No group buff or support with condition removals+ raw damage? Considering the unholy devastation conditions make to teams when bosses inflicts it, I beg to disagree: I’ve seen enough teams wipe by poison or bleeding, to know how useful a condition removal, or better yet, a converting condition well, can be (which I think is a necro unique ability).
Did you even read what i posted? Other classes do it better and with much lower cooldowns. Converting conditions to boons is nice yes. But its certainly not needed and in most cases makes no difference.
True at 66%: as every classes, warr provide boons to the team only when they aren’t playing selfish, which is the point I was trying to do. A warrior who doesn’t use banners opting for signet is a selfish warriors. Same for necros.
And as for other classes, necros don’t have to sacrifice DPS to be helpful: well of corruption+ well of suffering+ well of power and you have support, damage and condition control in a solid package.
Well true, they dont have to sacrifice much to take those wells. But wasting a utility slot with a stupidly high cooldown ability that is replaceable by someone else in the group with a better utility is kind of meh… My build always has WoS and signet of spite because without them my dps would be much lower. I have one free slot for utility and thats all im willing to sacrifice in most situations.
Except you are forgetting to say that wells pulse, so after casting, they damage and corrupt for 6/10 seconds, not once. More than enough to turn the tide in a battle while stacking, giving room to breath to your team or to inflict and/or help dealing a DPS rush (nuker or endfight, pick one or both).
And necros wells have a 30/35 seconds cooldown, while warriors banners have 120 cd or 240 for battle standard. You could argue banners give a sustained boons for 90 secs and I could rebuttal wells contribute with raw damage more often, in which case we could agree to disagree or accept that they can coexist wonderfully in teamwork…
Comparing wells with banners is a really poor idea. Banners have very little downtime compared to cooldown and the downtime they have is usually while you are running to the next boss/fight. Wells however last 6 seconds at the start of a fight. They can only be used once for trash and for bosses 1-3 times max because of their cooldowns. Pulsing doesnt make it good, its still high cooldown and not sustained. A mesmer can just auto attack with sword, create sword clones which do the same and summon phantasmal disenchanters. That results in permanent sustained boon removal. Necro cant compete with that. Plus mesmers have null field which is kind of like WoP + WoC combined but with a lower cooldown and longer duration.
Blindness, or to be more precise, well of darkness, isn’t the only possible choice: as things go I don’t use it at all, bringing blindness in battle with dagger offhand.
So I can blast an area with AoE and blind at the same time, and again tanking, a wonderful thing that only few eles can do. To make another metaphor: necros are more guardians than warriors, as eles are more warriors than guardians.
Not really sure what your trying to say here. But like ive said. Overwriting fire fields just for aoe blinds is a bad idea when you can get aoe blinds without ruining your aoe might combos. Also thief has black power which is a spammable smoke field that provides blinds for 4 seconds. It pulses twice as fast as wells aswell. Necro blinds are good but they are easily replaced by classes with better ways of applying blind.
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