Build help?
Hi everyone,
My necro is close to level 80 and I have been trying to figure out what to do with a build. I’m looking more into a condimancer type. I have a build that I would like someone to look at and see what you think.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone may be able to go to me.
You don’t really mix Wells with Condi. Wells are pretty much for Power Reapers.
This is the Viper+Sinister variant of the typical Condi build: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vRUQNBLRDbkhGquxubw5G4wxSxgFFAGAJg4eYRMJK9BCBdAA-TRSFQBNUZwgUC2O9OETpX/U/xXnEAlsPw1WYAAPAASBsoyK-e
It’s mostly a raid build but lately I got bored of Power so I’m running this on world meta-events for funsies and it works just fine. If you want a 25% movement speed buff from the Signet you can drop Epidemic if you are vs. a single target or Poison Cloud if you want Epidemic for AoE.
It is also possible to change Death Magic for Blood.
What’s nice about it is that you can heal your own Horrors this way. And you get the 25% running bonus as a passive for wielding a dagger.
I saw you don’t use Reaper. If you don’t like it you can go with this:
Tho I would not recommend dropping the Reaper line. It’s simply too good not to use.
Cheers.
Don’t things die too fast in non-raid PvE for the viper’s build to be worth using? I thought that was for raiding and high level fractals? That being said, I’m sure it’s feasible to use any build for non-raid PvE. But don’t you find Lich Form (and subsequent horror generation) to have too long of a cooldown in most non-raid encounters? Wouldn’t Flesh Golem and “Rise” be better for a Death Magic build for non-raid PvE?
Don’t things die too fast in non-raid PvE for the viper’s build to be worth using? I thought that was for raiding and high level fractals? That being said, I’m sure it’s feasible to use any build for non-raid PvE. But don’t you find Lich Form (and subsequent horror generation) to have too long of a cooldown in most non-raid encounters? Wouldn’t Flesh Golem and “Rise” be better for a Death Magic build for non-raid PvE?
Yeah, this is somewhat true. Altho in non-raid content anything works really. Lately I’m doing meta-events in this build since I got a bit bored of Power. Works fine and Im having fun with spreading Epidemic. If someone wants to run Condi, he easly can. As for the Lich. It is pretty much the only Elite skill that complements the build. Golem does literally nothing. The Horrors even without heal last quite long. It’s a good dps spike for a Legendary or Champion mob. And if you run Blood you can heal them yourself (tho Death is better and creates new ones). But yeah, one can easly drop Lich for Golem or even the shout.
Rise is also fine, whatever is needed in the current situation. For example I often run Rise in Power build instead of the second Well. Just for comfort-sake.
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You got a couple good builds already, and seriously just about anything can be made to work in open world. If you like to combo spite and curses, a variation on this works very well.
A couple notes here – its more of a hybrid build than straight condition. The scepter/dagger spams conditions very well, if you need some power damage swap to greatsword. Either weapon will stack up a ton of vulnerability and decent stacks of might.
I will often take Weakening Shroud over Lingering Curses, just because most targets die before untraited conditions start to fall off anyways. You may prefer the extra condition damage to weakness though. The reaper grandmaster is really up to you. I haven’t noticed any of them being clearly better since last patch.
Utilities are very flexible. Blood is Power is always good, Epidemic can be brilliant. If you find yourself in shroud a lot, you might want to slot some minions to add a little passive damage.