Guild Wars 2

TLDR; Deathly Perceptions, Close to Death, and Axe Training together make one badkitten DPS build. 97% crit chance in DS. 11K crit with Ghastly Claws and 9K crits with Life Blast.

I have not seen any discussions about Deathly Perceptions yet. Everyone is whining about Dhuumfire and Terror being OP when they are not nearly as beautiful as Deathly Perceptions.

This link is what I run in sPvP. It is the exact trait tree that i use in PvE, but with weaker stats.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQRAnd4YjMaV6JbGbM8JkpCdD0j3rWcGqHmz68hA-T4Ag0CnIyRljLHTOycs5MGYByWhzATDeFA

In PvE I run Zerker armor and weapons with Knights Trinkets. Knights armor in sPvP is different than the rest of the game, so my PvE stats are:

Power: 3,512
Crit Chance: 47% (in DS 97%)
Crit Dmg: 75%
Armor: 2,235
Health: 21,223

(Note: Some people say this is to squishy of a build. It really isn’t. I have two health bars because of DS. I gain so much life force that I can say in it 70% of a boss fight. The heal is only a 25s cooldown and you get spectral armor at 50% health. If I die its my fault.)

MAIN SKILLS
Reaper’s Touch hits for an avg of 2.3k three times, which equals 6.9K

Ghastly Claws max dmg 11K (that I have done), avg is 7-8K.

Dagger auto atk 2.2k + 2.2k + 2k + 3.6K = 10K dps

Well of Suffering avg 12K in 6 secs

Deathly Claws (Lich Form Auto atk) avg 5.2K every 0.75s for 20s = 26 shots. 135K in 20s. (Note: in Lich Form my pwr is 4,998 and my crit chance is 89%.)

DEATH SHROUD SKILLS (my crit chance in DS is 97% because of deathly perceptions)
Life Blast (3.5K -10K) Hits harder with every blast because it puts 2 stack of vuln on a target and 1 stack of might on myself. I easily get 10 stacks of might which is 350 pwr. I typically wait in a 1v1 to use this when the opponent is under 50% health and all cooldowns are blown. 20% more dmg when target is under 50% health. Easy kill. It hits 3-5K on other players and 6-10K on bosses. Oh it pierces as well so position yourself right.

Dark Path- used in a 1v1 situation for chill

Doom- 1v1 heaven. Doom then Life Blast in a 1v1. Easily get 2 Life Blasts off for 6-8K total on an opponent. (I wish that i could have Terror here but that is the definition of OP and everyone know that Necros & Engis are not allowed to be OP.)

Life Transfer- avg 4.5K AOE Amazing in groups. I also have Transfusion which heals allies. Great for dungeons, WvW or tPvP.

Tainted Shackles- 2.8K AOE and torment. Use this then Life Transfer and do about 8K AOE dmg in 4 secs.

AOE ROTATION
Unholy Feast 3k, WoS 12k, Tainted Shackles 2.8K, Life Transfer 4.5K = 22.3K AOE dmg

Purpose of this post
I wanted to create a discussion of Deathly Perceptions. I think it is way better than 3s of stability. I personally like this build better than condi builds. It is instant gratification.

My only problem is that Axe is hard to use by design. Outside that, I love deathly perception. I usually run Dagger Dagger and Staff. usually ending strike on dagger is 4k with 5-6k Life blast. I haven’t tried Focus offhand much because of Offhand dagger got buffed hard but after seeing the numbers I might play around. I think with the recent nerf to Chaos Armor, Power necro will not be as hard to play as. The big part about Deathly Perception is actually not the life blast but the AOE potential. Its just way massive and offers insane damage that way.

I will say that I personally have been staying away from wells however. I do like them with deathly, but I am kind of loving the amount of death shroud regen with spectral armor and walk together. Its awesome too because they stay on when you enter making them well worth using in slots so I can use Deathly perception more.

You might consider swapping zerker armor pieces for celestial now and combine it with zerker trinkets.
Each celestial armor piece has 1% more crit damage compared to zerk and you’d still have full crit rate in DS because of deathly percention, while acquiring more survivability.

That’s my plan at least.

This is really interesting because this is very close to what The Kin uses. However, the Kin has 10 curses instead of blood magic. This way you can get weakening shroud upon entering death shroud which gives you a good source of weakness every 20 seconds.

Same spite traits as you, same soul reaping with the exception of the cooldown on death shroud as opposed to the 25% faster movement speed. Now if you REALLY want some nasty combos, use BiP along with runes that give you might on swap and might on crit and you can stack stupid amounts of might. With the extra might duration, it’s easy to stay at 20+ stacks of might in pve and usually hover around 5-10 stacks of might with a high crit rate.

The Kin however uses valkyrie armor for pve. In pvp, celestial amaulet, though the crit rate is a little lower.

The 10 extra point you can put where ever. I use vital persistence as well; it depends on my mood.

I will look into the might thing though. I dont sPvP much. I primarily WvW and run dungeons.

I see why someone would use Valkyrie, but I dont like sacrificing my crit chance when im out of DS. If i get fury then im at 67% crit chance. It is really easy to pick up furry with all the Zerker warriors running around.

vesta.3170:

The 10 extra point you can put where ever. I use vital persistence as well; it depends on my mood.

I will look into the might thing though. I dont sPvP much. I primarily WvW and run dungeons.

I see why someone would use Valkyrie, but I dont like sacrificing my crit chance when im out of DS. If i get fury then im at 67% crit chance. It is really easy to pick up furry with all the Zerker warriors running around.

The thing is, if you do wvw / pve, then it’s not really all that important to have a huge amount of crit. Anything over 50% is not really necessary in The Kin’s opinion and you can easily reach 50% simply by using foods and such. With valkyrie you get extra crit damage and vitality so you’re not as squishy.

The might stacking in pve and wvw is absolutely amazing. Seriously, it’s ridiculous being able to keep 10 stacks + in pvp most of the time and in pve a full 25 stacks is easily attained and held simply by weapon swapping. Pair it with the might on life blast and BiP, massive, massive damage inbound.

But the weapon swap and stacking conflict on sigils.

I would never run without foot in grave. One guardian or warrior looks you way and you’ll spend the whole time on the floor bouncing without being able to do anything unless you carry more than one stunbreaker skill.

With berserker you can get 53-55% crit chance anyways, and someone can share fury.

InWvW without Foot In Grave it takes getting caught in one stun field to become a free bag for the 30 people chasing you.

I roll cavaliers accessories with zerkers armour and I’m traited like kin. Though I use a second dagger and spectral skills to stay in DS longer so more precision isn’t too much of an issue imo.

I just cannot “use” my DS without Foot in the Grave and Unyielding blast, but thats just me, Deathly Perceptions is the same as its innuendo, just plain wrecks someone who wasnt prepared and a poor-mans lich form so to say.

I’m running the same build, except that I’m using Knight armor with Zerker trinkets.
It is extremely strong. Life Blast while wielding axe is really something enemies should be aware of.

The point of 97% chance to crit is that I will always crit. I can rely on Life Blast to crit for 5K and pierce through a whole zerg at 1200 range. It is like a warrior’s Kill Shot except I can do it 20 times straight. But that is just for WvW.

In dungeons you don’t need Foot in the Grave as much. NPCs are dumb, especially in this game.

In sPvP you start with zero Life Force, so I use #4 then #2 on the axe to get life force. At this point in a 1v1 they are below 50% health (excluding bunkers of course). They will use their heal and be at a full 20K health. Pop into DS and 4 hits later they are dead. 4 hits = 4s. If you fear them properly, you can get 2 shots off and they can’t do anything. It is a guaranteed crit for 5K each shot. If they aint dead, you axe #2 is cooled down. That is another 5K.