Guild Wars 2

Am I really the only one that thinks both this traits, Death Perception and Decimate Defenses, are a dumb combination.
While in shroud both this traits activated make lots of buffs like banners, spotter, fury etc go to complete waste.
Out of shroud your biggest dps comes in the shape of Gravedigger and its at this moment that its the hardest to keep vuln up for Deciamte Defenses to work and Deaths Perception isnt even activated. (I say that its hard to keep vuln up is because of the reason its so easy to keep 25 stacks only while in shroud).

jacim.5904:

Am I really the only one that thinks both this traits, Death Perception and Decimate Defenses, are a dumb combination.
While in shroud both this traits activated make lots of buffs like banners, spotter, fury etc go to complete waste.

This is true if you play PvE only, yes. This is why quite a few people (primarily PvErs but not only) have argued for one or more of our over-abundant might/crit chance/vuln being turned into flat damage modifiers and spread out among the trees better, rather than being stacked into mechanics that make it hard for our damage to get up there in PvE.

I don’t mind being crit heavy, I think it’s an interesting theme, but we need some more armor options with ferocity but not precision, IMO. Power/Fer/Toughness would be mean tank gear, I think. Power/Fer/Condi would be neat too. Maybe some more cool on crit traits too.

From my understanding of hot we get 5 new sets. I took this to mean stat combos. The only stat that doesn’t have an armour with it as a main is ferocity. If anything we should/should get main stat ferocity stat combos.

Ferocity have 0 main stat combos and vitality has 2. Would say I we got now combos there are the most likely.

Sigmoid.7082:

From my understanding of hot we get 5 new sets. I took this to mean stat combos. The only stat that doesn’t have an armour with it as a main is ferocity. If anything we should/should get main stat ferocity stat combos.

Ferocity have 0 main stat combos and vitality has 2. Would say I we got now combos there are the most likely.

Why would you ever take a ferocity main armor over a power main armor? They both boost the same thing (raw damage) only power does it better.

Luckily, Dhuumfire is a decent dps bonus to RS autos even in power builds, if you would be full on crit from elsewhere and didn’t take DP.

we need a power,condi, ferocity stat combo

Power, condi, ferocity.. that would be really nice… and I think necros would be the best class to utilise such a combo.

It’s pretty good combination in pvp though, when using chill/vuln stack build. You can go full cavalier/valkyrie gear and still damage comparable to berserker. The vulnerability stacks are easily obtained.