Guild Wars 2

Just cuz I like theory-crafting, reimagining in-game stuff, and looking at peoples’ creations when they do the same, I wanted to make a thread where people like me can post their ideas. Necro’s one of the professions I really like getting imaginative with, so I’m looking forward to seeing how people reimagine some if it. So if you wanna rework a weapon, specialization, single trait, or utility skill, put it here with your thought process and as much detail as you want and we can have a little fun. Whether or not it’s balanced / practical doesn’t have to matter, I just wanna see some cool stuff. :p

I’ve always loved the theme of the necro’s axe, but never really found it satisfying to use. With the Scourge coming I’d love to be able to go axe / torch, so I’ve kinda tried to make it seem more fun to wield while fitting the Scourge, but preserving its identity.

Auto attack always got really dull and repetitive for me, so I added a chain to it. Now it’s got a 1-2, 1-2, 1 and 2 rhythm with a different animation at the end to break the usual slash slash. Same range as before.

1. Rending Claws
Slash your foe twice with ghostly claws, applying Vulnerability with each hit.

- Shredding Claws
Slash your foe twice again, applying Vulnerability with each hit.

- Ravaging Claws
Spin and slash your foe twice, applying Torment with each hit.
Deals more damage to foes below 50% hp.
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Only thing I ever disliked about skill 2 was that the axe did all the work. For a skill so meaty I wanted an animation that made you feel more involved and like you were hashing away at the dude in front of you. Only change is the animation. The floaty axe stays, the necro just waves their arms, maybe swiping at the air in front of them with both arms back and forth, manipulating the axe to swipe rapidly back and forth.

2. Ghastly Claws
Unleash a flurry of spectral slashes against your foe, siphoning Life Force with each hit and dealing more damage per stack of Vulnerability they have.
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Skill 3 is useful, I just wanted to get it to fit the ghost claw thing the axe has going on.
Still has the same range and is a wide frontal cleave that creates two phantom claw waves that strike all foes in front of you as they go out.

3. Spiteful Strike
Lash out at foes in front of you, striking them twice with spectral claws that Cripple, Torment, and corrupt a boon into Torment with each hit. Deals more damage to foes below 50% hp.
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Whatcha think?

Soul Eater

Greatsword skills gain reduced recharge.
Successful Gravedigger grant a stacking ferocity boon on use

Reaper’s Ferocity (40s): 100 Ferocity
Maximum Stacks: 5
Recharge Reduced: 20%

Reaper’s Onslaught

Attack faster and increase power and ferocity of nearby allies by 225 points while in a reaper’s shroud. Killing a foe while in a shroud reduces recharge on all shroud skills.

Reaper’s Onslaught (9s): Increases power and ferocity of nearby allies by 225 points.
Interval: 3s
Radius: 600
Combat Only
Attack Speed Increase: 15%
Recharge Reduced: 5s

Reaper Spec Line:

Minor adept

Shroud Knight – No change – Death shroud is replaced with reaper’s shroud, which has more melee-oriented skills.

Major Adept

Augury Of Death – No Change – Reduces recharge of shouts. Your shouts siphon health and gain additional recharge reduction for each foe they hit. – Reason – Works well for Shout builds.

Chilling Nove – No Change – Critical hits against chilled foes causes an explosion that chills adjacent foes. Reason – Good for Condi and AOE, if you arent running shouts in PvE is a good option.

Relentless Persuit – Slight Change – Reduces duration of movement-impairing conditions. Additionally Convert Chill to Swiftness upon entering Shroud (ICD) – Reasoning: Master of Chill theme and to make it a little more reactionary, could also see it being chill and cripple. Also frees up a bit of a regular necro trait to change.

Minor Master

Shivers of Doom – Complete Change -When you apply Chill you also apply Vulnerbility (3), additionally gain increased Vulnerability duration on chilled foes – Fear isnt really commonly used enough to make this trait suer valuable as it is, I see what they were going but found it lackluster.

Major Master

Soul Eater – Complete Change – Steal Vitality on Greatsword Hits, Stacks up to 5 times. Vitality stolen per stack 30. Stacks Last 15 Seconds. – Reason this trait has to fight against DD and so nees to have a niche, Stealing Vit buffs the reaper and weakens the foe, giving some sudo DPS but also a nice survivability increase.

Chilling Victory – No change – Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Useful for certain builds especially Condi so potentially still woth being here, no completely sure though.

Decimate Defences – No Change – Striking a foe with vulnerability increases your critical hit chance. Reason – its great why change it.

Minor Grandmaster

Cold Shoulder – Slight Change – Deal 7% more damage to Chilled foes, Take 7% Less damage from chilled foes. Reason – Reaper, especially power Reaper needs a 7% Buff and this is part of it,

Major Grandmaster

Blighters Boon – No Change – Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself. If you are in reaper’s shroud, gain health instead. Reason – Decent trait, good for a more tanky build.

Deathly Chill – Slight Change – Applying Chill aplies bleed, applies 2 stacks not 3 but for 25% longer, just to smooth out the bleeds and reduce the spin to win chill spike in favour of more consistant decent damage.

Reapers Mark – Completely New – Strikinga foe applies Reapers Mark, increasing all damage dealt to this target by 5%. Additionally When the Reaper Hits this target they gain a stack of Reapers Onslaught granting 60 Ferocity. Max 5 stacks. Reason – Gives the other part of a % boost, gives minor team support through damage and works to be the Power Dps Grandmaster.

Just to show some usefull support to anet.

Lich form change to Lich aura.

Lich aura : for 8 seconds, imbue your attacks and up to five allies attacks with dark power, dealing 15% more damage.
CD : 120 seconds (90 second traited)

Rending shroud : While in shroud weakened nearby foes’s defense.
Rending shroud (9s) : Reduce toughness by 225 points
interval : 1 seconds
Radius : 600

Parasitic contagion replaced by corruptor’s zeal.

Corruptor’s zeal : each time you inflict yourself a condition by corrupting or drawing conditions, gain life and grant expertise to allies around you.
Corruptor’s zeal (5s) : gain 180 expertise
Radius : 600
heal : 150 (0.08)

Vampiric ritual: wells are centered on you, move alongside with you and drain life with each pulse. Wells recharge faster.

Vampiric presence replaced by blood aura

Blood aura : while in combat you and your allies build a thick aura of blood with each attack, protecting you from incoming damage.
Barrier gain on it : 33
Blood aura (9s) : gain barrier on hit
number of target 5
radius 600
In combat only

Might be enough for the support part. Let talk about defense now since we lost so much from the shroud and the loss of plague form.

Putrid defense : Take less damage from poisoned foes. If you are poisoned, poison foes that hit you.
reduced damage 10%
1 poison stack (3s) when hit
ICD 1 second.

Vital persistence : shroud skill recharge faster, when you leave the shroud gain a barrier.
recharge 20%
barrier 25% of max shroud. (roughly 3k with 0 vitality added)

Let’s look at the focus :

Reaper’s touch : Send out scythe that strike your foe and reduce their defense. Benefit from amo system. 4 charges.
Range 1200
number of charge 4
CD charge 15 seconds
vulnerability (2) 10 seconds duration
damage 240
CD between charge 1 second.

Flesh golem : Now know how to swim.

Life transfert : reduced CD to 30 seconds (that’s the bare minimum)
Park path : improve projectile speed by 33%.
Life blast : reduced damage to 274. Cast time 1/2. Reduced after cast. slightly improved projectile speed.

Scepter – Putrid Curse: 1) Transfers 2 conditions to the target or 2) converts 2 boons to conditions. Or 3) Rending Curse: transfers 1 condition.

Master of Corruption: Corruption skills no longer inflict any conditions on you.

When traited:
Consume Conditions: Increases cool down from 30s to maybe 35s (?) but is now an instant cast; cannot be interrupted.
Blood is Power: Bleed 5 targets and copy 1 boon from each
Corrosive Poison Cloud: Reduced cool down
Corrupt Boon: Reduced cool down or increase to 4/5 boons corrupted.
Epidemic: Reduced cool down
Plaguelands: Becomes targetable.

Staff – Marks changed from landmine effect to something like Meteor Shower. Increased radius from 240 to 360.

Death Shroud
Life Blast/Plague Blast: Splash instead of piercing (similar to chilling nova)
Doom: Same as Wave of Fear
Life Transfer: Transfer nearby conditions to targeted
Gathering Plague: Transfer conditions to self and gain life force (improved by Unholy Martyr)

Minions – Disengage/ignore pet control button
All minions know how to swim or underwater elite minion

Signets still provide passive effects in shroud. No grandmaster trait needed.

Barnabus Stinson.1409:

Minor Master

Shivers of Doom – Complete Change -When you apply Chill you also apply Vulnerbility (3), additionally gain increased Vulnerability duration on chilled foes – Fear isnt really commonly used enough to make this trait suer valuable as it is, I see what they were going but found it lackluster.

Spite already has a trait like this, minus the vulnerability duration. Also. I like the siphoning vitality idea on the greatsword.