Spite: 0
Curses: IV (Weakening Shroud) / VI (Terror) / VII (Master of Corruption)
Death Magic: II (Greater Marks)
Blood Magic: 0
Soul Reaping: IV (Spectral Mastery) / IX (Master of Terror) / XI Foot in the Grave
For things like bip you can ignore conditionduration but for the scepter auto attack for example its important. You can really benefit from the 6sec instead of 4sec bleed because those 2sec are not often cleansed.
I try to find a role for pvp necros in a 5men team and tried that too.
Best thing i have found is actually a conditionmancer with minions to heal the necromancer up (they do that really good while the necromancer can kite) because the necromancer is often the first target. Still this necromancer is worse than an aditional mesmer,ele,thief in most sitations because they can avoid damage better and get from point to point way faster.
While I’m not sure about WvW (I’m told conditions have a lifespan of a few seconds there, don’t really care enough to find out if it’s true) duration in PvE is very good, since it’s a strict multiplier to your damage, so it can be more helpful to your damage than certain amounts of condition damage.
Food is very biased towards duration. 36% duration food can be equivalent to more than 360 condition damage in a full build that already has 1000 condition damage.
Mixing insults with your post is like pooping in a salad.
It’s pretty obvious, and nobody’s impressed.
Ignoring condition duration or heavy condition builds in general is only recommended if your running with your servers zerg.
If your solo roaming and havoc squads condition/ hybrid builds work out very well and in all the builds I’ve designed for solo roamers I’ve always capped 100% condition duration.
One thing to remember with condition duration on Bleeding & Fear is the final bleed time must be a full 1 second or it will round down to the nearest second.
10% from sigil + 40% from food + 50% from fear trait = 100% fear duration.
Earth sigil > Geomancy sigil for damage.
33% more Scepter damage > Enfeebling Blood for damage.
One thing to remember with condition duration on Bleeding & Fear is the final bleed time must be a full 1 second or it will round down to the nearest second.
when it comes to Lingering Curse and 36% duration food this is a lie it turns a 6s bleed into a 10s bleed
when it comes to Lingering Curse and 36% duration food this is a lie it turns a 6s bleed into a 10s bleed.
If i remember correctly straight up condition duration does not stack with specific durations. +33% scepter duration with +36% condition duration would be;
6 second bleed time * 1.33 = 7.98 seconds.
7.98 second bleed time * 1.36 = 10.85 seconds.
10.85 second bleed time rounds down to 10 second bleed.
One thing to remember with condition duration on Bleeding & Fear is the final bleed time must be a full 1 second or it will round down to the nearest second.
I assume what you mean is that durations are rounded down to 1/4 of a second, but the damage tick is only given on a full second.
Then again, only the first inflicted condition sets up the timer for all other conditions. That means if you start with a bleed skill at time 0, then add a +50% duration Doom 0,5sec later, you’ll still get 2 fear ticks.
So your example: 10.85 second bleed time rounds down to 10 second bleed.
Actually means that you have a 85% chance to get 11 ticks out of it.
Lingering Curse vs Weakening Shroud:
Yes, if it’s about pure damage and you assume that your target doesn’t cleanse then the scepter’s auto attack + Grasping Dead profit more from a +33% duration than an extra Enfeebling Blood on a 15 sec cooldown could add.
But: Against other players who cleanse conditions, you can stack higher in a shorter amount of time with Weakening Shroud. Plus you can activate it even when you’re stunned. And it works under water too.
@ flow.6043 Thank’s for that, indeed the build is assuming players do cleanse and more than half of the time will be inside a zerg.
The build is an condition intensity build, so imagine that Warrior in you’re face and you just got done with Sceptre+Dagger rotation, switch to Staff and drop 2,3,4,5 and then switch to DS and hit’m with 2,3,4 and her HP will drop fasssst!
Question though: Thoughts on a Giver Weapon (10% Condi Duration) + Pizza (40% Condi Duration) to get Fear up from 50% to 100%, is that worth the loss of stats from the weapon + 100 condo/70 prec food?
Question though: Thoughts on a Giver Weapon (10% Condi Duration) + Pizza (40% Condi Duration) to get Fear up from 50% to 100%, is that worth the loss of stats from the weapon + 100 condo/70 prec food?
The link says you already have 10% on your runes, so no need for Giver’s.
Pizza vs Risotto: 40% duration or 30 cond dmg + 70 precision… definitely the pizza.
Question though: Thoughts on a Giver Weapon (10% Condi Duration) + Pizza (40% Condi Duration) to get Fear up from 50% to 100%, is that worth the loss of stats from the weapon + 100 condo/70 prec food?
The link says you already have 10% on your runes, so no need for Giver’s.
Pizza vs Risotto: 40% duration or 30 cond dmg + 70 precision… definitely the pizza.
Indeed I forgot about the runes, thanks…An extra tick for everything is a big deal!
If you’re running Plague elite then consider Chilling Darkness from Curses rather than Master of Corruption; I swapped it for Haemophilia and had a blast with it last night when running with our guild group, it seemed pretty effective. The corruption skills are on quite a low cooldown anyway and are quite hit and miss these days so IMO it’s not worth building around them.
If you’re running Plague elite then consider Chilling Darkness from Curses rather than Master of Corruption; I swapped it for Haemophilia and had a blast with it last night when running with our guild group, it seemed pretty effective. The corruption skills are on quite a low cooldown anyway and are quite hit and miss these days so IMO it’s not worth building around them.
TBH its only for Corrupt Boon as its soooo important in PvP but I see your point, ofc its easy to change and I should change as needed!
Thanks!
So how condition duration works is the timer starts from the first application on ANY condition right? So, with 10% + 50% + 40% I have 50% condi and 100% fear duration, fear will always get 2 ticks? The burst on terror is soo much fun!
