Guild Wars 2

Hi I am new to necromancer he is level 80 full exotics. I got with Rennoko some of you may know to make sure my gear was good. I rolled a necromancer because I was tired of trying to get my mesmer to work as a full condition build it’s ok assuming people blow up my clones which is not exactly what I was looking for. I did P/D condi thief but most people run builds now that can take care of 1 condition spam pretty easily and if you want more condi damage you have to run venom which means less survivability tools. I have a elementalist D/D standard usual trait setup 30 water ele. I have a Warrior also but he is my damage guy I have heard there is a good condi build for Warrior but just off top of my head I can’t see it being all that great since again it is mostly 1 condition you get some burning with bow if people are AFK and stand in it and you can get decent torment damage provided you hit them with OH sword.

So far I am loving necromancer its slower than my usual classes but I don’t mind but I am still playing with it. Initially I was put off by the class I made one got him to 10 and erased it lol. What put me off was every necro I saw had alot of minions with them and that wasn’t really interesting to me.

Goal: WvW small group roaming

Full rabid 30/20/0/0/20 (all the terror traits) I know this is the FOTM build at the moment but after looking at it I think the gem is the 15 point in soul reaping for free spectral armor with the recent change thats just my opinion anyway. The increased fear duration is 1 tick so its kind of meh but for condi build I could maybe see moving 5 to death magic minor for the regen it is a similar trait that Mesmers have and desirable in some builds. That is beside the point sorry that’s just why I took the trait line I do run signet mastery.

My current issue is utilities what I notice about necromancer at least condition spec wise seems to be there is alot of situational type utilities all the classes I play there is usually 1 or 2 utilites skills that you see across almost every build. I am not sure what that is for necromancer’s.

Right now my utility choices are:

Signet of Spite – It’s a power signet passive but the active is pretty good for cover conditions with trait 3 stacks of might isnt to bad either it kind of just fits I feel why I take it.

Corrupt boon- Cause its cool but still seems situational also but many classes get at least 1 boon they get pretty often

Then I am not sure spectral walk seems good but situational and is pretty different than most stun breaker type of skills in that you don’t really teleport or invuln. Spectral armor seems to be a better choice to take more practical and is good with DS stack. Spectral wall not sure about this one.

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Sorry that is alot for a simple question. What do many of you like to take for your utilities?

For small group roaming, I would definitely swap Signet of Spite for Epidemic and Corrupt Boon for Well of Corruption. The Well has the same cooldown as Corrupt Boon, doesn’t poison yourself, and can affect more people in addition to damaging them with 1 more max boon converted per person. It also punishes people that spam a specific boon rapidly (like Regeneration or Might, hilarious vs GS Guardians with their retaliation). It’s also a lot more reliable if you are good with placements (Hint: Spectral Walk → Death Shroud → Dark Path → Tainted Shackles →exit DS → Well of Corruption. After Tainted Shackles goes off, re-activate Spectral Walk for a strong combo with a quick escape.)

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

For small group roaming, I would definitely swap Signet of Spite for Epidemic and Corrupt Boon for Well of Corruption. The Well has the same cooldown as Corrupt Boon, doesn’t poison yourself, and can affect more people in addition to damaging them with 1 more max boon converted per person. It also punishes people that spam a specific boon rapidly (like Regeneration or Might, hilarious vs GS Guardians with their retaliation). It’s also a lot more reliable if you are good with placements (Hint: Spectral Walk -> Death Shroud -> Dark Path -> Tainted Shackles ->exit DS -> Well of Corruption. After Tainted Shackles goes off, re-activate Spectral Walk for a strong combo with a quick escape.)

Thanks for the advice I will give this a go