Guild Wars 2

Hello all, have a quick situational question regarding the Epidemic skill —

Let’s say I have a target who has the most conditions in a group of enemies, but that target is almost about to die.

There have been times when I hit Epidemic, but the enemy falls right when the skill activates — so I still do see the big black swirl animation — my question is would the conditions on that enemy STILL spread to foes? I’m usually too preoccupied to check before/after conditions when dealing w/ groups — and am raising the question since when enemies die I notice that all conditions/boons are removed.

Thanks!

When a player goes down, they get a full clear of conditions, so if you epidemic hits right after they go down, it spreads nothing. However if there are conditions on a downed player, applied after they went down, and then you use epidemic, it will spread those just fine.

One of the more unforunately down-sides to condition damage. Once they go down, you either have to stomp them or spend time restacking conditions (where marks will not work)

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BREAKER!

I hate and love using this skill in WvW. Its like a race to epidemic before your target dies, sometimes I cast it ahead of time and dont get many conditions sent. Sometimes I get perfect timing and send over like every condition in the book for massive dps.

I wondered about this alot. It does seem to me – at least in PVE – that if the mob is alive at the moment you hit Epidemic, then the conditions transfer, regardless of the mob dying during the lengthy cast animation.

That’s one of the worst parts of it having a friggin cast time like every one of our skills.

They should really consider making that instant, even if they increased the cd, would make such a huge difference.