Guild Wars 2

I just recnetly made 80 with my necro. He’s in full exotic berzerker gear save the back piece which is rare. I run a 30/0/10/0/30 build and really enjoy the damage. I use axe/focus and either d/d or staff depending on the situation.

I havnt memorized all the skill names or anything but the one minion utility that’s on a 20 sec CD that summons 2 little pets you can detonate is what I have a question about. The tooltip says that it’ll do around 1500 dmg when I detonate them. I have yet to see that damage crit yet though. Is it possible for the explosion to crit? My crit rate is around 50 atm and still nothing. As I use them like portable bombs they’re the only minion I use for my build.

Any feedback on this would be appreciated.

Zuer.2814:

I just recnetly made 80 with my necro. He’s in full exotic berzerker gear save the back piece which is rare. I run a 30/0/10/0/30 build and really enjoy the damage. I use axe/focus and either d/d or staff depending on the situation.

I havnt memorized all the skill names or anything but the one minion utility that’s on a 20 sec CD that summons 2 little pets you can detonate is what I have a question about. The tooltip says that it’ll do around 1500 dmg when I detonate them. I have yet to see that damage crit yet though. Is it possible for the explosion to crit? My crit rate is around 50 atm and still nothing. As I use them like portable bombs they’re the only minion I use for my build.

Any feedback on this would be appreciated.

Nope, minion abilities are tied to the trait lines and their stats. They are not tied into yours at all. Besides using minions when not built for minions is generally not advisable.

The explosion from the Bone Minions can crit.

It’s just that they use their own stats and get no benefit from yours meaning they won’t have your Power/Precision/Crit damage and therefore a low crit chance/no massive damage boosts.

Simply put, Putrid Explosion CAN crit, but it doesn’t scale with your own Crit Chance.
It is probably tied to the pet’s Crit Chance.
It’s a nice Aoe Burst Damage Spell, but it’s limited by the rawness of the Necromancer’s design, if you are a powermancer you have better utilities to choose instead of them; nobody forces you to not use Bone Minions, but, for example, for some aoe burst you can take Well of Suffering that deals a nice damage, does scale with your own crit chances and also applies Vulnerability.

Does work with the trait “Minions do 30% more dmg” tho so Iv seen atleast 2,8k Crits/Minion..

Yes, putrid explosion works with the 30% extra damage, but do not scale with your own stats. If you are really good with it, it is okay to use in a power build to finish people off and do decent bursts of damage, although all minions are obviously much better in true minion builds.

Well, that’s just booty, and not the awesome kind. I’ll just go with a spectral utility for another stun break. The extra life force gain couldn’t hurt either. I use the kitten out of DS and lich when its up!

Thanks for the info!