Guild Wars 2

I’m really tired of the give and take-away habit Anet seems to have with Necro. The chill trait Chilling Darkness has been nerfed to the point of broken. Only 1 pulse? And, it cancels existing chill. For example, when I cast Chillblains for a 4+ second chill. The duration is cancelled and reset when i drop the blind well. Net chill: 1 sec. The chill condition no longer stacks. This has to be broken since I can regularly acquire 20+ seconds of chill from Eles and other classes. I would very much like to see this fixed. Additionally, cast times and animations are WAY too long. Nearly all my skills can be casually sidestepped or walked away from. The Necro has the potential for so many diverse builds and playstyles but with these sever handicaps there are only 2 or 3 viable builds. #fixmynecro

lol, considering the recent super nerf to chilling darkness, I might just dismiss this as “they don’t want you to use that trait anymore,” but I they’ve ignored all of our great suggestions so far, so I can’t imagine that they’ll suddenly start doing the right thing.

Please un-nerf Chilling Darkness.

Chill is too good against Ele’s so don’t expect anything to change for the better.

If they absolutely insist on there being an internal cooldown, at the very least make it per-target, like Lotus Poison. That would be almost reasonable.

Also, reduce it to 4 seconds, so you get more than a single activation out of Well of Darkness. And maybe reduce Well of Darkness’ recharge so it isn’t utterly awful even with Chilling Darkness and Bitter Chill.

Just a quick note here, but adding that 5 second ICD on Chilling Darkness was effectively a 96% efficacy nerf. I am pretty sure no trait, skill, or piece of gear in the game has ever been nerfed that hard.

Chilling Darkness is the new Smiter’s Boon. It’s dead Jim!

At this point the trait should probably just be replaced.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Just a quick note here, but adding that 5 second ICD on Chilling Darkness was effectively a 96% efficacy nerf. I am pretty sure no trait, skill, or piece of gear in the game has ever been nerfed that hard.

Show me the math on this

Bacon.1835:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Just a quick note here, but adding that 5 second ICD on Chilling Darkness was effectively a 96% efficacy nerf. I am pretty sure no trait, skill, or piece of gear in the game has ever been nerfed that hard.

Show me the math on this

He probably only used well of darkness for it. Well of darkness can give, with 5 opponents, 25 blinds. With the old chilling darkness that would be 25 chills with the new one only 1. If you scale chills of the old trait to 100 you would get for the chills of the new one 4. Also 100-4=96…

Atleast i think so he gets the number 96% but feel free to correct me if am wrong.

Muchacho.2390:

Bacon.1835:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Just a quick note here, but adding that 5 second ICD on Chilling Darkness was effectively a 96% efficacy nerf. I am pretty sure no trait, skill, or piece of gear in the game has ever been nerfed that hard.

Show me the math on this

He probably only used well of darkness for it. Well of darkness can give, with 5 opponents, 25 blinds. With the old chilling darkness that would be 25 chills with the new one only 1. If you scale chills of the old trait to 100 you would get for the chills of the new one 4. Also 100-4=96…

Atleast i think so he gets the number 96% but feel free to correct me if am wrong.

That is correct. Plague also works out this way (up to 100 blinds, thus 100 procs pre-nerf). Now? A max of 4.

The thing is? Chilling Darkness was never used if neither of those were equipped, so those two skills are the only ones to really consider on the nerf. Necros just don’t have the blinds to make it worth the trait slot.