Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow necros,

Since minions Seem to get hyped, i like to share the build i am running around with the last couple of weeks.

Traits:

20/30/20/0/0
Powerline:
1st trait: whatever suits you
2nd trait: minion damage
Conditionline:
1st trait: longer bleeds
2nd trait: faster corruption skills
3rd trait: longer scepter conditions
Toughnessline:
1st trait: faster minion summoning
2nd trait: 50% minionhealth

Utilities: epedemic/poison field/ bip, bip/flesh wurm/signet of locusts, bone fiend
Heal: blood fiend
Elite: flesh golem

Gear/ weapons/ accessories:
Full rabid with 6/6 runes of the undead; crest of the rabid , scepter/dagger with sigil of blood/ corruption

You can switch dagger offhand for focus or horn if you like.

Selling points of this build:
- very high armor (2800+)
- thus pushing condition damage (runes/buff food)
- thus you have always the aggro and minions live longer
- very high condition damage
- still having good direct damage through minions
- more conditions through combo fields and the projectile finisher of the bone fiend
- sick of minions? Switch to staff traits on the fly
- high ae damage with epedemic and bone minions
- very high single target damage
- reliable ranged minions

That’s it, I keep it short, posting from mobile phone

That’s not dissimilar to my PvE setup in terms of traits & gear although I mix in a bit of Rampager’s and Carrion here and there. I go with Terror rather than corruption in Curses and actually don’t bother with either minion traits in Death and go with the staff improvements instead. Having Staff #2 on such a short cooldown enables me to keep regen up on the minions quite a bit and I just cannot live without my greater marks – you can prise them from my cold, dead fingers.

I tend to use the Shadow Fiend with the Golem so it’s easy to get both him and the golem targeted with mark of blood and it seems to give pretty good single target damage. However with the new minion improvements I might try running with a few more to see how it goes just for the lulz.