Guild Wars 2

I’m not having much luck. I like the staff, and all, and I don’t know how any Necromancer could live without one, but it’s not the end-all, be-all weapon, obviously. And minions… bleh. Soft, squishy, useless dolts. Surely there is a way to level up to 80 that isn’t so excruciating? And I mean a build, weapons to use, slot skills, etc. Help, please?

wells are very solid for PvE. They give a lot of survivability, utility, and damage. The fact they work in PvP astounds me. In PvE they should kitten on mobs since they aren’t smart enough to avoid them (mostly).

minions are quite softy until you get +50% hp to them from death tree. They are great on leveling though keeping enemies busy for you. With mark of blood you can keep them alive longer specially if you get mark of evasion from blood tree to support it.

wells are great too, with them i would suggest dagger/focus with power/prec (high hp and death shroud give you survivability you need) build (and later levels getting life siphons from blood line to add survivability )

do not downlook epidemic on events, it is fast recharging skill and it is really handy get those conditions to spread around.

Ok so i’m only leve 23 with my necro right now but.. I’m going a condition based with with Scepter/dagger and Staff.

Currently i’m 10 through curses now going through spite.. and i guess those trees will be close to max.

I literally pull 5 mobs every time. I start with staff, gather mobs, the nslap skill 2 and 3 down, usually 5 aswel for a small fear to get me into position. Switch to Scepter/dagger. Skill 2, skill 5, enter deathshoud and use skill 4.

Enemies are ticking for alot of condition damage and you suck the life force out of them with your aoe. You will almost always kill the mobs if you do it right, and if it sounds complex, it isn’t. The setup is like 6 seconds. Skills chained one after another.

Hope this helps. At least try it out. You can also use spectral armor for when u really need defense while aoe pulling.

You’ll have to bear with me, because I’m a bit stupid today. For instance, I made tea in a microwave, put sugar in it, and the tea bags, and then forgot that I already put it in the microwave. Needless to say, there was a bit of fire. And I would say this game has rotted my brains away, just a little bit. So… I have the Well of Suffering. I like it, but what other skills are must-have? Should I just kick minions out? If not, which ones should I bring? I really hate that minions do not heal after a fight. :-/

I’ve either been doing Sceptre/Staff conditions with Epidemic, or Axe-Focus/Staff power with wells, which uses Death Shroud Life Blasts as your main attack.

Dagger mainhand can also be good, the auto does very nice dmg.

Minion Master build is kinda boring, but can be very effective in some really difficult areas (don’t think I could’ve done Forlarn Pass’s jumping puzzle w/o em). As they bring alot of free dmg, extra CC, and absorb alot of dmg for you.

Our builds are pretty kitten limited, it get’s kinda boring, but ultimately weaving in and out of Death Shroud and managing our CC makes it a bit more interesting.

For Wells, well of suffering and corrupt as they do dmg, then Spectral Walk for mobility, and I’ve been using Flesh Golem as my Elite, it’s free dmg/cc/tank.

Do you bother with the blood fiend? It seems to die pretty awful quick, and then I have no way to heal for 20 seconds. This usually gets me killed every time. But the well of blood has a 40 second cooldown There is another option, but I forget what it was… feast of corruption, maybe?
I would always have the staff, but I initially started off with a scepter/horn. Now I am trying scepter/dagger. I see a lot of Necromancers running around with two daggers, but they have every single minion in the game running around with them. I am only level 15, for now, so I can’t do that yet.