Guild Wars 2

Can my fellow necros please lend me some advice on how-to-play/builds/runes/weapons, or anything else about playing a condition necro in pvp?

I mainly play power builds, and they work pretty great and I do well. But whenever I try out condition builds I feel squishy and that I do no damage.

I really want to know how do you keep up bleed stacks? And how many bleed stacks are normal? I feel like I get no more than 5-6. Also, is scepter or staff the main weapon in pvp?

10 stacks if you dont have crit chance around 50% then you can stack it up to 15 if you dont fight elementalists or guardians. Pure condition builds doesnt work nowadays I think best way are hybrids power/condition necro (mainly focused on bleeding) but with wells to torture your enemies.

I do extremely well in hot join PVP with my conditionmancer. I build for toughness as the primary stat and condition damage as secondary. Should land you somewhere close to 1400 condition damage, utilizing undeath runes.

So, how does it work?

Well first you need to set your skills up first, should be along the line, 10/30/0/10/20.

You definently want enfeebling blood on deathshroud activation, and the talent that allows you go gain a mark after dodging.

It also helps to change your utilities to match the opponents you will be facing, for example epidemic is worthless while your fighting a lone guardian. So if you get the chance swap to corrupt boons.

While it is ideal to have as many stacks on a person, it is equally important to be breaking LOS and surviving as long as possible. Your conditions need time to do damage. Once your enemy blows their initial heal, now its time to get overlly offensive and stomp their face into the ground.

For example, if your a condition mancer and your at the keep. You don’t really want to be on the point, you want to be stationed on the high points. This allows you to spread many conditions around and maximize your survival.

Condition builds work, just don’t expect to be a dueling powerhouse.

(a battle I had yesterday as a conditionmancer vs a theif/guardian at the trebuchet)

I was manning the trebuchet, and they ran up the center as I was bombing the clocktower. I laid my dots on them (including blood is power) and epidemic as quickly and reliably as possible. Then broke LOS. Backstab theifs are very weak to conditions, and so by the time the theif was actually able to engage me they were already severly weakened.

I am no fool, and knew I could not maintain a sustained fight vs a DPS guardian and theif (as the theif downstate is a bit much at the moment). So I dodge rolled off the trebuchet and ran to break LOS. Since the THeif is much more mobile than the guardian, the guardian did not give chase and worked on the treb while the theif caught up to me. I utilized fear while running up the stairs to abuse the terrain and provide more time for myself. Eventually the theif withered due to my conditions and staff kiting. I dropped blood is power on the downed theif, and used my plague signet to send my additional bleeds on myself to the theif. Then ranged with my scepter as i ran back towards the guardian. During the guardian fight the theif died.

As I ran back towards the guardian I was out of combat for a short duration, changed my skill epidemic to corrupt boons as the guardian was a GS spec. I initiated the fight and started whitling him down, as soon as he popped his boons I corrupted them and killed him shortly after. Then went about manning the treb again, until the theif came to feed me kills.

30/30 with wells and play smart, any one who ignores you melts! Kill time is excellent and when target is below 50% hp you will notice clearly a ramp up in your DPS.

Might stacking runes or BiP if you really want to go to town on target.