Guild Wars 2

I hear zerk is the best for Necros in dungeons, and I’d like to at least be marginally useful for the group. Any recommendations for dungeon builds that involve using the staff as one of the weapon swaps?

Also while we’re at it, is there any way I can use a same set of armor and trinkets for dungeons AND WvW and still do decent? Or will I need power gear for dungeons, and condition damage gear for WvW? Thanks!

I personally use 30/10/0/0/30 everywhere I go, and you will be useful through stacking vulnerability and weakness. However, if you want to go staff, many would suggest 30/0/10/0/30 Axe/focus, staff I presume, mainly for increased size of marks.

Azraeel.1238:

I personally use 30/10/0/0/30 everywhere I go, and you will be useful through stacking vulnerability and weakness. However, if you want to go staff, many would suggest 30/0/10/0/30 Axe/focus, staff I presume, mainly for increased size of marks.

Do you have any links to the builds, or explanations of how they work and such? I see the trait allocation, but I’m not sure how those two builds would work beyond that. >< I like staff, but I wouldn’t cry if I couldn’t use it either.

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I left the armor for you to choose, you can either go Knight for increased survivability, very good if you want to do dungeons, or you can go full Glass Cannon, but you might have trouble while running tough dungeons. You can as well mix and match to keep your toughness between 1250 and 1400.

The rotation is pretty simple, you open with Reaper’s Touch (Focus #4), put down well of suffering and corruption, then Ghastly Claws (Axe #2), Unholy feast (Axe #3), then Death Shroud, for AOE (DS5, DS4, autoattack) for Single ( DS5, autoattack).

You can either leave right after two autoattacks, or you can keep going at it. By the time you leave Death Shroud your axe should be ready.

Things to keep in mind: when your Life force is greater than 50%, you do 5% more damage.
Your skills in death shroud almost always crit.
Your death shroud autoattack hits like a truck and stacks might.
Focus #5 only use that to strip boons from enemy.

I usually don’t include staff in my rotation, I only use staff in case it gets risky to go melee.

Good luck!

I agree with Azraeel on most points. However to take Unyielding Blast VI in soul reaping is imo a better choice than Vital Persistance II. I’ve tried both and I really like the aoe capability VI gives you if you just position yourself right. My rotation is almost the same as well but I use my wells just before I enter deathshroud to make their pulses crit every time.
I keep a staff as a secondary weapon but only uses it in specific fights where you HAVE to have 1200 range, otherwise I’m getting in close and personal and just dodge/use DS at the right time to survive (full zerker).

As for sigils on weapon I use superior sigil of flame on axe (to get some aoe on it) and superior sigil of bloodlust on both focus and staff. I also keep a spare focus with sigil of force on it to swap when bloodlust is full.

EDIT: forgot to say, I use the aforementioned 30/0/10/0/30 cause when I do use the staff, the bigger marks is really usefull and when I know I wont be using staff I switch it to Shrouded Removal VI to get another condition cleanse, great on the fire shaman fractal