Guild Wars 2

I’m not here to say I’m some godly Necromancer, because I’m absolutely not. But, I will say in smaller scale pvp, I have had a great deal of success with this build, and its just overall very fun. So to that, I think its worth at least trying out and let me know what you think. I’ll do my best to give a general rundown of the build:

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It’s basically a bunker build, and uses minions for damage. Dagger+Focus is used for immobilizing/chilling the enemy while draining life, thus is your more defensive set, then axe/warhorn gives your swiftness and keeps snares out while dealing decent damage. Use your minion abilities frequently to keep pressure up and to avoid more damage via pet blind, and pet CCs.

Try to not mash all buttons at once, however for optimum use when fighting an enemy (especially melee) try to use your dagger immobilize (Dark Pact), as it runs off use your bone fiend’s immobilize, then follow it with the flesh beast’s charge. All in all with the amount of damage your minions are doing, with them also siphoning health do you and survival tools, you’ll find it’s very resilient and quite effective. Just try it out sometime. Let me know what you think.

I would suggest swapping the warhorn and focus, the ranges synergize much better; unless you have some CC combos that would be utterly screwed.

You need to drop one of the sigils on each set. You have 2x swapping sigils, which share CDs. Basically, one of your sigils on each weapon set is never proc-ing.

I’d also suggest dropping Blood Fiend. You should have strong condition removal with this build, and with your pretty solid healing power you could probably swap in WoB and give yourself a source of minion/team healing. I tend to stay away from Blood Fiend because he’s just too easy to counter, the first thing all my guildies said when I told them he now siphons so much was “Cool, I’ll just kill him first”, because it literally hard-counters all your healing if they just spike him down, and I don’t like putting that much power in my enemy’s hands.

Solid build overall, just a few suggestions.

I realized the sigil thing, I now just use 5% dmg sigils, not sure if I’ll be changing them any more, the Blood Fiend, I’m currently sticking with because if he’s low hp I’ll just use him so I can start his CD, in many fights so far it just hasn’t been an issue to be honest, but I’ll keep an eye on it. I tried swapping the weapons, I liked having swiftness on my main damage weapon, and prefer to have the strong chill on my defensive set. It could potentially work, but it just feels better to me this way. But yes, for sure fix your sigils if you follow this build!

I agree fully with Bhawb

Pointless 1v1 build, but good at what it does.

Leeching Sigils and Energy Sigils do not stack.
Use Sigil of Hobbling on your Axe/Focus along with your Axe, since you use Cripple considerably. I would also use a Sigil of Energy on your Warhorn, along with your Sigil of Leeching. That way, if you time your switches, you’ll have significantly high amounts of energy at most times during the match.