Guild Wars 2

As the title says, this is yet another attempt at improving Parasitic Contagion and Unholy Martyr.

First, Parasitic Contagion has its uses no doubt, but is all too circumstantial and overall bland. Also, condition damage builds, though a bit over-tuned currently, tend to struggle with generating lifeforce and a trait could remedy this. So I suggest tossing Parasitic Contagion out the window and replacing it with a new trait:

Unholy Saint: Periodically draw conditions from allies while in shroud. “Locust and Pestilence skills” (Locust Swarm, Deathly Swarm, Enfeebling Blood, Putrid Mark, Deadly Feast, Signet of the Locust, Plague Signet, and Plague) have reduced cooldowns and cleanse conditions on allies they strike. Cleansing and drawing conditions from allies generates lifeforce.
-Conditions Cleansed (per hit): 1
-Conditions Transferred: 1
-Lifeforce: 1.5%
-Lifeforce Generated in Shroud: 7%
-Number of Targets: 1
-Interval: 3s
-Radius: 600
-Recharge Reduced: 15%

Second, Unholy Martyr is a bit of an outlier in Blood Magic, since the “three themes” of the trait line seem to largely be life siphoning, rezzing/healing allies, and mobility (Quickening Thirst and high swiftness uptime through Banshee’s Wail). Accordingly (and since the original effect was moved to my proposed trait), Unholy Martyr now needs a more “thematically appropriate” effect:

Unholy Martyr: Periodically draw the bleeding condition from nearby allies. Do increased damage to enemies, take reduced bleeding damage, and grant nearby allies swiftness when at or above the condition threshold; the effect stacks whenever the threshold is doubled. Downed/Drowning state skills (Necromancer specific ones) can now be used as healing/utility/elite skills respectively.*
-Conditions Transferred: 1
-Number of Bleeding Stacks: 7
-Martyr’s Reprise: +12% damage, -15% bleeding damage
-Maximum Stacks: 3
-Swiftness: 3s (5s cd)
-Number of Targets: 5
-Number of Targets: 1
-Interval: 3s
-Radius: 240
-Radius: 600

*As I’ve mentioned before (at least I think I have), I like the Necromancer’s downed/drowning skills and would like to use them (or something similar) outside of being nearly dead and Unholy Martyr seems like the most appropriate trait to place that option.

Thoughts? Better suggestions?

Edit: good job, parasitic contagion’s replacement would be beautiful. Except don’t make it clear condis, make it transfer them to enemies.