As the title says. The necromancer has only one real way to defend itself. Life steal isn’t a reliable means of Survivability without the aid of high levels of tanking gear. And even then you need death shroud to last a bit longer with that where as a guardian as pretty does it just as well if not better with 1/4th the health of the necromancer.(this is including death shroud as part of the health pool.)
For people who don’t seem to have a clue about the necromancer’s defenses. They are garbage. Unless you are doing large world events where tones of creatures are dying all at once, you are not going to be able to maintain death shroud unless you dedicate to it. And even then your emergency button has to be planned for and built up to use it. Where as a guardian or a mesmer can pop a block or invulnerability to shrug off large chunks of damage YOU CAN NOT! You don’t have stealth, invulnerability, very little stability, no blocks, no vigor without jumping through hoops like a trained poodle and no teleports that can get you out in a pinch.
A while back the necromancer got a small… VERY small buff. So small of a buff that it only really helped the necromancer’s offensive power and made an already popular necromancer build even more popular. And now arena net have nerfed the necromancer’s already pitiful defenses even further.
You have been changing death shroud since day one, making it less and less like a true “Death shroud” and more and more like a power shield. This isn’t good design, and it sure as hell isn’t good game balance. I wasn’t happy with the last buff because it wasn’t nearly enough. And we needed at a minimum of 2 more buffs of the same size as that one to both our defensive and supportive tactics. And now you make us weaker in the area we are lacking the most? Fixing a bug doesn’t make up for a clear nerf.
You could rarely rely on death shroud to actually save you and now it just isn’t going to save you. The Aegis The guardian on your team is going to help you more then death shroud will. Even more so now that damage bleeds through death shroud. And we still can’t be healed through death shroud!
Arena Net. You frustrate your necromancer community to no end. You ignore us most the time and when you do listen, you listen to the people calling for nerfs when the necromancer doesn’t need them. A player getting beat once by a necromancer doesn’t mean that he necromancer was broken.
