Guild Wars 2

I wonder if any experienced condi Necros here who play PvP have used Signet of Spite into epidemic as a standard tactic in team fights?

How well does it tend to work?

In my opinion Epidemic is not so useful in PvP due to many 3-point playstyles and so pretty often a 1vs1. You will need that utility spot for other, more important things than Epidemic I think. Therefore I never used SoS + Epidemic in PvP.

First of all, if you take both, you got only utility slot for escape. They both have long casting times and are telegraphed, especially SoS, so its easy to dodge one or both. Theoretically its cool and would help turn a teamfight to your favor, but you must be pretty lucky to cast both, and have them both hit. Maybe if you combine SoS, very fast Doom and then epidemic. No doubt its fun tho

I love it combined with Blood Is Power first for the might , I’ve also traited signets grant might. If you trait corruptions have a lower cooldown epidemic can be up every 12 seconds you can easiliy spam it and continue applying bleeds with staff 2 every time it’s up.

Elspeth i think hes asking for pvp and in pve this combo is actually bad.

Anyway dont use epidemic. There.
We simply cannot afford taking it over a 2nd stunbreak. Also, the place of a necro is in good 1v1 and all 2v2 but not in teamifghts 3v3+ as you get ganked there. So there really isnt much point to take epi, not to mention all the flaws of such long cast times.

Even when I try to bring epidemic it always seems like most of the damage is cleansed before I actually get the combo off. Or it’s dodged or whatever. And here’s the other thing – it doesn’t affect your target at all, so even when used successfully it’s not the most helpful thing. I take the 2 stunbreaks, myself.

As others have said, not worth it.

Unless your fighting idiots who clump together and cannot read your movements that is.

Then it can be quite deadly if paired with an ally who also uses conditions & used to focus a single target and spread his conditions to allies. (my suggestion would be condi mesmer or engineer. both of which do conditions well and can group stealth for escapes.)

Thanks, ladies and gentlemen.

I am fighting people who clump… frequently…. they clump on points… and it’s even better in PvE… mobs don’t run cleanse.

the point on pve was that first we all know condis are simply weak (only exception i heard was new mobs designed to be weak against codni – husks),
and even there you dont need the spite signet for having overload , just stack as many fast bleeds and spread them.

Epidemic is good for wiping adds in PvE boss fights. It is not nearly as useful in PvP and WvW. Epidemic has a larger radius than wells, though; 600 vs 240. If it was also a stun break, that could bring corruption builds more popularity.

I wouldn’t run epidemic in pvp, personally. You have enough pressure and if you have a proper team you’ll have atleast someone close to you helping to pressure because necro’s do need babysitting a lot with how un mobile we are and lack of defenses. Condi nec especially lacking in lifeforce regeneration a lot.