Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone. I’ve been playing necromancer for a rather long time. Currently rank 29 in sPvp with 60% of my matches being necromancer. I decided to take another long journey to 80 but this time using a necromancer. I’ve been using a wells build 1-40 focusing purely 100% on power. I use dagger/dagger and staff, Well of Corruption, Well of Suffering and Signet of the Locust (don’t need well of darkness to stay alive). I generally stay in staff main hand, using the 3, 4 combo field/blast to get a nice spike of damage and the auto attack to hit everything in a line. It does impressive damage. I switch to D/D to single target anything left over and to apply a AoE bleed from rune of geomancery.

Now that I hit 40 and I have access to major runes (big change lol) I was wondering if it would be faster to continue to spec into power/precision and use wells or would it be faster to spec into condition damage/precision and use scepter/dagger and staff. If you went scepter, besides epidemic which skills would you pick?

I’m not worried about survivability at all, necromancer has far too many tricks to die in PvE. I’m just trying to find the fastest way to level. Thanks in advance!

my main is a necro, and i spec’d him for power/condition dmg/vitality, with a main focus on bleeds. i do staff and scepter/dagger. i was doing d/d but after switching to scepter, i’ll never go back. theres just so many bleeds you can put on with the one weapon alone, the enemies just start melting.

this is how i usually engage all enemies, whether it be 1 or many:

first, i cast blood is power… its amazing now with the 10 stacks of might and with my build, the bleed lasts 39s. i have my staff out so ill throw out all 4 skills quick, switch to scepter/dagger which does a bleed b/c i have sigil of geomancy on my scepter, i do a well of blood on dodge, and when i enter DS i cast enfeebling blood. usually this all only takes about 8-10 secs to perform all this and i’ll have about 15+ stacks of bleeding on them, plus the extra 200+ condition dmg from the might makes it all that much better, and while things are cooling down you can hit em with a few scepter auto attacks for a couple more bleeds

since i like to play D as well as be offensive, i have well of power and cosume conditions on to reverse/eliminate anything done to me, and i’ll usually have well of darkness as the last utility for the pulsing blinds, and flesh golem as elite.

all in all, i respec’d my necro like 10 times while leveling and this is definitely my favorite build now by far and i havent looked back.

I plan on switching to scepter when I reach 80, as that’s my preferred build in tPvP but is it really the fastest at 40, 50, 60 and 70?
It seems the majority of your skills are single target. You have the AoE from the staff to start the fight, which is ~30 second cooldown. Then you switch weapons, AoE bleed which is only 6 seconds at 40, 7 with the trait. Then the dodge which is another 2 stacks. So you are looking at 5 stacks of bleed in a 7 second cooldown AoE and 7 on your main target. Then you enter DS which is AoE enfeebling blood on a 10 second cooldown for 6 stacks of bleed, 8 on the main target. Where does the other 7 come from?
I’m not sure your method for leveling but I prefer to pull as many monsters as I can and AoE them all down, which is what I’ve been doing with wells. I can see being able to do that with epidemic but you don’t use epidemic.
Note: I’m not trying to degrade your post, I always just argue the opposite to get the best results.

Fastest for clearing stuff ispretty much what you already have, get berserker armor, Dagger Warhorn with Staff as second set (2-3-4- swap to dagger 5-spam 1, if you got hit a few times go DS that generates pretty fast with WH5 and Dagger1) with corruption, suffering and id take spectral walk, with Reapers Might and Spiteful Marks in Spite and Mark of Evasion in Blood (gives you on dodge blast finisher what is nice with wells for aoe blind when you pick up 5 mobs). Consume Conditions being the heal youd wanna use most of the time since enemies start getting the annoying as hell immobilize and weakness that hurt the damage output a bit, but if you really want true 5 mob at a time kill power, Well of Blood is the way to go since it heals a kittenon over time.

I never liked warhorn. Generally my strategy is to have two seperate cooldowns. Group one gets hit by double wells and staff 2, 3, 4. Group two gets hit by dagger 4, dagger 5, DS enfeebling blood, DS 4, staff 2 and staff 3 if its off cooldown. That way by the time I get to group three the wells are off cooldown.
People complain a necromancer can’t kill a single monster as fast as a warrior, thief and guardian but a necromancer CAN kill 5-6 monsters the exact same time it can kill one while a thief, warrior and guardian cannot.

Wulfrim.4793 – actually both thief and warrior can and even faster, yay for bow power, also warhorn is nice because of the daze working as a stun on NPCs and 5 being not only great for going around the map, but the cripple also helps stuff to stay in the wells.