Guild Wars 2

And I have no idea what I’m doing.

What weapons should I use?
Traits n Skills?
Others?

Thanks.
I’m bad.

Just try different things, you’ll get bored really fast if you get told to do this and that. Try the weapons, see what you like. When you’ve found what you like, try to build around that.
You’re obviously not going to choose condition gear with a power weapon.

If you really must know..

• Full power armour, weapons, runes (buy 10 power ones for each slot), food
• Dagger/X (I used Dagger/Dagger for condition removal)
• Wells
• Try to focus on purely damage traits and well cooldown, though they don’t come to later.

Use those, and you’ll fly through levels.

Or just use minons as your utility skills and use whatever weapons and talents you like. With the latest buff to minion HP you can faceroll all open-world PvE.

Enjoy slowly rolling your face across the keyboard as you rake in the loot and XP!

Try Minionmancer as you level up
(Considering low levels and even mid levels – conditionmancer is awful due to the lack of direct damage and how low the condition damage is as you set out – alThough at mid level conditions can start playing a good role as well (As long as there is direct damage as well) so it shouldn’t be fully cut out)
Other then that.. melee/close range powermancer. (Dagger/dagger / Axe/focus (Though i prefer Warhorn for the cripple 5th and daze 4th)
I would say – the healing well if your a minionmancer as it heals you and your pets. otherwise Consume conditions is the idea healing power for any necromancer.

Death shroud will be important as well cos you can get some nice aoe and single target damage from it. (reason people also use focus for the life force gain)

Staff can be a nice weapon to set up aoe’s before fights.. though as I hardly used it leveling up- I dont know what’s it like leveling up with

your 7/8/9 skills i would say – signet of spite (while it gives out conditions.. even low level it can be really effective when combined with your weapons – including the cripples, weakness and vul’s it gives) ..
Blood is power – nice 10 stacks of might there and if you have staff/dagger offhand you can pass on the self bleeds you get or use the self bleeds to gain additional healing from Consume conditions.
Then there’s Well of suffering.. Nice damage well which gives vulnerability.
Well of darkness can be a nice power to have later on – I say that cos i have it traited so blindness causes chill everytime :p
Though if your minionmancer i would say
Bone fiend,Shadow fiend.. well of suffering, blood is power or bone minions…
Test em out all the time and remember not all powers can give the same results in all situations

As you level up trait wise – It reall depends how you play.. Take a look at each line and think how you want to play…
Powermancer – spite, cures, soul reaping
Minionmancer – Spite, Death magic, Blood magic
^ just ideas to look at.
Everyones build is different..

Your elite i would say the first pick would be the golem.. it’s kitten then look at plague n lich form.. personally golem is my choice 95% of the time.. and plague if there’s alot of enemies about/ the conditions you give will benifit the team better
Not much experience with lich as im not a huge fan of it.. even though it looks sweet :p

Armour wise and weapon wise – Power, power, power (+ some precision once your round 15/20 – But still primary as power) .. always power in the early stages of leveling .. round the mid levels then look into others like toughness and condition damge
oh.. there’s also Hybrid build.. but that’s more for mid level range build as it requires the effectiveness of conditions to hit just has hard (and I dont mean in dps terms either)
Look on reddit.. these forums in the builds section and even people on youtube for build ideas.. play styles.. Just take ya time.. look at everything and see what you feel like playing as you level up.
Once your level 80 then you can finally decide what you like to play as ;D

Do some research. Start with these.

Ascii’s well build.
Nemesis’ class guides.
30/10/0/0/30 zerker.

Ive picked up Dagger/war horn and Staff. I feel those are the best for me. Currently going power.

Where do I get runes?
Didn’t like the minions.

Is 170 power good at lvl 10?

Runes you can buy from the TP (few copper at low levels)

i just made a necro 4 days ago. i havent played anything but mesmer for over a year now, but got tired of veilbotting and tw. i gotta say necro is a ton of fun and im planning on going power necro.

as i used a scroll i was able to put my first 5 traits into curses for ground targeting on wells and 5 into power.
think im gonna go for something like this
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBIhZakRLTvSzTjfTBIV4aIF7qbUhhpeUu7sD-jEzAY/AitgoIQEHQqAQ2TjNBKEVbLiGraBTfSEV7xDk3YZ1SBExwI-w

already got her up to 57…so not that far to go, but cant wait.:-)

I second dual daggers cuz they are fun and hit hard. Staff and Wells are always great for big groups. On that note I’d go for the Focused Rituals trait first. For PVE, Flesh Golem is good for solo and Lich Form for dungeons.

Aight.. What are the Bert utilties for a power necro before 30?

Well of Suffering, Blood is Power, Signet of Spite / Locust. Sometimes Well of Darkness is handy too.

i like a bit of dagger specter action…. condition build to the max.
staff as secondary i think is pretty standard across most necro builds.
running 30/30/0/0/10 atm.