Guild Wars 2

I’m by no means an expert when it comes to necros but I just thought of this idea randomly(again, don’t even know if someone suggested this already)but what if instead of just boosting your personal damage, what if Target the Weak worked sort of as its own unique debuff that boosted all damage received by the target from all sources, including allies. So that means taking into account the common conditions that can generally be applied permanently on a boss, poison, bleed, vulnerability, cripple and burning, that’s a 10% boost to party dps and makes conditions more usable. Plus it has the ability to spike to potentially 24% damage boost if you inflicted every condition at once, although 22% would be more plausible as Fear would probably fail.

Like I said, I’m no expert on anything necro, so thoughts?

It’d probably be to strong. Burning, bleeding, poison, vulnerability, weakness and cripple are all really easy to maintain, and you could also get chill, confusion, blind, torment, and immobilize in sparse amounts, so an average of about 14% damage increase would be incredible. Maybe if it was 1% per condition it would be more reasonable, but then your lowing necros dps.

Probably too good for PvE, absolutely game-breaking for PvP, since a condi-necro would allow a massive DPS increase for allies.

Hmm, maybe just have it be for PvE then and leave the trait as is for PvP. I just think necro really needs something it can contribute to a party to boost their viability in group settings of Pve. But seeing as necro is fairly good in WvW and PvP but bottom of the barrel in PvE, I think PvE specific changes are pretty much required no matter what.

Even in PvE, the ability to boost every member’s DPS easily by 10% using a minor trait that is already okay is over the top. We need changes, but they basically need to be made to underperforming traits.

Necro needs bosses overhauled so they spawn more adds and Unshakable’s chance to resist conditions depends upon the condition damage stat.