Guild Wars 2

Hey… well ive tried out all the classes to level 5-10 and decided i like necro the most. I didn’t have enough character slots so unfortunately i ended up deleting my old necro and starting over.

What are the best weapon combo for PvE and leveling? And good builds? I googled and get stuff from almost a year ago and don’t know if those are viable anymore.

Thanks!

Honestly? Just try it and see. I feel like people are way too afraid to experiment and find things for themselves.

That said, if you must have a recommendation…
Go dagger mainhand with focus / horn offhand, then take a staff as your secondary set. Unlock well of suffering and consume conditions first. Signet of the locust's passive is good for movement while levelling, and acts as a minor heal if you start getting surrounded and won't be able to run anyways. Most of the time your goal will be to rush things down with your dagger, but you have the staff option so you can fight from a safe distance when necessary.

Ill take that for consideration… i unlocked all staff skills and the thing is great for AOE, take out groups very quick. I can see this combo being great… thanks for the advice!

I can’t honestly agree with those choices for more reasons then I’ll ever list. Wells have gigantic cooldowns even if you spend 20 traits to reduce it. Also dagger will never benefit you enough as you level due to not having any precision and crit damage.
Minimum requirements and management are minions but it also will take a lot of traits to make them shine… But it will also provide least effort/gear to manage. Another option is condition it will start off horribly until you can get some duration for conditions and if you are unwilling to dish out on food it will be sloppy at best. But the only skill you will need is epidemic… granted in it… 5th? nerf now its even less reliable then corrupt boon(never thought i’d see the day when there is something even more random then cb but w/e).
Any power build is heavily dependent on gear or you will be sitting and wasting time watching yourself poke things with a butterknife that is not fun that is as far away from fun as it gets. Minions do not scale with anything except traits that is a curse and a blessing at the same time. Regardless of how horrible your gear is they will do same dps and have same survivability as for someone with full mega uber exotics/ascended etc gear.
As for weapons… id say axe/focus if you do go with anything minion/power related. Retaliation a lone is enough to make certain maps feel a lot different. Example – Firehearth Rise… a lot of aoe… horrible for MM etc… But also a fact that I can pop axe 3… and have a flame legion walking flamethrower kill itself in a single burst w/o me actually doing anything. Same applies to embers and their costant aoe spammage just as much as it hurts it all comes back to them with retaliation. Also provides cripple for when you don’t feel like fighting and just want to keep moving. Focus is a bit more iffy subject focus provides a single shot of anywhere from 4 to 16 stacks of vulnerability depending on how bounces go thats 4% to 16% damage buff… there is only 1 trait that that gives as much damage buff and that is a 30 point trait which also requires target to be half dead anyway. Dagger does none of those. It provides a root… as amazing as it is it serves no purpose while leveling a heal on channel is… well… yeah again its not leveling material. Autoattack is still superior to everything else but you are both faceplanted=taking more damage so it always has to be offset by something. And its single melee weapon that doesn’t cleave… while I could care less for melee since I dislike it… it means you will be focusing things pretty much most of the time.
edit: If you can afford gear/food etc condition will be fastest and almost entirely aoe smacking… If you can’t then either go with minions or get creative.

Whatever you like to play? Everything is viable.

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This would be my best recommendation for leveling. Minion Master allows you to pretty much solo everything in the game and go a good 10-15 levels ahead in your storyline.

10 Points in Blood Magic and Soul Reaping allows you to pump out a 1900 heal for all your minions every 34 seconds with Life Transfer as-well as dealing heavy AoE damage.

Axe’s Unholy Feast (3 skill) is a very good light CC and deals decent AoE damage and grants you up to 19 seconds of Retaliation every 15 seconds. Warhorn Wail of Doom (4 skill) cant be beat in PvE and Locust Swarm (5 skill) helps with general mobility.

When leveling up your traits go for 20 points in Spite first, followed by 15 in Blood Magic, then 25 in Death Magic, then the last 10 in Soul Reaping.

As you level, the best thing to do is just use whatever weapon you get until lvl 50 than start to specialize.