Guild Wars 2

So I have been going back and forth and back and forth trying to decide how I like traiting my necromancer. Currently I am running Axe/Focus with Dagger/Warhorn for a power build. Goal is to stack vulnerability and then nuke with the axe “2.” I can see how this could be very strong, but as far as pvp is concerned, it is hard to stack the vulnerability and then get off your damage without it being dodged or blocked or condi cleansed. So I have been wondering about condimancer again. The core things I have questions about; power/prec/condi dmg armor set or prec/toughness/condi dmg (I know that they have their own strengths and one may not be better than the other, I am just looking for examples of when to use one set as opposed to the other), and in general, are people building more powermancer or condimancer.

Well one of those is hybrid, and one of those is a condi. I really enjoy the rampagers set with the dhuum terror build the dmg of lifeblast with the the burning on it is quite impressive. The beauty of using that build is your condi duration goes along with your power so your able to keep fearing opponents as a defensive and offense mechanism.

what i “like” to run in pvp atm: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=;0_-34;0kHFC0x3sJkJ0;9;5TJ-J;158C46;229-Vwl4U;1jzyvjzyv2A

Question: why do you take Plague instead of Golem? Just for team fight presence I guess? I’ve just started listening to the but of corpse thing and I’m newish to PvP. I completely understand plague for WvW (where I spend most of my time) because it hits maximum target all day.

Hey man, check out my powermancer vid/build in my signature. It practically does the same thing as you (vuln stacking and than burst). Instead of helping you find a new build I want to show you how you can land your axe 2, because if it does it does tons of dmg.

I use dagger instead of axe but it’s almost the same. At first do your usual vuln stacking (well of suffering, reapers touch, axe 1, SoSpite if you have it, etc) and than spectral grasp and immob for 4secs with dagger 3. (Spectral grab is optional but I like it a lot because it gets you more LF and chills your foe) he will try to walk/dodge away from you but he’s immobed. Maybe do some more vuln stacking with a well or a reapers touch if it’s of cooldown and than do axe 2 (or in my case some dagger 1’s) If you want to land all your ticks on axe 2 first doom him (DS 3) and than do it. From 0-600 the doom will last 2.5 secs I think. As a powermancer this will do at least 4k dmg, but usually more with vuln.

Hope this helped

Question: why do you take Plague instead of Golem? Just for team fight presence I guess? I’ve just started listening to the but of corpse thing and I’m newish to PvP.

Plague is your onyl stalling tool as necromancer + it’s quite powerful to get stomps(poison+decent aoe dmg) or rezzes(aoe blind or weakness make it realy hard to counter pressure the rezz). Golem on teh otehr hadn doesnt bring anythign close to that to teh table, it was decent when lyssa ruens where stronerg but now i just don’t see the point in running it