Guild Wars 2

I have browsed several videos but they all talk about builds, advanced strats etc. I’m relatively new to GW2 and Necro in general.

1) What is supposed to be my “damage dealing” skills? I’m doing the newbie stuff and just cycling skills between cooldowns. Of course in PvP, I save things like fear, etc. But honestly speaking I don’t know which skills do what damage.

2) Somehow my WvW experience consist mostly of PvDoor. Any specific skills I should use? I see that my damage is considerably low vs Door. That being said, what skills should I use to hit the generals of the towers ASAP? Most of the time the zerg kill them in few seconds and I don’t get enough time to do anything.

Um.. Basically everything on how to L2Necro. I tried researching on my own but couldn’t find any satisfactory vids or guide. If it helps, my necro is 40, but I’m more of a PvP player. Most likely I’ll play 60% WvW, 25% sPvP and 15% PvE.

Thanks!

You’re not going to do much in WvW till you hit 80 anyways. Metabattle.com goes over the basic Necro meta build and generally describes skill rotations at the bottom along with links to usefull videos and streams. I’d suggest check that out first, since anything here will just be repeating what already exists there.

It depends on your build which skills deal damage. If you run a terrormancer (condi) build, your fears can do a nice amount of damage, however it does 0 damage when you do not use the terror trait. A condi build deals damage over time, mostly with high bleed stacks, burning, poison and fear. However, most objects are invulnerable to conditions.

I do not play WvW, but I do play sPvP. Most necro’s are running a power build at the moment, with the purpose of dealing as much damage as they can. For a standard power build you should look at the metabattle website. The main sources of damage in this build will be Lifeblast (Death shroud skill #1), dagger #1, wells (well of suffering and also well of corruption, they go great with dagger #3), and ofcourse Lich Form. The Lich form can be devastating for the enemy, but you are also very vulnerable while using it.

Well, if you want mainly to do WvW, I recommend this build (which is the basic power wellomancer WvW meta build):
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW3djc0UTbLN+2wfbCchC63MAahouAqPj24ZB-TFCFABys/AAPBgCV/5KlgIp8TgLCQa6AyQzQAAEgbezAwQH6QH6QHa38m38m38mBA-w

This is a backline DPS build, so never push with the meele train (the heavy armor professions, Warrior and Guardian) into the enemy group, stay around them and use your wells/marks on big enemy groups. For maximum effectiveness, only put down your wells when the commander asks for it. I highly recommend you using your server TeamSpeak/Mumble/whatever to understand what is going on and for better coordination.
Disclaimer: this build is only good at zergs vs zerg/GvGs. Do not attempt to solo roam on this. Also at the beggining you will die a lot, this build is all about positioning and staying away from the enemy meele train. But you will learn with time.
Also you can use Strength Runes instead of Melandrus, but they are very expensive for a new player and I personally like Melandrus for a little survivability, mainly against other conditions. But everyone runs some small variations.

#edit: watch this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkgIqmTlmL4

1) For what skills do what damage, just hover over the skills with you mouse and you will see a description of the skill. Or just this site to look: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQBAA
But it really depends if you want to play power necro or condition necro. In general for power builds I would recommend dagger/warhorn + axe/focus, for condition scepter/focus with staff.

2) What server are you on and what timezones do you play? Depending on what server you are on (and more importantly what Tier) and your timezone your WvW expierience may be very different.
Also Doors aren’t really ment to be attacked with your weapons, you should build rams to take it down faster. Watch closely and look if someone put down a ram to be build. That thing is what does a lot of damage against doors. Even a lvl 80 with full zerker (aka Bezerker) gear won’t do much damage to the gate.