro needs to be fixed. And Anet seems to not even put a single update out about necros (seriously, look at the updates). This really sucks, so I feel your pain. I am stubborn as all hell though, and would rather quit playing than reroll a different character because my first choice was a bad one… I just really hope the lack of necro fixes means they are working towards a big fix, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they will not do any balance fixes for… a very long time…