Guild Wars 2

Bhawb.7408:

1) No other weapon in the game has 4 abilities on the same set that have no travel time, no activation time, no tell of where they’ll land, that can also be made unblockable, are entirely frontloaded, and can ignore a lot of LoS.

First off all necro staff abilities have a cast time of 3/4 seconds, as for other staff skill sets that have no travel time, I’m gonna use Elementalist Fire as an example. Here we have Lava Font, which has no cast time and no travel time, Flame Burst which also has no travel time but a cast time of 1/2, less than any of the necro staff abilities, Burning retreat, which is also instant, and Meteor Shower, which could be argued doesn’t have a true cast time as it can deal damage the second it begins channel, granted that’s heavily influenced by rng.

In any case the point of my post isn’t to argue, but to clarify that this is in no way exclusive to necro, and as was said before it really won’t change the current paradigm, especially due to the fact that there is already a setting in the options to quick-cast GTAoEs at the cursor.

It seems you are correct just tested it myself to confirm, didn’t notice that before..

In any case I do have permanent vigor up time on my mes utilizing both of those vigor traits, granted it might not be as easy to maintain, it is still possible.

While I haven’t tested it it may very well be possible to maintain permanent vigor using Vigorous Revelation alone.

It’s up to 15 seconds per shatter, not including Illusionary Persona or w/e it’s called, without an ICD. DE allows faster spawning of clones, and in order to get DE you also will have the Vigor on crit trait. Basically it just allows you to get more illusions out faster, which will in turn make it a lot easier for the permanent up time.

Just gonna throw this out there:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vigorous_Revelation

That trait will allow permanent vigor on a Mes, especially when combined with Deceptive Evasion.