Guild Wars 2

Any condition specced Necros hate this kitten skill?! It’s like a 10-15 second root when you don’t have much power damage. What do you do?

you reroll like the rest of us until they fix this horribly broken class.

Press F1 then press 4

Your whole team is free!

Im condition specced but i still have 3000 power and 35% crit chance, theres no reason to give up utility and higher dmg for another 14 dmg on conditions.

Imix.6152:

Press F1 then press 4

Your whole team is free!

Im condition specced but i still have 3000 power and 35% crit chance, theres no reason to give up utility and higher dmg for another 14 dmg on conditions.

that’s great for wvw and all but not possible in spvp

The roots are a pain if they get you in a bad situation, moreso than most professions – I can’t think of a profession with less direct damage available than condition Necro. However I play support necro mostly and my damage is absolutely awful, yet I’ve noticed even a few hits will break it soon enough. The problem is focusing them down effectively stops you from fighting, but it is their elite skill.

On a side note, I’ve noticed if I get Binding Rooted with Spectral Walk up you can activate the teleport and pull yourself out of the roots that way. Pretty much impossible to time on purpose, but I thought I’d mention it here for those times it does happen.

You can also Putrid Mark to transfer your current immobilize away from you, and any allies you manage to place the mark on, which will allow you to move away from the roots (I’m not sure if not moving would cause the immobilize to be reapplied when it normally would, but since the immobilize is only applied every third second, it’s not particularly hard to move out of the way). I imagine pretty much any condition cleanse would work similarly.

I’m pretty sure you can’t move away from the roots even if you cure the actual immobilize effect, Daiva – that’s the whole point of it. The unbreakable root.

I cant confirm that if you use Consume Condition or Plague Signet (both tested in sPvP) you get immobilized again the half second later. Though Plague Signet is still useful. Binding Roots do not root for 20s, they root 40 times each 0.5 seconds. It’s a huge difference.

Well, I can confirm that if you use Consume Condition or Plague Signet or Well of Power while pressing forward you will break the root. It’s a root that reapplies to a small area, walk out of it after you break it. I’ve done it many many times. Since I’m Sylvari I’ve also seen people do this to me with my racial.

Ok, maybe I was wrong on the reapplication timer, but as Dibrom confirmed, removing the immobilize will allow you to move out of the roots, which will stop it from being reapplied to you.

Personally I couldn’t achieve escape even dodging but I encountered very few Binding Root user. Thank you for your advise, Dibrom, I’ll try next time.

Spectral Walk doesn’t break it?

Spectral walk doesn’t break roots. If you are currently spectrally walking you can teleport and if your teleport spot is out of it you won’t get rerooted.