Guild Wars 2

This makes me sad.

This skill has gone through the most amount of nerfs throughout its lifetime in the necromancer repertoire.

A journey through the skill’s history of nerfs

Launch Day – Unblockable, transfers ALL conditions from yourself AND allies nearby the explosion, blast finisher

Then got nerfed to transfers ALL conditions from yourself only, not allies

Then got stealth nerfed to transfer I believe 5 conditions from yourself

Then got stealth nerfed to 3 conditions from yourself without noting the skill tooltip

And now is the day it is formally announced blockable, and only transfers 3 conditions from yourself

I think you’re confusing this with Putrid Explosion, which is a minion skill. Putrid Mark should still be unblockable if traited for it.

Undo.5091:

I think you’re confusing this with Putrid Explosion, which is a minion skill. Putrid Mark should still be unblockable if traited for it.

Ah crap. I didn’t know they already made it blockable a while back. And yes I confused it. I only came back recently.

I don’t think it was ever unblockable without greater marks, was it??

Certain parts of it have been due to mechanics. You could never “block” the ally cleanse, and the self cleanse I believe was also effectively unblockable because condition transfer works in two parts: copy conditions to enemy, wipe conditions on self. I believe it still wiped, but didn’t transfer.