Hey all.
Permanent swiftness is a very important part of any WvW necromancer build. We need all the mobility we can get, and in the huge battle landscapes of WvW the ability to get from one place to another a bit more quickly is very valuable. I’ve been achieving this in my WvW power build by putting 20 points in Curses for Banshee’s Wail and 10 in SR for Spectral Mastery (getting some boon duration would also work but I don’t want to put any points into DM).
Recently though I’ve been tweaking the build. I have not been happy with my Runes of Vampirism as of late. They work fine, but ever since Mist Form was nerfed so you can’t cast heals in it anymore it has lost a huge amount of its value. The last straw was when I was in the middle of my healing cast and the runes triggered, canceling the cast and I died to condition damage as a result. So I went looking for another set of power runes and came across the Runes of the Pack. Here are the bonuses:
(1) +25 power
(2) +20% swiftness duration
(3) +50 power
(4) Chance to gain and grant might, fury, and swiftness to nearby allies when struck. (10s ICD)
(5) +90 power
(6) +100 precision
Let’s look at what this means:
- +20% swiftness duration means that you don’t need both Banshee’s Wail and Spectral Mastery to have permanent swiftness! So you can save those trait points or slots for something else and further diversify your build.
- +100 precision helps offset the loss of crit % from removing points from curses since you don’t need Banshee’s Wail anymore.
- The 4th bonus is another source of swiftness and also gives you fury and might – important boons for any power build.
-They’re cheap! IIRC they were like 30 silver a few days ago. Apparently they’re now around 1.1g.
For my build, I was able to take 20 points out of Curses and spread them around. I’ve rounded out my build a bit more and haven’t noticed any negative gameplay differences. I wanted to share this discovery with you guys, hopefully some of you will be able to make use of it.
(edited by lettucemode.3789)
