With the upcoming changes (and even HoT in mind), what does this mean for people who uses these kinds of builds? How will the situation look like for condition-builds?
Will we still be able to do something useful (cough, you know what I mean…) at some extent? I know Necros aren’t that welcome in Dungeons, but I’m lucky to be in a guild where you can play whatever you want, hurray!
Will these builds be broken that it won’t be enjoyable enough to continue play Condi-/Hybridmancer? Will we be all forced to go to a certain direction? Like when HoT comes out… do you have to go Reaper or play an other profession?
I know the answers will be kinda heavy speculations, but I want to have a little idea of what my options are at the moment towards the release of HoT.
The fallout from this nuke is still settling, but give the build crafters some time to calm down and I’m sure you’ll find that you can hybrid just fine. If not I’ll take a look at it tonight myself. I’ve already found that while my builds took a slight shave in a couple areas, overall they got buffed.
A knight in shining armor is a man who never had his metal truly tested.
The future is to build precision (Curses is the 2nd best line after SR now).
The other future us to build Condition duration (you need to build this because of passive duration reduction the other classes have). Traveler and Nightmare Runes have 10% duration.
From there you build power and play essentially the same as today, take signet traits and boon hate, or run minions. If you want to pure conditionmancer, you probably don’t have the tools. If you want to celestial… The exact numbers and scaling on the blood traits will be important.
Yeah, I don’t think you’ve got the raw output or raw variety to compete as a “pure” conditionmancer against the shout bows, or guardians.
Or the DPS/defenses to match up against the celestial classes that output dhuumfire-like condition traits like Engineer or Elementalists.
The transfers and Death shroud absorption used to give you the edge against pure condition users, and still help. But those builds are stronger, while our tools are weaker, and those builds aren’t really in the meta these days.
Well… the update is very overwhelming for me. Will take a while to get used to the new system and to see how this all affects my current PvE-build.
edit
I took my time to read about all the changes, but I’m kinda lost on where I should go now with my Necro. Got full Sinister gear, but also Zerker (and Rabid for WvW fun times), but my focus is mainly on PvE.
I got a feeling my playstyle will have to change if I want keep on playing with my Necro. Hmm.
