Guild Wars 2

With the balance changes, I decided to swap out staff for greatsword in my viper necro roaming build. Ended up being relatively effective and fun to play.

Also anet, please revert the deathly chill change for WvW.

Video

Build is in the video description.

Great vid, btw. I am trying to figure out your combo, it looks like Suffer>Swap Weapon>Reaper>Soul Spiral? Also, are Rise and Plague Signet just panic buttons?

Thustlewhumber.7416:

Great vid, btw. I am trying to figure out your combo, it looks like Suffer>Swap Weapon>Reaper>Soul Spiral? Also, are Rise and Plague Signet just panic buttons?

Thanks! That’s the basic burst combo, but depending on the fight you want to save suffer to transfer condis. I try not to be too predictable with how I combo for fights against good players though.

Rise and plague I wouldn’t call panic buttons, but they are defensive in nature. You need plague to counter other necromancer transfers and condi Mesmer’s while also giving a good stun break. Rise is important since the -33% dmg is excellent to help against DHS and warriors who run power.

Rise you want to keep until you see/feel focus on yourself. Plague is the only stun break so I try not to be too liberal in its use for transfers when suffer works well.

Love the video. I find this a really interesting build, the new deathly chill [broken op lol] provides a lot of interesting options.

1 thing I wonder if you thought about was why geomancy sigils on both weapons? It is redundant and can be swapped for sigil of ice or mischief for 1 of the sigils. Also, did you ever consider using reaper runes for more offensive power for more burst power or did you find you needed to -condi duration due to the lack of condi clear compared to using staff.

VunDola.7596:

Love the video. I find this a really interesting build, the new deathly chill [broken op lol] provides a lot of interesting options.

1 thing I wonder if you thought about was why geomancy sigils on both weapons? It is redundant and can be swapped for sigil of ice or mischief for 1 of the sigils. Also, did you ever consider using reaper runes for more offensive power for more burst power or did you find you needed to -condi duration due to the lack of condi clear compared to using staff.

Thanks! I threw hydromancy on the gs for my early testing (and for that video), but it is now currently using mischief so good catch.

Reaper runes would be ok with the build, but I am not a huge fan of them. Basically, there is one thing the build does crazy well and that is damage. If someone lets me combo them its 40+ stacks of bleed without reaper runes plus whatever power/other conditions I’ve put on them. Instead of opting for the ability to put more bleeds on them, I wanted a bit more defensive option with antitoxin. It becomes even more advantageous to use antitoxin and the sweetbun food since in order to take chilling darkness you lose your plague autotransfer trait (and of course like you mention you don’t have staff).

i would suggest trying parasitic contagion over weakening shroud if you ever try reaper runes.