Guild Wars 2

I was thinking of ways to improve party support and condition builds for PvE. I think with a few changes, lingering curse giving 30% outgoing condition duration to the whole party would make us more desirable, and make the trait less boring.

The current duration bonus should be made baseline, and the condition damage bonus should be moved to the GM level minor trait. This keeps scepter as a long duration condition weapon, gives us harder hitting conditions, and makes the other GM options more viable instead of being forced into lingering curse.

We could still hit 100% bleed duration, but without the reliance on krait runes to get there.

This change would also open us up to a variety of different rune options for different builds. I.E runes of Ice for condi reapers, undead runes for pure damage, balth for buffing and reaper fire, etc.

Finally this would have minimal impact on PvP balance since duration isn’t as important for PvP due to the rapid cleansing.

I think it’s a good change. Necromancers were always billed as the “master of conditions” yet they were always eclipsed by engineers and rangers.

We need more useful auras for a group.

Vampiric Presence in turn could turn into an aura that says “Your group does 5% additional damage and that damage is converted to health”.

Death Magic could increase boon effectiveness on the group by 10% (as in, not buffing duration since that’s for heralds but actually increase the effect of each boon by 10%).

Interesting. I can’t recall off the top of my head a group condition duration buff from any profession. Nice suggestion and something to think about. +1

Improved vulnerability duration, something that would make us very worth taking
On the other hand it would be on the curses line, so no more blood magic sweetness

Zenith.7301:

I think it’s a good change. Necromancers were always billed as the “master of conditions” yet they were always eclipsed by engineers and rangers.

We need more useful auras for a group.

Vampiric Presence in turn could turn into an aura that says “Your group does 5% additional damage and that damage is converted to health”.

Death Magic could increase boon effectiveness on the group by 10% (as in, not buffing duration since that’s for heralds but actually increase the effect of each boon by 10%).

Is that meant as apermanent things? Because we have plenty of builds that will be unkillable with that sort of healing in pve

“Lingering” speaks “sticky condis” to me. So either that or GM that makes our Conditions harder to remove.

Rym.1469:

“Lingering” speaks “sticky condis” to me. So either that or GM that makes our Conditions harder to remove.

Instantly making it useless in PvE.

Zenith.7301:

Rym.1469:

“Lingering” speaks “sticky condis” to me. So either that or GM that makes our Conditions harder to remove.

Instantly making it useless in PvE.

Actually most bosses in PvE purge conditions at some point in the fights. But I agree that i’d rather have 30% duration rather than harder to remove conditions.

This is very similar to the previewed text that we misread and got all excited about.

The concern still remains: adding bonus duration from LC will result in unintended consequences, such as random fears and chills getting nerfed.

In any case, LC and scepter need serious looking at. The weapon became garbage tier in the condition rework.

Great idea.

That would make for good support in sinister groups. Others have more damage on conditions while the necro can extend and spread them.

Side note:
I know raids arent out yet, but a cool idea to make transfers more desired, would be that the boss had really high condition damage. And transfers use the original condition damage when thrown back. So a 2.000 ticking 10s poison every 10s could be used a small dps boost.