Guild Wars 2

I’m a new Necro and I have just started receiving traits and making my own gear. I have tried all the weapons and for now I’m sticking with the unique style of duel wielding daggers and dropping wells. I love it, but it is dangerous.

I have no idea of what stats I should focus on? Do I just load up on Vitality so I don’t die or use Toughness and rely on Death Shroud?
Do I want power over Precision for my daggers damage? Do I want more offense to kill fast or defense to be unkillable?

I see the blood magic trait line both gives me help and dagger synergy, but what stats should I focus putting on my gear.

This is just for pve leveling for the most part and I know with GW2 it comes down to how you want to play but I’m looking for some advice on where to lean toward and maybe what stats I should avoid wasting points in.

I go with a mix of power and vitality.

Get Power/Toughness mainly. You’re going to be getting a lot of vitality from the Blood tree for the daggers anyway, you’ll gain more survivability by putting some toughness over all that health and power obviously for DPS.

You may want to run with Flesh Golem, since he can tank rather well for you.

Personally Nothing worked better for me leveling than a full set of pets, staff, and Power/Precision gear.

You take almost no DMG as the pets are there and the staff (2) constantly heals them.

Pickup +50% pet HP in Toughness Tree, and then pet DMG trait in Power tree.

If you’re going to be in melee range, pickup Well of Darkness and use that for tougher enemies.

Also, throw on Axe/Focus or Warhorn if you’re going daggers, because at some point you’ll need some kite to kill certain mobs. Not everything in this game is melee friendly.

Don’t underestimate Utility skills for necro, a lot of them at a glance don’t seem so great, but when you start realizing you can keep a pack of mobs BLIND for 25-30 seconds a time you start realizing our true power is debuffing, basically the antithesis to the Guardian.

With Vitality perks and toughness/power gear you’ll quite literally be a Juggernaut. You’ll obviously still need to dodge things, but you’ll be impressed by how much punishment you can take when you’re using necrotic form properly.