Guild Wars 2

I’m a new necro and I’ve been using Scepter/Focus & Staff. But I see everyone on the forums talking about using Dagger offhand. Why is it better than Focus? Focus gives me a 2nd kite and another damage/condition skill.

Hello Scepter/Offhand dagger + Staff is best option for condition necromancer.

Focus is for power builds because it gives you skill which decrease enemy armor (vulnerability) and its usefull only for power builds because conditions ignore enemy armor anyway (ignore toughness). And 5. skill on offhand dagger is next aoe bleed so its better for stacking bleeding and other conditions.

Ahh…that makes sense about vulnerability and conditions. I have been gearing (lol at 16) for conditions so more bleeding is a good idea.

Recommend any utilities? Right now I’m using WoB, the ranged minion (for tanking) and Prayer to Lyssa (short CD condition spam).

I dont have any experiences in pve I am lvl 12 I play only spvp

For PvE focused on conditions you really want to be running epidemic and blood is power. The third choice is a true utility slot. Pick up everything and swap it around depending on what your doing. For general PvE stuff I like to run with corrosive poison cloud as my third and a stunbreak for PvP.
This is also another reason why dagger offhand is so great deathly swarm (dagger 4) gives you another way to transfer conditions from yourself to your target (1 condition per bounce) and all the corruption put conditions on yourself as well as your enemy. BiP bleeds you, epidemic = vulnerability, corrupt boon poisons and corrosive weakens.