Q:
Beating Cele Sig Necro on Ele
If you want to have a chance to survive, you need to dodge Dark Path. It is hard however because they tend to ensure it lands by fearing you during its travel time. The only time you can afford to eat it is if your water attunement isn’t on cooldown. As someone who plays both Ele and necro, I can tell you that 5 seconds of chill is really hard for ele’s to deal with since it prevents you from doing defensive rotations as much. Aside from that, you have to land burning speed consistently as drakes breath and ring of fire will work against you here. You can use ring of fire for might stacking, but be extra careful if they start strafing into and out of it on purpose :p
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With an equal skill signet Necro vs meta D/D ele, the Necro should win all the time.
As soon as the opponent is smart about when to interrupt/applying chill/corrupting boons, the Ele would be in trouble.
The best thing you should try to do is out rotate the Necro.
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If you want to have a chance to survive, you need to dodge Dark Path. It is hard however because they tend to ensure it lands by fearing you during its travel time. The only time you can afford to eat it is if your water attunement isn’t on cooldown. As someone who plays both Ele and necro, I can tell you that 5 seconds of chill is really hard for ele’s to deal with since it prevents you from doing defensive rotations as much. Aside from that, you have to land burning speed consistently as drakes breath and ring of fire will work against you here. You can use ring of fire for might stacking, but be extra careful if they start strafing into and out of it on purpose :p
That is huge. Definitely have to watch out for that but the tells are there.
If it’s a signet necro, you also have to dodge the signets since they convert 2 of your boons to conditions. You should note that the traited plague signet passively transfers conditions only when the necro has 3+ condis on him. If you stack only burns, it won’t transfer them back to you unless he uses his active signet/staff 4. Your other option is to stay in attunements longer to avoid building up too many boons that can be converted.
Signet necro is only really powerful against boon and condi spammers (e.g. d/d cele ele) so unless you’re playing a different build (e.g. fresh air) you’ll have a tough time.
(edited by Kharr.5746)
If it’s a signet necro, you also have to dodge the signets since they convert 2 of your boons to conditions. You should note that the traited plague signet passively transfers conditions only when the necro has 3+ condis on him. If you stack only burns, it won’t transfer them back to you unless he uses his active signet/staff 4. Your other option is to stay in attunements longer to avoid building up too many boons that can be converted.
Signet necro is only really powerful against boon and condi spammers (e.g. d/d cele ele) so unless you’re playing a different build (e.g. fresh air) you’ll have a tough time.
You also cannot dodge the heal signet. It goes through LoS and evadeframes
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Ya it’s lame nothing should be undodgable. Also plague is instant so no tell to dodge. Only one with counter is locust.
Most necros I don’t have trouble against but when I’m playing a good necro (rare but they do exist) I have a lot of troube. I win only about 30% of time. I know it’s a difficult matchup for ele because of all the boon corruption but I don’t think I should be losing this much. Any tips would be appreciated. And yes I know not to put 8 stacks of burn on them at once.
Make sure you run Blinding Ashes.
You wouldn’t believe how annoying frequent Blinds are for any Necro and how much important stuff can miss because of that.
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You should bow down to your necro overlords and they may spare you.
cross your fingers and hope they pop plague signet early, which is common for a lot of average necros. but against a good player, just be patient and don’t yolo all your condis at once. as Sunshine said in the 2nd post, try to out rotate them
You should bow down to your necro overlords and they may spare you.
Necros find everyone more useful dead.