Guild Wars 2

Just my two cents here. Constructive opinions / ideas welcome!

One thing that really irks me is that you cannot get healed when in DS mode…well, I was thinking it would be cool to have an ability that would do that and then some…

The skill would be called “Planar Siphon”.

It would be a PBAOE Mark, akin to the Well of Blood.

The effects it would bring would be for 10 seconds at 1 pulse per second.

Upon using this ability there would be a big heal (like Well of Blood) to your corporeal form (and friendlies); also, stability would be granted to the caster only, for 5 seconds.

For every 1 second a smaller heal would occur; just like Well of Blood while you are in the mark; this heal would affect the corporeal form of the user as well as any other friendly that is in it.

Every 2nd pulse (five times total) it would convert boons on enemies into conditions and convert conditions on friendlies into boons.

This mark would be affected by Greater Marks.

The reuse timer should be something like 60 seconds.

So well of blood, power and corruption and the Foot in the grave trait in one, oh what is what i hear there in the background, chime of bells Re·Dun·Dant ~

I think you are missing the condition/boon flips there too…

It has occurred to me that you don’t have any ideas yourself…so you just want to troll, thanks for nothing!

Oh well, hopefully any other comments will be more useful than yours (not too hard to beat btw).

Here is a possible condition that would be useful in PVE, WVW, and PVP:
Aneurism: Internal rupture
Essentially, Aneurism would be a condition that takes into account all the current conditions (or focuses on bleed only) on the target, calculates the potential damage over time the existing conditions (i.e. bleed) could cause, and causes them to explode doing the total damage of the condition stack instantaneously. Thus if you have 10 bleeds stacks on a target, and the bleeds stacks (assuming they are not cleansed) have the potential to do 4.5k damage over time. You hit DS5, and all bleed stacks are immediately wiped, and the target receives the condition damage immediately. Perhaps it also acts as a syphon and you heal a certain percentage of the damage done.
Perhaps this would be too deadly, if you ever got 25 stacks of bleed on someone it would be pretty deadly.
On the other hand, this could make us more useful in boss fights, due to the fact that a necro could burn the bleed stacks on a boss, and allow new bleed stacks to be applied, and allow us to have some form of spike damage on the boss.
At least it is unique.

Heh, I saw your post in the main thread on the 5th skill…I personally don’t think another condition is what we need in the game.

If I remember what I read correctly, ANet is not going to make any new condition solely for the Necro…

The other issue is that this is dependent upon the target having the bleed condition…if you are in a 1v1 there is little chance your target will have many bleeds on them if you have been in DS for a few seconds (because the bleeds timed out or have been cleansed)…

I dont know about you but im never in DS for longer that 2-3 seconds and i can easily put 15 bleeds on a target (10-15 to be more accurate) and immediately go into DS, and then fear them to watch them get mroe damaged. SO i could easily see something like 10 bleeds on target, flip into DS, hit 3, hit 5, go back out and do over.

Problem is, it would look like 10 bleeds running, hit DS#3, then 5, and watch them drop, because i just did 7k damage on them. It would be a backstab like ability and people would cry. It is not a new condition per say, but it uses existing conditions and just insta burns them all at once.

Yeah, I see your point, well made. The length of time I spend in DS depends on the situation for me…

I am rarely in it for only 2-3 seconds…

Basically what you are describing is an ability not a condition then…that is better than a condition…there are already enough of those…

All this brainstorm about DS5 is funny, but almost uselss, since they already stated it will be a condition, so i’d say we can just guess what a necro unique condition could do.
Since the necro nature of corrupting life, and since looks like devs want more boon-management in the fight (see recently added boon-hate) i think it might be a condition that deals more dmg the more boon the target have, or a condition that corrupt other boons.

I think DS active should have unique skill up to your weapon equip on your main hand.(Can’t switch weapon on DS active.) All skill1Drain Life force a little.

Knife.
Skill1 Path of flesh – send darkness blade stab enemy in range600 bleed2stack.summon instant under foot.
Skill2 Path of blood – Send wave of sharp bone hurt victim if victim have bleed will get cripple.
Skill3 Path of needle – Hurt AoE target victim with painful needle if target bleeding will get chill if target cripple will Immobilized2sec.
Skill4 Path of doom – Fear them to scream like girly center AoE from user 600range.
Skill5 Path of Death – Send Guillotine cut enemy head if target down instant death.

Axe.
Skill1 Dark bite – Bite victim fresh with gentle more +%bonusDMG on moving victim.
Skill2 Taste of corrup – Destroy 3conditon on victim to gain raw dmg at once.(Need to DoT for dmg no we make all dot at once.)
Skill3 Taste of weaknss – Bite victim like a boss leave them weakness turn 3boon to condition.
Skill4 Taste of coward – Center AoE from necro give them painful bite,If victim face necro will bite them eyeball leave fear and blind,If victim not face necro will bite they leg got cripple.
Skill5 Taste of sacrifice lamb – Drain victim life if victim fear will knockdown2sec.

Scepter.
Skill1 I curse you. – Rip victim flesh and leave them weakness.
Skill2 I really curse you! – Rib them more you weakling!! if victim weakness will cripple.
Skill3 I really curse you weakling!! – Rib them hard and poison them if victim weakness will bleeding,if victim cripple will chill.
Skill4 I really curse you weakling to death!!! – Rib them head apart daze0.5sec per 1condition.
Skill5 I really curse you weakling to death like burning in hell!!!! – Burn victim alive 2stcak burning per condition.

That’s all I think lol~