Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow necros. After a long break I decided to return to the game and try a class that havent played yet. I dont mind if the class is weak in some modes and strong in others, i just wanna be in the best armor/weapon in each one(exotic for start). Dont want builds just what stats are good in general and if possible which weapon is suited for which one. I guess berserker is one of them (full armor and GS?) but dont know about the others. I’ll focus on pve-wvw mostly. Thanks in advance

I’d suggest that a scepter+dagger, greatsword build with either vipers, or some balance between power and condition damage, is your best bet here. Pretty effective all over the place.

Really, though, metabattle.com is the answer to “what builds are well liked”; check pvp and wvw for more interesting builds than “max dps glass cannon” builds.

For wvw probably celestial armor and weapons. Will give you enough toughness/vita to not get wrecked and average power stats. For you I wouldn’t craft exotic celestial though, maybe start with valks armor, berserker weapons and work on ascended berserker/valk trinkets.

Some people will say marauders but it’s not a very efficient stat for power reapers due to it being precision heavy.

Welcome Back!
Being a Necro, you have a lot of suitability when it comes to sustain (Shroud and naturally high Health).

Because of that, I would suggest Berserker’s armor for most power based PvE builds. As far as weapons goes, I like GS and Staff. The reason for Staff being it provides ranged if you can’t get close. You could also go Axe for some Ranged if your running with a GS.

If you looking to play Conditions, Vipers is great for PvE. You could run Sinister’s, or even Rabid to get started, Rabid being the easiest. I would suggest running Scepter / Dagger as a primary set. Scepter allows for constant condition application.

But, as with most classes, I would play around with all the different weapons first. If you find yourself liking the Dagger, run a power build. Or, if you really like Scepter, run a Condi build. Weapons are specific to the types of builds, so find what you love and build it. As for Armor, it is the same way. If your playing a Condi build, look at armor that has Condition dmg as its primary stat, then decide what is most important, precision, toughness, vitality….

As others have said, if you want a popular build, look at metabattle. That will give you plenty of information relating to the specific builds.

Yea couldnt remember the site thx for that. I’ll dig it a bit to see whats the meta currently
Justine, never thought celestial will work with necro but i was away for too long so things must have changed. Probably i have some ascended trinkets in my ele.
Black, that a excellent suggestion about the builds. I also like the staff i can see why every necro has one ^^

For PvE, I keep several sets of equipment. Berserker is great for roaming though you can use valkyrie or a mix. Viper’s is best for condition damage builds but you can also use carrion, sinister, or a mix for a low cost entry.

WvW is, in some ways, more relaxed on build because you can play power or condi and vary the amount of toughness and vitality to taste.

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Yea couldnt remember the site thx for that. I’ll dig it a bit to see whats the meta currently
Justine, never thought celestial will work with necro but i was away for too long so things must have changed. Probably i have some ascended trinkets in my ele.
Black, that a excellent suggestion about the builds. I also like the staff i can see why every necro has one ^^

Only use enough celestial to meet your toughness/vitality needs. I wouldn’t go over 300/300 which ~half your gearing. Just 3power stats and vita/toughness is like 50 points short of tri-stat. Since reaper can use condi too it goes over that mark.