Well/Mark advice?
I’d go with 20 Spite; not just for Spiteful Marks, but for the extra condition duration. Also, if you happen to be PvEing and run up against one of those obnoxious “object” bosses that don’t trigger marks, you can handily switch Death’s Embrace / Spiteful Marks for Spiteful Talisman and Axe Training, and bust out the axe / focus to chop the enemy down.
I’m currently running a 20 Spite / 10 Curses / 20 Death Magic / 20 Blood Magic build, and quite enjoy it. It’s a fun, versatile build with a lot of utility and survivability.
I was actually rather favoring that route for the same reason to be honest. Thanks.
I was wondering myself, mainly how important Ritual Mastery is after the cooldown buff. I do a wellmancer build with d/d though marks are heavily used on swap. In WvW though, I’m mostly using my marks and wells so this should be similar to what you are doing in general.
Currently, I am doing
Curses -20 (Focused Rituals, Chilling Darkness) I didn’t know the well targeted skills got moved down to adept! So maybe it’s time for a change.
Death – 20 (Greater Marks, Ritual of Protection). Mostly for support. I’d assume SM is superior for other uses.
Blood -30 (Dagger Mastery, Ritual Mastery, Quickening Thirst). I only did this so I can swap to dagger to run faster and not use a slot for locust signet. For you though, I’d guarantee that bloodthirst and vampiric rituals is going to be very sick. You’ll siphon health from multiple sources regardless of what you’re doing, even if you get knocked down.
I’d love to swap some points out to try that grandmaster soulrepaping trait though. (50% crit in DS)
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