Ashur.6403

Feeling lazy? TH:CR? Read the bold. I haven't played in a few years, but I have been around since GW1 Prophecies and have played GW2 off and on since beta. I have played ~3,000 spvp necromancer games. -Power? Don't bother. Absolute trash. Might as well just play base necro for those juicy shroud1 crits. -Condi? Dhuumfire is putting out work. It will be nerfed for HB. I'll probably switch to Eternal Thirst when it does for the infinite sustain. I'm finding no reason to go pistol over scepter. I like pistol3, but the other two skills are boring as kitten. Both the animations and the effects. Why torment? We have an entire spec in scourge that encourages torment. Pistol should have been an off-hand weapon dealing confusion/poison (a necro using a pistol? Sounds confusing as kitten). That's all I have for now. I'll edit this post if I think of anything else. Oh wait, the elixirs. Jesus kitten I forgot they even existed. I have nothing to say besides I wish they didn't exist.

This right here. I lost all hope with the balance team after their solution to the then condi damage problem was to add dhuumfire. Which was the immediately nerfed the next patch and then followed up by nerfing our other conditions to make up for adding it. 8 years later and I'm still mad about it. *edit* looks like my memory was fuzzy. Only scepter 2 was nerfed in the few months after dhuumfire was added.

While I agree that blanket 50% duration increase on all conditions (or even the above Bleed/Poison) would be broken as kitten, Fear of Death.

The scepter's conditions are bleed, poison, cripple, and torment.

Rune of the Traveler adds 300 more hp, but you lose 139 power and 59 condition damage. I think I'd rather take the extra 139 power and 59 condition damage over 300 more hp.

I'm curious why the condition build goes Rune of the Traveler over Rune of the Lynx.

Thanks for the replies. After some testing I went with Staff over Greatsword, I ran into the problems both of you described. While greatsword does a ton of damage, it does 0 damage if you can't stick on people. And I agree Sigil of Speed is dumb af.

Hey I have a build question for spvp. Its been a few years since I've played (my last post was September 2017). I checked out metabattle and wasn't a fan of the builds posted there. I get that they are meta for a reason, but would I be hamstringing myself playing something like this? If you were running this build would you... go Eternal Life or Death Perception? Berserker Amulet or Demolisher Amulet? Trash the whole thing and start over? Lol