Guild Wars 2

Hello Necro community, I wanted to share this build before the game changes on the 22nd. This is a pure melee build, using greatsword & Dagger/Warhorn. I’ve tried to make similar builds to this work in the past with no success in ranked, but this one has been extremely solid. I’m currently rank 28th on the leaderboard, and I started playing this in gold 3 where I placed.

Blood reaper: https://youtu.be/k8guuHqUue4

Here are my other ranked necro builds if a melee reaper valkyrie amulet doesnt sound interesting:

Berserker vanilla lich necro:
https://youtu.be/N2etLZ6l_VY

Massive corrupting fear vanilla necro:
https://youtu.be/b4xrx61UShQ

Hmm to be honest watching your video the dagger in your build is really inconsequential. Power well builds are great to begin with, I think you’d get more mileage out of axe warhorn.

Ramoth.9064:

Hmm to be honest watching your video the dagger in your build is really inconsequential. Power well builds are great to begin with, I think you’d get more mileage out of axe warhorn.

I agree. MH dagger has a small range like greatsword so swapping to the 900 range axe, instead, could be helpful in countering all of the mobility skills out there. Axe has been buffed more times than I care to remember but it finally feels like a legitimate ranged power weapon and I have not seen a necro’d axe complaint thread in a while.

we went from “staff dagger” to “axe staff” to “axe dagger” to “axe greatsword” in terms of weapon importance

dagger is simply behind all the power creep.
staffs deals even less damage, lifeforce and cleanse is better covered with utilities

But it does show life siphoning is in a good place, it just happens to be very situational.

Ramoth.9064:

Hmm to be honest watching your video the dagger in your build is really inconsequential. Power well builds are great to begin with, I think you’d get more mileage out of axe warhorn.

That match I recorded didnt do the dagger justice, but it does come in handy.

The dagger auto attack is nice LF, and with quickness it can do good dmg.
The quickness from wells then using dagger 2 is crazy healing.
The dagger 3 immob+corrupt is also very nice for locking people in your wells.

With that being said, its not a cornerstone of the build and could be swapped out for axe.

Good to see someone else using these lines together. Been doing the same since the last patch.