Feedback talk:User/Damysticreaper/Death Magic

my two cents
Animate Bone Minions - completely OP. Bitter Chill - OP. Dark Aura - Nerf instead of buff, it's nice as it is. Death Nova - lold hard... sorry complete OP. Deathly Swarm - ever tried "Flesheater" in Rragars HM or Bohdabi the Destructive in "The Sulfurous Wastes" in HM? better try it before buffing it more to nec bosses... Malign Intervention is well as it is... just use it in dungeons or areas where no minions are with veratas gaze... Order of Undeath - is a complete nerf instead of an useful buff nobody waste an elite skill for healing minions oO... Putrid Bile - Yay... buff lame Hero builds once more... Rising Bile - same... Taste of Pain - nerf instead of buff, its well as it is. Verata's Sacrifice - kills all of your own minions but other minions get healed? how many minionmaster things you wanna play? MM wars? Virulence - doenst need any buff, its one of the best nec skills when used and in builds like fevered dreams.


 * -Dark Aura remained unchanged for PvP because it is good in PvE however it is a crap skill because no sane necro would run into mobs just to get himself killed and only to kill. That alone is reason enough not to call it a nerf.


 * -Death Nova. Try targeting a minion who isn't enchanted with it. I just made it more player friendly in a functionality the skill was created for.


 * -Deathly Swarm. ever tried using some protection like Union and Shelter or interrupt like Panic and Cry of Frustration? Btw Pain Inverter would also work great.


 * -Malign Intervention and Verata's Gaze. Who would take 2 skills just to have 1 minion? And if you don 't have a minion it means that there are no fleshy creatures around making Malign Intervention useless as well since it can only be used on fleshy creatures. Save a slot and just take a minion skill. As with Verata's Gaze it is completly inferior to Verata's Aura so i changed both skills entirly but still acting as support to the MM.


 * -Order of Undeath is completly outplayed by Aura of the Lich and Jagged Bones and even Flesh Golem because of their recycle effects and to upkeep at least 1 minion and potentially a large quantity of minions. I turned OoU into a skill that is also able to upkeep minions maing it possible to be an effective MM in corpse light areas by healing them and removing their drawback of their natural health degeneration making them last much longer. But since you see that function as underpowered because of the lack of damage i added a IAS for aditional damage wich would probably make it OP comparing to other elite MM skills now.


 * -Putrid Bile sees no changes for PvP except a 2 sec less recharge wich should not have any impact on playability. For PvE it's damage was a bit lacking because it's damage relied soly upon the death on a creature. The total damage Putrid Bile and Rising Bile deal are equal to eachother and the latter one really needed a buff as well.


 * -Taste of Pain vs Signet of Lost Souls. That should say enough why it needs a change, it is completly inferior to SoLS. And if it is just for healing players have better options than that ToP.


 * -Verata's Sacrifice's healing is just an extra is added if there is a 2nd MM in corpse heavy areas. It primary function is to mass detonate minions like the old style minion bombing wich was nerfed due to a ritualist buff.


 * -Virulence on of the best nec skills? Now that is something i lol about. Like you said it works nicely with Fevered Dreams wich is an elite so you will be needing an other character AND an elite to make it actually useful, and combined with fragility you are better off as a mesmer than as a necromancer. And for 3 conditions that only last as long as it's recharged at 15 Death Magic and only on 1 target if it has a condition makes it far from one of the best elites as you claim, actually it currently is a waste of an elite slot stick with Toxic Chill if you want to do damage.

Other than that i did adjust some of the damage skills but that was simply guessing since you did't say what makes overpowered or underpowered.Damysticreaper 12:52, 23 November 2010 (UTC)