Guild Wars 2

It’s Lich Form damage of skill 1 intended or bug? because in my opinion it’s game breaking, at least in sPvP. I mean, the player just spam skill 1 for extreme dps, with perma stability, power tripled, precision and vitality doubled, for 30 seconds, seriously? Don’t misunderstand me, I love necromancer, it’s my 2nd main. I think Lich Form needs to be revised. Thanks.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lich_Form

It does a lot of damage but makes you a massive target with removable stability, and decreases your movement speed. On top of this, it has a massive cooldown, so if you get burned down or forced out of Lich Form because you have no Vigor, evasion skills, or a heal, it’s a waste of an elite that could be saved for an AoE knockdown on a 1m cooldown, or a massive survivability boost that Plague provides (which Necros need desperately if they’re going to survive teamfights long enough to be useful).

The only thing I might consider tweaking is lowering the power increase WHILE increasing the base damage of the attack to keep the damage the same, to lessen the damage of Sigils of Fire/Air while in Lich Form.

Da Sonic.6521:

It does a lot of damage but makes you a massive target with removable stability, and decreases your movement speed. On top of this, it has a massive cooldown, so if you get burned down or forced out of Lich Form because you have no Vigor, evasion skills, or a heal, it’s a waste of an elite that could be saved for an AoE knockdown on a 1m cooldown, or a massive survivability boost that Plague provides (which Necros need desperately if they’re going to survive teamfights long enough to be useful).

The only thing I might consider tweaking is lowering the power increase WHILE increasing the base damage of the attack to keep the damage the same, to lessen the damage of Sigils of Fire/Air while in Lich Form.

As you can read in my first post, I say “at least in sPvP”, and necros don’t need the Plague survivability there, maybe the Golem, but none of that is better than an elite than save you of almost all 1vs1, as necro you use all you have in a fight, if you still think the enemy will kill you, voila! you use the lich form and spam skill 1 to eat your opponent with extreme dps. Actually, this is bad for necros, people are starting to hate this, and thinking the “not so skilled players” exploit this.

NeHoMaR.9812:

Da Sonic.6521:

It does a lot of damage but makes you a massive target with removable stability, and decreases your movement speed. On top of this, it has a massive cooldown, so if you get burned down or forced out of Lich Form because you have no Vigor, evasion skills, or a heal, it’s a waste of an elite that could be saved for an AoE knockdown on a 1m cooldown, or a massive survivability boost that Plague provides (which Necros need desperately if they’re going to survive teamfights long enough to be useful).

The only thing I might consider tweaking is lowering the power increase WHILE increasing the base damage of the attack to keep the damage the same, to lessen the damage of Sigils of Fire/Air while in Lich Form.

As you can read in my first post, I say “at least in sPvP”, and necros don’t need the Plague survivability there, maybe the Golem, but none of that is better than an elite than save you of almost all 1vs1, as necro you use all you have in a fight, if you still think the enemy will kill you, voila! you use the lich form and spam skill 1 to eat your opponent with extreme dps. Actually, this is bad for necros, people are starting to hate this, and thinking the “not so skilled players” exploit this.

I am talking solely about sPvP, and that is exactly where Necros need Plague survivability. Plague gives a massive boost to vitality and toughness, and can provide a blind or weakness once every second. This allows Necros to stay on points far longer than they normally would, and can provide relief from pressure when multiple people are attacking them. As a Necro in sPvP, you are often the highest priority target in group fights because of no access to vigor, blocks, invulnerability skills, or evade skills. Necros need all the help they can get. Lich Form is giving up that ability to stick to a point for some very conditional damage that puts you in a very slow and vulnerable form. It does a lot of damage to make up for that, but it’s a tradeoff.

Lich Form hits very hard, when it hits. The projectile is fairly easily dodged, and like Da Sonic said, you are very slow and vulnerable. Popping Lich Form in sPvP is a death sentence unless you have group support, speaking first hand here. You become a big, green, glowing target, and you get focused FAST. Unless you have very good positioning, and/or you have at least some support, you may get 2 or 3 attacks off before you’re dead. Yeah some people will exploit the lich’s damage, but most also don’t know to end lich form if need be.