Guild Wars 2

I have been using this build for a while and found a lot of success in spvp and tpvp, I do not do paids or wvw. I decided to post this build because I like to use it and it makes us look like the attrition class we are supposed to be. Moderate damage but I still get quite a few kills. Average 5-8 in spvp match.

STATS Normal form Lich form
Power 1984 3816
Precision 1116 2032
Toughness 1825 1825
Vitality 1610 2526
Attack 2936 4635
Crit chance 14% 57%
Armor 2745 2745
health 25,312 3427

Traits
10/20/10/0/30
Spite tree
-II Spitefull tailisman – focus skills recharge 20% faster and have 1200 range.

Curses tree
-V reapers precision – 33% chance to gain lf on critical hit.
-X spectral attunement – spectral skills give life force and have longer durations.

Death tree
-II greater marks – marks have an increased range and are unblockable

Soul reaping tree
-IV spectral mastery – spectral skills recharge 20% faster
-X soul marks – marks generate 3% life force when triggered
-XII near to death – death shroud recharges 50% faster.

I did not use II vital persistence because spectral mastery and soul marks grant more life force then 25% longer in ds which does not do crap in 1v2 situations.

Lets talk about weapons.
STAFF
- 3.2 life force per second. 32 seconds to achieve full life force. This is with marks traited for 3% life force. All of its abilities are great especially for kiting.
FOCUS
-Reapers touch – This baby gives you a whopping 17% life force on use. Not only that but it gives you regen. Enemy vulnerability, and its only on a 14 second cooldown with 1200 range when traited.
-Spinal shivers – 1200 range when traited, 16 second cooldown, and chills for 5 ½ seconds. Great for kiting and prolonging enemy cooldowns.

DAGGER
-Dagger 1 Takes only 25 seconds to get full life force with dagger 1. It is the only Ability on dagger 1 that gives lf but it builds quickly. Lf per combo 6%.
-Life siphon – great for survivability, its another heal.
-Dark pact – immobilize, what more do you want?

Life force regen rate to 100%
-Staff 32 seconds
-Dagger + focus 19 seconds.
These are great for getting life force, the trade off with staff and dagger is that dagger your in their face and get more lf, but staff you can kite for a long time.

Utilities
-spectral walk – 48 second cooldown, You get 3% life force regen every time you are hit when this is active for 11 SECONDS (HOLY KITTEN), plus the teleport. Watch your lf bar skyrocket.
-spectral grasp. 24 second cooldown, 1200 range. 10% life force on use. This one is great especially for ranged classes.
-spectral armor – 72 second cooldown(wtf), 8s protection, grants 3% life force when hit while active for 8 seconds(8s and protection kitten . Another lf rocket ship.
ELITE
LICH FORM
Duration 30s. Great for getting life force, and on 1v1 situations. This baby gives u an extra 10k hp, STABILITY,
-deathly claws (Auto attack)- range 1200, lf per hit= The more you use it the more life force you gain. I went from 0 – 70% life force in the 30 seconds of lich form just with this auto attack.
- marked for death – 10s cooldown. Inscribe a mark that makes a foe vulnerable when they trigger it. Lf per use, Lf per use 4% .
-chilling wind – 20s cooldown. Release a freezing wind that chills and pushes back foes. Its an aoe, this one is great.
Great for the interrupt and chills.
-Mark of horror – 25 s cooldown. Inscribe a mark that summons five jagged horrors when a foe triggers it. Lf on use Lf per use 4% .
-Grim spector – 30s cooldown. Send out a claw that explodes on impact, ripping boons off of foes and curing conditions on allies. Lf per use Lf per use 17% (HOLY KITTEN OP).

Lets talk about some methods for regenerating lf
First and foremost use life siphon and heal when they are off of cooldown..
1. Spectral grasp, reapers touch, dagger 1(that’s already 40% lf in 3 seconds), and 2 of those seconds your opponent is down from spectral grasp. This one is very reliable, I use it the most cause of such a low cooldown, by the time you get out of deathshroud just use it again.

-add dagger 3 for immobilize switch to staff and unload- that’s a little over 50% in a matter of seconds.

2. Kite with staff.

3. Spectral armor, combo(mentioned above) ,heal dagger 2 or util(early when you can) ,death shroud, spectral walk, heal, ds, spectral armor. Rinse and repeat. You can 1v2 all day long with this unless its 2 thief’s. And you can last a 1v3 in some situations till your team arrives. .

Don’t forget dagger 2 is on low cool down use it often. Don’t be afraid to use spectral armor or spectral walk, it will fill up your life force bar and by the time you get out of ds, and use some of the methods above spectral walk will be off of cool down so you can use ds again, then spectral armor will be off cool down.

4.Use lich form, being able to sustain this form in a 1v1 will not only give you some good damage, but this form will give u 100% life force.

What armor/sigils/runes/etc. do you recommend?

Armor of the doylack with all runes of superior doylak.

For your weapons, 2 sigils of superior energy for2 extra dodges. and for focus sigil of superior hydromancy for 3s freeze.

Glad to see someone else using Spectral Attunement It’s a severely underrated trait in my opinion.

I recommend you change out Spectral Armor for Spectral Wall! The protection you get from it is increased from 5s to 7s when you take Spectral Attunement, so with Spectral Mastery you will have 14s of protection on a 32s cooldown (you can run through the wall twice, it sticks around longer also). Just put it down on a point and people will run through it to get to you, so you get lots of vulnerability stacked on them as well. If they are stubborn you can pull them through it with Grasp >:D

I tried using it but the 30% damage reduction from protection did not help as much as filling my life force bar. it just did not fit my play style. especially when more than one person was attacking me, that was where spectral armor filled the gap. if only the wall gave 2s stability as well. I think that skill is lacking, protection ain’t enough