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Honestly, we can’t really tell much until we can actually try it out. So I’d hold off on the ‘OMG U FAILED US ANET’. They gave us a lot of what we asked for, so I’d say everything is going in the right direction.
My only concerns are in pve, we still have the DS mechanic (That spells trouble), we also still have very weak group support, siphoning is still not going to be good vs taking Soul Reaping/Spite because of the lack of damage traits. Just remember, DS is the reason we were in the hole in the first place and It could happen again If our combos are too powerful.
But as I said, let’s all just relax and wait before we pass horrible judgement. I have no doubt we can try it out in the beta.
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I would like to wait and see whether or not Necromancers (Core) need emergency anything. Especially since we don’t know anything about the stat rework of life siphons (which will now heal through DS), the new Vampiric Aura ability (which adds Life Steal to allies) and lastly they’re possibly makinh transfusion heal downed players.
Necro core is actually benefiting a lot from the 3 trait lines only and 4 extra trait points, since so many of our traits were unreasonably split up and over multiple trait lines. Many have been combined and more clearly defined. Other classes have nearly lost entire builds or lots of DPS due to this, while a lot of our “close, but not close enough” builds will actually be closer to viable (MMs of all types could become monsters if AI is fixed). More importantly, we now have better access to LF gain and DS traits which we couldn’t afford before.
Reaper is in a very good place. After an evening of dreaming up power builds as I mystic toileted linen/wool armor for new armor sets, I woke up this morning thinking of a new condi build that:
- Uses chills to exploit Chilling Force and Blighters Boon (or Deathly Chill if Chilling Force is enough) for might stacks and LF in pvp. Combined with a sigil of Ice to trigger Chilling Nova while in or out of RS and ensure chill procs.
- Use RS for AoE AA burn with Dhuumfire
- Parasitic Contagion for condi sustain that will be good compared to any life siphon sustain we have now. (15% of a lowly 1-2K condi damage is 150-300 health per second. That’s better than what current siphons can achieve on their best day. On average that’s around 250-290ish health per second with optimal skill siphoning (to the second), weapons and environment. Now take a high damaging condi necro that can easily do 2-4K condi damage over multiple targets and you got some serious regen if you keep condis damaging).
- Death’s Charge as an AoE two boons to conditions converter every 6 seconds. Enough said.
The above can easily be turned into a terrormancer build that’s more tankier, bursty and much harder to kill compared to current Terrormancer (due to all the LF gain, flat 15% damage reduction against chilled foes and the general fact enemies are usually chilled). Or go Lingering Curse (I’m trying to resist it so I don’t get blinders on thinking its the only option cause 100% condi duration) for a lot more condi/chill stacking.
The Reaper also has plenty of condition removal. We don’t have to use just the GS, or just the Shout skills. You can take Consume Conditions or Wells. It has as much access to condition removal as core necro Power builds have.
Basically Reaper is the specialization which gives us access to a lot more soft cc/debuff potential and AoE damage., while being able to sustain in close combat better by adding more LF gain opportunities.
There’s a lot of potential when you look at the numbers (which aren’t set in stone) and more importantly, the mechanics of skills and how they can relate to things Necro core already has or is getting.
The real question is what will our usefulness in PvE be. If Enemy AI, skill/boon usage etc. isn’t good enough to warrant more attrition, offensive support or debuffing, then a thread similar to this should be posted but in relation to mob design, not necro design. What we do know is that Necros will be useful for stripping defiance bars and using DS/RS to absorb a lot of random spread out damage Mordrem Hordes dish out (blocks/invulnerability is less affective in this regard imo when Necros have enough LF gain). It seems Necro glassy builds have a much easier time in the Silverwastes than some other glass build classes. Especially when solo or with a few people defending forts for example.
In another thread I mentioned that there are two camps in the necro community. Those that want necros to fit the meta and those that want the meta to fit necros. There’s a lot more potential for Necros in the latter and for the game as a whole, if Anet tries to make all combat mechanics matter just as much in all game modes.
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