Ok, first of all I wanted to note that im by no means a necro player, so excuse me if I did some fatal miscalculation.
Second: what am I doing here? Some post, in some other classes subforum stated, that a reaper can maintain a 100% critchance without precision. So I went to the build editor and played around.
this is the build, but it is not of interest as of now. Its just theorycrafting, and I don’t know the class. You don’t have to comment on the build.
However, what I found most interesting is the fact, that it should be fairly easy to maintain 25 stacks of vulnerability on a target, at least for a few seconds.
Necro by itself has a lot of access to vulnerability, a lot of other professions passively apply it on some skills. Its a widespread, long lasting condition and usually people don’t use expensive cleanses if the conditions are non-damaging. Especially not if theres a reaper lurking nearby, ready to apply a condi burst.
A lot of players may simply don’t pay enough attention to even notice the 25 stacks.
So, I will also assume you can maintain fury. I use the rune of rage to assure that, but even your teams group boons should suffice. I have also built in 5 stacks of might, just for the records.
The rune of rage bonus, the close to death and strength of the undead I have proxied with a flat 20% increase.
If you didn’t look at the build I use the power and ferocity of a valkyrie set.
Now, for the actual calculation: Im talking about the lich transformation. Auto stability, making it hard to stop you from doing what you wish to do, and a set of strong skills, uptime of ~1/7
Deathly claws on this build deals 2257 flat damage, has a 0,75 sec cast time, 1200 range, and pierces multiple targets.
With the 20% damage approximation and the vulnerability the skill has a 70% chance to crit for 7448 damage. Thats enormous for a ranged auto-attack.
All of this would be fine if the build was an OTP, but it isn’t. All you need is one elite skill slot, a couple of traits you usually want on a power build and some successful hits to build up vulnerability.
You still have moderate damage output, 30k health, extremely good access to life force, massive chill application as soft cc, access to some boon corruptions and nearly 100% crit chance in reapers shroud.
Now I realize at the moment condi reapers are much stronger and the power creep makes power builds unplayable, but the patch is inbound within hours.
So. Its you people who play this class, and there certainly is a reason for lich form to be rarely seen on the battlefield. But: is it possible that, in the near future, not this very build, but this mechanic could be exploited?