Guild Wars 2

So after playing my mesmer and realizing how easy it was to secure a stomp on him, I thought about my necro and if he could also secure stomps as easily as my mesmer..

After some thinking i came up with all the stomps necro can do to make easier/help secure it.

-DS stomp
-DS stomp with FitG
-Well of Darkness
-Stomp> Spectral Walk> Wurm Teleport> Spectral Recall
-Plague Stomp
-Lich Stomp
-Dark Path> Stomp> Spectral Walk> Spectral Recall (<<<<<< I came up with this one myself and it works pretty nicely but your target for dark path needs to be 800+ away or else you don’t have enough time to get out of DS and stomp and Spectral Walk.)

Some I’m not sure of…..

-Maybe a haunt from minion?
-warhorn daze? (Before stomp)
-Flesh Golem launch?
-Well of power stability? (Before Stomp)
-dagger offhand Blind (Before Stomp)

Are those all? Thx for all input

Haunt is possible, but realize he has a 2s delay on activating the skill.
WoP’s stab is too short, even if you had 100% duration, it’d only be like 1s of actual stomp cast time
WH daze could work although not fully cover the stomp
Flesh Golem would be pretty luck based, as he could knock them away from you too
Dagger OH could work too, although it’d be possible for people to clear the blind fairly quickly

Holl.3109:

-Dark Path> Stomp> Spectral Walk> Spectral Recall

Hehe, nice.

Holl.3109:

-Maybe a haunt from minion?
-dagger offhand Blind (Before Stomp)

Haunt works because you can cast it while stomping. Another way would be exploding Bone Minions on a precast well to combo blindness in the right moment. (then again, who runs minions and wells?)
However, if it’s a precast single blind it will most certainly not help at all except maybe make an auto attack miss. So dagger is useless in that situation.

Holl.3109:

-warhorn daze? (Before stomp)
-Flesh Golem launch?

People in downed state can’t be stunned. You can interrupt their #4 heal with Wail of Doom (or any other damaging attack) but not their #2.
Kock back works but not always with Golem Charge. However, Charge can’t be cast during the stomp animation anyway, and if it was possible you wouldn’t want to knock your opponent out of stomp range anyway.

Holl.3109:

-Well of power stability? (Before Stomp)

Stability is too short, but if the opportunity presents itself you could drop Well of Power in a fire field of an ele or warrior. You’ll get aegis with every pulse if you don’t have too many other condis on you.
There’s some luck involved of course, but I’ve successfully secured a stomp like this many times.

I just don’t get it. How to do that:

-Dark Path> Stomp> Spectral Walk> Spectral Recall

Could someone explain it? Thanks!

I believe it’s simply to stomp and then leave where you stomped – it’s for the most part a waste of a utility.

BonnieWu.3968:

I just don’t get it. How to do that:

-Dark Path> Stomp> Spectral Walk> Spectral Recall

Could someone explain it? Thanks!

You use Dark Path on a target that is somewhere else while activating Spectral Walk. This way you can teleport away and back again during the stomp animation and avoid a potential interrupt.

Rolyate.6753:

it’s for the most part a waste of a utility.

Well, many professions secure stomps by “sacrificing” a skill. And some necros like to use the Wurm+SWalk combo to stomp people, which means they put 2 stun beaks on cd just to stomp someone. Is this a waste? Maybe. Same could be argued about plague stomping though.
Ultimately it depends on the situation. In many team fights in sPvP stomping or rezzing is the most important thing to shift the fight in one team’s favour. So in that case people want to stomp at any cost. Of course you could argue that you might be stronger if you had other utility skills in the first place, but that’s a different issue.

Dagger 4 blinds long enough to stomp

BonnieWu.3968:

I just don’t get it. How to do that:

-Dark Path> Stomp> Spectral Walk> Spectral Recall

Could someone explain it? Thanks!

I just thought about Wurm and if necros have similar ‘teleports’. Dark path works but is hard to do though.

Simply cast on another target before stomping someone, get out of DS, start stomp and spectral walk. Teleport to the other target and spectral recall… Boom you stomped him.

NeXeD.3042:

Dagger 4 blinds long enough to stomp

But could possibly get used with a down AA. It would have Casted at just the right time to make a necros feat miss or a guards knockdown.

Thanks for all replies guys, the well minion blindness combo is a good one to remember.

All of our stomps suck except for plague and ds+fitg – the blinds almost never work because of auto attacks