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Changes to Dark Armor and SotL
On Dark Armor: Yes. Would be an excellent addition.
On SotL: Are you out of your mind? That’s the way to utterly kill the signet. Giving it a useless passive and nerfing the already weak active is a horrid plan.
Locust passive is fine as is, its the active that needs fixing (there have been plenty of ideas).
I’m saying that the initial heal is added with the already existing heal, that way the signet is always useful regardless of the number of enemies. Also, the signet buffs itself. That’s just… Great.
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where the more there are, the less you receive.
It should be the exact opposite. Double or tripple the healing amount with every additional opponent.
One of the things necros desperately need is better healing and scaling with increased numbers of opponents. Reducing the healing amount in that situation would be absolutely counterproductive, although I don’t think this issue should be solved by buffing a single utility skill.
I somewhat agree and disagree with changing the passive bonus in general, because:
The only viable use this signet currently has is moving faster in cities or jumping puzzles. As soon as you’re in combat it is nothing but a wasted utility slot. Yes, you see a lot of people using it in both WvW and sPvP, but they are actually handicapping themselves.
So, should the signet be changed?
1. Yes, because atm it’s absolute garbage.
2. No, because that way it’ll take 2 sec longer for people to run from the mystic forge to their crafting station.
I somewhat agree and disagree with changing the passive bonus in general, because:
The only viable use this signet currently has is moving faster in cities or jumping puzzles. As soon as you’re in combat it is nothing but a wasted utility slot. Yes, you see a lot of people using it in both WvW and sPvP, but they are actually handicapping themselves.
So, should the signet be changed?
1. Yes, because atm it’s absolute garbage.
2. No, because that way it’ll take 2 sec longer for people to run from the mystic forge to their crafting station.
Movement speed has its uses in battle, I use this signet a lot in battle and out of it. Hell I even chased someone with it in wvw. So no the passive is fine.
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Movement speed has its uses in battle, I use this signet a lot in battle and out of it. Hell I even chased someone with it in wvw. So no the passive is fine.
Like I said, you’re wasting a slot…
My thoughts:
Change Dark Armor (and crossclass equivalents) to apply a defensive boon when something happens, rather than grant additional toughness. These traits are weird and smelly because they’ve got awkward, or completely absent, interactions with skills.
Change Signet of the Locust active to this:
30 second cooldown
Instant cast
Damage: 158
Healing: 932 (0.24)
Radius: 480
Breaks stuns
The damage/healing/radius numbers are ripped straight from wiki.
The CD is INSANELY high for what the ability does. For the pitiful active effect that it currently has, it should be a third of what it is now.
Instant cast- again, it’s a pitiful effect. It doesn’t demand a 3/4 sec cast time.
Breaking stuns fills an immediate need, and gives the signet a solid use as a generalist signet. A necro can always use 25% movement speed, and a necro can always use a stunbreaker. Just by doing this, it already has a good place in any build.
Movement speed has its uses in battle, I use this signet a lot in battle and out of it. Hell I even chased someone with it in wvw. So no the passive is fine.
It does have its uses, but the passive being solid doesn’t make up for the active going to complete waste.
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Movement speed has its uses in battle, I use this signet a lot in battle and out of it. Hell I even chased someone with it in wvw. So no the passive is fine.
Using traveler/speed runes is always better than using sotl for necros even if the rest gained from the runes is useless for your build simply because we have utility skills that are too good to give up compared to some stats…
So I posted something about changing these two in general profession balancing, and just wanted to mention it here, and see if people like it.
For Dark Armor, add in stability for a few seconds(1-5) when channeling, and set it on a cd.
For SotL, remove ms bonus, have it increase siphon effects(Like Bloodthirsty), and give it an initial heal that scales down based on the number on enemies around you, where the more there are, the less you receive.
I don’t like the idea of setting the stability on a CD, because it makes you feel like you can’t use channeling abilities until you need stability, otherwise you waste the stability for the next several channels. Just “feels” bad to me. I like the spirit of stability while channeling, though.
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“He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
where the more there are, the less you receive.
It should be the exact opposite. Double or tripple the healing amount with every additional opponent.
One of the things necros desperately need is better healing and scaling with increased numbers of opponents. Reducing the healing amount in that situation would be absolutely counterproductive, although I don’t think this issue should be solved by buffing a single utility skill.
As I stated earlier, the initial heal would be in addition to the one already there.
I don’t like the idea of setting the stability on a CD, because it makes you feel like you can’t use channeling abilities until you need stability, otherwise you waste the stability for the next several channels. Just “feels” bad to me. I like the spirit of stability while channeling, though.
Well, I said it should be on a CD because I knew somebody would yell “OP!” and be done with it.
How about:
Dark armor: Gain Stability and retal when a channeling skill is interrupted. 3 sec duration, 20 sec cooldown.
and
SotL: leave the passive as it is, active: Leap to your target, stealing life from it and nearby enemies. Way more like a “locust” and would give some mobility (finally).
How about:
Dark armor: Gain Stability and retal when a channeling skill is interrupted. 3 sec duration, 20 sec cooldown.
and
SotL: leave the passive as it is, active: Leap to your target, stealing life from it and nearby enemies. Way more like a “locust” and would give some mobility (finally).
Dark Armor – would be really strong PvP/WvW
SotL – love this
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hey, having an off day, but have they ever implemented changes on traits, etc that players have suggested? i’ve given up hope of having an impact on the devs, as i kitten they don’t take into account the players who actually play the necros, aside from 1-2 elite guys.
hey, having an off day, but have they ever implemented changes on traits, etc that players have suggested? i’ve given up hope of having an impact on the devs, as i kitten they don’t take into account the players who actually play the necros, aside from 1-2 elite guys.
Yes. Both of the new Death magic minors were player suggestions from a thread on this subforum. Torment was as well.
hey, having an off day, but have they ever implemented changes on traits, etc that players have suggested? i’ve given up hope of having an impact on the devs, as i kitten they don’t take into account the players who actually play the necros, aside from 1-2 elite guys.
Yes, actually.
Terror (as it is now) was a Nemesis idea
Dhuumfire was based on many Necromancer ideas (the need for burning, not necessarily its exact implementation)
PotH/Reanimator combining into other minion traits
Vital Persistance’s effectiveness increase
Weakening Shroud’s current functionality
Axe Training dropping to Master tier
The combination of the signet traits
The things Drarnor listed
There may be others but I remember those specifically, and those are just traits, there have been some other changes (like increasing base size of staff marks, addition of a unique animation on Reaper’s Mark, and others). ANet doesn’t actually get enough credit for listening to the community as much as they do, because its easy to forget these situations and easy to remember ones that make them look bad.
Also, people tend to forget that the Necromancer isn’t the only community that has valid input on Necromancers. Sometimes we get completely justified nerfs (like the one to Corrupt Boon) that were not necessarily our idea, but was still a player idea.
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As I said … Off day. I stand corrected