First: This is purely about PvE and all statements are based on my individual experience playing Necro in GW1 and GW2 focused on minions, PvE ONLY.
(i’m serious absolutely NO pvp relevance here)
In GW1 playing necro was like surfing on a wave of death and corpses.
When stuff died, no mater if friend or foe, your power went of the charts, you could spam your spells, your army grew and you were as happy as a necro can be.
In GW2 there is only DS charge to gain if something dies, nothing more.
“Yes but now your minions don’t decay and are permanent like ranger pets and you don’t need corpses to summon them.”
True, and I actually like this, but
why can’t we get the cooldown of the summoning spells reduced if something dies around us.
Or summons on cooldown can still be used but cost lifeforce when on cooldown.
This would have little impact on Bossencounters in Dungeons.
In boss fighs in GW1 minions were mostly useless but provided a decent amount of dmg and tanked the boss for some time depending on how much you healed them.
with blood of the master you were able to keep them all alive through the whole fight.
In GW2 it’s almost the same but we have no tools to keep our minions alive except for Mark of Blood wich is barely enough to keep them alive vs normal enemys.
A problem is, you can only apply it to minions that are in melee range with an enemy.
My scorpion thingy gets killed all the time if there are ranged enemys because I can’t heal it in any way and then I have to wait half a minute for a bunch of my total dps to come back.
This combined with heavy AoE and stupid minion AI, minionmaster is rendered next to useless in a bossfight.
(One might argue that it’s somewhat like a signet if you use it, but there is no benefit for you if your minion dies.)
I realy hope you(areanaNet people responsible for necros) improve the necro before I run out of character slots, I’d hate to give up on my favorite GW1 profession.
PS: Is this constructive enough mister moderator-who-deleted-all-my-other-posts ?
