I have to disagree with you,
Especially when you say :
“Saying a Necro has no escape mechanisms tells me you haven’t played the class enough.”
Necro has the least escape mechanisms in the game. Even Anet said it. They aren’t meant to escape fights.
Flesh Worn : Our best escape move. Sadly, without cliff or level change, It won’t make you escape a thief. Especially if they don’t open with steal.
Flesh Worn as a 1 1/2 second of cast time. That a very long delay when you have a thief pounding on you.
You use it, they just shadow step to you and resume. You try tu chill/spectral walk. With no cliff it’s no use. They just Heart seeker your kitten off.
Now you have what? Darkpath?
I don’t see how your chill/cripple can save you vs a thief that can leap to you.
Let’s just say you are tanky enought and you escape their burst. Now how do you kill him?
Marks him to death? Stack condition on him?
This kind of them have condition removal on health and on stealth.
And if you try to burst him, he is just going to stealth away with his smoke field combo.
I will ask you something : How do you finish the thief? I see you have 2 utility used for escape, which I used to run in WvW. But how do you burst him fast enought before he reset the fight with heal/stealth.
P.S : All of this is vs a skilled thief. I do kill plenty of thief with my power/blood build. But that kind of thief I feel is a direct counter to us.
You don’t use flesh wurm to cast it somewhere THEN teleport, you place it well behind the battle (once you get to know the good places), then all you need to do is use it again and you will instantly teleport backwards. Same with spectral walk, you don’t need a cliff for it to work, you can use it, run in a straight path and fight along the way, when you see the thief jumping on you (or any other trouble that’s coming along your way), quickly use it again to teleport back while you pop your marks from a safe distance. Also, using mark #5 on yourself is really powerful against a backstab thief, as he would be feared when he tried to use Heartseeker. While feared, you drop a few more marks, chills or whatever else you can. Also really powerful to throw all your things while they are feared, followed by deathshour fear + Dark path, followed by warhorn daze, for example. If you can quickly pull it off, a glass cannon would most likely be so near death they would run. (Although it does kitten me off when they get away and come back with a lot of health back. To prevent this, drop random marks in the path that the thief is most likely to go in. If the mark triggers, the thief is there and you just did some dmg)
In WvW, often times it does feel like enemies somehow just manage to catch up to me, but that’s because they have skills that leap them forwards, etc. This is not a problem if there’s only a few enemies stacked together, or only one enemy because you can use your weapon skills to slow em down. It only gets to be a problem when there’s several enemies because attacking them puts you in fight mode, and you run slower while the enemies that you didn’t hit still run faster. Last night I played Isle of Janthir Borderlands and while roaming, died 0 times. I got attacked by a guild mates who were all thieves with guns, and what did I do? Well first… I panicked. Then I went into plague to buy me some time to figure out what I’ll do… then I went out of plague, used Spectral walk, jumped in water as I entered death shroud (had only about 5k HP left), swam for a bit, then used Spectral Walk again and was safe from harm. You can escape well enough with certain builds. While I do see some things that the Necro lacks, I disagree with my whole heart (hee hee) that the class is underpowered, it’s just that a lot of people can’t play it too well because it’s …. a little different. (I do hope that we get some kind of leap at some point though, maybe with a future expansion or something)
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