Fuming! The only way to describe the reaction to this mess.
ANET's balance guidelines: "lets just throw stuff in a blender and see what happens".. seriously, the joke that ANET has no idea how to balance is no a joke anymore.
The scourge's soon to be stripped abilities in exchange for alacrity is a travesty and not worth it. Whatever made scourge unique is dead, why would any one play this thing now? Oh yeah, alacrity... 😛 big deal. This is a BAD BAD patch.. what did you guys do? Buff Reaper first to soften the blow then murder scourge?
DONT DO THIS ANET!! Raising players from the dead is what scourge is about, but now you killed it! And the healing/raising scourge did was ok at best but now, gone, poof, killed, stomped...
I never asked for alacrity and I'm not the only one... and if this is the price to other players wish list for this, NO!! Its obvious that ANET doesn't care for necromancers and only throws us a bone once in a while.. like buffing us back up to kinda where we were years ago?