Dietzen’s PowerMancer
I wanted to share the build I’ve been running with the last couple of weeks, and to a great extent, successfully.
What this is not
This is not the end all be all build of eternal power. It is, however, my own personal preference for the time being.
I was looking for a power build that I liked. For a good while, I was running staff – dagger/dagger and it worked pretty well, but if I got immobilized that was just bad, since dagger only has 130 range.
What it has evolved into
I found there were certain aspects of my previous build that I didn’t like. With the recent patch, I wanted to try the axe which works well with the focus, and the 2ndary weapons, I decided to keep the dagger, loosing the staff. I can’t have the staff without greater marks, so opting out of the staff gave me 10 more trait points to spend.
Upon further consideration, I gave up on the dagger and took scepter instead, resulting in:
Axe/Focus & Scepter/Dagger.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, scepter in a power build!?! But, it hits fairly hard, it gives bleeds and poison, but the best part is, a powerful cripple+bleed on just a 10 sec CD. And feast of corruption has hit for 3700, so it’s not to be discounted, paired with a dagger offhand, you have more bleed, weakness and blind = nice!
Without further ado, here is the build:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.4|7.1g.h17.d.1g.h4|b.1o.h19.8.1o.h4|1n.7l.1c.7l.1c.7l.1c.7l.1n.7l.1c.7l|1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.8c.67|u56c.p43.0.0.f6|2e.1|3r.4b.4d.44.4e|e
With a mix of knight’s and PTV gear, there’s a reasonable amount of armor and HP.
I also take ruby orbs in all my trinkets, netting 18% crit dmg.
The build
30 in spite, more dmg below 50% hp, crazy! 7k axe 2 are always welcome. Retal on Ds and the master trait is debatable, I either take more dmg on down, auto spinal shivers or might on life blast.
25 in curses – 2% more dmg per condition, which is also part of the reason for taking scepter, you spit out different conditions like a walking virulent plague cloud, and this just means more dmg. Chill on blind is awesome, and auto enfeebling blood on ds both gives dmg and defense with weakness.
15 in soul reaping, spectral armor at 50% hp – insane! Pierce and vulnerability on life blast is good as well.
- If it has escaped noticing, this build actually pumps out vulnerability like a crazy mad man!
Utilities
Well of Darkness blinds (and chills due to trait), so it’s a good defensive mechanism that keeps players in check. I also use WoS to pump out some dmg, however this spot can effectively be traded in for anything you’d like better.
My third spot goes to locust, since running faster is nice. If you’re fast enough, you can switch it out for spectral walk before a battle, which I’d recommend doing.
Elite
I switch this around quite often, between lich, plague and snow leopard form. If I see a zerg I’ll take the snow leopard to get away. Else I’ll primarily use lich. This bad boy has downed me many a players in a few autocasts, due to the insane dmg it pumps out.
I’d go with whatever you feel like tbh, anything works. Just know, lich is a dmg beast.
Slows/Cripples
Axe 3, Focus 5, Scepter 2, (Dagger 4 – trait chill on blind), DS 2, Well of Darkness.
Consumables
I always use sharpening stones, however I haven’t really found which food I like best. There’s 100 power/70 prec, there’s omnomberry pie (lifesteal), there’s also a new favorite might on dodge and 40% increased recharge on endurance. But I haven’t decided yet, I think I’m going with power/precision for now, just to increase dmg.
Pros
Awesome dmg
Good survivability
A lot of snares
Bleeds (though low ticking dmg)
Cons
It can be difficult against thieves, since lower HP pool means you have to dodge well.
Against boons it is also difficult. Taking corrupt boon instead of WoS helps here.
Little regen and no HP drain.
Ending note
This is quickly becoming a favorite build of mine, and I wanted to share it with you guys, since a lot of my inspiration, since beginning GW2, has come from builds posted on this website. Feel free to try out my build, and if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know. However, I am not switching out my weapons for the time being, so no reason to suggest this particular thing; other than this, shoot away
As a last note, I feel I have to point out that the only thing I ever do while online, is solo-roaming in WvW. And yes it can work, even for a necro! This is also why the build has evolved into this particular one.
- Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds – Oppenheimer/Bhagavad Gita
(edited by Dietzen.6127)
and I made this even without looking at that particular post