Guild Wars 2

Since of the changes now and the fact that you can get ground targeted wells with 10 points in Curses, what do you guys reckon is the best dungeon-zerker build for a Necro?

I’m thinking of going 30/15/0/0/25 Axe\Focus + Staff (or instead of staff, Dagger\Focus, I just love the marks, condimove and fear too much to give it up I think).

Basicly try to keep myself at 50%+ life force using Axe 2nd skill every CD while swapping on and off from Shroud to get the 5 second fury to throw a few Life Blasts.

take out the curses to put that extra 5 in soul reaping. getting and extra 50% crit in death shroud is far better than the fury it gives you in curses.

was thinking 30/0/10/0/30 myself. that 10 in death could probably be put anywhere. maybe 10 in curses for the extra precision. Also read that there are a few necro zerkers who do not equips a second main hand weapon and use weapons swap just to swap out the offhand, keeping an axe available no matter what weapons swap you are in. life blasts critting constantly while in ds and popping out just for life force regen and axe 2.

Woody: Yeah, upon reading a bit further I realized that and facepalmed hard, that Grandmaster trait is pretty kitten awesome. I’ll swap and test!

So Axe+Focus and Nothing+Dagger? I could give it a test I guess.

Also, do people generally take the reduced DS cooldown or reduced Lifeforce decay?

So I just took this 30/10/0/0/30 build to Arah p3 with 2 wells and necro grasp and I like it very much. Solid life force regen and hard hitting 1200 range attacks made Lupicus and other encounters a breeze, even in full zerker gear.

I’m quite happy how Necro is now after the patch, and with Warrior nerfs I don’t think people will mind having us in speedrun parties any longer, either!

ps. I was using Axe+Focus / Staff.