Since I’ve mostly played condition builds on my necro, I’m not very familiar with the power-based builds.. However, the wellomancer caught my attention and I’ve been looking into specs. But… There seem to be a lot of different builds so I haven’t found any consistent idea of how wellomancers are played in WvW.
First off, which gear is normally used? I’ve seen people using either soldiers, or knights/cavlier mix, or zerker/valkyrie mix. Personally I like a mixing knights with cavalier, to have both high toughness and decent crits.
Second, assuming your first weapon would be staff, which 2nd weapon set would you use? Mainly I can’t decide between Axe or dagger. Dagger seems to have slightly better damage, but would it give any significant difference? While Axe/Focus seem to be able to stack a lot of vulnerability pretty quick and maintain some range, I’m leaning more towards this combo.. That or Axe/focus..
Third, what are the most common traits for playing a wellomancer? I know they were gonna change the blood magic a while back and improve siphon-traits. Have they become useful or should only be used with some cleric gear?
I was looking at this video yesterday and the gameplay seemed interesting, though i have no idea what spec he/she is using: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqLC21R59g4
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBmQDbkRrSPTTZjfPhMpwbGnIFDDyQ9wdQnPE-jECBofCyUEwEGQUBApPFRjtNoIasakYaXER1SBMqyI-w
This is my best crack at the build and I think that it’s pretty accurate.
Paying attention to his cool downs I know that he runs 20 blood mastery and Near To Death.
Paying careful attention to the screen, I see damage packets around 45 and heals for around 39, so he must have Vamparic Precision.
Every attack in his death shroud is a critical hit on all occasions, so he has to have deathly perception, which support my previous observation that he run Near to Death.
He probably swaps between Vital Persistence and Spectral Mastery.
He obviously has ranged wells and gains fury every time has enters deathshroud, so he has at least 15 into curses.
He most likely put the remaining 5 points into curses and took the chill on blind trait.
Gear
There could be several possible combinations for his attribute load out, but most likely it’s a berserker/valk split with ruby orbs (can’t be runes because I he never displays any sort of rune ability).
Once you take into account Robust, Orb buffs and subtract the 2500 health from guard defense. My build pretty much matches his health perfectly.
I found an excerpt in the video where he did 273 retaliation damage without any might or external boosts. I simply reversed the retaliation formula taking into account that retaliation does 33% less damage in WvW to find that he has exactly 2281 power. (add 50 power to my build and we have 2283 power)
198.45 + (0.075 * X)0.66)=285
198.45 + (0.495* 0.66x)=285
198.45 + 0.03267x=285
0.03267x=74.55
Power=2281
It would be impossible for him to have bloodlust and based on his critical hits, he must have Superior Sigil of Perception (if you intend to replicate his build, use bloodlust instead because it’s significantly better).
He probably has sigil of force on his staff, and if he doesn’t, he should. His Dagger warhorn has the superior sigil of perception and probably Superior sigil of blood. Sharpening stones and Curry Soup is most likely what he was using.
Very nice stats!