Guild Wars 2

Greetings, I’m just about to reach lv 80 with my Necro and so far i’m really enjoying the class. But i have a problem deciding what playstyle to play onces i reach cap and was hoping if you could give me some advice and looks at some build i’ve come across by watching guide on Youtube and so for. From what i can tell the type of playstyle that i’m more leaning towards is one that does some damage not anything amazing or superior, but that can still stand toe to toe on melee range using daggers with champs. Thank you all for your help and i appreciate any advice that you can give me.

This are the 3 builds i’ve come up with:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fRQQRBIhdG1IHNd12WjTNs3mYXQks1spHusIkBeB-TRCEABEp8LinAgpKBtb/hWU/RAzfeo1BgTCgJ6CAA-e

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fRQQNAW7Yjc00SbNN+0whbibBZ6lZvCVgo7EqEA-TByCwAOUCC4JAgS3jw9Hup+TBzfSuIAHV+BA-e

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fRQQRBHbhG2JNiUdjd2gjNwhjJyFEoDkYV0f2UiqsA-TBCBABGp8rGdNRv/gEKBxR9HAeCAtoVIBzfAA-e

Pve, wvw or PvP?

i mainly do pve, and on really rare occasion i go into WvW. Never PvP mainly because i suck at it. Also if it helps with the advice i’ll be running fractals and World Bosses with a friend who plays a necro and he’s a condition build.

IfIFear.7210:

i mainly do pve, and on really rare occasion i go into WvW. Never PvP mainly because i suck at it. Also if it helps with the advice i’ll be running fractals and World Bosses with a friend who plays a necro and he’s a condition build.

Hmm well if its pve you want to do and mainly blobbing/zergbusting in wvw you should be using a power build. When it comes to necro especially in the above two settings you want to go full damage and you can rely on positioning and clever shroud dancing to provide you with the survivability.

Anyway do you have a preference over minions or wells? Those are the two builds closest to what works in a casual sense after tweaking the traits or are you looking for the most optimal build?

If youre not comfortable with being full dps and really want to be tanky then go knights, don’t worry about your health necros have the highest tier of base health. Also you need to get rid of the siphon stuff, not because im taking away your sustain but because if you look at the numbers it amounts to nothing. Doing the math you can see its something like the siphons are outdone even by the regen boon. Just a tip though, pve in this game results in that the best way to increase your survivability is simply by killing faster.

i would say if i have a preference it would be wells. and would a well build be optimal with using dagger/x and staff? But i like minions aswell and don’t know if well build will overlap with my friend whose running full condition build. I’ve also been wondering if there is any effective build for corruptions and spectral or if those require more advance players. Treat me like i’m new to the game so don’t know when to dodge enemies attack and so on.

Spectrals are more in way of defense and PvP. Although Spectral Grasp can be handy even in PvE sometimes for pull, but that’s niche.

Corruptions are… well designed and certainly most interesting part of Necro, imo, but they simply lack sometimes. Power PvE builds use Blood is Power as far as I know for might, sometimes you may use Epidemic (Wurm adds) to spread conditions or vuln. I heard about people using Corrosive Poison Cloud in some fractal runs.

As for PvE advices, hit on spoj’s guide.