Guild Wars 2

So… you’re making me pick between something like 33% reduction on corrosive poison cloud’s recharge and damage on fear?

There’s a reason a skill like corrosive poison cloud never sees the light of day, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is not because it people were too busy running damage on their fears to notice poor old CPC off in the corner.

Now let’s be honest, no one would take master of corruptions to reduce the cooldown on CPC. The point to take it now is to get a ~20 second consume conditions. But is the 33% reduction to the entire line of corruption utilities worth anywhere close to anything like terror? Corruptions don’t even have a stun break.

Not only that, but you have to make it so that the player is subject to additional penalties when using corruptions by way of taking on more conditions when they use them. In theory it could be useful since you’d have even more conditions to eat off yourself, but is that really going to be worth all the damage lost from not having damaging fears?

“Ohh, but think about all the CPCs you can throw around everywhere!”. Woooo…

The corruption line is built around applying conditions to enemies, and then you go and remove a potent source of condition damage from necros that want to specialize in corruptions. I just don’t get it. I know that things like corrupt boon can be quite potent, but a 33% recharge on that for your damage on fear?

Then to top it all off, they have to go and make plague signet only transfer 5 conditions instead of the full set. This right after corruption skills are to be applying more self-inflicted conditions. Does anyone not see that something is just not lining up here? Am I the only one?

Oh well, I guess I can just stick with the overall more useful spectral skills… oh, and you make those conflict with another fear-related trait, excellent. Well, at least it wasn’t the damage one.

Yeh it makes no sense. Having said all this. I think we probably take plague sending with rabids. That trait is exceptionally strong if it works reliably (if it transfers blind is the key). Then take the well heal. Then take terror and weakening shroud. There is potential I guess. Dunno, hard to say. Either way they closed off so many options with their stupid clustering of all the good traits for a terrormancer in the master tier of curses. A complete fail would be understating the changes.

3 more years to go.

The issue that was in Curses GM is now in master.I was actually planning on taking MoC and CPC buy not anymore. I might stop playing condition necro or take a break to theorycraft(imo) I stopped already but I don’t see the team potential, no Parasitic Contagion healing in DS is a pass on that trait as usual. I would call “usual” miscommunication and again 3 more years to go.

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3 more years to go.

The issue that was in Curses GM is now in master.I was actually planning on taking MoC and CPC buy not anymore. I might stop playing condition necro or take a break to theorycraft(imo) I stopped already but I don’t see the team potential, no Parasitic Contagion healing in DS is a pass on that trait as usual. I would call “usual” miscommunication and again 3 more years to go.

I wish we had the curses traits from the last preview to be honest. They were much better