Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,
Theorycrafting a build and was curious of what you made of it before shelling out for the gear. This is ideally for roaming or small groups as I know power is the way for zergs.

As condition cleanse is rife, I have opted out of a focus on condition duration but instead condition damage, but I always seem to struggle finishing someone off (could be a l2p issue of course!) before they run off.

So the aim is to keep up condition pressure and keep them defensive, then when ready for bursting, use signet to cover them in conditions and turn to deathshroud for hard hitting direct damage and the teleport if they run.

As for crit chance, whilst a little low, with fury from deathshroud for the finale i figured that would be enough (though ferocity in this setup is weak I know)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRIQNArYWjc00Yb5NG3webiehS6Z4EiXoCgojgE4dB-TlCEABQcCAKVJowHBQbgK6ACS5XP7PYs6PAY+7hDBgzPAAA-w

This is without food as I figured if using this and wanted to up condi damage or direct damage it is still high enough to manage either way.

What are your thoughts? Anything (or everything!) I could change?

Cheers all!

guys can anyone give me a little advice please?

A few things caught my eye at first glance.
1. You’ll definitely get more out of Scavenging runes instead of Undead in case you picked them for the 7% bonus.
2. You are going for the Signet of Spite – Signet Mastery – Chilling Darkness combo, which might be strong at times but perhaps you have overcommitted your resources here a little. Then again, you also have the off-hand dagger and you could use Plague Form with it, so I guess you’ll have to find out by trial and error how useful this really is to you while roaming.
3. Is the scepter dire on purpose?
4. The 3 traits in Death Magic aren’t my favourite ones.
If you have a staff then you should definitely get the two staff traits, that is if you want to leave points in Death Magic at all because a 6 point investment for Unholy Sanctuary is just not worth it.
5. Your life force regeneration seems rather low. I’m not sure how much this will factor in when you’re roaming because it’s always easy to start a fight with full lf in WvW, but as it is your only in combat regen is on Feast of Corruption, Necrotic Grasp and Spectral Walk.
Since you’re going to play hybrid anyway you might wanna try other weapons instead of scepter/dagger because they all have better life force regeneration.

Hey Flow cheers, really appreciate it. The Undead runes and single piece of Dire were to keep the armour up over 2000 if I felt like moving points into Spite instead of Death. I will look into Scavenging. Was not sure whether or not Unholy Sanctuary was any good but I guess that answers that, in which case I could move the 4 points from death to spite.
The Signet combo was largely intended to add lots of condis for the % bonus when switching into DS prior to a power burst with the might from signet to help. If too situational will look at removing it though.
Yeah Life force is lacking… thought about a power based weapon instead of staff but the marks have been very useful, especially against thieves.

Thanks again flow

So it’s been a while (been a little tied up!) but I’ve looked at making some changes based on what you suggested. Had to have a re-jig of things to keep the stats up. Undead runes were used to boost both power and condition damage due to the Death Trait. Moving out of Death I have taken a look at the Adventurer runes instead.

I have added food buffs too

The aim of the signet was to use it when in scepter mode with the stronger condition damage, activate the might and switch to power to make use of the damage modifiers. That said if the signet burst is no use then I will take it out.

Regarding weapons I am not necessarily set on scepter (could change to staff maybe?) and a little torn between axe and dagger (life force and retal, vs healing and immobilise)

I’ve tried to take on board your suggestion regarding more life force generation by making use of the axe mostly for skill 3.

Is this looking better?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRIQRBLRdG2IHNN2WejvNs3moXogKAiOCSg3l6o4KKWA-TVTDAB9oMChTAQT7PQgpjT0DkgSQiU6UxRAAENDJr+DAmxk4gAE9DAgUA+J0C-w

going sinister items…makes you very paper…you also have zero stun breaks…you might not survive against other roamers with only two dodges…especially in fights where the enemy has the initiative and you have to survive long enough to retaliate…like a zerker stance warrior…or an interrupt mesmer…or a PU mesmer…

I suggest taking at least one stun break…or go the foot in the grave trait instead of death perception…

Also I suggest eating food like koi cakes for condi duration…otherwise your condi portion is actually very weak in this hybrid build…

Also rune of adventure isn’t that good for a necro…we got an easily interruptable heal on quite a long cooldown to really maximize the rune…that rune might be better for a thief…but not so much a necro…

You might want to try traveler runes for consistent run speed while you roam…or nightmare runes…

or you might want to try my build…
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNArYWjc0UbbnNO2wfbCchSqeA6FIAaho/gJIfB-TFDFABNq+jc7PAwRA43TAgAHCAkUKkm2AmUWAlSs40BolSQlfAABAQAmZZWmzMwRP6RP6RPa7cmHdnH9olCAmlVA-w
=DDDDDD

Cheers EremiteAngel, will take a look (aside from ascended gear as I’m not there yet!)