Guild Wars 2

I’m not particularly good at sPvP. My one skill is staying alive, so I often get slotted with the job of point denial/capture. I’m comfortable in my role at the bottom of the results list and don’t mind being the unkillable target.

For a few years, I’ve been doing this with my Staff Elementalist. With healing cantrips and Earth/Water/Arcane, I’ve had a lot of fun frustrating anything up to 3v1s trying to take me down.

I’d like to try this with Necro, but I am a complete noob to the class and have no idea where to start. The meta around Necro seems to be condi, which makes sense, but they seem like they could be a natural fit for an unkillable tank.

Can anyone point me to a workable/recent build? I know other classes can tank just as well or better, but I’d love to give the Necro a try.

oh boy…… you can try…. but a warning.. compared what other classes can do with bunker builds… necro is a joke in bunker build compared to them….

but you can try…..cant give you specific builds tough….

There is nothing you can build on necro that will frustrate three people. That said, I run a semi-tanky necro build with pali amulet, spite/blood magic/reaper, and full wells. Since I don’t run soul reaping the last balance patch was a small buff for me. I use axe/wh + one of GS, axe/dagger, or axe/focus depending on my mood.

Even the tankiest Necro builds have difficulties in 2v1’s against decent opponents. The class just doesn’t have the defense to make a decent bunker because its only defensive mechanism is more health, which is only half effectiveness against two opponents as one.

i must say even the tankiest of necros builds, or healiest necros builds are just not the best. maybe if your team was heavy dps and you didnt know another class. if your looking for one i found mender blood wells good or paladin blood wells. But as for spvp necros are better off focusing on killing thier enemy hard rather then outliving, although some defensive abilitys are necesary for the necro you should focus more offensivly or try another class for bunker, ranger guard healy rev

A true 1v1 1v2 bunker and decaper existed, it was decap engie and later turret engie.
it was the biggest worst trash thing in history.

The next best thing were good duelist builds, but they took longer and were mostly killable 1v2.

Then theres support bunkers. Theyre teamfight supporters, so they never actually want to be alone. The good side is they take a while to get killed, both 1v1 or in teamifghts, so theyre not worth as the first target , unless in extreme case of steal+moa bursting the main support to end the fight before it starts.

…now to necro

Basically necro has 0.
It doesnt have anything survivable and its support is trash. Its 100% offense. A glass necro dies in 20seconds , while a full bunker necro dies in 30s (the bunker necro also does 0 support for rest of allies)

The only thing you can do is win vs terrible players, if
- you play bunker necro
- they 1v2 focus you for a while
- during that time your team manages to win some 3v2
- they dodnt notice youre useless for whole game and they dont leave you in any 1v1, which youd all lose eventually

P.S.
New spec is support oriented, we may see some condi/healigpower use for it.

ele is a support bunker. For duel bunkers or straight bunkering, do healer rev/scrapper

Why necro?
Nothing measures up to scrapper and druid in terms of being able to sustain forever.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

Seems I may have been off-base with my assumptions about the class.

I did make a build and have been running him in WvW to pretty good effect. I’m still not finding that Necro can do anything much that Ele cannot besides DoTs, so I’m a little disappointed there, because I prefer burst over DoTs for PvP. So time to get good at DPS I guess!

Who told you necros was tanky lol. I used to main necros, I even started off with and took it to plat

Don’t get me wrong necro can suck up some damage, but please don’t let ppl fill your head (I have about 800 matches played, over %50 of that is necro)

If you play against a competent team that’s not gonna let you slide by, youre going to struggle and hard.

Necro has damage for sure, but one thing it does lack is survivability

So unless you plan to duo que or look for teams which want a necros (those are rare) you wont really get to enjoy it that much

If you can manage to kite correctly and have a team that will peel for you or not screw you over youll be fine, without youll die pretty fast

But as far as it being as tanky as an ele, yeah, kitten no

Good profession for having fun though overall though