Guild Wars 2

I was reading the wiki, but it seems so severely out of date that I don’t really trust it too much. Is there a newer wiki, perhaps? The discussion page for Plague contains mostly (or all) comments made before GW2 was even released.

Anyway, one thing the description on the wiki says is that by hitting a Plague skill once, that particular effect (bleeding, etc.) gets added to each tick of the plague, so you don’t have to keep spamming it. So I have two questions:

1. Is this even true? If I just press #1 once, then every tick from then on will cause bleeding?

2. Can you only have one skill active at a time, or can all three be pressed and then you get each effect on each tick? i.e., if I press #1 and then press #2, do I still get the bleed on each tick, or does the #2 effect replace #1?

Thanks.

P.S. While I’m on the topic, I’m curious what everyone thinks of Lich Form compared to Plague. I’m asking strictly about PvE, so PvP concerns don’t matter to me. My thinking so far, after just a bit of use with LF, is that Plague seems much better suited for AoE, whereas LF seems more like a single target, high damage skill. Is that about right? I’ve been loving Plague so far, but I just spent 30 skill points to get LF, so I want to love it too!

1: yes you only have to press it once.
2: No you cannot have multiple forms up, you can however swap between them. (if you switch from bleed to blind your ticks wont bleed anymore and instead blind. cant have both.)

Lich in PvE depends. In boss fights lich is a lot more usefull due to the high dps is can put out which plague just cant keep up. Generally, you want to use plague only for the perma aoe blind, which isnt very usefull due to boss mobs having a 90% blind resist chance. However, in some situations it can be more usefull. Example: the colossus arms. I usually switch to necro plague form there and just lock down one position to prevent the mobs from healing the seal. However, I do switch to lich for the boss fight.
In the end it comes down to what the situation requires. Multiple mobs that deal a lot of damage = plague form. A few mobs with high hp = lich.

I was actually the one who added that note about just having to hit the Plague skill once. I was in the same boat as you, so I added that to the wiki to help others who weren’t sure about its usage