Guild Wars 2

I’ve got an 80 ele and I’ve recently started playing a necro. I kinda like Lich Form, but its so big that you get picked out easy. The staff seems really awkward to focus on as a main weapon on the necro.

Traits are as spread out as possible, really odd position on some of the bonuses imo.

I really enjoy spvp/www/solo farm and perhaps dungeon in the future.

Is there any reason to continue playing this prof, or should I just play another as my alt?

On a glass cannon build with full power/crit dmg you can see some good 2-3ks with the staff auto attack,if you go for mark damage , 4 attack can make up to 5k to other glass cannons(which is more than half of their HP most of the time).
Altho I would not recommend staying with staff all the time, adding an axe and a focus for some vulnerability stacks will also be combined with your lich form and result in some really cool ranged criticals.

You can definitely do a power build with staff. I use dagger/warhorn for my 2nd weapon set so that I can burst anyone who gets close to me. I would also highly recommend specing to be able to target where you drop Wells and using Well of Suffering as it does a lot of damage in a power build.

There are a few variations of builds that you can use, but something like this works very well:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBmQDbkRrSPTTdjhTRIV4ZQFefMDiNMaGujdA;TsAg0CnoqxUjoGbNuak1sEZAxGCA

Lich Form does a ton of damage so use that when it’s available, use your wells when they are available, build up your life force to 100%, switch to that until you get to 50% life force then hop back out and use your staff or dagger attacks to build it back up and repeat.

I usually switch out my third utility depending on the situation. I often like to use Spectral Walk or Signet of the Locust in WvW or sPvP.

You might also consider going with a DS/might stacking build if you wanna do power/staff since staff can allow you (with 20 trait points) to gain 3% life force with every skill.

so if I want to run a power Dagger/Staff/DS build while leveling, what stats should I look for on gear? Is it worth it to try and grab condition damage to supplement the staff or should I just go straight power/crit? What about vit for LF?

Condition damage is always good on a necro. If you are going for glass cannon, look for power, precision and condition damage in that order. Though I will say I think you’d be better off with a more balanced build for leveling. Necro power builds are better for end game content, dungeons/pvp.

Yes I would go with a hybrid build for leveling (power, condition, and precision) for leveling. I personally like using a power build for PvP due to the quick regenning life force for death shroud.