Guild Wars 2

Hello all expirianced necromancers. I’m new in this class and I want to create my own build but I need to know if this have sense and any purpose. I like minions, dagger, staff and death shroud (Life transfer FTW !). So I created something like this:

Weapons are:
D/D and staff in offhand

Traits are:
0/0/30/20/20

Death Magic:

III – Minions skills recharge 20% faster (I can summon minions faster)
X – Minions have +50% more health (A lot of health for minions)
XI – Whenever a minion dies, it explodes in a cloud of poison that lasts for 3 seconds (well if someone kills my mionions will get a poison on himself)

Blood Magic:

II – Life steals are 50% more efective (Life transfer, siphon from dagger, healing mionion heals me +50% more)
VII – Minions steal life and transfer it to you (all my minions now steals life and heals me)

Soul Reaping:
II – Life force drains 25% slower while in death shroud (it gives me more time in death shroud form)
III – All death shroud skills recharge 15% faster (My Life transfer is able about 15% sooner)

Now tell me, do this build have any sense ? I love PvE and is it compatible with this type of gamplay ? I also play a litle of WvW and another question, will I be able to do something on WvW with this build ?

Thanks for all responds.

Well , I’m a MM and I love my build too much.
You didn’t tell us about your utilities , if they are minions , I advise you to take the most important trait which is Training of the master ( spite ). Focus will be more useful for MM build specially with Spiteful Talisman trait ( spite ). To keep your self along with your minions live , you should take Transfusion trait ( Blood ).
My build >> http://tinyurl.com/mw4pqgj

@Sorrow – I think that’d work fine. because minion builds work so well in PVE, I think there’s alot of room for variety to the standard minion build.

Here’s one variety of your build, with Berzerker/Knight gear:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQFAWjEa16tama07JApHRT90TK4GcKFlzOA-jwxAYLAiAQyrIaslzioxqXwUnER1ejioVLDg+WA-e

I think that I need to play a litle much more But thanks for Your opinions

You do not need the +damage in a minion build. There are a lot of builds that don’t require it at all because they get damage from other sources (or aren’t as concerned about damage).

That said, I don’t feel like the 20 into SR makes sense with your build. You don’t have the luxury of sitting in DS for long periods of time as an MM, you need to be using your skills fairly constantly to keep control effects on your target (to allow minions to stay on them to DPS) or if you’re in a build that doesn’t use minions as DPS, you should be using their for their utility to set up your own damage. Either way, you just can’t sit in DS long enough for the SR traits to be worthwhile. Also, all your minion siphoning doesn’t work while you’re in DS, so you are effectively losing a lot of your healing.

If you really like the DS, I suggest dropping the blood magic traits completely, going off what you want right now, you’re looking at wanting a minion/DS hybrid (which is fine). Put 10 more in SR, and grab Deathly Perception and Unyielding Blast for the Adept. Then you can drop those extra 10 in Spite for the Reaper’s Might. This will give you a lot of damage, your minions will give you a lot of control (and if you are using Shadow Fiend a lot of LF as well), with the minions being able to distract and control mobs for you while you blast away in DS.

Thanks for an answer Bhawb also I would like to thank all of you but Bhawb told everything what I wanted to know. You explained me some mechanics. One more time thank you

If you really insist on going 20 into SR as a minion build, it can be done. but like Bhawb said, you’re wasting your resources if you’re doing it for deathshroud because of the reasons he listed (no need for me to recap them all). that being said, set your traits to compliment the minions such as unyeilding blast (can pop off a few life blasts and stack some vulnerability while using deathshroud to wait for a heal recharge or something), and since you’re using staff too, put in soul marks (marks generate life force when triggered). I’ve found that in some minion builds LF is a little harder to build so that will help out a good bit. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need training of the master unless your sole purpose of those minions is to dps the crap out of stuff before they die. It’s nice, but not needed. You should post your gear too so we can help you out with that if you’d like. Feel free to use a resource like http://en.gw2skills.net/
Good luck with your build, looks like a lot of fun!