Leveling up isn’t too difficult, but it is time consuming, so it’s generally best to use what you personally find fun to play with to level up with.
I used various things such as Dagger/Focus for single target damage and Staff with Well utilities to do some AoE damage while focusing on Power/Precision items.
Other people find it funner to use Sceptre/Dagger and Staff and focus more on Condition Damage.
People also like using Axe/Focus and Staff and focus more on sustaining Minion utility skills and having them focus more on Toughness/Vitality stuff to stay alive while the minions kill everything.
In the end, it’s better to find the weapons you like using and combine them with the utility skills you like using and then figure out what stats you need on gear to support them.
“Pull the trigger, move out ahead,
There’s two kinds of people… The quick and the dead”
What Taril said. Necro gives you such a wide range of playstyles, from in-your-face melee (dagger MH) to furthest ranged (staff). I like scepter/dagger + axe/focus ( or even scepter/dagger + scepter/focus) for leveling. But its really going to be up to your preferences.
I don’t think you can really go wrong in PvE with a necro. The only thing I would suggest is to always have a staff on you because the power of that thing that to hit multiple targets is just great. I like to go and buff the staff with larger marks, 20% cooldown, and a mark on dodge to use it to the fullest. If your playing with your friends it also makes a great tag weapon.
Leveling up isn’t too difficult, but it is time consuming, so it’s generally best to use what you personally find fun to play with to level up with.
I used various things such as Dagger/Focus for single target damage and Staff with Well utilities to do some AoE damage while focusing on Power/Precision items.
Other people find it funner to use Sceptre/Dagger and Staff and focus more on Condition Damage.
People also like using Axe/Focus and Staff and focus more on sustaining Minion utility skills and having them focus more on Toughness/Vitality stuff to stay alive while the minions kill everything.
In the end, it’s better to find the weapons you like using and combine them with the utility skills you like using and then figure out what stats you need on gear to support them.
No actually if you go minion you go full berzerker. I can do fractals below 20 w/o agony resist in full zerker just fine. Minions as long as they are alive can keep you alive better then any healing skills/specs or other classes.
No actually if you go minion you go full berzerker. I can do fractals below 20 w/o agony resist in full zerker just fine. Minions as long as they are alive can keep you alive better then any healing skills/specs or other classes.
You can go full zerker (I know I do)
I was just saying, some people do like to go tanky and let their minions do most of the work.
Since if I listed out every single build, weapon set usage and gear/rune setups that people use then I’d be a very long list.
“Pull the trigger, move out ahead,
There’s two kinds of people… The quick and the dead”
No actually if you go minion you go full berzerker. I can do fractals below 20 w/o agony resist in full zerker just fine. Minions as long as they are alive can keep you alive better then any healing skills/specs or other classes.
HiSAZul,
How do your minions handle the Agony at that level? Do you find yourself summoning them more than normal dungeons? I have yet to try FoTM with Minions yet.
Hi bullseye here, im playing with my necro, but im kinda confused since he has so much viable weapons to play with.
Any advice on which weapons combo i should run for pve ?
Best regards,
bullseye
While leveling just use whatever weapon is best until you reach 60 and can start specializing in damage methods. Our power/condition/minion/support builds are all viable for every phase of pve. Find the weapon you like as you level and things will be good to go.
The only thing I would recommend is that you carry staff at least as a secondary to provide a nice utility and range when needed.
No actually if you go minion you go full berzerker. I can do fractals below 20 w/o agony resist in full zerker just fine. Minions as long as they are alive can keep you alive better then any healing skills/specs or other classes.
HiSAZul,
How do your minions handle the Agony at that level? Do you find yourself summoning them more than normal dungeons? I have yet to try FoTM with Minions yet.
Thing about agony is that most of abilities that apply agony are aoes to begin with so the agony is not even what kills them half the time its aoe attack itself. Yes you will run out of minions faster but some specific fractals actually benefit from extra targets. In some cases I found little difference <20… like the umm charr ascalon scenario. There really is hardly any difference agony or not. There are not a lot of bosses that just simply apply agony at that level w/o using a skill that would kill your noodles anyway. Also I never went past 20 and I got no agony so I have no idea how it changes after that. What I do know that even w/o defensive gear I can negate most agony with DS.
And to add some things… on some fights you really can’t use minions w/o making things really really bad like dredge in icy cave boss… Yeah blood fiend is fine and bone minions are pretty much used as they always are but the rest… not so much. And in some cases youd think minions would die a lot more then they do, example being ember boss at the end of grawl cave… despite embers usually aoeing you into a sad state… for what ever reason minions tend to live absurdly long on that fight. I don’t know why. I honestly by this day do not understand why considering you can’t even stand w/o getting burn. >_> ontop of small worms exploding fire shields etc. Yeah if you put minion in one of the puddles they will die but well… u know… only melee minion you should be using is golem and u can charge him out of impending aoe.
I use staff and dagger dagger while leveling my 2nd necro. I am lvl 35 at the moment so traits arnt too indepth. I am going for a power spec though eventually as I want my other necro to be purely conditions. I am using 5/10/10/0/0 at the moment taking weakening shroud in curses and greater marks in death. I use blood is power epidemic and well of suffering with plague as elite. I have been having no issues levelling with this so far. I can’t seem to hurt mobs 10 lvls higher than me though as they are immune to my damage?! habut I would rerecommend trying out the set up I just mentioned. I can get a 10 stack of bleeds on target and epidemic to spread without using staff. I find this on a melee spec to be very effective for leveling. though I am experienced with necro which is maybe why I can take out groups of mobs up to 9lvls higher than me.
Grandad Fester / Unruly Pigeon – Necromancer by trade
