Guild Wars 2

Necromancer is defined as an “attrition” class, that “gets stronger the longer in combat”.

Currently this doesn’t translate into mechanics very much but I do have an idea: What if Dhuumfire was a trait that served that exact purpose?

Currently, Dhuumfire is balanced for the Reaper. It has no internal cooldown, and its duration is very short. I think that’s wrong. Dhuumfire should be useful on both Necromancer and Reaper, and since it is a grandmaster trait, it should be very powerful.

Here’s my suggestion: Make Dhuumfire a long-duration (10-15s) burn stack, with a 1-second internal cooldown to match the cast time of Life Blast.

This resolves the issue of Reaper Shroud’s autoattack stacking too much burn, while adjusting Dhuumfire into a setup that grows in intensity the longer a battle goes on.

Naturally, this REWARDS us for using our profession mechanic, because the longer we maintain death shroud, the more burn stacks we can stack.

It would break reaper potentially stacking aoe burn with their auuto. Fixes one thing and breaks another.

Check my signature and necro>reaper.

Because Reaper and Necromancer differ too much, while it would be nice and basically pre-patch Dhuumfire coming back, it would make this trait meh for Reaper.

Split the Reaper and Necromancer traits. That’s all we need.