Guild Wars 2

At the moment I am playing a d/whorn powermancer and having fun but not having much success 1v1 or small groups (large groups I spectral walk into the middle and drop wells) and saw a guildie play a Cond mancer and drop guys 1v1 and sometimes 1v2/3 so wondering of the viability of a cond mancer in wvwvw.
And if viable, what sort of build would I be looking at? Rabid gear? sceptre/dagger?

I’ve been considering this too. I saw Nemesis’ video where he runs around in w3 and holy kitten his bleeds are hitting for 120 a pop, now that’s a lot. But I too am not sure about which armor to use and a good build to go with it.

Of course its viable. You may have some trouble with a few 1v1 scenarios, but if you stick to what you are good at (group fights and defense), you will excel. Use the lopezirl guide to get you started http://lopezirl.com/2012/12/30/a-condition-necromancers-guide-to-world-vs-world/. I urge you to experiment and try to tinker with the build, though.

Btw, last night with full rabid gear, maxed sigil of corruption stacks (which actually isn’t uncommon for me), and BiP might, I was getting 162 bleed ticks.

krippler.9826:

Of course its viable. You may have some trouble with a few 1v1 scenarios, but if you stick to what you are good at (group fights and defense), you will excel. Use the lopezirl guide to get you started http://lopezirl.com/2012/12/30/a-condition-necromancers-guide-to-world-vs-world/. I urge you to experiment and try to tinker with the build, though.

Btw, last night with full rabid gear, maxed sigil of corruption stacks (which actually isn’t uncommon for me), and BiP might, I was getting 162 bleed ticks.

I was running with my usual group last night and a few times I got 20+ might stacks, I was able to push 190 bleed ticks

Do any of you guys (Brando and Krippler) solo roam for 1v1 fights? And if so, how do you fare? Considering the mad bleed ticks you can dish out.

Dietzen.6127:

Do any of you guys (Brando and Krippler) solo roam for 1v1 fights? And if so, how do you fare? Considering the mad bleed ticks you can dish out.

so far in 1v1, I am able to stand my ground most of the time.
but once more that 2-3 ppl join in most of the time in as good as dead lol

as for the epic bleed ticks that was in a group with might stacking. I normally run around with stacks of corruption giving me a total of 2056 cond dmg = around 145 bleed ticks. with BiP i can reach up to 163 ticks.

I can hold my own most of the time, but the problem is that they tend to get away a lot of the time. And soloing with a class that has no escape is just asking to get ganked, so I try to at least stick with a couple allies or use allied NPCs to my advantage.

Full rabid and rabid crests is quite viable

I run 5-30-25-10-0 That gives me enough duration to get extra ticks for scepter and mark of blood, but someone said that only matters on the first cast.. i dunno.

I can never decide between the 15 point heal on attack or the 5% of toughness goes to power….

It works just fine if you play hit and run with your staff. 1 on 1 use your scepter.

Most of the time you will do pretty well, but if you run into a high condition removal class just run. Ele’s will tear you up, if they target you. Thieves used to be my worst nightmare, but now I eat ’em for lunch. Engineers lost most of their condition removal, so their a bit of a joke.

Use plague for running away, or if you want to go down fighting.

DS is worthless. I only use it to jump off cliffs.

Use pets to kill siege or objects.

I’ve had the most success in WvW with a terror build. 0/30/20/0/20. Reaper’s Protection is amazingly good as well, and its 2 seconds long base. You’ll get CCed a lot so it goes off constantly, and its saved me, and won me fights, more than I can count. You can usually fear someone to death if you time it with Reaper’s Mark and Doom. With runes of the necromancer and the second highest level food buff (one of the vegi pizzas, 36% condition duration and very cheap to buy off the TP), plus the 50% trait, it lasts a whole 4 seconds.

With that said, I actually use a power build with wells for zerging around. I find it gets me a lot more bags. For small scale fights and roaming though, the terror build is better.

Can’t believe any necromancer, regardless of build, thinks DS is worthless.

Edit:
Oh, just realized that was the same guy that said Epidemic was worthless too. Nuff said.