Guild Wars 2

I just started playing around with a necromancer in spvp – I’m playing a condition build with 0/30/20/20/0 and consume conditions, epidemic, plague signet, blood is power and plague elite. If nobody pays attention I can do reasonable well at stacking bleeds but as soon as anybody focuses me I die… I hardly ever have enouhg life force to stay in death shroud for any significant amount of time and I’m not sure if plague is bugged or what but I had it not work yet consume the cooldown on me twice just now. Any suggestions? I don’t want to hear aobut how the class sucks or whatever other kittening goes on in here – just looking for some pointers kthx Wondering if there are any suggestions for traits or maybe other utility skills or strategy or something. I am pretty new at this and haven’t been very good about switching to staff and droppiing reapers mark.

Plague Signet is a demanding skill which makes it somewhat unreliable in the heat of things. Not the best Stun Break choice IMO – great on paper, just not in practice. Spectral Armor and Spectral Walk are both a bit more reliable and will help in gaining LF.

For survival, you may want to consider Flesh Wurm and/or Spectral Walk.

If you drop down Flesh Wurm at a good spot, you can use it to teleport away when you’re in trouble. Spectral Walk is great since it gives you swiftness so that you can run away; but you can also use it to tp if necessary when it’s active. These 2 skills are my favorite for getting away (of course I use staff too to help by dropping marks to slow down opponents).

Plagues Signet only works if you have line of sight towards the target. I’m not a big fan of it anymore. I think Blood is Power is overkill given you probably have so many other ways to apply conditions (even though it does amplify your power). I never tried epidemic, I’m not sure how often it’s actually essential to winning the battle.

Other utilities you may want to consider are wells. In your case, if you’re pure condition, then you may want to use well of darkness. I don’t use well of darkness in my builds because I focus more on power, so I use the damaging wells to punish people who comes close to me.

I would say go max bunker 30 toug 30 vit + 10 wherever you want even runes & jewels all def. Try to stay alive as much as posible & learn enemy class animations & wich skill to avoid & how to aproach diferent classes. When you become at eaze with the mechanics your & enemys reduce vit & toug & put points into skills wich fit your playstlye or are more comfortable with. Dont listen to ppl , conditions arent the only viable spec, i would say that maybe is one of the hardest necro build to properly master. proper understanding of the class & praktice + patience is the way to go, imho ofc. :P