Guild Wars 2

We’ve seen the blood grandmasters. We have one semi okay grand master and two rather useless ones. Even with the 10% life force on Unholy martyr. So I’m going to suggest that transfusion get a major buff and upped to the grandmaster slot in place of the absolutely atrocious Deathly Invigoration.

Transfusion: Heals allies for each pulse. Up life force generation to 10% for each target beyond the first and gain resistance for one second each time you deal damage to a enemy beyond the first enemy.

Necromancer doesn’t have a means of escape. And this could give us a way to leave a fight as well as help allies. We tend to get focus fired since we are prime targets. With this we could effectively have invulnerability without it actually being Invulnerability. The resistance could give us the means to run away and the life force could prevent us from being instantly knocked out of DS. This also wouldn’t scale us against a single target. It still would have the weakness of foes who avoid our attacks. The numbers might need to be adjusted. But if the wiki is correct on the life force gain, this would be about 43% life force from this. Which is still quite easy to burn down from a group when it ends but it gives us the means to run away.

What do you guys think? too much? Not enough? leave a comment.

Unholy Martyr seems fairly powerful depending on how exactly it works, as in if it draws in extra stacks and how often it does it. 10% LF every 3 seconds (what was shown on stream) sounds fairly good, especially with vitality gear.
But yea, I like the idea of this trait. I’d like it more if healing in DS, at the very least self-traited healing, was allowed. The healing on tranfusion is actually not that bad. Even if the numbers on Deathly Invigoration were buffed, it’s still really boring and does not deserve a grandmaster slot.

The Wizland.8435:

Unholy Martyr seems fairly powerful depending on how exactly it works, as in if it draws in extra stacks and how often it does it. 10% LF every 3 seconds (what was shown on stream) sounds fairly good, especially with vitality gear.
But yea, I like the idea of this trait. I’d like it more if healing in DS, at the very least self-traited healing, was allowed. The healing on tranfusion is actually not that bad. Even if the numbers on Deathly Invigoration were buffed, it’s still really boring and does not deserve a grandmaster slot.

We shouldn’t have a trait like Unholy Martyr, Plague Signet should work in DS just like all utilities and it should improve it’s passive and active like a virtue no do the same kitten with a little extra.

I like the idea of better GMs, only one of them really fits GM. However, I think if we are going to buff transfusion, it should stay as a selfless support trait (though I think increasing its LF gain is fine). Don’t add power just for the sake of it, make transfusion into a really strong support skill. And if you want a strong defense trait, then make a really strong defense trait, but don’t mix them, or we end up with a trait that does a really mediocre job at two things.

I’m still a fan of a trait that turns Life Transfer into Gathering Plague as a replacement for Unholy Martyr. Transfusion would pull something like 3-6 conditions from each allied target across the channel, heal allies, and gain the necromancer some extra life force (2%, maybe?) per condition pulled. The idea is to give Necromancers a skill in the vein of Save Yourselves or Signet of Renewal

To compare it to Lily’s suggestion at the start of the thread, instead of Life Transfer being heavy amounts of life force generation & resistance alongside an AoE heal, turn it into an AoE condition pull / cleanse. That keeps it strongly in the support role, with an edge case of immediately chaining it into Putrid Mark or Deathly Swarm* for a reversal / Condition Damage burst. (Chaining into Consume Conditions is also pretty strong sustain, but that’s something any support character should have.)

And then in magical Christmas-land where everything goes perfectly, you could finish it off with Epidemic.

*Edit: And Plague Signet. Can’t believe I forgot about Plague Signet.

Sagat.3285:

We shouldn’t have a trait like Unholy Martyr, Plague Signet should work in DS just like all utilities and it should improve it’s passive and active like a virtue no do the same kitten with a little extra.

If it were to do that then I think it should just be merged with Signet Mastery and add condition transfer to Tranfusion (allies to self). That’d make using Plague Signet a bit more reliable and it’s good to have multiple tools for a task.

The Wizland.8435:

Sagat.3285:

We shouldn’t have a trait like Unholy Martyr, Plague Signet should work in DS just like all utilities and it should improve it’s passive and active like a virtue no do the same kitten with a little extra.

If it were to do that then I think it should just be merged with Signet Mastery and add condition transfer to Tranfusion (allies to self). That’d make using Plague Signet a bit more reliable and it’s good to have multiple tools for a task.

Good idea instead of poor bandages like activating SoL at 50% HP,Signet Mastery should improve/add something to active and passive. SoPl could gain healing for each condition absorbed active could grant LF per condition transferred, SoPo would gain 2 might stacks every 10 secs active would apply conditions in an AoE 360 radius etc.

Well, somewhere in the forum, I suggested to move trasfusion up to grand master and make it affect all channeled skil insted of just life transfer. I suggested something more in this line :

Transfusion : while using a channeled skill you also heal ally around you. You heal 100% more while in DS.

Which would end up with the current healing number for Life transfert and half the number for Ghastly claw and Life siphon.

NB.: even with 200% difference this could be a thing.