Guild Wars 2

I run a condition necromancer since I wanted to run something that has never been done before………..and I wanted to know, is it smarter to space out the condi’s or burst them? I space my fears out but as for the rest, I find that if I burst conditions, they can sometimes get cleansed quickly while my skills are on CD leaving me in an awkward state, yet, is this how it should be done? Or should conditions be spaced out a bit more to keep the pressure up?

You shouldn’t burst unless you are fairly certain the burst will stick. And a full burst should always include a fear at the end to force them to eat the condi ticks (or blow stun breaks). If you burst and someone just cleanses it all away, then yeah you’ve wasted everything.

Basically you mainly AA and use very low CD (or unimportant for burst) skills for sustained DPS, you fake bursts or otherwise try to get them to blow all their ways to stop your burst, then you burst when they can’t do anything about it.

Edit: Also, bursting is far less effective if you aren’t using Weakening Shroud, Geomancy sigil, and Terror. Dhuumfire also makes it stronger but not as needed.

If this is 1v1 we’re talking, I generally save my fears until I am in trouble, or until I think I can kill my opponent with it.

If I’m trying to finish them off I’ll usually wait for them to heal, use doom to interrupt and keep the pressure on from there. I usually don’t use them all at once because if you put out 4 seconds of fear and they stunbreak it quickly, then most of it is wasted. So I space them out slightly in that situation.

It really can depend on the fight, though. Sometimes I use my fears to switch a fight from defensive to offensive, sometimes to down someone, sometimes I don’t use them at all if I don’t need to, in case their teammates might show up.

Roe.3679:

If this is 1v1 we’re talking, I generally save my fears until I am in trouble, or until I think I can kill my opponent with it.

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I actually feel that when the terror changes were made, and people started using fear aggressively rather than as a gap creator/panic button, is when people started to see what is a necro can be capable of.