Guild Wars 2

I was just wondering, in WvW S/TPvp how do you guys use Plague? by that i mean what attacks do you normally go for when in Plague form?

Literally what pmargeti said. Although I like to pretend I’m being effective using 1 and 3.

I use it to AOE blind thieves that are cap-blocking WvW nodes; their permasteath is sustained by successfully hitting an enemy every 5 seconds or so. If you stand away from the group while in this form the thief will be attracted to you too.

pmargeti.7680:

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Actually, you only need to press 2 once because it auto-attack the last skills you pressed. I am not sure if the UI communicates this to us or not.

Vs Dredge:
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but seriously, in PvE my key clicks during plague look something like this:
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If i need to apply 30 seconds of reprieve for team mates in a dungeon when being gangbanged by melee mobs… spam 2.

if you want to lengthen your bleed rotations while waiting for cooldowns while off-tanking… spam 1.

spam 3 and run if you’re horribly outnumbered. all normal damage dealt towards you will be halved. (or just use 2… blindness is cool.)

Never forget the huge toughness/vitality boost.

You almost get +2748 toughness and +1832 vitality while you are in this form.
I think both skill 2 and 3 work very well together with this stat advantage.

Some advice from someone that plays necro quite a bit:

Plague form abilities are actually toggles, and Plague form acts as an aura.

To further explain, you only have to click an ability once and that selects said aura, which will tick indefinitely until the transform duration is exceeded.

TL;DR: There is no need to spam an ability in Plague form, it’s an aura toggle.

Kittens, harmless kittens everywhere.

Even though I think your point was salient, witty and harmless, I don’t think we’re supposed to discuss infractions within the thread so you probably want to revise this post:

I got an infraction for posting that series of 2’s. GG.

Anyroad, I use 3 when there’s a single melee PvE enemy that party members need to kite, otherwise 2 is always better and 1 is something to get a little extra AoE DPS from if the pressure eases off while you’re still in plague form.

spam 2 until the other plague form abilities are made comparable in strength.

It’s been noted in the thread, but worth saying again: you don’t spam any abilities in Plague Form. You choose a mode and it sticks until you change that mode.

By default, Plague poisons every second. Press 1 once and it adds bleed with the poison each second. Press 2 once and it adds blind with the poison each second. Press 3 once and it adds weakness with the poison each second. It’s fire-and-forget.

Obviously, you could press 1-2-1-2-1 and if you timed it every second you’d be doing a blind every other pulse and a bleed every other second, but since they’re not long-duration (I believe they’re 1 second), you’re not adding anything to the mix, really.

Pressing 2 once, to turn add blind to the poison makes far and away the most sense, since it poisons for 20 seconds and also makes it very hard to hit you. You also get a slight boost to HP and fairly significant boost to armor in Plague Form, so with blind on, you take relatively little (physical melee) damage while dishing out AoE damage.