Guild Wars 2

Hi fellow masochists!

While I’m leveling some alt to finally make the switch to something more useful for my group of friends, I’m trying some stuff in WvW with my Asura necro.

I’ve tested yesterday a (almost) full rabid set with Pain Inverter and Epidemic, just to see how many thiefs/mesmer I could down without much effort. (Why thief/mesmer? It’s all I see nowaday roaming between camps, and their ele d/d buddies, but those normally get away without a fight)

The result was amazingly fun (emphasis on fun, not Godlike ). Hit Pain inverter when the thief jumps you with his 2 pets, epidemic one of the pet to give the thief 6 stack of confusion hitting for +-1200, and watch him go down like crazy while he try to burst you. Same for mesmer, hitting clone and then spreading to mesmer, I loved the irony of watching that purple circle over their head with big numbers under it. We fought for 2 hours over the same camp, and I’ve won most of my fight against the same duo.

I really wish one day we could some day have easy access to high damaging conditions, it could be our “burst” type ability.

I just wanted to share this little moment of joy, it happens scarcely lately so every bit counts!

TLDR: Confusion is a wonderful condition against aggro burst type that think we are easy kills and spam their keys.

Razdhül

Which is why several months ago I made a mesmer alt, and play it frequently in WvW. Confusion is loads of fun, and I can definately see pain inverter working well in a condition necro build.

That being said, you could play a mesmer and have access to that confusion by shatter 2 (AOE), in addition to all their escapes, invis skills, immunities. Or better yet, play an asuran mesmer, and have it all.

Nothing beats working in tandem with a good confusion bomb mesmer though and then using epidemic on his target. You can see upwards of 6k damage per skill usage.

Combining classes is the key to GW and often overlooked. Epidemic is our most synergistic capability.

DrXer.2918:

Combining classes is the key to GW and often overlooked. Epidemic is our most synergistic capability.

All too true, Necro’s are one of the finest force multipliers for DPS and Combo’s around.
We run a con-bomb group in WvW- 2 necros, 2 mesmers and any other condition spec class we can round up.