Guild Wars 2

Does a Necro even exist who uses this trait? I cannot think of any reason why someone ever would take this trait over any trait in soul reaping.

I think this trait should be changed to give the necro 4 or 5 seconds of swiftness when entering Deathshroud.

deja vu !!!!

i sometimes use it to test things out but your suggestion would be more of a nerf

lorndarken.3702:

deja vu !!!!

i sometimes use it to test things out but your suggestion would be more of a nerf

No i think it would be a buff and i certainly would use it unlike the current one.

Actually this suggesting is not from me. I am pretty sure i read it in the necro forums before.

Muchacho.2390:

No i think it would be a buff and i certainly would use it unlike the current one.

How would replacing a passive, safe, 25% runspeed with a short and easily purged 33% one be superior? Because you just wouldn’t have any runspeed so you feel less confused? :P

Carighan.6758:

Muchacho.2390:

No i think it would be a buff and i certainly would use it unlike the current one.

How would replacing a passive, safe, 25% runspeed with a short and easily purged 33% one be superior? Because you just wouldn’t have any runspeed so you feel less confused? :P

Maybe because you could use it with out wasting Lifeforce out of combat and ofc you wouldnt need to stay in DS for the movement speed. And the obvious one 33% ms is faster then 25% ms.

In fact if i want safe 25% movment speed i would rather take traveler runes or qucking thirst then Speed of Shadows.

Muchacho.2390:

Carighan.6758:

Muchacho.2390:

No i think it would be a buff and i certainly would use it unlike the current one.

How would replacing a passive, safe, 25% runspeed with a short and easily purged 33% one be superior? Because you just wouldn’t have any runspeed so you feel less confused? :P

Maybe because you could use it with out wasting Lifeforce out of combat and ofc you wouldnt need to stay in DS for the movement speed. And the obvious one 33% ms is faster then 25% ms.

In fact if i want safe 25% movment speed i would rather take traveler runes or qucking thirst then Speed of Shadows.

Or Signet of the Locust.

The fact is, necros can easily get speed boosts without wasting life force. The trait as it is right now is just bad because all of a necro’s other options are better. Both other options for the slot and other options for getting the movement speed.

It would be nice if they changed it to something like this:

Speed of Shadows:
Grants 10 seconds of swiftness (20 sec icd)

what happens when we give it a 50% speed increase?

Speed of Shadows
“Increases movement speed while in death shroud.”
Movement speed increase: 50%

Better than anything else, maybe let it stack with other speed boosts? Not sure if that’s how it is now, but don’t think you can get 50% speed boost from having daggers+SoS, or 75% from having SoLocust+Daggers+SoS, or 100% from all that plus Speed Runes. Might be cool to have a kind of mobile-necro meta be built.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

what happens when we give it a 50% speed increase?

Speed of Shadows
“Increases movement speed while in death shroud.”
Movement speed increase: 50%

anets version of your suggestion

speed of shadows
increases movement speed while in death shroud
movement speed 50% for 1 second

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

what happens when we give it a 50% speed increase?

Speed of Shadows
“Increases movement speed while in death shroud.”
Movement speed increase: 50%

Actually little happens because in combat speed is capped at 125%. You could say it would work if the necro was chilled and/or cripled but necro’s have condition removal enough.

What about making it a flat 25% speed boost outside of ds aswell? Warriors have it, Engineers have it so why cant necros have it?

djooceboxblast.9876:

What about making it a flat 25% speed boost outside of ds aswell? Warriors have it, Engineers have it so why cant necros have it?

Because they already have it. Signet of the Locust

Carighan.6758:

djooceboxblast.9876:

What about making it a flat 25% speed boost outside of ds aswell? Warriors have it, Engineers have it so why cant necros have it?

Because they already have it. Signet of the Locust

They really should lower the Cd on locust signet though. 60 seconds is kinda meh.

As for what speed of shadows should be, I think they should rework it completely.
Something like

“Grasp of Shadows” While in death shroud you periodically cripple & damage nearby enemies. (Say X damage & Apply 1 second of cripple in 240 unit AOE every 3 seconds)

Kind of like a locust swarm but without the swiftness & life force gain. It would boost damage slightly and help keep enemies in range.

How about superspeed/quickness for like… 2 seconds?

Would this help with Lifeblast builds?

zapv.8051:

It would be nice if they changed it to something like this:

Speed of Shadows:
Grants 10 seconds of swiftness (20 sec icd)

I also would be fine with that.

But seeing how all “when enter DS” traits dont have a cd (apart from the cd of DS ofc), i think my suggestion is more in line with that.

What about a having it give mist form like speed for a very very short duration upon entering ds, kind of like what nark said minus the quickness

This would also give necros a little bit of an escape and gap closer at the same time.