I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.
Basilisk Venom appears to be the fastest recharging Elite available (45 seconds), and can be further accelerated with Quick Venoms (33 second cooldown).
Superior Runes of the Sunless trigger a 1 second fear each time you use your elite, along with providing 83 condition damage, -20% duration to conditions on you, and +4% crit damage.
There’s got to be a Thief build that can leverage that fear.
Har har. Actually, the closest equivalent is the Superior Rune of Melandru, which will give -25% condition duration with 6/6. This Rune-set is much, much more aggressive.
You misspelled Lyssa.
They have a 50 second ICD so Quick Venoms wouldn’t affect them.
OP: They’re not available in PvP, are they?
I’d rather have Lyssa’s 6th bonus — especially over a 1 second fear (or those other bonuses).
1 second fear not worth it. Especially with those stats.
just steal on necro… it’s plenty of necros out there, lol
All right, let me rephrase – treat 6/6 Superior Runes of the Sunless & Basilisk Venom as a given: what would you build around it? First for dungeons/small group, then what would you change for WvW mass combat?
Basilisk venom has a 1 second cast time? Assuming that the elite needs to be successfully cast to trigger the fear, you are using 1 second of your time to provide 1 second of fear. Even if the fear occurs when you start to cast the elite, it only covers the casting time.
1s fear is useless other than a rupt and you’re not going to be rupting anything with a 1s cast time lol. Lyssa >
lyssa is better
+ chuckle + Right, so Sunless should be buffed or Lyssa nerfed. Fair enough.
…The -20% condition duration doesn’t get any mouths watering in the condition-heavy environments?
+ chuckle + Right, so Sunless should be buffed or Lyssa nerfed. Fair enough.
…The -20% condition duration doesn’t get any mouths watering in the condition-heavy environments?
melandru runes are better if you’re going for -condition duration. and they’re very popular.
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