Talk:Price of Failure

There is officially, little reason to run a necro in PvP anymore. Readem (talk *gwwcontribs ) 23:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

shame anet didnt un-nerf curse necros like they pulled the rit exhaustion nerf. pof is only borderline viable for pvp now. and without an additional skill to help soul reaping with energy recovery, serves little use in pve. its a shame, curse necros were already few and far between. anet broke this skill b/c of me/n pof/empathy spammers. not n curse builds/any class. which will now become far rarer in pvp and pve. it like the message is necros are stuck playing mms. Palewook 13:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Is your shift button broke? --SK 14:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Your comment seems to be criticizing the current usefulness of Necros in PvP, but you mention MMs, a necro build that is almost never useful in PvP. It's not like Price of Failure was ever all that useful in PvE anyway. - [[Image:User HeWhoIsPale sig.PNG]] HeWhoIsPale 14:08, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Reckless Haste on a 10 second recharge worked great with blinding skills e.g.. It was nerfed badly due to pvp. It should at least be an adjacent aoe hex, then it would gain back some synergy with reckless haste. It is really sad that the main use of Necros in PvE is to abuse soul reaping to power the skills of another profession, not their own. --Longasc 21:25, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * sucks that this hex fail so hard --Blood Anthem [[Image:User Blood Anthem Sig.jpg|19px]] 22:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

"Blocked"="Fail"?
Is getting blocked the same as failing to hit according to this skill? -- Treasure Boy   Talk  23:55, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * test it with a necro on the other scrim team, and urself as sin spamming blades of steel with no off hand attack, tbh;o78.20.153.111 16:59, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, blocking = failure to hit. Spirit of Failure + Distortion was a popular Arena mesmer combination at one time.  Blind, strafed arrows, or any unsuccessful completed attack will trigger the Failures.  The only "exception" is Illusionary Weaponry, which isn't really an exception.  (It's a replacement effect, not a failure.) MA Anathe 20:26, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Illusionary Weaponry
Does this skill hurt IW memsers REAL bad? because their attacks never "hit" they should be getting damage everytime they swing their weapon...
 * It should. But then again, the IW Mesmer already hurt themselves real bad by taking a terrible gimmicky elite. Vili [[Image:User Vili sig.jpg|User talk:Vili]] 17:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Note on SS
Removed. "Great synergy with spitefull spirit"?. Sorry, but no. That's like saying flare has synergy with stone daggers. There's no synergy whatsoever, let alone a great synergy. They both do damage, but that doesn't make synergy. Mainly, neither of these increase the effectiveness of the other skill which is what synergy is all about. If someone wants to put it back up please explain. 114.77.98.223 06:15, 14 January 2011 (UTC)