Guild Wars 2

How much an effect on tPvP do you expert PvP players foresee on Necromancer team value?

While I don’t qualify as an “expert” I forsee Flesh Wurm being replaced on the skill bar. That skill got destroyed today.

Spectral walk still works around corners and jumping off ledges. I’m curious about a PvP necro’s opinion on wurm though.

I view the blink/shadowstep changes as a bug fix since they were clearly intended to be pathed/LoS and only worked (buggishly) in certain spots. Wurm I always considered a genuine teleport, like spectral walk.

Wurm was never a true teleport, though I hope we can get ANet to change that now that the wurm’s cast itself was changed. The Flesh Wurm grappling hook is now not a concern.

Spectral Walk, on the other hand, was a true teleport and as such unaffected by the change.

We’ll see how people handle the Flesh Wurm changes, and if they can be adapted to. My guess is it’ll end up remaining on a lot of bars.

Overall I don’t think this patch will change much, although I do think Lich form got a reasonable buff in competitive play because it can no longer be rendered vulnerable to all CC with a single boon removal. Now it will require a coordinated effort to chain CC it, and even if that happens you will end up “wasting” an extra CC every 3s just to make Lich vulnerable to CC.

Going live with a stream to demonstrate Flesh Wurm’s new function. Link is in my signature.

EDIT: Something is being really laggy between game and stream, so the stream is shut down. There are some teleports that weren’t possible before but are now and a number more that were possible, but aren’t.