The Necromacer is “missing” two elites! A Signet and a Well.
If you could design them yourself what would they be?
You can even take skills from the transforms like Anet did with the Guardian’s Tomes.
You don’t have to worry about damaging the transforms. It’s all fantasy after all :P
I’m very curious what you guys would come up with!
Praise be to Balthazar, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
Signet of Stability
Passive: who cares
Active: have a couple stacks of stability and a break stun since the rest of your break stuns are pretty terrible
Signet of Stability
Passive: who cares
Active: have a couple stacks of stability and a break stun since the rest of your break stuns are pretty terrible
Passive could be to pulse stability every so often!
Praise be to Balthazar, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
Signet of Stability
Passive: who cares
Active: have a couple stacks of stability and a break stun since the rest of your break stuns are pretty terrible
Terrible name for a necro skill…
How about this:
Signet of Corruption (3/4 casttime sec 60 cd):
passiv: Convert every 5 secends 2 conditions on you into boons.
active: Remove all boons from yourself and for every boon removed corrupt 1 boon from up to 5 enemies in a 600 range. Deals also damage for ech enemy boon corrupted.
Well of ruin (1/4 casttime not sure about cd):
Target area pulses, damaging foes, inflicting conditions and grating boons to allies.
Conditions inflicted: Cripple, weakness and vulerability
Boons granted: swiftness, protection and might
Damage is the same as well of corruption
Well, in keeping with our class the 2 missing elites must:
A) not be worthwhile
B) have a disproportionate cooldown in relation to the effect received
Well: pulses weakness and does 500 damage/sec on full power build, 180s cd
Signet: passive increases healing power by 180. Active is a teasing 1s protection, 1s resistance and 2k heal that scales .01 with healing power, 300s cd
I would be open to employment with Anet, just saying
Well of Aging:
knock down for 1 seconds when casted and when end (also can grant stability when casted and when end), 240 radius, inflict huge damage (similar to Well of Suffering but a little lower) and inflict 2 sec. of poison (2 stacks) and weakness every pulse. Last 5 sec. CD 80-90 sec. Combo Field: Dark. Number of targets: 5
Signet of Vengeance:
Passive: Copy a random condition you’re suffering (and all his stacks) to all enemies in range (every 10 sec). area effect of 600.
Active: Steal boons from your enemies. Up to 5 enemies and Up to 3-4-5 boons per enemy hit (with all they’re stacks but with 5 sec of duration). area effect of 800/1200
That way the passive effect grant us another condi source and at the same time don’t fight against Plague Signet for the conditions and the active effect is different than the corrupt effect why don’t corrupt boons but steal it, granting us boons, a thing that we “totally” lack.
Well of Helfire: Target area pulses damage and burning to foes. Allies in the area gain Helfire.
-Damage: (6x) 798 (0.5) (same as Well of Corruption)
-Burning (3 seconds)
-Unblockable
-Fire Field
-Number of Pulses: 6
-Cast Time: 1/4s
-Number of Targets: 5
-Radius: 240
-Cooldown: 60s
-Range: 900
Helfire: Allies inflict burning on hit (1s icd) and do +10% damage vs burning foes.
The effect itself would grant a green fire effect to weapons of those it effects.
Surrender and serve me in life, or die and slave for me in death.
Any Elite Well has to be called Well of the Profane. No other name is acceptable.
So, my ideas:
Well of the Profane
Elite Well
Summon a Well of the Profane at target location. Allies inside cannot gain conditions. Enemies inside cannot gain boons.
Cast time: 3/4 second
Radius: 240
Duration: 5 seconds
Combo Field: Dark
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Range: 900
Signet of Lost Souls
Elite Signet
Cast time: 1/2 second
Passive: Heal nearby allies when you gain life force. Healing amount is half of the gained life force value.
Passive Radius: 240
Active: Surround yourself with fallen souls, protecting yourself from harm. At the end, the souls lash out at foes on their return to the Mists.
Invulnerable for 5 seconds.
End damage: 1.5 coefficient
Damage Radius: 240
Cooldown: 90 seconds.
Any Elite Well has to be called Well of the Profane. No other name is acceptable.
So, my ideas:
Well of the Profane
Elite Well
Summon a Well of the Profane at target location. Allies inside cannot gain conditions. Enemies inside cannot gain boons.
Cast time: 3/4 second
Radius: 240
Duration: 5 seconds
Combo Field: Dark
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Range: 900
Signet of Lost Souls
Elite Signet
Cast time: 1/2 second
Passive: Heal nearby allies when you gain life force. Healing amount is half of the gained life force value.
Passive Radius: 240
Active: Surround yourself with fallen souls, protecting yourself from harm. At the end, the souls lash out at foes on their return to the Mists.
Invulnerable for 5 seconds.
End damage: 1.5 coefficient
Damage Radius: 240
Cooldown: 90 seconds.
Cool ideas but the elite signet passive seems op. I think with those numbers you could heal better the healing builds (ventari rev, druids etc.) and the healing would be independent of healing power.
How about a well that does fire damage. If you step inside of the well you lose all boons and minions and for each one lost the well is expanded in size and duration. Also, it sets you on fire so that you can toss some burn onto targets outside of the well if you choose.
Like a giant crematorium or something. XD
Well of horror : inflict fear for 1 second every second. Last 5 second. CD 180s. Reasoning : necromancer are the master of fear and a well that basically do the same as spectral wall with a horrendous CD (and no protection on allies) should be a must
Signet of ruin :
Passive : Periodically corrupt a boon on you, applying the condition to you and all ennemies around you. Happen once every 3 seconds.
Active : Transform all conditions on you into boons. CD 120 seconds.
No core profession should be balanced around an optional elite specialization.
Well of horror : inflict fear for 1 second every second. Last 5 second. CD 180s. Reasoning : necromancer are the master of fear and a well that basically do the same as spectral wall with a horrendous CD (and no protection on allies) should be a must
Signet of ruin :
Passive : Periodically corrupt a boon on you, applying the condition to you and all ennemies around you. Happen once every 3 seconds.
Active : Transform all conditions on you into boons. CD 120 seconds.
I like these ideas. Necromancer’s Fear nerf from so long ago is still on my mind and the condition is no longer “strong” in the current state of the game with every profession able to pump them out or clear them.
Yesterday, I was considering the merits of tacking Sunless runes on a Viper’s setup just to see if I could build a power/condi hybrid without being stuck auto-attacking with scepter.
Signet of Corruption
Passive: gain each boon you corrupt (5 second ICD)
Active: transform all of your boons into conditions and send them to nearby foes (600 Radius, 2 conditions per foe, 3/4 of a second cast time, 40 second cooldown)
Signet of Pestilence
Passive: all healing to nearby foes is reduced. Gain life force based on a percentage of all healing done to nearby foes (healing reduction: 25%, life force gain: 10%)
Active: break stuns and Inflict poison, weakness and vlunerability on nearby foes (600 radius, 30 seconds cooldown)
Signet of Devouring
Passive: while in combat, you periodically devour some of your own health in order to recharge the cooldown of all shroud and weapon skills by a small time. Interval: 4 seconds, HP loss: 2%, cooldown reduction: 1 second
Active: finish up to 3 downed foes in an area, healing for a large amount for each foe finished. Range: 600, radius 240, HP per finish: 4000, cast time: 2 seconds, cooldown: 180 seconds.
Well of horror : inflict fear for 1 second every second. Last 5 second. CD 180s. Reasoning : necromancer are the master of fear and a well that basically do the same as spectral wall with a horrendous CD (and no protection on allies) should be a must
ha i’m glad i read that before i posted my reply, i’d posted the same idea right down to the name lol (well mine has an S on the end XD)
they should definitely make it a thing!
I also said it should pulse from the center instead of the player so if you use this on a group you can watch them scatter in all directions rather than just away from the necro
Any Elite Well has to be called Well of the Profane. No other name is acceptable.
So, my ideas:
Well of the Profane
Elite Well
Summon a Well of the Profane at target location. Allies inside cannot gain conditions. Enemies inside cannot gain boons.
Cast time: 3/4 second
Radius: 240
Duration: 5 seconds
Combo Field: Dark
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Range: 900
Signet of Lost Souls
Elite Signet
Cast time: 1/2 second
Passive: Heal nearby allies when you gain life force. Healing amount is half of the gained life force value.
Passive Radius: 240
Active: Surround yourself with fallen souls, protecting yourself from harm. At the end, the souls lash out at foes on their return to the Mists.
Invulnerable for 5 seconds.
End damage: 1.5 coefficient
Damage Radius: 240
Cooldown: 90 seconds.
I like the well but how is it better than Null field
Desolation (EU) → Yak’s Bend (US)
In your backline: Elementalist+Mesmer+Necromancer
Any Elite Well has to be called Well of the Profane. No other name is acceptable.
So, my ideas:
Well of the Profane
Elite Well
Summon a Well of the Profane at target location. Allies inside cannot gain conditions. Enemies inside cannot gain boons.
Cast time: 3/4 second
Radius: 240
Duration: 5 seconds
Combo Field: Dark
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Range: 900
Signet of Lost Souls
Elite Signet
Cast time: 1/2 second
Passive: Heal nearby allies when you gain life force. Healing amount is half of the gained life force value.
Passive Radius: 240
Active: Surround yourself with fallen souls, protecting yourself from harm. At the end, the souls lash out at foes on their return to the Mists.
Invulnerable for 5 seconds.
End damage: 1.5 coefficient
Damage Radius: 240
Cooldown: 90 seconds.
I like the well but how is it better than Null field
It’s better and worse. Better in that you aren’t dealing with negating conditions/boons one at a time, worse in that it’s not doing anything about current conditions/boons. It’s a more strategic play for negating spam of either one.
That said, would it be broken if it also cleared all of them? Probably not.
passive – 15% damage reduction from both conditions and direct damage
active: pull downed ally to you (900 range), restore 20% of their health, and gain 5 stacks of stability. inflict fear (1.5s) on nearby enemies (240 radius). 60s cooldown.
Well of the swamp:
pulse slow (2s), cripple(2), chill(1s), poison(2s), and torment(2 stacks, 5s). Downed enemies are gradually pulled under and finished if inside the well for 5 seconds.
Grants 1 second of might to allies and 1 second of bleeding to enemies every pulse.
Every three seconds, the well will shrink and will knock back enemies near its edge. The third time it shrinks it erupts dealing massive damage.
Radius 480
Duration 9 seconds
Combo field: Dark
OR
Well of the Dead
Each pulse grants allies stability. Whenever an ally or enemy dies within the well the duration of the well increases by 1 second (max 10 seconds).
Duration: 10 seconds
Damage X
Radius 520
If you die while Well of the Dead is active you become a Poltergeist Projection (transformation) with new skills and lasts the duration of the well.
Poltergeist (has three skills sorta like Plague)
- Cannot leave Well of the Dead’s area of effect.
PP1: Lung at your enemy, dealing damage
- 1.2: Claw at your enemy, causing cripple.
PP2: Scare – Become invisible for 2.5 seconds. Reactivate to teleport to target enemy; fearing them.
PP3: Spectral Vengeance – Return your spirit to your body, knocking back enemies in your path and cause an aoe eruption once your reconnect with your body.
Passive: grants connection with death buff every 2~3 seconds. overwrites current stack.
Connection with death (4s): +15% extra maximum life force.
Active: quintuples max hp, current hp and incomming healing for 5~8 seconds.
Cooldown 60~90 seconds.
Well of despair:
Damage all enemies and grant cursed debuff.
Cursed (3s) : can’t regain health.
Duration: 5 seconds.
… (basic well stuff)
cooldown 60~90 seconds.
Signet of Woe: (50s Recharge)
Passive: Foes that strike you may become vulnerable.
Active: Fear foes at the target location.
- Passive Damage: 12 (0.1)
- Active Damage: 560 (1.8)
- Vulnerability (x1): 10s
- Fear: 2s
- Number of Targets: 3
- Chance: 33%
- Range: 900
- Radius: 240
- Cast Time: 1s
Well of Dismay: Target area pulses, crippling and slowing enemies (50s recharge).
- Damage (x6): 936 (1.1)
- Crippled: 3s
- Slow: 1.5s
- Number of Targets: 5
- Pulses: 1s
- Duration: 5s
- Range: 900
- Radius: 240
- Unblockable
- Combo Field: Dark
- Cast Time: 1s
Signet of the Wraith (45 second cd, instant cast):
Passive: %10 damage reduction.
Active: Damage foes, gain Life Force and recharge Shroud.
-Damage: something low
-Number of Targets: 5
-Life Force: %15 (not per target)
-Shroud recharge: %100
Well of Atrophy (60 second cd, 1/2 second cast time): Target area pulses, draining Endurance of enemies and Slowing them. If the affected foe has no Endurance left, they are Dazed instead.
-Slow: 1s
-Endurance drain: 35
-Daze duration if Endurance is not or partially drained: 1s
-Number of Targets: 5
-Pulses: 5
-Duration: 4s
-Range: 900
-Radius: 240
-Unblockable
-Combo Field: Dark
Signet
Passive – converts one condition to one boon, 2 sec internal cool down
Active – teleport yourself up to 1200 leaving a pulsing swarm of ice locusts that apply 1.5 seconds of chill on each pulse. 3 pulses 2 seconds apart. Leaving the cloud automatically causes 1 second of Fear. 90 second cool down.
Well
Applies 3 stacks of 5 second Torment and 1 stack of 2 sec quickness per pulse. The well has a 1 second pulse, 5 second duration, 240 radius from the caster, creates a light field, and has a 180 second cool down but is not ground targeted.
To keep the theme Anet wants I came up with these:
Signet of procrastination
Passive – All skills are delayed by 2 sec
active – put all your skills on cooldown
Well well
- Spawns a bunch of tiny wells of darkness that is slightly annoying to deal with but doesn’t threaten anyone.
On a more serious note.
Signet of Corruption
Passive – Deal damage when you corrupt a boon
Active – For 10 seconds you gain 1 stack of stability(about 5sec) for each boon you corrupt.
I wont come up with a well elite because we’ve had one since launch but it has some identity issues. It thinks it’s a corruption for some reason.
- Deals damage like Well of Suffering
- Enemies inside can not be healed or rezzed.
- Allies cant drop below 1 health (Would also work on DS health)
Signet of Grenth:
Passive: Inflicting a condition steals life, if you inflict chill the leech is trippled (40 per condition per stack)
Active: 900 range shadowstep to target area, leaving a trail of ice between the 2 positions that inflicts chill and torment onto foes. 30 second CD.
Signet – i would like an unblockable signete that would alow the necro to change hp with your oponent, i think that would be hilarious, same as moa is an i win skill.
Well – i would like to see a ground teleport, that once u teleport u blind, torment and poison up to five targets in the area for 5 secs.
Signet of Binding
-Cooldown:- 30s
-Passive: – Summons one Jagged Horror every 10 sec (maximum 5)
-Active: – All your active minions become immune to damage (can still be CCed) and charge your target, detonating as a Putrid Explosion.
Went for minions for the signet but gave the minions a different role rather than the current ‘summon and tank’ setup. In theory could get up to 15+ minions with Rise + traits but also gives non MM necros access to a slow build up ‘bomb’ skill. The low cooldown reflect that it will take at least a minute to get the full effect from the signet’s active effect.
Well of Lost Hope
-Duration: 10 sec
-Pulses: 1 sec
-Cooldown: 60 sec
-Target Area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting conditions.
-Each pulse will inflict the following conditions based on the foe’s current conditions.
-No conditions → Bleeding
-Bleeding → Poison
-Poison → Torment & Cripple
-Torment → Burning
-Crippled → Chilled
Wanted a well for the condi necro to favour along with the standard back/mid line necro in WvW. It starts out fairly weak but quickly ramps up, adding more conditions as time goes on. Since conditions can get cleansed fairly quickly in a WvW situation, wanted the well to last longer than the others but it also gives it a chance to put a reasonable amount of conditions onto a PvE foe.
Well of Destruction
30s CD
Deal massive damage to foes standing in the well.
Signet of Leeching
20s CD
Passive: You steal life each time you strike a foe.
Active: All allies gain the ability to steal HP each time they hit for a limited amount of time.
Well of Destruction
30s CD
Deal massive damage to foes standing in the well.
Signet of Leeching
20s CD
Passive: You steal life each time you strike a foe.
Active: All allies gain the ability to steal HP each time they hit for a limited amount of time.
I like the Signet idea but I’ve always thought that Signet of Vampirism should have the passive effect.
Surrender and serve me in life, or die and slave for me in death.
Signet of Leeching
20s CD
Passive: You steal life each time you strike a foe.
Active: All allies gain the ability to steal HP each time they hit for a limited amount of time.
How would that interact with the signet trait (also the boon corrupt part)? It nether as an aoe effect nor is targeted at an enemy. So no boon corrupt then?
Well of Profane:
Small Healing Pulses + Summon a jagged Horror for every ally(or every enemy as well?) that died in this area. (max 10?)
Notes: Synergy with Bone minions and other Jagged Horror skills/traits and Death Nova. Could replace lichform in raids/pve which is currently just used for the minions.
Signet of Suffering:
Passive: 3 green orbs circle around you, healing allies they hit.
Active: Enhance the range of those healing orbs and their healing but uses lifeforce over time. (Signet Might Trait cooldown: 15seconds)
Notes: Healing Necro with Shaman gear (more lifeforce, longer uptime for the enhanced Healing orbs). Great for corrupting enemy boons and healing allies thanks to Signets of Suffering.
Inspired by Aurelion Sol from LoL: Spotlight on youtube
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In addition to the on land Trident weapon for necro to summon (for short duration) mermaids that heal allies and inflict conditions on allies we could have a new healing and/or condition necro
The Necromacer is “missing” two elites! A Signet and a Well.
If you could design them yourself what would they be?
You can even take skills from the transforms like Anet did with the Guardian’s Tomes.
You don’t have to worry about damaging the transforms. It’s all fantasy after all :P
I’m very curious what you guys would come up with!
Well of insertnameherecauseicouldntthinkofone
CD: 180 seconds
Duration: 10 seconds
Each pulse works much like Well of Corruption, but is updated to today’s game mechanics and strips everything, not just basic boons, including resistance, engi bulwark gyro effects, revenants dwarf or the effect that doubles boon duration (forgot its name), stealth, etc.
Bypasses all blocks, invulnreabilities and evade effects.
Signet of whateverness:
CD 90 seconds
Passive +power and + condi damage
Activate: Converts all boons on target to conditions and replicates all boons converted on the caster. Bypasses all block, evade and invuln mechanics.
Passive: condition damage and duration are increased (5% for both)
Active: apply and convert up to 3 boons into fear
CD: 50sec
Cast time: 1sec
Applied fear: 2sec
Fear per a boon removal: .75sec
Range: 900
Well of Withering
Target area pulses; applying slow, weakness, and cripple to all foes within the area.
CD: 80sec
Cast time: 1/2sec
Duration: 5sec
Pulses: 1 pulse per a sec
Slow: 1sec
Weakness: 3sec
Cripple: 5sec
Range: 900
Radius: 240
Combo field: Poison
Edit: grammar mistakes
[SoS] PvX Thief,
The world could use more S/x Thief
FIST FLURRY! ORA!!
Signet Of Trauma
Conditions removed: 2
Interval: 8s
Recharge: 40
Activation time: Instant
Passive: Periodically remove and preserve conditions up to a maximum of 3.
Active: Your next attack applies your preserved conditions.
Well Of Summoning
Recharge: 50
Activation time: 1/4 Summon skeletal hands to periodically knockdown and immobilize foes.
Immobilize (3s)
Pulse: 2s
Duration: 8s
Radius: 240
Combo Field: Lightning
Range: 900
Signet Of Trauma would be nice in tandem with Corruption skills. You would be able to cast a Corruption, have the signet remove the conditions passively, then later on get a bigger burst with a single attack. Eg. Blood Is Power w/ Master Of Corruption -> Signet Of Trauma removes the Bleed x2 and Torment x2 -> Activate Signet Of Trauma during the final attack in the scepter auto attack chain -> final scepter auto now does: 1 Corrupted boon, Bleed, Poison, Bleed x2 and Torment x2.
Well Of Summoning would be really nice both defensively and offensively. Either you could use it for kiting multiple people or you could use it to lock people down. First they get knocked down, then they get immobilized = great for keeping people still while we wind up one of our tremendously long cast time skills (Executioner’s Scythe) + with a leap like Death’s Charge = also dazes them from Lightning Field.
Well of Devoures
Creates dark field which heals allies and grant life force to you based on the dmg the well does. CD 90s
dmg as well of suffering for 6 sec pulse every 1 sec
Signet of Despair:
Passive: Apply blind to every enemy in 600 radius every 5 sec(need to be in combat)
Active: Gain 10 stacks of stability for 10 sec
cd:90s
(well mine has an S on the end XD)