Guild Wars 2

I hit level 20 with my necromancer ( human…if it matters)… and I have been doing Staff + wells, while i do like the play style i find i need to drop the wells on the Mobs to get consistent use of them. I have tried to " guilde " the Mobs to wells, but found it’s not really something I can do consistently. ( may be a l2p issue I admit, if it is, I will put more effort into it.).

I do not like the ax, and to be honest it doesn’t feel like my mental concept of what a necromancer should be. I have always seen a necromancer as a minion summoning DoT caster. Hence the bias for conditions.

In spite of the fact that Minions are unpredictable, and unreliable. I wonder if it would make levelling safer and faster than a wells staff necromancer?

Can someone post a Link to a good build of Both so i can compare?

Thanking in advance.

Minions can be finicky but they are the easiest and most reliable way to cut through most PvE content, at least in my experience. This is what I run as a Minion Master

I do use the axe but to be honest the focus is what supports the minions the most, you could easily go scepter or dagger main hand with it.

In general minions are rather flexible, you can get a lot out of them if you trait heavily for them but even using them alongside other utilities can make PvE life very easy. That said going full MM with the setup I have allows me to take on most group events solo and most champions can be whittled down relatively easily.

I can’t speak to the condition side of things as I’m not familiar with the finer points of such builds.

Conditions are optimal in roaming wvw and spvp and tpvp… Power.rules dungeons and open world. Minions are good at open world and when the minions aren’t running around like headless skirt they are good at tpvp.

You can minion to level 60 in pve.

Honestly, when I was leveling my Necromancer 1,5 year ago, I really, really liked conditions for it. Yes, it wasn’t the best kill time on normal mobs, but I enjoyed it. Also, Epidemic is a wonder, lets you slay multiple mobs at the same time, not even going closer.

I say, if you have a vision of Necro DoT/Minion, nothing stops you from doing that. Minions don’t scale with your character statistics so you can just run condition mostly and take some traits/helpful minions along

i dont understand why people think MM can only be played as a powermancer. if you want both, just do it.
that’s what im currently using on my second necro (more or less):
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNArdWjEa16Jbua0bKCpCRbSx3AHkC3LtIFELYA-jABBYhCipoFRjVdDTHjIqGA-e
it’s open world PvE, so not actually difficult at all.