Engis trait has the same icd. Engi doesnt have fear though does it. Necro needs burning but perhaps its fear should now be toned down slightly (duration on doom for example) to compensate slightly.
I’m running virtually the same 0 30 10 0 30 condimancer build as prepatch, but with 1 minor change (rez out spectral wall in). I don’t think we really need burning, as long as we have torment.
Apart from the lack of anti-cc tools, we’re finally in a better spot then we used to be. Remember not everyone has a team babysitting them 24/7 (which seems to be the main argument when claiming necros were already present in tpvp before the patch), and not every team is/was willing to spec around the proff that was rashly smiter booned to oblivion right before release.
While fears can be an excellent defensive or offensive tool, the lack of any real disengages, evades and low recharge stunbreakers (bar for the wurm) still makes them a relatively easy target to bring down, especially if they don’t spec high, or at all into SR.
As tempting as a 30 30 10 setup might look, I wouldn’t sacrifice high sr for some extra burning.
They buffed about a million things on the already best necro build – the terror build. They gave us:
1, Burning – this was fine
2, More poison on scepter – this was fine
3, More lf gain on staff auto – this was fine
4, Quicker staff auto – this was fine
5, More lf gain on scepter 3 – this was fine
6, A massive weakness buff – this was fine but they left the weakness duration way too long on dagger 5 (aoe btw)
7, They increased the speed of dagger 4 – this was fine
8, They buffed doom which was already good – why? Makes no sense
9, They added fear to spectral wall – this isnt that bad I suppose.
10, They made putrid mark transfer blind – this was fine
11, They added ds5 which is possibly the most op thing ever – probably should be nerfed but is very fun :p
1. Fine, but they put it on a tree that forces the nec to make a trade off (no high SR->kittenty lf generation due to no mark trait, longer CD on DS skills, no access to spectral traits, no extra 50% fear duration – the latter can, admittedly, be somewhat replaced by the spite tree cond duration though).
2. You cannot be serious. Scepter poison application, and duration are/were rather mediocre, especially when compared to other condi classes. The best part about them, and scepter in general, has always been the fact they aren’t snail-speed projectiles a-la staff 1 style.
3. Only that it wasn’t/isn’t – the projectile is so terribly slow no one in their sane mind would use it for lf generation outside downed targets. Given how they changed the wrong thing about it, it’s still equally useless.
4. It wasn’t exactly fine, but it wasn’t the main issue about staff 1, i. e. impossible to hit a moving target.
5. It was mediocre. Now it is..average, I suppose.
6. I don’t mind the weakness duration be reduced…IF they actually remove the ~0.5s delay on actual hit.
7. It could be ‘dodged’ by moving left and right, or just moving out of its flight direction. How was that fine? Occasionally, I’d even have it miss almost pointblank. It is FAR more reliable now.
8. I suppose they wanted it to work in a smiliar way ‘Fear Me’ does. I don’t think it is gamebreaking.
9. It makes the skill actually worth taking now, yea.
10. Is it OP now? Ofc not.
11. It’s awesome, yea. Finally some loving for a change. I do however believe only nec and warrior should be getting it.
If you were gaining self-gratification by playing a sledge-hammered class with somewhat success, because you had a whole team resolve around you, that’s your problem. You shouldn’t forget that, although the necro class might have been rather balanced in itself – in a vacuum, much like the warrior – it was, for the most part, rather subpar when compared to the alternatives when played at equal level, and normally taken because of rez and wells, because even it even became outclassed in boon removal.
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