Guild Wars 2

Hey there

I´ve been levling my necro and im currently in my 60´s and im starting to theorycraft some builds that i´m testing out while levling.

One build that i found on GW2guru deep withing a thread peaked my interest. I´ve modified it heavily and made my own take on it.

Weapons
Primary – Dagger/Dagger (Using OH dagger to spread BiP self bleed and its a blind/cond remover, with added AoE bleed/weakness)

Secondary – Warhorn. (Keeping the dagger in mainhand)

Traits: (Cant remember the names of the trees so i use the “stat name” of them)

Precision (20) – 66% chance on crit cause bleeding —-> 20% Bleed duration —-> gain fury when entering death shroud —-> Reduced CD and increased duration on WH skills

Vitality (20) – restoration at 90% hp —-> Siphoning health 50% more effective —-> siphon on hit —-> wells recharge 20% faster

Soul reaping (30) – Life gain from skills plus 10% —-> 25% slower drain —-> gain spec armour at 50% —-> life blast and plague blast inflict vulnerability —-> deal 5% dmg with more than 50% life —-> Death shroud recharges 50% faster.

Slot skills
Healskill: Well of healalot (Sorry can´t remember the name)

Utilities:
Well of darkness
Well of suffering
Blood is power

Elite would be Golem (He´s VERY responsive with dagger 1) for solo PvE and a transformation in dungeons, which would be determind by the situation.

So, the premice here is to keep 100% uptime of fury with 5 sec CD on DS, which will be flashed in and out every 5 sec. I keep 15 points in “Vitality” for the life siphon (survivability since its a melee build) and it pairs really well with Warhorn swarm, ticking for pretty nice numbers.
The healing Well is used cause its added support in a dungeon and the CD aint that horrible with reduced CD trait.

30 Points into soulreaping gives 30% CD and i feel that its a reason to actually gear for Power/prec/cond damage full on. So its kind of a hybrid build i guess

One thing i thought about was using Dagger/WH and Staff as a off-set, seems pretty good with cond damage and it bring additional range and utility.

This build will build Lifeforce like crazy though so DS should be available at any time so range shouldnt be that big of a problem with lifeblast.

It ´s a really fun build atleast now when im levling with it. It´s a “spam heavy” build utilising every single ability. Even the imobalize on dagger is used on melee mobs so you can hit them and they cant hit you if you position yourself good enough. Hopping into DS and “leaping” to an enemy followed by a well of suffering and dagger 1 spam with fury up is pretty freaking awesome.

The damage is defenatly there, but i wonder how viable would this kind of build be in end-game PvE? It´s really fun atm though, but im not 80 and i cant see its “viability”.

Cheers,

Drac.

EDIT: I should clarify that this build is with end game PVE in mind, not w3 or pvp

If you are going 30 in soul reaping for 5 second swaps than 25 percent slower drain on LF is not worth taking.

A big positive is Dagger/Well flip to Lich form and bomb targets. If you are going full power than you might as well go all the way.

You won’t do as much damage as a person who goes 30/25/0/0/15, but if you build a tankish with gear you could really bunker up some dungeons so your high damage teammates can go all out. 0/20/0/20/30 just reads like more of bunker build.

I am almost positive 30 in Spite would beat out 30 in Soul Reaping for pure damage.

If you’re interested in end-game PVE, your build outright lacks the DPS that is sought after in that level of play. You’re a Power build but lack Close to Death or even Target the Weak. You’re relying on your Golem to give some damage output but nothing to boost its already subpar damage and survivability. You look like you’re going to use Life Blast for damage, yet lack Reaper’s Might or a Staff.

I am almost positive 30 in Spite would beat out 30 in Soul Reaping for pure damage.

I agree. The additional Power, Vulnerability duration and Close to Death far outweighs the Critical Damage gained from Soul Reaping, assuming you had to sacrifice one for the other.

I highly disagree. This build is very viable with the right gear setup.
I run it in dungeons, sPVP, and WvW.
I have a different trait setup tho

Edit: Okay my setup is a bit different but about the same trait spec points wise.
0/20/0/20/30
I’ll post a video once it has finished uploading to youtube

As has been said, this is more of a “bunker” build than a dps build, but it would work. I would actually gear PVT on this with your armor and do condition on trinkets/weapons. You have bleeds coming from BiP and Dagger#5 and 20 Curses so that would warrant some investment in condition, but since you are melee PVT would be beneficial to the bunker-style build this is geared towards.

If you did a full condition set it might have some decent damage, but not investing any in to Spite kills your wells damage so you have to focus your damage elsewhere.

Dylninja.4216:

I highly disagree. This build is very viable with the right gear setup.
I run it in dungeons, sPVP, and WvW.
I have a different trait setup tho

Edit: Okay my setup is a bit different but about the same trait spec points wise.
0/20/0/20/30
I’ll post a video once it has finished uploading to youtube

I’ll look forward to your video as I’m rather interested in your definition of “viable” in end-game PVE content.

I made a post with the video included.
It only has spvp and wvw tho, but i’ve ran plenty of dungeons with it as well
but here it is.
http://youtu.be/fq3vnyIholQ