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It deppends more on team, if that what you mean Bhawb.

Tenderly.7019:

These builds are fine but I wouldn’t go around telling new Necros to PvP to not use Greater Marks.

It is absolutely essential if anyone wants to use staff. There is no way that staff is worth using without it, no matter how much you try and justify it.

I’m sorry.

With or without Greater Marks, Staff is very effective for team play and for survivabilty.
Fear people when they are stomping you teammate ,clear cond. and fast DS refilling.

I am not in WvW/PvE , but i think i see what did you try’d to do with this build.
Your build looks like mainly based on DS.
I don’t think this is a good idea of solo WvW ,because DS is for more aggressive gameplaye and it will be hard for you solo be aggressive on wvw (mainly zerg game).

You also tryd to play with high crit. that is another aggressive gameplay style.
As Mightaltrall and Spoj already said, you can’t get “all in” hybrite

You can try it on hot join, as it is fastest way to test out experemental builds.
btw. thanks for sharing you idea anyway.

ye, reanimator trait is so usells. would be great if they chage it.

Ruruuiye.8912:

emon.1863:

(no offense) but necro has a ton of builds , compare to most of the classes.
Necro can play easily any role in the game – how many classes can do that ?!

Last I checked, all of them.

Mate, try to understand me right – to play necro you need a to make a good research about it, you have to undestand deeply your class (did you even read this post ?)

That’s the trouble isn’t it? Very few players really research the game or understand their class deeply. By that logic, Necromancer is only competitive in the hands of a minority of players and is only balanced if you ignore everybody else. The effort to get resources and information to lower level players is laudable but at the end of the day, it’s still basically “l2p”. Necromancers are undeniably the underdog class of the game.

That was not what i wanted to say. Necro is hard to begin and only balance it has is that it can do any role, but skills need a good balance .

If you are making pvp character, you can join at start your friends game without running tutorial again. Theoreticly you can go to LA from PvP.

Login.5102:

emon.1863:

Tenderly.7019:

Please don’t ever use staff in tPvP unless you run Greater Marks in Death Magic. Staff isn’t worth using without it.

Source – Over 2000 PvP Games as Necro.

Staff is also used for fear , condition removing and fast DS recharging.
“Greater Marks” are good, but they still can be evaded and they have bug’s.

? Greater makes is an absolute must for staff. do you understand how #4 works and how important it is to your teammates?

Dude, i just said the same thing!:D

Tenderly.7019:

Please don’t ever use staff in tPvP unless you run Greater Marks in Death Magic. Staff isn’t worth using without it.

Source – Over 2000 PvP Games as Necro.

Staff is also used for fear , condition removing and fast DS recharging.
“Greater Marks” are good, but they still can be evaded and they have bug’s.

NO , there is not standard 1on1 build.
It depend vs who you are playing (class) and what build are they using.
I would recommend some hybrite build, but I never tested it agains bunker Ranger.

(no offense) but necro has a ton of builds , compare to most of the classes.
Necro can play easily any role in the game – how many classes can do that ?!
Mate, try to understand me right – to play necro you need a to make a good research about it, you have to undestand deeply your class (did you even read this post ?)
I gladly would help you (if you are EU player, if not contact TheMightyAltroll.3485) and explain you everything.

Ok dude, i have to disagree with most of it.
MM:If you remember MM in GW1 ,then you should remember that minions where dying over time (health degeneration), thats why you had possobility to heal them.
Can’t say anything about WvW and Pve as i dont like it, but in PvP MM is good way to play on hotjoin servers and in some Tpvp aswell. As you can siphon life with them + you get controll abilitys.
Only issue in minions is AI. It is stupid.

To Devs: I was wondering, is minions AI FSM or behavior tree?

About build possobilitys : Mate, Necro is one of the best designt classes in game! You can play with necro almost anyrole.

Weapons: Did you even try’d Necro with Dagger ? It’s fun and easy to play (as you have teleport with DS) and it give good dps in right build + you have possobility to immobolize your enemy.

Spectral skills: You said that Dagger is bad option for necro becaus of non-escape skill.
Well you can easily escape with Spectral (but you have point, they have to balanc it alot). It is mostly not used in Condition builds, but in Hybrite and Power.

DS: devs plz don’t cange DS skills… PLZ!!!!!! They are absolutly fine.

Necro need a good rebalancing . bit of tuning of cooldown and dps from skills.

sry for my bad english

@Ryn: same thing is with thief. BUT necros aint training on 1vs1, because it is not effective for teams. So there is no wonder why devs, gave this class so many anti-necro abilitys.

Don’t know how tPvP on NA servers are, but on EU i see mostly only really bad Necros.
Thats why I am tryng to help them, theoreticly and in game.
I undersand that Necro is class ,where people can be really creative, but I see mostly sensless builds.

Btw. forsaken is helping new necro players as well.

Well atleast Necro is not the worst class in tPVP.
Yes Neco have not so much mobility as some class’s.

1.Conditions duration from wells and corruption skills are depending on you build (traits, stats,amulet etc.)
2.Yes fear from corruption boon is effected by you “Master of Terror” trait.
no problem.

just in case : epidemic skill – for example target has lot of conditions from engi and then you will use epidemic skill. Then all condition what enemys around your tagert will get condition with your stats.

It is really hard to say. Necro is pretty bad at 1vs1 against most of the classes.
But mostly Mesmer is good way to counter most of necro builds

Hey,
I am not sure I got your idea right.
You are complaining about PvP system or about what? About leavers and afk players?
In any way tpvp is team based pvp system. If you join it alone then it means that it is “just for fun” so, there are nothing to complain about. If you join it with 4 friends and one of your team is random – then you still have good chances against 5 players.
And if you was talking about hot join, then only one tip – hot join is for noobs and build testers, don’t expect any team work there.

Hi,
I will be not a big help for you ,but us I see you ain’t a glass cannon at all.
Don’t even think that glass cannon Ranger is good idea, but if you want it so much I don’t care.
Fisr of all i would post it in ranger forum and not here, as they know more about rangers.
You need expierience to play glass cannon build, as to survive with it you need good understandige when you need to evade.
From looks of it you damage is not very high and there is no point to go glass cannon without mac damage

Last, i an not a pve player (pvp only) and in my opinion ranger are really good tanks – not damage dealers

I am playng PvP only and it will be hard for me to help you with MM for PvE.
But i think something like that will work fine.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/For-ppl-who-started-necro-on-tpvp/first#post1883953

this Post is for new necro in tpvp.
I wrote about most Minions there (not about worm, because to use them in tpvp )

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBIhZakRrdPeTajfPRIzIaUbmB3AHki3LNA;ToAA1Cro2yslYL7Wutkbt+YAB

You can try this build in PvE (i think that you would like to use Axe/focus in PvE, not Dagger/WH)

note: if you cannot access link’d directly, just copy – paste in your browser.

For more inforamtion about classes i recommend you to visit each class forum. There you will get most of builds for each and it will be much easier for you to decide.

(No offens)I have to disagree with all of you.
Yes there is no special class ho play one role, but no class who can be tank,healer,dmg.
Every class is special in it own way.
For example lets take Necro(atm worst class):

It is possible to make it Tank, Support, DPS.
As a healer it is really bad even with it’s well healing skill.
For DPS it is not best choise ,too.

Engi is one of the best healers
Guardian on of the best Tanks
Ele, war and thief have best dmg

I mean you can build every class to do every spec. but it will be less effective.

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

Necro is one of the weakest tPvP classes. However, if any of you are serious about getting into PvP. Hit me up any time I’m ingame, I’ll be glad to help you get started.

Nice to see that you want to help new necros ,too – it still be great if you can tell them about you location (NA/EU)

Btw i can’t help too on EU servers.

agree with Myrmidian, if someone like necro they should play it.

cuge, your point is ?

Not sure if i understood you, but i try to help.
Well yes, under stability you can’t be pulled or stuned [not sure about knocback, never had a problem with it].
But better question is how does it help you?! where do you want to get stability?
You can use DS while you are stuned and immobilized [pulling and knocback is mostly about 1 sec long, so i never used in this time DS, mostly before or after]

Login.5102:

What rank are you op?

You have said a lot of things in your post that makes sense and i would consider good information,

But(no offense) there are some things I can’t imagine tpvp necros would agree with.

I use d/wh more then most( I’m good at stopping heals and rez’s with daze), but can’t recommend warhorn to new power necros due to the overall usefulness of offhand focus/dagger. Not sure what you mean by self protection..

And you say you max out condition for power builds(unless you mean the 30% duration all power necros take due to the spite line) which makes no sense to me. I love zerker but knights/zerk jewl is better against a decent team. I love being a zerk well/lich necro being able to lay waste to everything, but good teams will focus you kitten kitten way to fast.

In condition builds you don’t mention anything about terror..
In support builds the last thing I think about is minions.
And the only viable bunker build I know is a soldier MM guarding a close point.

And your links are bad >.<

d/wh to power: it is still effective. But as I already said, I won’t recommend power necro to any new necro player. D/Focus is good combination, too. But it is good to know the basics. Max out condition on power necro will make more damage over all, as with Well of Corruption as well as with Staff.

Fix’d they link

As for Support and Bunker most people are experimenting (at least in EU). So i just postet some of posobility’s

Btw. i said as well that every build need tuning, depending on players gameplay)

Lite.3819:

Asomal.6453:

Lite.3819:

A class almost immune to conditions have a weakness to burst damage. What exactly is the problem here…?

One of the rules of good game design is to not have a single class that can do everything and be good at everything.

Elementalists: problemo??

Although it’s against my better judgement to answer these types of question… I think Mesmer would of posed a better argument… (or one at all) Anyways, anyone who said Elementalist are immune to conditions have never played an Elementalist. I’ve fought some very high leaderboard Elementalist in very high ranking match and I can confirm that the build you are referring to is quite resistant to burst but very vulnerable to conditions.

/unrelated
This is why I usually don’t post here, although this is an official forum, most users here are very close-minded. Unfortunately, developers do read these forums and nerf and buff accordingly, which results in heavy balance curves and certain builds dying off overnight. I have seen worst, but still, just when you think developers have good judgement, they surprise you.

- Lite

I usually read forum, because it makes me smile. Most of the people don’t understand own class, but they are always complaining about another.
On the other hand, PvP is could be hard place (at least it was) ,so low skill players have problems like this.

Here are some build for the role’s
Power Necro – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBIhZakRrSPTTajfPBA9YXddOmByDTfwcA;ToAg0Cno4ywlgLLXOukct+YAB

This is very aggressive build and it take time till you can go with this kind of build.
This build was very popular some time and even atm I find many necros that are using one or another Power Build. The idea of this build is to make huge damage. Nice think about it that deal most of you damage from range: 900. This build work perfect in chaos fight as well as against newbies. Most of people you will play against will try to exit you wells. This is why I am recommending you to use dagger in main hand to Immobilize them for 4 sec (most of players know immobilize skill animation, so they will try to evade it). After you main Well AoE damage, you can easily finish them with you dagger. As I already said it before, run to them -> auto attack few times-> daze them when they are trying to heal them self (it will interrupt skill) and if they will try to run against you, just go in Death Shroud and teleport your-self to them.
Practically it is a lot harder to do as you will probably imagined it.

Condition Necro – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNArYWjMat7xbSb87KApCPPV4boC9G9gYjTmqg5A;ToAAzCpo+y8l4LrPuvk+s+YsA
This is one really easy to play with. Corraption bood can be replaced for you needs.
I think there is not much to talk about. Key to success is well used epidemic.

Hybrit Necro http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBIhZakRrdPeTajfPRIzIaUbmB3AHki3LNA;ToAA1Cro2yslYL7Wutkbt+YAB
Experemental MM Build
Very interesting MM.
This build will be easiest think to master, as it requires mostly no skill at all and it can be played in Tpvp as well as in Hot Join. This is my last build I made for myself (because my team is not playing lately, so I needed build where I don’t need much support + I am tired of condition builds). The main idea of it was to be able to stay alive without support at all and make mid. Damage. So I made build based on Siphon (life steal) that is working from mine and from minions attack. So let’s go thru minion attacks: 1.Bone Minion – are really important, as they do 1,592 damage in 240 radius to all you enemies, but you must look pay attention where are they standing before you let them explode(it will heal you as well). 2. Bone Fiend – Basically all you need from him is Immobilize ability + it is range attacking minion who will heal you mostly all fight. 3. Shadow Fiend – in good use can be really handy, as it can AoE blind. 4. Flesh Golem – I will annoy your enemy’s as hell, because every attack will cripple + it can knockback multiple target at one and give you stability. In this build you can be part of the fight nonstop. Your main attack will be auto attack from daggers and Bone Minion Explosion.

Bunker Necro http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBIhZaESLbPdzbjfPBIp4aenUwt2UPgn9zB;ToAA2CuoyyklILbWuskZt+Y0A
Another Experemental Build
Never try’d this build myself. sry.

All build need to be tunned for most of the player.

I agree with everything, exept sPvP (i actually want paid tpvp back)

Follidus.8027:

emon.1863:

I can help ppl with Necro class on europeen server

Great! All 3 sections (1v1, hotjoin, tournaments) i’m assuming?

Ofcource)

Warrior can be more mobile as some other classes and he is mostly full offensive (no worries for you there)
But you won’t get good life steal with it, but you wont even need it)
Have fun with Guild Wars 2.

ryan.5106:

ThePaladin.2140:

To those who keep complaining about bugs, balance and content.
How long has the game been out? Months. If Anet wants to be competitive, and I know they do, they’ll keep refining, adding, fixing. This is how MMOs are done. You can’t expect it to be perfect a few months out of the gate. Heck, we haven’t even seen the first true expansion yet. Give it time and enjoy what’s there now. If you’re burnt out, take a break and come back later. Trust me, it will get better in time. Don’t believe me? This was WoW: take time to read through the entire list and you’ll find game breaking bugs, etc.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/726876-Some-things-you-didn-t-know-about-WoW

I agree with you one hundred percent. I’ve never played ANY game on any platform that didn’t have a few bugs after release. This goes double for MMOs. Hell, WoW was a royal mess when it was released, but after about 6 months to a year they got a majority of the kinks worked out.

I’ve been playing WoW since release, and I still log in to level up or even play the poke’mon style mini-game- which is deceptively fun btw… I don’t care what the haters say!! That’s besides the point. The point is that the game has been a well oiled machine for almost a decade now and that’s because the development team takes a personal interest in maintaining a high quality product that people will continue to pay for, and they have the skills required to make that happen.

Arena Net is a great company and there’s a good reason why they can stand up to titan’s like Blizzard. I think they have shown that not only do they have a competent business model, but they have also invested a great deal care and efficacy in their product. They’ll get the bugs worked out over time, have a little faith

ArenaNet was foundet by ex Blizzard developers

You can change to any medium populated server without any costs.
If you want to lvl faster, i recommend you to do events and quests (hearts).
There are lot of diffrent locations to explore and they are very good design’d.
But i know this feeling at starting point, it take’s a while to lvl. It is a good idea to get crafting materials , as well as crafting it self – it will help you a lot to lvl faster.
Check Vistas as well)

btw. when you are higher lvl and you want to explore low level location, you lvl will be drop’d to match location.

There are Blogs about the game and Videos.
The best way to learn the game is by exploring it, and it is one of the best part of GW2.
For example finding Jumping Puzzle and solving it is one of my favorit thing in PvE.
Most of the dungeons are fun to play , but you will recieve in game letter about it ,when you have maching level.
Most to learn is you class it self and how to coop with another classes.
Basicly GW2 is a teamwork game .
Combat is amazing here, as it is action base’d.
You can do lot of combos with another classes.
Dynamic events are fun too, but on level 80 mostly pointless.
I would recommend to explore game by your self, it is best way to learn it )

I hope Dev. wont do life sacrifice and corpses for MM, because this are things i didnt like in gw1. Necro is only class that i really enjoy to play with here even that it is atm the weakest class.
Only thing that necro need is a little balancing tunning and thats it!

Hi,
gratz on getting into new mmo rpg.
I can’t help you with server or guild as i am on EU server.
But i can help with classes.

First of all i guess you want to explore PvE fisrt (and that ok, because GW2 PvE is nice,but way to easy). Warrior in PvE is still OP and you will finish the game without any trouble.
Race are not so importand, it is basicly how you begin you game and few extra skills.
Asura: High Tech + Golems
Human: Pfff
Norn: Hunters + Spirit skills
Charr: Warriors and Engis (if you like to be a warrior, this is best for you)
GreenPeace Trees: Some annoyng elfs

hope it help’d a at least a bit

bad news for you mate, you can’t finish story solo.
without big spoilers, last mission is dungeion.
If you give me a bit more inforamtion about you gameplay style, ill make you some quick build.

laokoko.7403:

ThePaladin.2140:

Kasama.8941:

I’ve never played WoW, so I have no idea what half the things on that list are :P

The only thing I dislike about Guild Wars 2, is ArenaNets way of being overly precocious about everything they add to the game, to such an extend that a lot of what they add, almost has no impact on the game. WvW skills is a good example of this.

I think they’re just trying to reserve the bigger changes to the expansion packs. Cuz if they gave us everything, how else are they going to make some moolah. They are a business after all. Let’s not forget that developers need to eat too. We keep saying that they’re greedy, and they’re evil for wanting money. Let me ask this, don’t YOU want money in your personal life too? Does that make you evil? They’re a business, that’s that.

He didn’t talk about actually content. He talked about there is very little impact on WvW rank, or further extended IMO Ascended gear.

There is almost no different between a rank 1 WvW player and a high rank WvW player. And the difference between Exotic and Ascended is so miniscure.

So you want to say thet higher WvW rank players should get gear with much better stats then low WvW players?

@Paladin is making good point! For price that we paid this is a good game that has lot to offer. Dev. are making new stuff allthe time to keep GW2 alive.
Class problem is really big and hard to fix, it will take a long time till it will be everything in balance. Even as Necro player (atm one of the worst classes in tpvp) i understand devs.

Fortus.6175:

Scootabuser.4915:

Rapid, Carrion, Rampager

They all just do terrible damage compared to berzerker. Why is this? Why would anyone ever want to play a condition build in PvE when every class has an infinity more powerful in every single way berzerker build?

I mean, even condition necros do awful damage compared do a berzerker necro build.

Is it just that rampager’s is terrible (mainstat percision wtf) and rapid and carrion both only have 2 offensive stats?

Is it that condition duration has a cap at 100% where crit damage is infinite?

Who knows, all I know is that condition builds are bad, and people should feel bad about them.

Source

condition is more a pvp thing

it ignores all forms of armor and damage reduction, not even invulnerability can stop it (can stop reapplication but once they are ticking they will continue to do so until removed or finished)

A condi necro is probably one of the scariests things around, they will bleed the crrap out of you

actually condition engi is much better as necro. Best thing is if necro and engi are working together )
In PvE i see no point to you much condition, as there are only few location where you have much enemys in one group.

Malleus Maleficarum.2603:

Also contrast GW1 at launch and the final product leading up to gw2 and everything that evolved…not even close in quality in almost every area. GW2 will evolve just as much and get better and better and I cant wait because I’ve been so happy with it since launch

Shame that i can’t say that about tPvP.
And have to say that PvE is way to easy, but still has a lot to offer (i love jumping puzzle and i think they should make it it all games ).
Dungeon are pretty nice, but small.
WvW…well don’t like it at all.

It would be nice to have more skills (like in gw1, but it wont happend) and better tPvP system. The worst part of tPvP is ,that with time it get only worst(

If you want just to chill in PvE without much challange i would recommend Necro, if otherwise Mesmer.
Necro is much “tankier” class and it is realy easy to play with in pve (dungeon included)

I like all classes in the game, but Necro is my for me the best. There are not much supporting skills, but they are realy powerful in right build.
Btw. Ranger is not meant to support directly at all.

yo,
it would be nice if you write you location NA/EU, as well as server if you want to play PvE/WvW together.

For some reason i can’t edit my post, so i am going to write in here:
Condition Necro Amulet : Rabbit if you going for bleeding from crit. ,otherwise go with Carrion
Bunder Necro Amulet : Soldier

I future I am planning to make Instructions videos , hope where I can show newbies in game how to play one or another build and explain most of the skill + bug’s in detail.
As well as how to counter thief, because I notice that this is really big problem for some.

If you need help more help, just PM me here or wisper in game.

Hi,
I am bored of hearing how impossible to play as necro on tpvp in SPvP channel, so I decided to make this post to help new necros.
First of all you won’t be good necro player overnight, you need a lot of practice for this class. If you want to join some game and own people without spending lot of time practicing, necro is not you choose. I recommend to go with Thief or Ele. I don’t want to say that they are low skill classes, but they don’t require so many hard work at beginning level.

If you love Necro as much as I do, then stick with it!
As necro in team you must know you role:
-Power Necro
-Condition Necro
-Support/Hybrid Necro
-Bunker Necro

Each of role need deep researching before you go to game.

Power Necro (won’t recommend to start with this role for new players):
If you decided to go with it, make sure that your team is able to support you and protect you from thief (good thief will kill you in no time).
Basically max out you power and condition and but bit to survivability (you’re choice, depend on you gameplay style).
As skills you definitely want to take you well’s, as they make a huge AoE damage.
Weapons D/H and Stuff for self-protection mostly. You can go with Axe, but with you will make better damage and you can stop people to use you’re wells belief them.
As for tactic is pretty easy:
It is good if some of you team can buff you some might, use well’s on point’s to make dmg, to catch you target use death shroud teleport skill and kill you foe with dagger.
Use Staff to clean conditions and fear people and some damage when you are low HP and need a break (position you self on high ground and use marks). Undeath Signet is good skill for this build, because you need death shroud to survive longer and it is good to res you teammates. (Cast of Undeath Signet is 2sec., while stomping someone is 3 sec.).As Elite skill are good both transformed skills. If you have thief in your team, they should tell you if they are teleporting while downed before you use your signet. Not best build for Grave Yard Map. Amulet: Berserker

Condition Necro (not a bad choice to start with)
Max out Conditions traits, rest is you choice, as it will not be so important. (You can max out death shroud for better survivability and stability to stomp people). You are mostly bunker like in this build’s, but you dmg is not so high. You need epidemic skill and Signet of Undeath (you team will be thankful for that)
Your weapons are Scepter/Dagger and Staff.
In this build you are condition god (well not as good as engi, but you have epidemic)
Your job is to make all your enemy’s bleed, cripple, blinded and freeze them.
Try not to waste you Fear pointless and it is good is you are not only one who is playing condition build.
As Elite skill you need Plague (!!!!!There is bug: Radius of this skill is misinform you, because that what will be shown is depending on how tall is you character, but the function radius will still be the same).
Tactics:
90% of you time will be on high ground , because there is no need to go melee range, all you skills have good range. You can protect you home point and support on middle point without big problems. All you do in mass fight is setting one target on mass condition and use epidemic skill. This build’s won’t require much practice, but they can be effective.

Support/Hybrid Necro:
This is place where all you creativity will find it place. Most of this build are based on MM (Minion Master). I would recommend it to Necro’s who want to find something new, because they are bored with META build’s and some of thus Hybrid build are really effective. If you decided to make MM, you should be prepared for stupid minion AI. There are no really META sets here, so with what I can help you is be creative and don’t start with this kind of build’s. If you think otherwise, contact me and I can share some of my Hybrid builds.

Bunker Necro:
Basically you want good protection and good Death Shroud. So you Traits will go like this
Curses 10 points for Spectral skills and rest is maxing out Blood and Soul Reaping. This build require good filling for death shroud skill. With Blood magic you can steal lot of life to keep you self-alive till Death Shroud is recharged.
Weapons: well what do you know, we are taking staff again and axe ore dagger with focus
Tactic: You job is to control mostly middle point. It is achieved really easy if enemy don’t have enough range damage. In melee distance you will be a monster. Good evades and right time death shrouds will help you a lot. For still it is good to have healing well and some spectral armor. Elite skill plague again, as it will give you some extra HP and protection + AoE blind. Don’t forget, that your attacks will steal life, so in plague you can heal yourself really good (against melee range enemy’s)

Sorry for my bad enlish, but i hope this post has help at least one new necro.

Engineer is pretty good at the moment, so dont think they shout buff it anymore .

Meta Build’s without teamwork is nothing, but still i understand you, i wish that they balance the game faster.

It is hard to say . The problem is that Anet want that all classes can play any role. If so, then Necro need quickness, but on other hand it is same as you give Thief/Mesmer the same life steal from necro. The idea to give this kind of Quikness to GlassCannon Necro is good, but it will make in Bunker necro bit too stronge.

I can help ppl with Necro class on europeen server