Prob best to focus on one status effect. Afair DKs and Wardens have passives to increase the chance/damage of burns and chills. There's a CP star for this as well. A ground dot such as Wall of Elements should provide a constant, albeit slim, chance of applying the status effect you want. Keep in mind that single target direct damage attacks have the highest chance at applying the status effect. I think there's also an enchant to raise the chance of status effects. Lastly, some sets such as Burning Spellweave automatically apply status effects.

It depends upon what you mean, I suppose.

Probably the best known builds that heavily incorporate status effects are magDK (for sustain and extra Burning damage) and magDen (for Minor Brittle and its class passive). StamDKs could try to stack Poison effects but that strategy is hindered by lack of access to the Elemental Force passive and the fact that their skills are scattered across several different element types.

Before the last patch that introduced more types of status effects, that was basically it. Now you have Minor Breach from Physical Damage which complements something like Rapid Strikes (since it gives you 5x chanes to proc it per cast) as well as Overcharged which would work well with magPlar Jabs for the same reason (though Minor Magickasteal is common enough such that it isn't overly special).

There's still a fundamental problem with some of the status effects being too weak to really bother to pursue, such as Minor Defile from Diseased and Minor Vulnerability from Concussed. Both of these are prime candidates to add another debuff to, as was done with Minor Brittle for Chilled.

Off-hand, probably the best status effect build that I could think of would be to use Baron Zaudrus on a magDK along with the new weapon trait set from the upcoming patch combined with the Charged trait. It would give you a ton of Burning uptime as well as generate ultimate quickly. It would probably be most useful in PvP though since magDK DPS is already only average and it's a big opportunity cost to use those sets rather than simply stacking Critical Chance like everyone else.

Your favorite Force Shock morph could deal 3 status effects in a hurry, 4 if you use an ice staff. Elemental Drain adds 2 more, and of course there are also other ways to deal Minor Magickasteal and Major Breach.

Of course you want Charged weapons and the new weapon-trait-boosting set.

I would combine the new Heartland Conqueror and the old Torugs Pact sets.
In combination with Charged Trait it should yield a close to 100% uptime on effects from enchantment glyphs.
With the Asylum Staff with poison glyph, as noted above, and either infused Maelstrom or Vateshran on the backbar, you are looking at some serious fun. Or you run a Bow on the backbar and then Lethal Arrow, which is a guaranteed poison proc.
This should work with all magical Classes. Although MagDK will get buffs to flame and poison.

Interesting ideas here. I’ll defo consider Asylum staff. Try and get a Frost one if I can and slap a Disease Damage glyph on it. Back bar I’ll go for Poison Glyph. I’ll take a closer look at Heartland.

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

OOh! Instead of the Asylum Staff, you could also run the Ele Weapon from the Psijic Order Skill Line.

"Infuse your weapon with power, causing your next Light Attack used within 2 seconds
to deal an additional 13818 Magic Damage
and apply the Burning, Concussion, or Chill elemental status effect. If the power is not consumed in time, you restore 1873
Magicka"

I also considered this skill but the status effect you apply is random, in the best case it takes 3 casts to apply all 3 status effects. In the worst case it applies the same 1 or 2 status effects over and over again.

With Asylum staff it only takes 2 casts to apply 3 status effects.

If one's going to ramp up Charged, is the Asylum staff overkill?

Vevvev wrote: »

MindOfTheSwarm wrote: »

I was looking a Burning Spellweave actually. I am starting to gravitate toward a hybrid Necromancer as they seem to have a lot of debuffs. Maybe Frost Staff back bar and then a Bow front bar. My Flame skull will proc Burning Spellweave, my Blastbones will apply Major Defile and Frost Staff could apply Chilled and Minor Brittle. Snipe will apply poisoned. That just leaves the Disease status and concussed to take care of. Maybe charged glyphs on both weapons will take care of that.

If you're going BSW then I highly recommend Dragonknight. If you get Dragonknight with BSW, Elf Bane, and Grothdarr you'll have incredibly long lasting flame procs one after another that when proced each give you 500 magicka back.

A lot of people say i need an inferno staff and go dk if Burning Spellweave but if it procs of any Fire Damage instantly, couldn’t I use any Destro and just hit an add with Force Pulse.