Guild Wars 2

A lot of you had problems with the third proposed change, and argued that it would somehow “break” DS. My argument is this: what is REALLY wrong with this? Why should a dramatic increase in survivability and damage be considered a BAD thing? Its what we need, isn’kitten A way for Necromancers to at last be on par with other classes? I believe that using utility skills when in DS, when combined with the OP’s other changes would work perfectly. Besides, our utility skills have horrifically long CDs anyway, and popping them in DS only means you wont have access to them outside of DS.

Thanks! yeah thats absolutely amazing.

Just a quick point of clarification- does the damage bonus from Superior Runes of the Scholar proc from your real healthbar while in DS, or from the lifepool of DS itself?

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Ok so heres the thing. I dont think anybody would disagree with you that warriors (all the classes in general really) could use some build diversity through traits. The problem with your proposed traits is that most of them take already incredibly popular things and make them even more broken.

SS does not need buffing, and it especially does not need to apply two stacks of bleeding per auto attack (with crit). SS sees plenty of play currently and benefits from its current level of DoT without this trait doubling that factor.

The 20% damage increase while in a stance is absolutely unfathomably OP. An increase of damage of 20% is almost unfindable in this game in the form of traits OR runes, (except for one trait on ele that increases dmg to vulnerable foes by 20% when attuned to water, the element that deals the least damage out of all the elements). Furthermore, I would hazard that a good 60-70% of pvp warriors as is take stances, and this would make stances even MORE necessary and corner warriors into only taking stances. Also why WOULDNT you blow all your stances in a fight if it meant youd win it. You put the skills on your utility bar to use them, right?

The warhorn trait is just funny. Literally a nerfed duplicate of the current warhorn trait, but in a line that with your aforementioned stance buffs would never be picked.

And dat burst skill buff. Aoe knockdown with every burst skill except mace and axe? HUH? I would QQ for the other team while doing it. This trait wouldnt make any new builds more viable, just make existing builds unstoppable (a lot of lb users take the adren refund trait anyway, and they would switch to this instantly for the aoe knockdown buff for their guaranteed condi cleanse). Furthermore, all you would need is SoR to give your burst blind, 5 stacks of vuln, and 5% increased damage (so 10% increased damage, I see what you did there).

You want to promote build diversity? You need to to make traits that give conventional/ underused weapons or skills new uses. I would say rifle as an example, but that weapon just needs some love for it to be feasible in pvp. But there could be an arms trait like “Attack speed increased against _ foes”. Or for Banners, "effect on allies increased by _% while wielding the banner (more support oriented at cost of personal dps). Maybe "Barbed Mace: mace skills/crits inflict bleeding/torment against __ foes". See? New uses for unconventional weapons.

In all reality new traits alone cant increase build diversity, the game NEEDS new skills, skill types, and weapons.

In case you guys were curious, I actually did out the math and hypothetically in the first 10 seconds of combat, with well of suffering locust swarm and the dagger auto (as well as a lightning strike procing life steal, it actually works) I steal roughly 3k hp

Yeah I think thats a pretty fair analysis, those are pretty much all the thoughts I had going into making this build. In all honesty (about to catch so much flak for this) I used this build in pve ( I know dps is all that matters but screw it). However on Dec. 2nd I will be taking this into pvp and I will definitely take your suggestions into consideration (and switch to consume conditions, that skill is a must).
The problem with taking away elements of lifesteal imo is that it quickly dominoes into not using lifesteal at all, much like your post actually did. First you take away the wells, then theirs no point in traiting for wells so you dont use wells, you use spectral skills which focus the build even more on death shroud and pretty soon you dont life steal at all. Imo lifesteal is an all or nothing thing, as it really offers your allies nothing so using them partially would seem to detract from your role as a healer or from your dps. but yeah clerics is a really tempting way to go.

The reason I went with warhorn was the 10 ticks of damage that each proc the lifesteal, which was also the point of the precision (lifesteal on crit). Is the precision part a real waste of time?

So I recently got my necro to lvl 80, and rather go for a legitimate build like scepter condis or dagger deathshroud cannon, I went for the “what is this guy doing???” factor. The goal was to actually offer a fair amount of support for the whole team while tanking and dealing light to moderate damage the whole time. (not shown on the link is the omnomberry ghosts) My question is, did I succeed? Or is this build a waste of space?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQRBIhdu1IJNt02TjRNc4m4XokeGCg2d6fIJOioSAA-TpBBABjXGojDCAAPAgCOCAKt/AEnAAA

Im just watching your twitch video as a model of how to play pvp… such a beast