Guild Wars 2

Good morning necro’s

I’ve just about gotten my necro to 80. My main that I play is a Mesmer. I play in WvW about 80% of my game time. And I run in primarily berserker gear with very few deaths. I wanted to give power necro a try. I really like the fact that rampager gear has that + to condition, since many of the necro attacks have a condition component. And I wouldn’t lose that damage in a power build. And I am used to surviving with very little armor. So i’ll post my buid (which may be terrible) and see if you guys can give me some advice on which armor set to use. Any advice will be appreciated.

http://tinyurl.com/kz2wsyb

Thank you

Having a staff in your WvW build and not taking Greater Marks is ill advised. Personally, I’d go 30-0-10-0-30 if you want to play a WvW power necro. I’d also consider dagger/focus over dagger/dagger. The boon strip and chill on #5 is very useful, I’ve found.

As for gear, if you really want to make the most out of those 30 points in Soul Reaping, stick with berserker. The +crit damage is much more important for a power build than any +condi. If you wanted to do a hybrid, then a case could be made for Rampager’s, but if power is how you want to go, it’s a poor choice.

Stick with zerker imo. Power builds need all 3 of power, crit, and crit damage, and even the crappy staff attacks start to put some real hurt on people.

Do wells! It is a most certain way to guarantee you’ll be buried in loot bags. All that is needed is Greater Marks, Focused Rituals, and Ritual Mastery; you have 30 points of flexbility.

Wells benefit heavily from Berserker due to mostly being direct damage. But they still inflict nasty conditions, especially Well of Corruption when the other side has boons, which is most fights. When used with a staff, you are an absolute menace in large fights, especially in tower fights. A lot of times you’ll down people that can’t even fight back— you’ll be a death machine from the 900/1200 range (though better from 900), though it admittedly isn’t too good when you’re alone.

Just want to add some more to what Craptrain said…

Power Necromancers mainly wear Berserker, PVT, or Valkyrie I believe, Rampager gear in my honest opinion is just not worth it as a Powermancer. You’ll find Power Necromancers and Zerker Mesmers to be sort of different as you won’t have as much breathing room as a Necromancer as you would as a Zerker Mesmer with the invisibility, clones, teleports, vigor, and evades.

Like Craptrain mentioned, 10 points into Death Magic for II: Greater Marks is a must if you’re using a Staff (Unless you’re very good at aiming lol). However I would say Dagger/Dagger is fine if you wish to use it, with the new buff to weakness, blind not going away now when your opponent spams auto attack away from you, and transferring 3 conditions every 18 seconds is nice.

I recommend Berserker Armour and Weapons with a mix of Knights and Cavalier, back, accessories, amulet, and rings.

Rampagers is generally a hybrid necro gear set, although it can be mixed in a little with other sets and work ok. The other guys pretty much covered the rest, although I will say- don’t underestimate valkyrie for power necro. You’ll still have to run some more precision either in the form of runes or your accessories to get a good crit chance, but valks is pretty awesome for necro.