Guild Wars 2

Hello there,
i’ll start of by saying I’m a ver very happy/excited necro player and I’ve been playing necro since gw1 (as a main character/class) BUT I completely suck at building or making builds.

I’m experienced playing WITH a necro but not building one myself.
The best I can do is adjust a pre-made build to a build that suits me more (if the pre-made build isn’t yet good enough for me).

At this moment I run a condimancer with sceptre/dagger and staff.
I’m nearly fully geared ( just need appropriate sceptre and dagger and 3 more accesories)

BUT,
finally the reason why I post this…
i’m looking for a new build, a build that has more direct damage
I’ve been thinking about Axe/focus (for the vulnerability) and staff (for AoE) but also about Axe/Focus and Dagger/Warhorn (no second dagger cause those skills are better for condimancer)

Now my question is, does anyone have a viable build or tips for such a set-up?
I was thinking about knights armor and berserker accesories, berserker stats on the weapons maybe

Edit:
So me and a guildie were discussin’ this cause we really wanted something new with our necros. the only thing that kept us from trying was the 600 (for axe) range which is pretty close.

This
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQRAnd4djQap7tbKb07JCJFN7XQPefuqVkCkZMA-jQyAEkQTiCUyLsJwhoV5iWpLIVwwqrxUuER1A-e
Is what we’ve actually ‘created’
Feedback is more than welcome!

Explanation
It is actually based on maintaining might (through blood is power and traitline) and also applying vulnerability.
The thing is, you use BiP , cut your enemy up with the axe (also use the nr. 4 skill on focus to apply vulnerability).
You swap to dagger (gain might for swapping) cut your foe up → swap back to axe and so you repeat.

The runes are there too help maintain your might so you can basically keep BiP (and your might up)

Zerker runes → pure damage

I’d like to put a plug in for trying 5 x Infiltration runes + Close to Death (instead of Axe Training). That’s 30% dmg increase (35% with Sigil of Force). Once the target is below 50% health they tend to just crumble.

I’m currently using Berzerker weapons, Berzerker armor w/Infiltration runes + Knight trinkets (with rubys). So, similar to you, just reversed armor/trinkets.

Weapons are Staff & Axe/Focus, so my trait distribution is different than yours. Staff & Axe have Sigil of Force, Focus has Sigil of Accuracy.

Edit: i think you’d probably want Consume Conditions instead of Well of Blood.

And I would like to suggest 2 Fire, 2 Hoelbrak, and 2 Strength for +60% might duration with 20/20/30/0/0 and chocolate omnomberry cream for 110% total might duration. Then trait for corruption and hit Blood is Power as much as you can, including before using DS or an elite. Just keep Consume Conditions in case you go up against another Necromancer.

I see and do you uset his in pve or pvp/wvw?
Cause iwth this build I’d actually like to focus on PvE although I think for PvE you need atleast some AoE (staff)

I don’t know weather you’re looking at builds for PvP, WvW or PvE but this post if for PvE

I think Close to Death trait might be better for you rather than Axe Training. I tried in sPvP on the dummies there and there really wasn’t a great deal of difference in damage. Of course there is a 20% reduction in the time but I think, especially for long fights, that Close to death with pay off more that Axe Training.

I use a similar build but I go for the standard Glass Cannon build (30,10, 0, 0, 30). I use Life Blast instead of Axe #1 or I use Dagger #1 for superior damage to axe if something doesn’t get Vulnerability (like inanimate objects) or where someone else also has vulnerability build.

If you want me to explain more in detail about glass cannon build just say and I’ll help out as much as I can but you will take a lot more damage than you do with the build that you’re running at the moment but you will do dealing more damage.

More help is always welcome, I’ve ran the build in some dungeons and I must say I like it, though atm (due to not being fully geared yet) my axe/focus is doing the most damage.

But I do not yet have a zerker dagger + sigils on weapons, which means I can’t use this build to its full potential.