Guild Wars 2

I’m focusing my Necro on corruptions while leveling. Going great so far, since I feel there are “combos” to aim for.

For example, for dealing with groups I usually pop CPC + Blood is Power (good they have the same cooldown), then I immediately transfer my conditions using Dagger 4 and throw more conditions with the Scepter.

For now I feel Dagger 4 is enough to keep me clean, but maybe later after getting Master of Corruption I’ll need more transfers, so I’ll decide if Plague Sending is really needed. I’m considering going with Epidemic as my 3rd utility, so I won’t have Plague Signet itself (and thus will probably need Plague Sending anyway).

So, my question is related to Plague Sending:

Lets say I have a mob selected, but several mobs are taking damage from my AoE at the same time. Can I be sure Plague Sending will transfer my conditions to my selected target? Or will it transfer to a random target near me during my AoE criticals?

I feel this is important because I’d like to wait for Plague Sending to trigger on my specifically selected target so that I can Epidemic it with the additional conditions just transferred.

Hope you guys understand the question…

I believe that, if you crit the mob you selected, even if you also crit another mob with the same attack, Plague Sending will transfer to your selected target. I could be mistaken about this.

If, however, you crit something else and do not crit your target, it will transfer to whatever you did crit.

How plague sending functions is when the threshold of 3 conditions is met (let say staff 3 with bleed, chill and poison) it will trigger plague sending to the current target, so if you happen to switch targets between the beginning of the cast to the end it’s going to hit whatever target you have at the end of the cast.

Its passive that triggers a Plague Signet, so yes you need a target.

This is currently my opener in a lot of fights. I think you’re going to love the combo with plague sending and MOC. It’s a really strong opener if you follow up with scepter 2 -> 3 (maybe d5 instead of s3 if its a group of enemies)

For a single target that combo would put up 4 poison, 9 torment, 7 bleeds in 4 casts. Not bad! Not to mention 8 might stacks, loads of weakness, cripple and safety from projectiles. Cripple and torment are good buddies with one another.

As an MoC user plague sending is truly situational, its situations where your dealing with group heavy mobs, then bringing Epidemic can be a godsend but you’ll suffer from 3 or so condi’s after the initial transfer with d4 so plague sending usually rids me of whatevers remaining(typically use epidemic after ive used cpc and BiP).

Just know the situations you’ll be entering as a condimancer my set up constantly shifts to efficiently tackle most problems in front of me. Usually d4 is more than enough unless the boss/mobs love sending condi’s your way that your unable to avoid (lookin at you volcanic fractal burn stacks q_q)