Guild Wars 2

Deathly Chill or Blighter’s Boon?
Soul Eater or Chilling Victory?

The game mode would help a bit. But as of right now, nobody knows.

Chilling victory seems to be better with Blighter’s boon for PVP purposes. If you build for it, the Deathly Chill actually isn’t bad, but it’s not perfect. It’s stronger in PVP than people let on, getting ticks up to 800+, with a proper supporting build, can be fairly high uptime.

Soul Eater is kittenomeone else said, the leeching is too little for such a slow weapon, and you get a bulk of your cooldown reduction when you’d be spamming one move (under 50%) mostly anyways. At best it’s a minor DPS boost for Night fall, but completely outclassed in PVE by Decimate Defenses.

Hope that helps.

ronpierce.2760:

Chilling victory seems to be better with Blighter’s boon for PVP purposes. If you build for it, the Deathly Chill actually isn’t bad, but it’s not perfect. It’s stronger in PVP than people let on, getting ticks up to 800+, with a proper supporting build, can be fairly high uptime.

Soul Eater is kittenomeone else said, the leeching is too little for such a slow weapon, and you get a bulk of your cooldown reduction when you’d be spamming one move (under 50%) mostly anyways. At best it’s a minor DPS boost for Night fall, but completely outclassed in PVE by Decimate Defenses.

Hope that helps.

thanks ronpierce. You seem to always have intelligent insight on necro gameplay.

It should be noted that in PvE Deathly chill does not work on champ or above level enemies. Anything with a break bar is immune to chill completely. So it is a complete waste of a trait in PvE.

There is very good synergy with chilling victory and blighters boon. So much so that there is a 150 post thread in the PvP section crying it should be nerfed into the ground.

Since we are necros it is fairly likely that it will be nerfed unfortunately.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It should be noted that in PvE Deathly chill does not work on champ or above level enemies. Anything with a break bar is immune to chill completely. So it is a complete waste of a trait in PvE.

There is very good synergy with chilling victory and blighters boon. So much so that there is a 150 post thread in the PvP section crying it should be nerfed into the ground.

Since we are necros it is fairly likely that it will be nerfed unfortunately.

Noted, thanks. And yeah, being necros we’d prolly get nerfed while eles get buffed

Does Soul Eater’s cooldown reduction even work? I was playing around with it last night and I wasn’t seeing any “jumps” in my other GS skills’ cooldowns even while spamming Gravedigger over and over.

Blighter’s Boon always over Deathly Chill. Deathly Chill is pitiful right now. Chilling Victory for solo might stacking, Soul Eater anywhere else.

Deathly Chill is actually pretty good now. I was having a good time melting people with rs condis and chill swaps. Blighter’s boon is also really strong, but it makes you tanky instead of potent with condis.

I tried both and for me it is Blighters Boon with a Signet Build. Amazing Dmg and Boon Removal.

Been having small group roaming with this in WvW lately. Had plenty of amazing fights and I hardly die even in the midst of enemy clusters. Deathly chill reminds me of the old burn.

I’d say depending on comp. When we’re facing outnumbered fights and my guildie was running support guard I ran blighter’s boon, which works amazing with Empower. Basically heals me back up completely and allow me to soak a lot of damage. But in equal number situations I tend to run deathly chill to damage opponent and boost my fear damage.