Guild Wars 2

So I want to use a power build for my Necromancer, but I can’t decide between Spoj’s stickied build or Nemesis’ glasscannon with Deathly Perception.

I’m planning to use it for PvE open world stuff and dungeons.
Basically, I like the one with Deathly perception because it has great AoE damage, which is probably lacking from Spoj’s build (since dagger doesn’t cleave for god knows what reason).
On the other hand, according to Spoj, Deathly Perception isn’t necessary, but he’s referring to situations with optimized parties and conditions.

What do you recommend?

Spoj’s build. It has the same aoe capabilities or even better with the 20/25/0/0/25 variant, excluding the piercing life blast, but you don’t need it in the open world and you will have 4 team mates in dungeons to cleave trash mobs down.

edit: I personally prefer the 30/25/0/0/15 variant, i’m not a fan of DS flashing.

Dalanor.5387:

Spoj’s build. It has the same aoe capabilities or even better with the 20/25/0/0/25 variant, excluding the piercing life blast, but you don’t need it in the open world and you will have 4 team mates in dungeons to cleave trash mobs down.

edit: I personally prefer the 30/25/0/0/15 variant, i’m not a fan of DS flashing.

Which part of it is the good AoE, exactly?
I prefer not to think in the way “Oh, I’ve got my teammates for that so I shouldn’t care about it”.

Necro is already a bad choice in PvE and you need to rely on your teammates in trash clearing, since you have “only” warhorn, 2 wells, 2 DS skills and staff as aoe and none of our weapons can cleave, while every other class has cleaving weapons so potentially they out damage you at least 3 times with auto attacking against multiple mobs.
With Spoj’s 20/25/0/0/25 build it has acces really often to Enfeeble, which has both bleed and weakness application along with direct damage and it can be used every ~7 seconds, since it’s not have an ICD.

You might not have 100% crit chance with my build. But you can still aoe burst with wells + DS. If you have precision food and perception stacks you should have about 90% crit chance due to the fury procing as you enter DS. If you have a warrior bringing banner of disc there is no issue at all. So basically your aoe burst is just as good in optimal situations but you lack some crit chance in others. Its still good enough though.

imho Spoj’s and Nemesis’ builds are the best-damage power-necro builds around, but I find them to be too glassy (yeah, that may be because my gameplay stinks… but I hope not).

This is the build I normally use. I find it very “tanky”, and gives me a high survivability, good mobility, and what I think is a decent (but nothing near top) damage-output.

http://tinyurl.com/kx2jhx2

Try it if you like, and give me your feedback.

PS: I use dual daggers because I am stubborn and don’t want to be running the battefield with a trumpet on a hand. XD Humor me.

I know its probably better deeps to use spoj’s build but getting 10k life blasts is way too appealing.