Guild Wars 2

I was playing my Necromancer earlier and it dawned on me that my dagger skill #4, deathly swarm, doesn’t transfer 3 conditions on a successful attack.

In fact, all it does, is transfer 1 condition over to my foe. Could someone verify this in case I am doing it wrong, or is it working as intended?

It bounces between targets, transferring a condition each bounce. This seems great, until you realise you can only transfer 1 condition if you’re facing one person.

The problem I have with this skill is that it truly is a slow projectile (atleast it homes), making it very easy to dodge. Also it fails to cast really easily.

Yeah, you gotta be right up in the face of the enemy for it to be really effective. Wish they would speed up the projectile.

It could be faster, but I love this skill even if it only transfers one condition. It’s great as an opener in conjuction with a corruption, and then also you are often going to blind a big opening attack of the opponent quite often. The cooldown is pretty reasonable as well, so it should come back up later in the fight.

You just need to be aware not to think its going to clear all conditions on you unless you’re in the middle of lots of foes. Otherwise just use staff 4 or consume conditions, or plague signet.

As far as not casting I don’t notice this too much, try to keep good straight on facing.

It’s in the stickied bug note compilation list, you should check it out to see what is/isn’t working and post if you notice anything new. Would be better if it worked all the time like the PvP version, so you’re not kitten if you’re facing one opponent with your condition manipulation.

From the sticky
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Dagger
Deathly Swarm: inconsistent behavior between PvE and PvP (Heart of the Mists). In PvP it transfers a copy of the 3 conditions to each enemy hit (Conditions are still cured from the caster), in PvE it transfers the conditions one at a time, one to each target. (21 Jan, 2013)

Between 1 transfer per enemy and misses etc, I find this too unreliable to use. Focus is way superior imo.

So glad to see this thread. I thought I was imagining that it worked somewhere.

I hope they change it so that it works the same in Pve. Didn’t it used to work the same PvE and PvP? Maybe if the miss chance wasn’t so bad…