Guild Wars 2

I’ve been rebuilding my necro slowly as I find the mats for crating so I’m not necessarily in a huge hurry here. Currently I run Sinister/Viper (2 pieces, Chest and legs) armor (Reaper runes x5) and Twilight with Viper stats (Corruption/Malice Sigils) as well. I’m replacing the Sinister armor with Viper as I farm enough mats. Would the corruption sigil serve me better as something else to increase duration on say burning or vulnerability?

Where I’m having the most difficulty though is with the toughness. Currently I run the asc dire/rabid trinkets, with the Reaper runes, as I said above. Typically I find it to be a pretty good solo roaming build, but I wonder if I’m sacrificing too much damage for the extra survivability and then there’s the extra aggro my tanky build attracts. Would I perhaps be served better with something like Runes of Fire or Berserker and perhaps Sinister trinkets?

Like many others I run “Rise!” with 2 other minions…it’s just the best roaming build right now.

It’s all so expensive that I don’t want to necessarily commit to something without having a discussion first and get a feel for what others are doing. I’m a little afraid of giving up my toughness where I came from a full Dire/Undead/Staff build I was using for WvW. It’s a great tower defense build, but not so great for PvE.

I’m not sure to understand if you need it for WvW or PvE.
However for PvE I suggest to try Viper gear and Sinister trinkets (until Viper ascended trinkets are available). But if you feel it’s too weak because you lose tankinesh another option is Trailbrazer’s gear and Rabid or Dire trinkets. While the first one is good for a Reaper Dhuumfire build, the second you build an old condition build.

About Sigil of Corruption: I don’t use it anymore because in general PvE is nice but the added damage is negligible since you are generally playing with many people and you rarely notice them. In Fractals, dungeons or Raid, most of the times you rarely have the opportunity to build the stacks.
Personally I suggest Bursting/Malice, even if they are very expensive.

Arcades Saboth.5139:

I’m not sure to understand if you need it for WvW or PvE.
However for PvE I suggest to try Viper gear and Sinister trinkets (until Viper ascended trinkets are available). But if you feel it’s too weak because you lose tankinesh another option is Trailbrazer’s gear and Rabid or Dire trinkets. While the first one is good for a Reaper Dhuumfire build, the second you build an old condition build.

About Sigil of Corruption: I don’t use it anymore because in general PvE is nice but the added damage is negligible since you are generally playing with many people and you rarely notice them. In Fractals, dungeons or Raid, most of the times you rarely have the opportunity to build the stacks.
Personally I suggest Bursting/Malice, even if they are very expensive.

Thanks, this is for PvE. I have a Dire set I use for WvW. In WvW, I don’t front-line my necro and prefer to lay back and support the front-liners or defend towers.

I was considering the bursting as a replacement to corruption, but the gain seems so marginal. Even with a base CD stat of say 1500, you only need 9 stacks of corruption to match that of the Superior Sigil of Bursting. Not sure if that’s worth over 30g. Of course the advantage of bursting is that stat bonus does not disappear on down or when you change maps. I’ll have to keep looking around at various builds.

That make sense however majority of the times (in instances) you don’t get 9 stacks at all.
Also Bursting and corruption makes a lot of sense.
As far as I know the added Malice is added after every bonuses, so Target of the Weak, Might stacks etc etc. I need confirmation of this but I’m pretty sure.