Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I play necromancer. I have played necromancer since BWE #2. Before necro I played guardian. I’ve over 800 S/TPvP matches as necro and I simply state that as a marker of credibility — or short to say, I’ve invested time in the class.

To the meat of the matter:
Spite: 0
Curses: 20 (III*, IV*)
Death Magic: 20 (II*, VI*)
Blood Magic: 0
Soul Reaping: 30 (II, X, XII)

• swappable trait

The key to the build – mash DS every time it is up and will be useful — know when it will be most useful ( ala knowing that the next time you DS that enfeeble will go off because the tooltip still does not disclose a 15s internal cd and that warrior is going to charge in and you need the -condition on ds + weakness from the enfeeble). And then micromanage every other cooldown (this is really important).

I run Dagger/Focus + Staff. I typically enjoy Sigil of Fire/Bloodlust on dagger/focus and usually Fire on staff. I push 60% crit nigh 100% of the time (15pt curses, 5s fury on DS, ds on 5s cd from XII in soul reaping). Runes are whatever fits your fancy ( I like divinity for overall balance but it isnt my go-to).

Berserker/Rampager/Knight amulets all work for me and it depends on my mood (do I want to be a little more bursty or tanky).

I personally feel this build is versatile within the playstyle (in your face aggressive pressure with situational bunker) with options for utility loadouts — I run either full wells or mix it up with some mobility or skirmisher utilities. And as for the elite, Plagueform but if I am going tandem with one of my buddies we may go dual golem charge. Yeah, that ain’t falco.

*edited to help folks understand the trait allocation

Not only is that not how inb4 is used, it is also impossible to understand what traits/trees you use when all you post are dashes with numbers and roman numerals. How about using a site like: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/. Or even simply going Spite30-I-II-III ect. Also any build relying on DS to do anything other then soak up damage is bad(atleast until LF degen and UI are fixed)

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k, i see you must be the be all end all opinion on nec. And given that trait lines are set up universally for all nec, the 1st 0 indicates nothing into Spite. the next set, 20, would imply Curses, 20 pts into, the parenthetical III and IV would represent the traits in that respective tree. Need me to hold your hand with how to use ds beyond dmg sponging?