Right now well of blood is the least popular of the Necromancer’s available heal spells. Not only that but Necromancer’s as a whole have very little synergy in group play, other than the ability to remove conditions off their allies with plague signet. As a water field allies could then drop blast finishers within the well to provide AoE healing to the group! I think that a small change like this, could add a lot of build variety to Necromancers, as support necros would have a huge tool at their disposal with well of blood. Healing power gear might also become more popular with necros with this change, and necros could be one step closer to the attrition class that Anet wants them to be.
Something about a necro dropping a light field doesn’t seem right either, and as morbid as it sounds, blood is a liquid. So it isn’t too far fetched.
Thoughts?
Kaz Bloodclaw, The Bell Tolls, Kaz The Spaz
Northern Shiverpeaks
I use Well of Blood in a Well build. It’s pretty acceptable when you look at the amount of traits you have (ground target, recharge, siphon). It’s also decent for a bit group support.
Could have atleast made it a dark field…. you know, as necromancers are dark and “blood” skills in gw2 translate to life steal.
I think making a heal skill heal your allies when they shoot through it, and blinding enemies when you cover their face with blood via a blast finisher still makes alot more sense to me than blasting blood = retaliation _ and covering your teammate in diseased rotten corpse blood cures their poison.
or yea ^^^ water field giving more heals and regeneration for giving your allies blood still make much more sense.
Im shocked my flamethrower fire field isnt a water field with A-nets judgement.
Seconded, such a change would be greatly appreciated!
At the moment necromancers are discouraged from using Well of Blood in organised WvW group fights because it might overlap with water fields and prevent them from interacting with finishers to grant healing. This locks us out from using possibly our best group support skill in the very circumstances in which it would perform best!
Turning it into a water field would make sense from every possible perspective – it would make it consistent with other similar healing skills, all of which provide water fields, and it makes sense from a thematic/fluff perspective as well (I mean blood is 98% water and it’s even CALLED a WELL! How is an engineer’s healing sprinkler a water field and a skill called a WELL a light field? :p ).
If the necromancer needs a light field Well of Power would be a better fit for that. We have more than enough dark fields anyway.
This is copied and pasted from the necromancer subforum:
I agree with Bhawb that CC is a very good heal, especially in the current meta, and that it overshadows the other heals. I don’t think that it overshadows the other heals because it is overpowered but more because the others are situational and may need to be brought up.
Blood fiend should be kept as is however he should have an “on death” heal that is higher than his sacrificed heal. This helps in two ways. In PvP it requires thinking from both parties. Does the necro sac his blood fiend when his health starts to drop too low to get it off cooldown more quickly or does he wait and hope it gets killed for a higher heal? Does the opponent target the blood fiend while the necros hp is high on order to mitigate the effects of a larger heal or can he just get the necro down with blood fiend up?
In PvE it also gives some strategy. Do you keep the blood fiend alive for the extra siphon and dodge roll through a big hit so that he is killed and gives you a better heal or do you play it safe and just sac him?
I haven’t thought out Well of Blood as much. While I do think that it should be a water field, I don’t know what other changes would have to be made to it to make it balanced as a water field. The main push behind this is at least for me, wvw. Well of blood is great however if you throw one down on a gate or in open field combat, you are potentially “covering” a water field that your teammates will try to blast finish. Not sure what the right solution is.
