Guild Wars 2

I’m extremely unhappy with the new update.
since as we all know one of the most popular necro build is the conditionmancer
and the beuty of that was we were actually able to win or give a great fight against classes like guardians who pop up boons all the time and therefore survive and deal lots of dmg, with the old corrupted boons every boon became a cond, now guardians have the ability to transform em to boons again which is cool(i respect balanecd gameplay)
BUT with the new nerf, where does it put us?
if we’re just nulling 5 boons then a) a mesmer Null filed becomes OP in relation to our options
b) we have less of a chance to deal against guardians with that build. same to ele with tons of boons or any other class which can base itself on boons.

and instead of taking care of useless traits like reanimator they choose to do that.
I’d trade everything they offered just to have that skill back.
and to move fear to medium rune trait back.
cause it means it’s either 33% more cond dmg on a scepter or fear do dmg and we’ve got only 3 option to inflict fear(staff #5,ds #3,trait while stun)
a necro should have either a real option to create a fear build or return it back it’s proper place.

Eh…

Spectral Wall – AoE Ethereal Field causing 1s base fear.

CB did get nerfed. I don’t think it was warranted, but whatever. Necro got another Fear source that applies protection to self and allies, generates LF, has a reasonable CD and enables application of confusion through various means.

Note: You can have all of the Fears with +50% Duration and a Ground Targeted Well of Corruption or give up Reaper’s Protection and have +100% duration on everything else without giving up the gt well.

Terror mancer is stronger than it was. It got buffed. Our boon stripping was slightly nerfed, but condi damage bypasses those boons anyway.

i checked how long the spectral walls stays
and i’m sorry to say that, it’s way too short to base your fear build on that.
actually considering well of power as a source of fear is totally wrong.
well of corruption, you need that enemy to pop stability and that’s optimal situation if he gets only stability but a guardian who walks into a well has prolly more boons on him, well of corruption is good but will do that only one boon→cond per tick so you don’t know if stability would be first, actually if you’re in a 1v1 situation he’d just stay out of the well after first tick.

fear build got stronger that’s no doubt but it’s not there yet, not by a long shot.

yes! pls buff the poor necros!

The greatest strength of Corrupt Boon was to remove Stability, with the nerf it has become unreliable for this purpose.

Its not that they nerfed corrupt boon. Its that they didn’t make the same changes to condition clears such as contemplation of purity. CB now only removes 5 boons. Contemplation of purity and other such condition clears still clears all conditions. This is not consistent and gives condition clears way more value than boon removal.

Kravick.4906:

Its not that they nerfed corrupt boon. Its that they didn’t make the same changes to condition clears such as contemplation of purity. CB now only removes 5 boons. Contemplation of purity and other such condition clears still clears all conditions. This is not consistent and gives condition clears way more value than boon removal.

On the contrary my elixir c has been only converting 5 conditions max for a while now, I wouldnt be surprised if other clears have that limit too.

Penguin.5197:

On the contrary my elixir c has been only converting 5 conditions max for a while now, I wouldnt be surprised if other clears have that limit too.

Contemplation of purity does not. There is also a rune set that clears all conditions on elite use (or it might be healing).

STOP CRYING!

Necro is overpowered as is, and you’re whining about something no one even takes anymore because of the nonsensical fear buffs. It’s people like this that make me hate playing my bloody Necromancer.

5 second reduced cooldown is in order.

Also make the boon ripping order random, or last applied.

Thay should remove the poison on us. It does more dmg to us than to the enemy -.-

Nemesis.8593 explained the changes quite well in his last video. Maybe this will help you to understand the buffs/nerfs better (it helped me which means a lot ).

I’m guessing that Anet saw it as a bad thing for 1 Utility skill to allow bunker busting with no additional investment in traits or skills.

I guess you need to pair it with Focus now if you want to play bunker buster?
Spinal Shivers to strip 3 Boons, then Corrupt Boon to get rid of 5 more.
Spinal Shivers has a slow cast, but Corrupt Boon is instant so in theory you should be able to land it very fast if your Spinal Shivers hits.

There are 9 Boons in the game, but one of them is Aegis which really isn’t hard to get rid of by other means.
I suppose a smart Guardian would put up Aegis instantly just before getting hit with Spinal Shivers, though.

I do think that Corrupt Boon could use a cooldown reduction to make it more useful against builds with small amounts of Boons.
Corrupting the Vigor and/or Might of a Mesmer or a Thief and having such a long cooldown for it is annoying.

I would love them to add the +4 boons to the conversion if you have master of corruptions. Then you could spec for it. Maybe make BiP to do extra bleeds (also to yourself) or give few extra stacks of might and make corrosive poison cloud add 1 or 2 stack of 1 sec torment per second in addition to the cooldown reductions. Epidemic should get only the CDR as it is quite powerful when used at the right moment.