Guild Wars 2

I haven’t played Necromancer until recently.

Why doesn’t Blood is Power grant Life force? I noticed that it was removed at October patch.

If Necros get the BiP back, it could mean sustain is back.

Blood is Power is very powerful skill, so giving it LF will be too much. After last patch, I dont see problem in getting LF at all. Also This skill is also bugged, so if you use it without a target you will gein 10 might, but no bleeds on you.

I want it as group might. We are bleeding ourselves to get might. So surely we should share that ritual power with our allies. The duration and cooldown makes it so this wouldnt be overpowered so i really dont see why we cant have it as group might.

spoj.9672:

I want it as group might. We are bleeding ourselves to get might. So surely we should share that ritual power with our allies. The duration and cooldown makes it so this wouldnt be overpowered so i really dont see why we cant have it as group might.

As I said allrdy, you wont get bleeding on yourself if you use it without targeting anyone!

emon.1863:

spoj.9672:

I want it as group might. We are bleeding ourselves to get might. So surely we should share that ritual power with our allies. The duration and cooldown makes it so this wouldnt be overpowered so i really dont see why we cant have it as group might.

As I said allrdy, you wont get bleeding on yourself if you use it without targeting anyone!

I know, but I still want group might!

This skill is interesting, I always preferred Corrupt Boon over it in WvW, but with the recent nerf to that, have to rethink.

The thing I don’t like is because of usually starting combats at range with staff, if I use BiP with a target, I need to blow Putrid Marks just to move 2 bleeds and that is not ideal. But if you do, then you have a total of 4 bleeds on opponent, not bad.

Do people have experience using BiP for only the might prior to engaging, and is the skill worth having only for that?

spoj.9672:

emon.1863:

spoj.9672:

I want it as group might. We are bleeding ourselves to get might. So surely we should share that ritual power with our allies. The duration and cooldown makes it so this wouldnt be overpowered so i really dont see why we cant have it as group might.

As I said allrdy, you wont get bleeding on yourself if you use it without targeting anyone!

I know, but I still want group might!

It can be good in PvE/WvW, but in PvP necro mostly stays in a distance from a group and group might wont bring much there.

Pendragon.8735:

This skill is interesting, I always preferred Corrupt Boon over it in WvW, but with the recent nerf to that, have to rethink.

The thing I don’t like is because of usually starting combats at range with staff, if I use BiP with a target, I need to blow Putrid Marks just to move 2 bleeds and that is not ideal. But if you do, then you have a total of 4 bleeds on opponent, not bad.

Do people have experience using BiP for only the might prior to engaging, and is the skill worth having only for that?

Depends on your spec.
In power spec I need might more, then 3-5 bleeding dmg, because i will waste too much time.
In Condi/Terror spec BiP is good in both ways. As just to get some might, after you have set whole enemy team under heavy condis and took some distance. And of coure its good with epidemic aswell.

they can fix so we get bleed even with no target and to grant the might to allies also but thats too much to ask for

BiP can be used for heavy bleed aoe bursting together with epidemic and scepter ( and dagger) + staff, using scepter 2, dagger 5 and staff 2, BiP, staff 4 and epidemic. There are some variations depending on the situation but the ideal rotation for the combo is

(Scepter autochain) → scepter 2 ( → dagger 5) → staff 2 → BiP → staff 4 → epidemc

This combo lays down some insane preassure, specially if you have someone to give you few extra stacks of might.

The thing is, this combo is easily nullified with aoe condi clears such as the popular warrior and guardian shout builds. I use BiP rarely out of PvE, as there are other options that I prefer more. The might is pretty huge tough and if you use BiP, it’s best to go with a condi build and master of corruptions for the 24sec cooldown.