To Keep: The Ritualist or the Necromancer?

So I am at a point in my game where I've created several characters, but lack the ability to play them sufficiently.

Thus leads me to you - Who do I keep?

I play the Elementalist and Mesmer. Their sister, the Monk, will be played. Which leaves me down to ignoring two of these next three -

The Ritualist
The Necromancer
The Dervish

Which do I decided to play (if any at the moment)

Why on earth are you asking us? Play what you feel like. Why should it make a difference to us who you neglect?

Keep the Necromancer, make it Rit secondary. Second most powerful pve profession behind the P/W.

Delete them all and make a warrior.

Haha, I don't do Pure Base melee Vila.

I'm asking because it's a forum, you ask questions, get answers and opinions. I'd like to know everyones thoughts, thank you for sharing yours Kaku.

I'm not insulting you--I merely think it's somewhat bizarre. This is a free-to-play game, after all--it's not like you have to play constantly to get the most time out of your money. Play whatever you feel like at the time; your characters won't get annoyed at you for ignoring them for a while, I promise.

Well, if you like Elite missions, i would keep the necromancer.
At least you might be able to get in the group as a BiP necro.
The rest you dont even have a chance at playing.

Eh, then keep the Necro. They're a lot more fun than Ritualists.

Since you don't appear to need the slots they are in, I'd suggest playing all three till the end of a campaign and decide then.

Why delete any? Just don't play them. If you don't have time to play them all, it's not like you are going to use the character slot for a new character. Just leave it, you may get bored of your other characters some day and want to play one of the ones you stupidly deleted.

If you like elementalist, mesmer and monk... then it's a choice between ritualist and necromancer. Dervish requires an entirely different play style and if you're short on time then you don't want to concentrate on something entirely new.

(You could of course stop playing all the others for a while, and just do dervish.)

If the elementalist is your favourite character, then consider the necromancer for the soul reaping benefits. This will give you the energy you're used to having, but in a different way.

I'm not sure why you're playing your monk along with your elementalist and mesmer. If you enjoy the support role, you could look at playing the ritualist in a healer way. Or perhaps drop the monk for the ritualist in that case and devote more time to just three profession instead of four.

If you want a powerhouse like your elementalist, then consider the ritualist. Those spirits can be real mean, especially with the Kurzick skill that lets you move them along with you.

Of course, this all assumes you're playing PvE.

The other thing you could do is /age. See which one is closer to getting a minipet and keep that one.

as cyberjanet said, keep them all for the mini pets. I assume you have all the chapters which would put you at either 8 or 9 (depending on if you got the pre order with +1 slot) so you have plenty of space. If you like your mini pet, put it in your hall of monuments for gw2 or just tote it around with you. if you don't like it, sell it and make a quick buck.

Necromancer. Most definitely the necromancer. We get Spiteful Spirit AND movable minions unlike the ritulists spirits.

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Necromancer. NOW!

Necros are like soooo awesome. My favourite caster class by far

/vote Rit.



...just to be different

Personally, I would go with the rit. Necromancers are cool and all, but I just prefer ritualist. I love the spiking you can do with channeling, or just go with spirit spamming to add some damage or buff the party. You can go with healing. You can even play a minion master with a rit. Also, I agree with cyberjanet. If you like to deal large amounts of damage with your ele, than you might prefer ritualist.

However, it really is up to whatever you prefer. I'd play both for a little bit, figure out which one you like best and go with that.

Also, I wouldn't delete any of the characters unless you absolutely need the slot. There's no harm in just keeping them to get the birthday presents. Most of the time, that's all eight out of ten of my characters do (although I do plan to play through the game slowly with every class... not sure how far I'll get though).

I tell you. My Warrior is only played out of sentimental loyalty, lol. My monk only goes as far as is needed for farming purposes.

I usually go between my Ranger or Necro. I feel they offer the most versatility in build selection.

Agreed. I have 3 characters presently that haven't seen much game time in the last 6 months. However, they make nice pack mules.

Considering I did invest time and money into them (2 of the 3 chars have multiple sets of 15k armor), I feel the need to keep them around. My Warrior turns 2 this month, as well.

Thinking about it, they're all melee that I rarely play, as it's a Dervish, an Sin, and my warrior. At least the warrior is useful as a runner.

I'm gonna go against the majority and say Rit. They're a fun class to play and I think the Necro has been done to death, and Dervish is a bit different from what you're already playing so it'd probably take even more time.

Also, don't delete any of them. Worst case is you use them for mules and get free minis. If you ever do decide to use them that'd be time lost if you have to start all the way over.

i say keep the rit