Guild Wars 2

For sake of keeping the conversation specific let us assume a few things.

1) I will be using Deathly Perception
2) I will be using Furious Demise (Fury on DS)
3) My trait-line will either be 4/4/0/0/6 or 0/4/0/4/6
4) I want to add some survivability. I understand that full zerker will always be best damage.
5) I would prefer to stack toughness.

Currently I run like this, with zerker on my Weapons, Boots, Amulet, 1 Ring, 1 Accesory. This gives me exactly 30% precision. Everything else goes into CAV gear to add toughness and retain crit chance.

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This gives me 100% crit chance in death shroud majority of the time (between warrior fury and furious defemise). However this “nerfs” my auto-attacks outside of death shroud. I notice many top players tend to focus on crit chance over crit damage even with the free 50% from deathly perception.

Is there a middle ground to be reached? 40% crit chance, 45%? use knights gear to stack until 50%. What is everyone’s opinion?

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I do not like TOO many cav pieces unless you can stack tons of might which Necro is bad at – You simply lose too much power – I only use 2 cav trinkets on my power thief whom stacks might much better

I understand you want to stack Toughness but Valkyrie might be better since the main stat is power – I truly believe all your pieces of gear must be power main stat to provide killing power in WvW – Necro has poor sustain thus favoring more offense IMO

It depends on trait and how you use it. I run foot in the grave in guild group so I have knight armor + zerker everything except cavalier rings. Around 45% crit chance if I remember correctly. Sometimes I run DS fury trait sometimes I don’t.

However I don’t recommend you stack that much crit chance if you take death deception. That is 70% crit chance and anything higher than 30% base will be wasted. Also the question of whether you camp DS a lot. I know some people use LB as main source of output so for them I think your build is fine. I don’t DS/LB that much so I rather have higher normal output.

What you have looks good. Imo its better to stack toughness then vitality cuz necro already has high vitality and a little extra health wont help you against full zerkers. You dont have to worry about might stacking if your guardians/ team is coordinated enough to empower/ blast fire fields. I would recommend bringing reapers might and a strength sigil though. Dont worry about stacking precision unless you aim to bring FitG.

Btw vital persistence and unyielding blast are the two traits in soul reaping you should strongly consider.

People did some interesting math when ferocity was introduced.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/21z634/some_relevant_math_for_buildcrafting_after_the/

Full zerker will still be top damage and building for the sweet spot, and why, is not obvious. Anyway… I thought the math might be of some help for you.

Cheers