Guild Wars 2

I started my necro and I was wondering whats the best build to level…

I bought a staff since the aoe is quite strong and make the leveling quite smooth… but anyway, any thoughts about what would be the best weap and the best build? ty

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Depends, How you going to level? i leveled up using a Power build myself and leveled mostly through WvW.

Conditions are quite weak at the start so would think Power would be the way to start

For me I ran minions until around lvl 50 then that’s when they started dying more often. I then swapped to a power well build at lvl 50 and changed my traits so that I had at least 20 points in blood magic for the reduced well cooldown. That done me until I hit lvl 80.

But I ran with minions at game release and since then they have been buffed alot in PVE so you might get away with running with them all the way to lvl 80 if you are a fan of them. If you don’t like minions I would try and grit my teeth and continue until you can get 20 points in blood magic for the reduced cooldown and then swap to wells.

Reason I never used wells before I could get the 20 points in blood magic is the long cooldowns. Condition build for me when you start off you have little health and alot of the utility skills used for a condition build add conditions onto you. Therefore when your starting off your not quite used to managing conditions and all it will take is one mismanagement and with your low health you can end up in alot of trouble.

Going minions is super easy to level with. You can also use the two damaging wells and burn through pretty much any mobs quickly. Just gear for power as much as possible.

Spam all the minions, murder kitten while being pretty much afk.

Theres a reason why botters make minion necros.

go power build with wells suffering and corruption (aoe ftw), signet of spite, elite (if/when u have it) golem. Use dag/foc + axe/foc or staff for more aoe control. 30/10/0/0/30 or 20/25/0/025 should be ur goal for traits.

gear is zerker all the time. works in wvw too. :P

I once thought about writing a leveling guide for necros as I did for mesmers.
But leveling a necro was so straight forward and easy that I just moved on.