@Bhawb As always, your input is appreciated.
Siphoned Power rework— change tier as needed. My logic was that Weakness isn’t exactly easy to apply as a necromancer, so ideally (read: as intended) you would get 2x might around 40% uptime and about 20% uptime on vigor if you were able to maintain weakness on your target.. As for the vuln, the protection was meant to be on a 2-3s ICD.
I could see changing tiers if it’s still too strong.
So is this one trait? Because having separate ICDs on two separate things is kinda weird; this is that clarity of purpose they like to bring up. Also it does two very different things at once, it gives fury/might (damage) and protection (defense) in one. Another issue is if this goes up to GM Major, then it competes with CtD, which really hurts our builds (we need utility and damage, not one or the other). And finally, a 1s protection on a 3s CD basically allows axe to have near 100% protection uptime.
This would be too much for any trait, imo, I’d just use it on my MM, allowing me to give my minions a bunch of fury (10% DPS bonus) very easily (bone minions + dagger OH = easy 100% uptime on this trait), plus protection via axe AA. Even if this was like SoV and didn’t apply to minions, its still a huge amount of team utility to give on a single trait.
I’d probably just go for a weaker version of this trait (btw, weakness is very easy to apply on a 10s CD, with Weakening Shroud) that applied some fury (more synergy w/ weakening shroud + furious demise) or might on weakness application, with a CD as you said, and leave it as a minor trait.
Bloodthirst— AoE siphon + 10% additional crit damage is what I was going for, on the condition it only works against targets afflicted with bleed.
The issue is those don’t really have any synergy. Siphons don’t crit, and in fact the only reason siphon really synergizes with crit is using it as a proc mechanic. Your “best” siphon builds are either power/healing power/toughness (maxes the siphon’s stats + toughness synergizing best with the healing) or power/prec/toughness for a similar reason. You’re basically wasting strength, assuming this is balanced which I’d argue it probably isn’t without an increase in tiers, on having a siphon with something that doesn’t synergize with it, and vice versa. I’d probably bump this up to GM Major, with Bloodthirst simply being an AoE siphon support mechanic, and have the ferocity as a totally separate trait.
Sig of Undeath— I think you read it wrong. Revives dead or defeated players, not downed.
Fair enough, its an interesting difference, could maybe see niche use in WvW with some stealth+mass zerg revive play.
Well of the Profane— spur of the moment inspiration after glancing over my GW1 builds. Could be changed to elite status as needed, as well as having its variables tweaked.
I think it fits very nicely as an elite, although I guess someone could argue its still conflicting with Well of Corruption. But regardless, an interesting idea (also fits with a current idea in the balance forums to tie all utilities and elites together).
Hammer weapon set— the idea, as stated, was to make the necro stronger as the fight wore on and as the target got closer. Took inspiration from mesmer GS, guard/warrior hammer skills, GW1 necromancer skills, and necro axe skills. Hammer, to me, is more of a brutal weapon than GS and thus fits the necro better.
That, and I just don’t like greatswords in this game :P
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The quickness on Mark of Fury was a direct homage to its GW1 counterpart with quickness instead of granting adrenaline, and removing the “cracked armor” (vulnerability) condition. I would settle for a quickness duration of 2s in lieu of 4 to try to reign in its power.
The issue with quickness, especially an AoE one, is that it has a lot of power. This is why currently quickness is tied to skills with long CDs, usually single target, and with drawbacks. For example Frenzy gives you 6s of quickness, but also 6s of increased damage received and is on a 60s CD. Quickness is just so much potential power that it’d have to water down the rest of the skill too much imo.
