Best builds for WvW?
If by 2v1 against two equally skilled/geared players as yourself, your not going to win with a necromancer. Any intelligent people are going to just res each other if you can managed to bring them down. I guess if you go with the very niche 30 point stability you could pull off a safe stomp, but now you have to make sure to you can drop one of the two quickly, which you are going to have a hard time doing. Also it is not know if that is a bug that allows the DS stomp, or “intended”.
If you have a reliable safe stomp and a good bit of burst damage and mobility you can do a 2v1 or even a 3v1. Mesmer/Thief/Ele can do that. I wouldn’t take necro if you want to take bad odds in a 1vX situation.
That being said, 2vX and 3xX is very good with a necro, because of how effective epidemic can be in those situations, and if you pair with someone who can reliably safe stomp, like a thief.
If you want to do the small scale battles with a necro in wvw you are more or less roaming, and unforunately, the necro is not the best roamer. I have run a Power toughness vitality build and a standard condition build roaming and both were fine, but not great. If you are good at roaming, you will eventually kitten off the zerg, or a zerg will come for you, and having no reliable escape skills isn’t great for that.
To answer the question though, both the “juggermancer” build and the standard condition or condition/power hybrid all work fine in wvw small scale fights
If 1v1 or 1v2 roaming is your gig, a fully decked out rabid gear 0/30/10/10/20 scepter conditionmancer with stacked bleed duration is going to be your best bet. Only downside is it blows just like any other condimancer that suffers from the unbalanced cleansing issues in the game. Recently my guild just found ourselves playing awesomenauts for fun because the balancing in gw2 is total crap and the developers are preoccupied with perfecting the mesmer and producing obnoxious large scale holiday content that disrupts normal gameplay. Wvw is getting boring because no matter what class you play, your build will always be screwed by one other class. The jugg is a solid ptv playground, nem has a crit hybrid that makes axe users proud, and any condition 30curses build with rabid base will do you fine in wvw.
Ranged AoE.
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^ Nuff said.
Seriously just go all out ranged AoE’s for WvW. You don’t have to get the kills directly to get the points for your monthly (which is what I’m assuming the main reason is, yes?).
Don’t focus on 1v1 or 2v1. Your job isn’t to kill. In WvW you should always be seeking out a team, not doing things on your own. That’ll only cost you more repairs to your armor when you get ganked. Your main job, as a Necromancer in WvW, should be to help your team batter down the enemies’ health as much as possible w/ tons of condition AoE’s.
At this point in the game it is better to kite and stay alive in WvW than do duels. What good are you to the team if you’re dead?
I played WvW using a glass cannon build and still never died once in a large team fight because I stayed back and kited. My teammates loved me because I kept up the CC (Crowd Control).
Hope that helps.
Wvw is getting boring because no matter what class you play, your build will always be screwed by one other class.
Strongly disagree and very pessimistic. I have fun in WvW and hardly ever die because all I do is stand back while the tanks go in, stay alive, and keep on the mass AoE CC. Someone chases after me? I run away. Save face… even w/ lots of Toughness/Vitality.
Kiting mobs are the funnest thing in the world! Both in PvE & WvW