Guild Wars 2

New to necromacer and am looking for a PvP power build that focuses more on mid to close range combat using weapons like the axe, dagger, warhorn, and/or focus (can also use scepter if needed). Eventually I’ll probably start using staff but not for the time being. One thing to note is that I’m not looking to be a glass cannon nor really use minions. I don’t mind using conditions along with pwr dmg also. Might be a lot to ask but any help would be great.

I decided to make a new necro with a power build too and made a thread here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Power-necro-for-WvW

And this is what i eventually decided, once i hit 80

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fgw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FfQAQRBIhdu1IjW2elm4GDfCB6RuULOTUhjh6h7APfIA-jwxAY%2FBRTWCNRIQJwiox2MKiGr2GTFTEVLDg%2BEA-e

Slight variation

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQRBIhdu1IjWxelm4GDfCB6RvULOTUhjh6h7APfIA-jACBYfDimsI0EBBKBqIasNDFRjVXDTFjIq2OWZVGA9JA-e

Here’s a video someone posted of a full berserker necro in WvW

There are a lot of different power builds that work in PvP, its not so cookie cutter like conditions.

30/10///30 is the DS build that works best with Axe but dagger is usable still.

20/20///30 works well and plays similar to the above build. Basically trading Close to Death in Spite for 10 more points in Curses for those juicy traits.

Someone recently posted a video using /10//30/30, focusing on dropping wells and using the +50% crit in DS to make those wells hit hard.

Personally, I use /20//20/30. I find that this build just has access to so many good traits. 20 in Curses can get Banshee’s Wail which is amazing if you use a Warhorn. Spectral Attunement which is a huge boost to Spectral armor and spec walk. Curses also has other great traits like enfeebling shroud, auto weakness on entering DS, I pretty much always use this. It also has a trait that lets you use wells at range.

20 in Blood can be used for sustain in the form of siphons on crits+20% extra siphons(yes they are still small, but they are noticable over the course of a fight, especially when using dagger with a high crit rate). Or you can get 20% well cooldown reduction which is what I usually use.

30 in Soul Reaping is a no-brainer, that tree is full of amazing traits that boost your survival and damage.

Another build I run is /20/20//30. Basically the same as my first one but instead of 20 in blood, its 20 in Death. This build is nice because you can trait for removing a condition on entering DS, which helps a lot for little things like cripple and weakness that you don’t want to waste your heal on. You can also pick up the staff traits because generally in wvw having a staff on swap is a good idea.

Thanks for the info it’ll be a great help I’ll be watching that vid in a bit.

@ stx what were the jewels/runes/sigils that would be used and wep setup?

Mind, I’ve never really played necro much am going to be leveling one while also pvping to get a better understanding and enjoyment of the class. Also are there any good PvP/WvW pwr build videos out there that would be good to watch using axes, daggers, wh, focus?

You can go Dagger/X and Swap to Axe/X for power pvp, or you can use dagger or axe as main weapon and swap to staff(good for large battles in wvw).

As for your offhand weapon, it is usually personal preference. In larger group battles, I would say warhorn is best due to AE damage. Focus is really only good for small scale fights or if you are fighting boon spammers. Dagger offhand in my opinion is underrated because that #4 allows you to get rid of soo many conditions on a short cd. And the #5 is decent AE damage plus weakness hurts melee damage a lot.

For runes.. I actually use Ruby Orbs for the damage stats. For sigils usually you would want Force or Accuracy on your mainhand and an on-crit sigil for other hand, like Fire for damage or Blood for survival.

Don’t like power necro in pvp at all. Pure damage can be greatly reduced by weakness, protection and blocks will stop 100% of this damage.

And you need 3 damage stats to output maximum damage (pow,prec,crtdmg), when condition necro need only condition damage (and precision, but optional) and can use defensive.