Somebody come up with a use for Pestilence

Ok, so I saw that skill, and thought it would be pretty cool to spread conditions with in PvE against the Margonites, like this:
Drop down Pestilence and Toxicity
Barbed Arrows
Target the monk, since it's back by the casters.
Poison arrow
Proceed to spike him out really fast with Lightbringer's Gaze

This doesn't work for one reason though. It kills your team really really fast, proportionately to how many melee fighters are in your team, especially if one of your hero necros was using Disease on said spiked-out monk. So, I have been unable to come up with anything decent to use Pestilence with, except for maybe Dazed.

Using Cautery and Remedy Signets on a Paragon is kind of a bit much just to get one non-elite skill to work, IMO. If there's something I'm not seeing here, somebody let me know.

Seems to me that this is a really hardcore pressure skill. The only issue with PvE is that monsters usually have both higher HP and harder-hitting attacks than your party does, so all condition spreading being equal, your party is at the disadvantage of using this skill.

It would be interesting to use in PvP though, if you've got a monk-type main or sub with martyr or draw conditions prepared to sap your own teams' weak targets of conditions once a target has died. Really good for spreading deep wound across the enemy party and making predicting your next target difficult

Erm, playing NF with a MM and no warrior is definitely doable, so if you let the minions do the tanking it should be ok. Just remember not to spread condtions on a mellee fighter who would have passed the minions wall and kill the spellcasters first.

I dunno why when I read the first post a weird idea came to my mind: sending a naked warrior with headbutt (Zidane tribute for the win btw ) to commit suicide by dryders in Gates of Pain after you've dropped pestilence, backed up by a barrager. This is so weird and stupid I shall try that

[skill]Pestilence[/skill]

for any that wanted to know

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Pestilence wont go into normal every day builds. They'll be placed in builds that benefit from conditions of both them, and their oppents.. (Everyone r/x or x/r with melandrus resilence comes to mind)

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The easiest solution... its not worth using.

If your that desperate bring Epidemic or kindly ask a mesmer to bring Fevered Dreams. At least you don't get a mass of conditions on your own team the moment somet dies.

Oh and Apply Poison + Screaming Shot > Poison Arrow + Barbed Arrows for a start.

Ya, Barbed Arrows = poop, why the hell they made it only last 18 secs when most other Preps are 24 I dunno. But hey, atleast its just 10e

I dunno if I like Sceaming Shot yet, I'd rather stay out of the action, I'm still using Hunter's Shot for the most part.

As far as Pestilence goes, It really has few PvE uses, but they mention Pestilance alot in the Bible as far as I can remember so check there for possibilities.

^With AI working like it has been, using a shortbow is not nearly so dangerous as it has been and a shortbow pretty much guarentees that Screaming shot will work. Course with the new AI, Hunter's Shot works really well, too.

I think you might be able to turn it to your advantage some what by working fragility and maybe melandrus resilence into a build not sure though.