Guild Wars 2

Hey Guys,

Been necro since pre launch here, I thought I’d finally share the build I’ve been running with since before the big necro boost (with some tweaks) and probably the highest dps I’ve achieved in pvp (i.e small scale fights).

here’s the link: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAW7YjMaN79aub07JEoH9i0AiRKOmghSR5wOA-TsAAzCpI+S9l7LzXyvsfN8Y5xuCA

The build takes advantage of the mainstream 30/20/0/0/20 build build which max out conditions while also equipping the 2 best dps minions and giving them training of the master making them hit around 1k dmg/hit on most targets.

- My condis are not shorter nor weaker than any other condimancer.
- I have plague signet which gives me an extra stun break that also cleanses all my condis and supports the team in middle team fights (1 condi clear every 3 sec for allies around). – I can place the worm in a high up place and not worry about him being killed easily
- The worm offers me a nice escape if the fight isn’t going well
- That build has plenty of lifeforce with soulmarks, minions dying etc
- For those massive condi cleansers and ccers out there, that build also has very decent direct damage that still goes on even if you’re stunned, allowing you to pretty much be able to come on top of any fight.

Let me know what you think and give it a shot if you didn’t still :o.

You should go with Fear lasts longer instead of Marks giving you life force.

vesta.3170:

You should go with Fear lasts longer instead of Marks giving you life force.

tbh I much prefer having more survivability than longer fears. Soul Marks gives me a bunch of life force every rotation and skills like dark path or terror are part of it so yeah, I guess it’s up to personal preferences but most of my fears have 2 ticks already anyway.

Not too sure I would run epidemic without corrupt boon and/or plague signet. I would lose soul marks and as mention by vesta, go with master of terror, but only if go for the 50% condition duration instead of the 40% you have now. If your worried about building life force, you could drop worm and go with spectral grasp. Swap path of midnight for spectral mastery. No better way to support your team than by single handily setting up a focus fire with just one skill while serving up some unsuspecting foe for all to see.

Yeah, I do like it but I’d also go with Master of Terror. I know it’s hard to build life force at the start of the fight but it makes SUCH a difference!
I’d also choose Corrupt boon over epidemic buut that’s debatable.

I see you have Sigil of Earth and Sigil of Geomancy on your Scepter/Dagger combo. This is a bad setup, as the Sigil of Geomancy cooldown also effects Earth. As such, everytime you swap to scepter, your earth sigil won’t be able to proc for 9 seconds. I’d recommend swapping either earth or geomancy to corruption.

I don’t think that’s true Yngvar, I use the same setup and they proc just fine.

What Yngvar said is correct. Sigil of Geomancy triggers a 9-second inner cooldown on Sigil of Earth and Sigil of Geomancy.

The only thing I would change is dropping Earth sigil for something else. Doesn’t particularly matter too much, but something like Corruption could be good. Otherwise the build looks just fine to me.

Btw, Flesh Wurm isn’t second highest DPS, he’s third (though by a very marginal amount).

Standard build just with swapped traits/utilities.

I personally wouldn’t use some of those but to each his own.