Guild Wars 2

I saw that in the next balance patch Dhuumfire will be modified so that life blast will apply burning for 3 seconds with 10s CD.

Does this mean the trait will be getting a nerf in duration? (as it is currently 4 seconds in wvw and pve)
If so this seems like a little too much much. I’m fine with application coming from life blast, but nerfing the duration as well seems like too many negatives to warrant dhuumfire still being a grandmaster tier trait. I’d suggest keeping the duration at 4 seconds if the application will be bound to life blast as it will be much more difficult to proc the burn every 10 seconds under the new conditions of the trait.

Nerf in pve/wvw but a buff in spvp since the duration there is 2 second only currently.

they should have removed the trait so be happy its still in game.

I don’t understand the issue with Dhuumfire. Necro’s already have the least build diversity in the game.

Actually thats not true. Sadly, most of the builds are useless, but necro has the most build available in the entire game.

Dalanor.5387:

Actually thats not true. Sadly, most of the builds are useless, but necro has the most build available in the entire game.

By that logic everyone has the same number of builds. You can only count builds that are useful.

For PvP I agree 3 seconds is enough burning (2 seconds was fine actually). However, for PvE (and WvW to some extent) the extra duration is very nice “burst” for condition builds. Burning is vital because things die very fast in these modes and necromancers often wont be able to stack enough bleeds to do decent dps in these situations making the 4 second burn very useful to me.

Bacon.4918:

For PvP I agree 3 seconds is enough burning (2 seconds was fine actually). However, for PvE (and WvW to some extent) the extra duration is very nice “burst” for condition builds. Burning is vital because things die very fast in these modes and necromancers often wont be able to stack enough bleeds to do decent dps in these situations making the 4 second burn very useful to me.

Well Anet is trying to change the dps meta so perhaps this won’t be a bother in the future.

Their changes to the DPS meta is going to make a non-existent dent.