Guild Wars 2

Hello,

ive read couple of posts about MM/Vampiric Necro and also seen new patch notes. I want to ask couple of things and know your opinions

1. Axe/focus or DD now ? (Staff always secondary) Want to go 10/0/30/30/0, not decided yet, but still couldnt make up my mind. With DD should i go Bloodthirsty + Transfusion/Vampiric rituals ? With axe focus should I go Vampiric precison + something else ?

2. Reapers touch – does it also heals minions ? According to the skill description it should (minons are allies). But tested it and I havent seen regen on my minions.

Is it good idea to run that Spiteful removal + Well power with Axe focus in order to have some level of condition removal ?

It is meant to be PVE/WvW build. In WvW and dungs I probably switch to more AoE with wells and traits oriented on wells for support.

Thanks

1. If you plan on using staff for your 2nd then go dagger for your main set. LF generation is faster than axe, so is the siphons from vampiric and crit procs.

2. Reapers touch, sadly does not heal minions, although rarely I can get it to heal my flesh golem. It’s got to eb some kind of bug but no idea why. I’ve tried numerous different ways to ensure it hits my minions before me, but it never heals them. But if you do plan on running vampiric minions, then axe/focus (imo anyway) would be better than d/d.

3. Feat of corruption is usually the only condition removal you need with vampiric, but if you do find yourself running into too many conditions for feast to handle, yes you could run well of power or swap your offhand to dagger for deathly swarm and send the conditions off you. (It’s slow as molasses in dead winter though, so not 100% reliable). You shouldn’t have to swap much, if anything for dungeons, for wvw though you will need lots more aoe for sure and I would use greater marks and rely mostly on staff with dagger or axe for smaller encounters or npc’s.

thanks, nice insights. Still cant make up my mind lol. Theoreticaly when reapers touch would heal minions too, i will go DD + Axe focus mostly, Staff only for some zerg actions in WvW. It seems like DD + Axefocus+Staff for me :-)