Necro in fractals
The main reason why there are no condi classes in PvE for fast dungeon/fractals runs are because a lot of classes even when playing zerker due to their traits and some skills are applying conditions so even if you are only condition class, your damage would be way lower than if you are power class and are doing burst damage…
As condition necro, and actually mostly any condition spect class, stacking bleeding is main source of condition damage (other than condition and torment for some classes but they wouldnt to that much damage in PvE) and when playing full zerker party with warriors, eles (their ice bows) and even zerker mesmer (dont play other classes much in pve to say about them), during fights all the bosses have over 15 stacks of bleeding and a lot of times even up to full 25 stacks so you as condi class would be useless with less than 1000 burst dps…
I have my zerk mesmer engi ranger and thief but more and more I’m enjoying running my condi necro in fractals. I have great survivability good sustained dps and heals good group condition clears and seem to really shine on a lot of boss fights. With DS you can get off heavy dmg revives of group members as well. Now if there is another condi spec in group I will swap out to a different character as my effectiveness goes way down.
So my question I guess is how do you feel about having one strong condi class in your fractal groups? Or do you still prefer the ultra squishy zerk class that is perma downed on many bosses.
That’s funny how you tried to load this question to your favor. “Or do you still prefer the ultra squishy zerk class that is perma downed on many bosses”. Even a bear bow ranger or a condi necro shines in comparison to bad players right?
Seriously though, what the second poster said…even non condi specs/classes will use up the majority of the available condi slots on bosses…just using their standard zerk builds. This makes a condi build useless in fractals. This is ignoring the trash mob issues as well. Trash will often down players faster than a boss will…this is one of the main reasons zerk builds shine….burning through trash in seconds…versus waiting on condi ticks to eventually down them (if your party is still alive long enough for condi to down them).