I got 99 problems and a thief ain't one!
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Well of darkness is crap. Even traited for cool down and chill on blind. 48 seconds of cool down for only 5 seconds of use? That come out to be about 10 percent of the time the skill is actually active and 90 percent of the time it is on cool down. Not to mention any decent thief will realize what is happening and just disappear only to return moments later when your skill is on cd.
If you think that you will only run into a thief 10 percent of the time that you are playing or if every thief you run into is willing to wait for your cool down then sure. Go for it!
When I was just a newb on my first day of playing I thought of using well of darkness to counter thiefs… but i soon realized that there are other ways to handle thiefs than relying on a ghetto skill.
Dagger offhand = aoe blind as well. you realise my slot 2, 3, 4 ,5,6 ,7 ,8 ,9, F1 slot 4, switch weapons slot 2, 4,and 5, all are aoe right? i just keep casting on the ground and no matter how much u go invisible, ur bleeding/poisoned/chilled/blinded/crippled/fumbled/weakness/vulnerability no matter what u do right?
my only attacks that are not aoe are my default, slot 3 on sceptor, and slot 1 2 and 3 in deathshroud(i almost never use slot 1 anyways.)
so uh lets see I have 12 AOE that I don’t have to target you at all and the area is huge for target. I am not sure how a thief disappearing helps him, if he runs away for 3-4 seconds, thats about 5-6 spells i can cast that are bleeding/poison/everything him while he is invisible. I hope you realize this build is a machine gun, my marks are traited for unblockable, my golem throws you to the ground for 3 seconds and cripples.
I regularly beat warriors/guardians/thieves of any build usually with full health when I finish move them.
However, Rangers pose a serious threat to me, but not really because I can cast wells/marks wherever I want, but they do beat me 1 vs 1. Elementalists can beat me 1 vs 1 if they are tank/heal specced, really good mesmers have fought me for upwards of a minute to 2 minutes straight, my aoe siphons health from clones so it easily becomes a stalemate/slow fight.
engineers = instant kill for me usually, so easy to run away from turrets and fight from a distance for me.
fighting against other necros can be hard for this build because their usually specced for more condition damage so it can get dicey, but i generally win against those kind also.
You seem obsessed with spamming high cd aoe spells and killing newb thieves who don’t have the common sense to not walk into them. I was not commenting on your build or any other skill in it. I was just informing you that well of darkness sucks, I have shown you the math, you can either listen or not, your choice.
Well of darkness regularly lets me fight 4 people for an extended 5 seconds, not to mention it gives me health, and they are all combo fields for Dark, so when you chain them and do the correct moves, I also gain the combo “Area Retaliation” and can stack it up by 3 seconds times however many people it hits, and I can also group fear if I combo the right move with the right well. You know nothing of what you talk about, you probably don’t even know how to make a combo or even what they do. Combos with a well build are very powerful.
I downed 2 out of 3 people earlier because of the massive AOE I have, and their 3rd person finished me off, Prevented them from capturing the point closest to them for over 40 seconds. If i was using my elite skill of turning into a blinding shawdow for 20 seconds, I would have killed all 3 of them. Personally I like the golem for 1 vs 1 so thats how I keep it. Knock someone down and well them up.
one was a thief, one was a mesmer, and other elementalist bunker, only reason they didnt go down as well.
But you are dependent upon the idiocy of the thief and not the skill of the necro.
A good thief would back out of wells and wait. Not to mention that you are dependent upon an aoe for a heal just begging to be feared out of it.
Moreover, as a thief I just wait for the chills and bleeds to stack up so I can stealth (which I was going to do anyway) and remove them all.
I don’t doubt that you kill thieves with this build. I’ve died to necros because I was stupidly not paying attention to where I was standing, but I reiterate:
You are reliant on the stupidity of thieves not the skill of the necro.
You are a phooking idiot. I don’t rely on anything but judging the situation and acting accordingly, my own skill. That is all.
Private message me and lets duel so I can rofl stomp you and win with full health.
1. Don’t name call, it makes you look petty
2. I’ll gladly duel. It might be a few days. I stay pretty busy with school.
1. I am petty.
2. You are an idiot..
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