Guild Wars 2

so i was looking around at power builds and this caught my eye. now based on the wiki i saw that the locust effect lasts as long as swiftness is up so if you stack boon duration and sigil of speed does that mean it is possible to have perma locust swarm as long as you recast it and kill stuff?

I don’t think the locust stack longer if you have more boon time.

Locus doesn’t seem to be a boon, I think you can only make it last longer by traitings for Warhorn.

Didn’t test tho.

P.S Warhorn #5 + Dagger is ownage

yes i know locust is not a boon but

“The damage and crippling effect are continually applied once every second for as long as swiftness is active”
this is in the wiki description for locust swarm so i was hoping someone with a high enough lvl has tested this as my necro is only lvl 15

P.S yes, i know warhorn + dagger owns

^wiki is wrong. Test it yourself, go to heart of the mists.

I used to wanna make a Centaur Rune+Dagger/Wh+DS power build with permanent LF generation and swiftness, the fact that it doesnt work for as long as you have swiftness on ruined it for me a nice chunk of time ago, still WH 5 is great and the LF generation works while in DS.

Ya, it doesn’t stack that from what I can tell. You can’t extent the locusts or the actual spectral part of spectral walk with boon duration.

There are a lot of +swift, + boon duration runes. Speed, Ice, water.

The Locust Swarm and Swiftness are two separate boon. The Locust Swarm boon (similar to quickness and stealth) cant be increased by boon duration so for example putting 30 points in Death Magic will increase your swiftness to 13 seconds but keep Locust Swarm at 10.

Note: Curses VIII Trait (Banshee’s Wail) will increase the duration of both effects by 30%)

ah… dam…. thanks for clearing that up…. guess there goes my dream of being a perma locust swarm, would have been awesome if it worked that way…. now its just the mobile version of the those spiky things thiefs throw on the floor, but its nice to know that trait will increase its duration + reduce the recharge so i guess we can maintain locust form about half the time? guess i’ll stack might duration instead of boon. Thanks again for all the replies

I’d really like more ways to trigger locust swarm effect, it feels very unique to the class and the sort of thing that promotes the ‘philosophy’ of the necromancer.

well there’s a trait (deathly swarm I think its called), that triggers it on 25% hp, which is terrible, but because of the DS hp trigger bug, you can effectively trigger it on demand. I haven’t checked to see if it will stack in duration with the war horn though. Also fun fact, the swarm this trait causes, it’s duration is effected by the war horn trait.

Edit: it’s called decaying swarm, trait 8 of soul reaping.
Edit 2: It’s got an internal CD of 90 seconds, and they don’t stack in duration.

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well there’s a trait (deathly swarm I think its called), that triggers it on 25% hp, which is terrible, but because of the DS hp trigger bug, you can effectively trigger it on demand. I haven’t checked to see if it will stack in duration with the war horn though. Also fun fact, the swarm this trait causes, it’s duration is effected by the war horn trait.

Edit: it’s called decaying swarm, trait 8 of soul reaping.

Haha yeah i know of it, but my statement still stands, more ways!

i wish it would just do what the wiki said it would just do what wiki said it would do, i mean its wierd that the OFFICIAL wiki is wrong, right?

Not really, just because it’s ‘official’, doesn’t mean the content is from anet.