Guild Wars 2

Does Parasitic Contagion work with traited damage from Chill and Fear? Could be beneficial to Chillomancers.

Yes. PC used to be really kind of lackluster, but the consistent damage of Deathly Chill has really helped to increase the effectiveness of it. I still only really recommend PC in a WvW havoc/zerg environment, like 8v8+.

Also works on minion applied conditions.

The problem with this trait has been and keeps being the fact that doesnt heal through Shroud, so we have a sustain trait that doesnt work on our “sustain stance”.

Krysard.1364:

The problem with this trait has been and keeps being the fact that doesnt heal through Shroud, so we have a sustain trait that doesnt work on our “sustain stance”.

+1, biggest downside to this trait. Lots of potential heals wasted because once you pop shroud, the trait becomes 100% useless. It works better in a zerg environment like someone mentioned above. In solo or 5v5’s it doesn’t heal you enough out of shroud, and it’s completely useless in shroud.

gavyne.6847:

Krysard.1364:

The problem with this trait has been and keeps being the fact that doesnt heal through Shroud, so we have a sustain trait that doesnt work on our “sustain stance”.

+1, biggest downside to this trait. Lots of potential heals wasted because once you pop shroud, the trait becomes 100% useless. It works better in a zerg environment like someone mentioned above. In solo or 5v5’s it doesn’t heal you enough out of shroud, and it’s completely useless in shroud.

Its sucks that its doesn’t heal in shroud. That would make it true Grandmaster level. I guess only Vampires get to heal in shroud. :p

Anyway to get the Devs to notice this trait for consideration for future updates. This and Unholy Martyr need some love.

Regen and a lot of little heals do not even add LF through Shroud so it feels like these heal skills work best when Shroud is only used as a last resort. Maybe that is an acceptable trade. Obviously, healing and staying in Shroud all the time would make Necromancer very strong.

Akrasia.5469:

Anyway to get the Devs to notice this trait for consideration for future updates. This and Unholy Martyr need some love.

Unholy Martyr honestly doesn’t need any love. I remember almost single-handedly getting it nerfed when it first came out last July, when the LF gain was 10% instead of 7%. I never saw anyone else run it, but I ran it for something like two weeks, and the Shroud upkeep time was way too high. To be fair though, that was back before the HoT power spike hit, so it might not hurt to tweak UM accordingly, but the trait was stupid strong previously.

The PC trait is hard to balance.
In one hand you can’t take it because you need LC and in another hand the trait can be so broken in raid with epidemic and co.
When you know you can do 25k/sec bleed on the boss the regen seems too high (2500hp/sec). If they are more targets this is insane with epidemic…

I don’t know how it can be balanced.

well at least the conditions i applied while in shroud will heal when i exit shroud.

so they intended it to work this way?