Does NPC in PVE hits critically?
As far as I know, yes, npcs can crit. However, to be perfectly honest, I never sat down and checked. As for having any value, that depends on your normal regen uptime. Can you get perma regen without it?
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Yes mobs can crit you.
No that trait isn’t worth taking on an ele in pve. Take any of the other adept traits because they’ll be more useful (other than fall damage) about 90% of the time.
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Yeah, in PvE you’re probably best taking Water VI, Vital Striking, which gives 10% more damage while above 90% health.
As I’m running with three arcane AoE skills, for group content (dungeons/fractals) I often instead take Water II, Shard of Ice, which applies 3 stacks of vulnerability to foes hit by Arcane skillls and gives a little more group dps when other folks aren’t stacking vulnerability on foes - but I’ve honestly not run the numbers, so if you’re running with more damage-oriented gear you may be better being selfish and taking VI.
You are often better off using a different trait in PvP as well (for example lower cantrip recharge). Regeneration uptime is already really high if you run a boon duration build with elemental attunement, so the additional regeneration won’t matter as much in PvP. And in PvP this often does not trigger the cleansing water trait either due to its unpredictability and the internal cooldown of cleansing water. Sooting wave can even become detrimental when you need to clear a critical condition/stack of conditions and switch to water just to find out that this trait has set cleansing water on cooldown a few seconds before to clear a 2 seconds blind.
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You are often better off using a different trait in PvP as well (for example lower cantrip recharge). Regeneration uptime is already really high if you run a boon duration build with elemental attunement, so the additional regeneration won’t matter as much in PvP. And in PvP this often does not trigger the cleansing water trait either due to its unpredictability and the internal cooldown of cleansing water. Sooting wave can even become detrimental when you need to clear a critical condition/stack of conditions and switch to water just to find out that this trait has set cleansing water on cooldown a few seconds before to clear a 2 seconds blind.
I’m running this trait in PvP because I’m also running Diamond Skin - and since condi necro will often spec for high crit chance (to proc condi applications) but have low power, the scepter autoattack tends to heal as much damage as it deals to me by triggering regens.
Cleansing Water really does need its ICD removed to be useful in PvP at all - far too many of our regeneration applications have to happen within five seconds of each other, such as those granted by Healing Rain or if you switch into Water Attunement while casting Glyph of Elemental Harmony and proc your Elemental Attunement.