And there’s a tendency to massively over-analyze these things.
People going crazy over ‘selfish’ classes or not, its just not a meaningful problem in the vast majority of cases.
In the case here, looks like Reapers get a pretty big DD buff and some potentially interesting condition support (mostly in chill, weakness, some vuln).
On those shouts by the way, I hope they improve the condition uptime on them. less than 33% uptime (presuming full cooldown reduction) doesn’t seem great to me.
There is also a tendency to believe that something is crap because it’s not exactly how a player thinks it should be. People want to play an unselfish class, but demand it be necro. That’s not how game dev works people. If you want non-selfish classes, they exist, play them.
I’m actually a little jealous because of the approach Anet took to making Reaper have 3 themes in the single elite spec. That’s a pretty thoughful approach IMO.
So basically you are saying that people just should not play necros in dungeons?
Seems like it. As if they could tell people what to do…? I’m sure many will be happy to oblige, nonetheless. I do, however, feel that the subtext is:
“I’m upset because they say it brings little in a party; don’t you dare say it, you’re just DEMANDING (?srsly) for a necro to do anything it doesn’t do now, anet doesn’t want it that way! It’s not a problem because the ele is carrying my damage and the guardian is guarding my a**, so see? I can do some damage and vuln and chill, I’m useful, therefore you’re not allowed to say it’s selfish, you contrary prick. Stay away from my class and don’t you dare ever speak up about matters you don’t understand. Necros mains only here!”.
Godkitten right, not playing necro, playing other classes.
Since I am not the one telling others what to say or what to play, hm, still doing what I like, which is saying that it seems to be a selfish spec and I hoped for something else, pve-oriented, that could make it play a little differently… but /shrug, it’s ok, some classes just aren’t built for it. It was like that in gw1 aswell. Mes’ used to be lame in high-end pve, but strong in pvp. Then they invented Panic… but I digress.
And we still have seen little about the spec. It’s still… on the table.
Supposedly.
At least on the “looks fun” (for someone) table.
P.S. They could have given necros the “panic treatment”, but no… the class isn’t designed for that, anet beware! don’t you dare!
I think we’d make a great couple, if I hadn’t already been taken… at least by, like, 20 people.
