Guild Wars 2

I’ve been looking up necro builds but it doesn’t seem like many people use these two as a combo. Is there any reason why?

It’s a long CD

In wvw right? My reason is SoS has too long of a CD and I rarely want to spike down a single person. My usual utilities are between corrupt boon/epidemic/Swall/Swalk. SoS is next on the list but I can’t even take all those 4 skills let alone a 5th.

You can outburst your own SoS/Epidemic combo with just a simple bleed burst combo. Except that bleed burst combo takes 0 utility skills, outdamages SoS/Epidemic, doesn’t take much longer, and has a 20s CD, and is still AoE.

So why would you use two utilities to achieve a weaker combo than what you can do with just weapon skills? And if you add in Epidemic on top of the bleed burst, you make an already stronger burst a massive burst.

Corrupt Boon with Epidemic is the way to go. SoS throws on some conditions, but the other player keeps all their boons. Corrupt Boon turns 5 of their boons into conditions and negates their boons. Sure, SoS could be good when someone doesn’t have boons, but how often do you run into someone with none?

Edit** Extra word

Signet of Spite is undervalued. I think it has some good potential in WvW. AoE poison+blind+weakness is very powerful. I use it + well of darkness when soloing camps, and I find it very effective.
In zergs, I think spreading bleeds is more effectively accomplished by other means, and AoE poison+weakness is better accomplished by using Corrosive Poison cloud.

Signet of Spite, is really focused for hybrid only.
As people have said, 1 min CD + losing power bonus, means it’s only really pressed in situations where there’s been a big condi cleanse dump, and you want to quickly re-apply a ‘burst condi’ pressure.

its 48sec if u know what u doing