Guild Wars 2

Hi..

has anyone tested?

I would like to know what dows best AoE dmg in WvW:
1) Condition Epidemic
2) Power with ground targetable Wells
3) Other

Pls help me caus i need to decide befor i try to get my 80 gear
Thx in Advance

Its definitely condition/epidemic. Think about all the conditions everyone else is putting on targets, when you use epidemic with high condition damage you are basically spreading it all around to nearby foes. There have been times I’ve spread 25 stacks of bleed, poison, and burning to a group of enemies and just completely decimated them. Without buffs that’s close to 4k damage every second to a group of enemies for the duration of the conditions, in addition to the effects of any other conditions that were transferred as well. I use rabid stats on armor/weapons and run a mix of chrysocola and coral for trinkets until Anet finally decides to add rabid jewelry to the game.

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Necros going power/wells: Don’t. Wells provide very little actual support and very little damage by comparison. Anything a well can do, a Mesmer or another class can do better. Its better to get more necromancers using epidemic with condition damage so we can spread around conditions more rather than having only 1-2 necromancers and the rest running wells for wall surpression. Staff and scepter/dagger are more effective at wall suppression, especially when you consider you can use epidemic without line of sight.

Epidemic is by far the best skill necromancer have in wvwvw and they only thing they really bring to the table. Using anything else is hard to justify. It’s sad that wvwvw necro is largely a one ability pony but that is reality right now.

Also for a laugh if you ever have two conditionmancers 2x epidemic with about a 1 second delay in between is pretty ridiculous. You can get 25 stacks of everything that can be stacked on a whole zerg really, really fast. Like within 3-5 seconds from engagement.

Staff. Well of Blood, Well of Suffering, Well of Corruption, Well of Darkness, Lich.

Trait 100% into marks and wells for increased range, effect, damage, healing, and cooldown.

AoE away.

Nothing in Power. 20 max in Precision for ground-target wells, otherwise your best traits are in Death and Blood for such a build.

epidemic is nice but it has pretty short range, you are well inside the enemy aoe and ranged fire envelope to use it on them.
you need some kind of escape utility to gtfo, like spectral walk or wurm teleport

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NixZero.7540:

epidemic is nice but it has pretty short range, you are well inside the enemy aoe and ranged fire envelope to use it on them.
you need some kind of escape utility to gtfo, like spectral walk or wurm teleport

There are very few situations in WvW where epidemic doesn’t hit its max targets.

Uh epidemic has 1200 range if you think that’s short I dunno what to tell you really. The radius is also the largest of any aoe in the game IIRC. The bigger issue is the best necromaner bleed stackers have 900 range.

Condition Epidemic with mix of Power/Pre as well on gear, using Ground targetted wells as other two utilities.

NixZero.7540:

epidemic is nice but it has pretty short range, you are well inside the enemy aoe and ranged fire envelope to use it on them.
you need some kind of escape utility to gtfo, like spectral walk or wurm teleport

Epidemic has 1200 range and 600 radius and requires no line of sight. For necros it is our best form of AoE, wells are pretty good for the duration that they are up but their cooldown is awful and only 2 of them actually deal damage. Lich form has no respectable AoE and staff AoE is pretty meh.

While using scepter to apply conditions can put you at 900 range you can abuse the 240 radius AoE to push to hit to 1140 and honestly we’re necros not squikittenhieves or elementalists, we can operate at 900 range fine.

funny, I was somehow convinced it had 600 range, my bad.

In open battles use Epidemics and conditions, while defending from walls or attacking walls use Mark&Wells it’s that simple.

I have come upon a CRAP ton of AoE Damage from Necro but it takes a long time to ramp up and you cannot really be taking much focus fire.

I use Staff/Scepter+Dagger

Well of Suffering / Corrosive Poison Cloud / Epidemic

I basically drop everything on bridges and choke points and watch people just utterly melt under the weight of damage.

Dropping the WoS and CPC first starts them pulsing while you unload Marks and conditions on people.

Been able to kill 5+ people at a time usually with support.

Not a great smaller team build more for Zerg bustin and taking Towers and Keeps with defense.

EDIT: My gear is hybrid Power/Condition

average 3000 attack with 1000 condition damage.