Hybrid worth it?
Depends on what your trying to do….
Juide of Clubs —- Deso
Don’t sweat the gear. Just try the hybrid and learn the different play style before making a big purchase. Learn to make use of the traits before trying to maximize your armor around one build.
Hybrid is the “glass cannon” build but it is a lot less glassy than other professions. Still, you have to dodge. Watch Nemesis’ videos on Youtube.
The longer you play, the more sets of clothes, weapons, and trinkets you will have in your closet, anyway.
The advantage to hybrid builds are that, even though you are less effective at doing one thing, whenever a situation arises where you should do something different you do it well. While a conditionmancer does more damage overall than a power build, conditionmancers aren’t nearly as strong against objects, and they lose power if other players are running condition builds.
I myself currently run either 30/30/10/0/0 or 20/30/20/0/0 in PVE, and run a bit of a tank-necro style even when hybriding. That is, the armor is soldier’s gear, the trinkets are carrion, the runes are 3x superior krait and 3x superior afflicted, and the weapons are either soldier’s gear (dagger, axe, warhorn, focus), rabid gear (another dagger, scepter), or carrion (staff) depending on what I need. The difference in trait points really depends on what you want more: a 15% increase in axe damage/ 20% increase against enemies at half health, or minions with more HP/ 20% recharge reduction on staff skills. There’s no real right answer, which is why I flip flop between the two.
The advantage is that, with multiple gear choices you can easily swap between one or the other. I keep on hand a set of carrion armor as well as emerald trinkets, just in case I want to go either full conditions or a tankier power/crit build. This is… not the norm, however. Most people I know who run hybrids usually run a rampager set, which is precision/power/malice. This lets you do everything at the same time instead of flip-flopping, but this comes at the expense of defense. IMO, necros don’t really have the tools to defend themselves like other classes, instead relying on their attributes for defense.
I don’t have opinions. I only have facts I can’t adequately prove.
go and practice with rampager amulet in spvp. thats what I did to see if I wanted to invest in the gear. which I did, I still prefer to play my condition build though
Grandad Fester / Unruly Pigeon – Necromancer by trade
Yeah I am not sure about those 20 points in the DS tree if you want to go hybrid. One of the cool things about the 30/30/10/0/0 build (IN PVE mind you), is that you can either wear rampagers/rabid/knights/zerker, and do pretty good, using variable weapons (sceptor/dagger/axe/staff/focus).
I run in fractals all the time in that build now, and will swap around my gear depending on the team comp and the fight. I ran in full zerker last night with another necro who was hybrid at level 38 and it was a cake walk (which is very unusual for multiple necro runs at that level because of your lack of group buffs and reflect).
I spent a Gob of money to get all that gear, but I am oddly happy to have the option of switching around like that in PVE. In PVP i still always run 0/30/20/0/20 though… with Rabid… most fun for me.