Guild Wars 2

Just got back after 2-3 years of not playing. I’m very confused. Anyone got any tips for how to get everything sorted and what to do? Any good leveling builds for questing?

Welcome back to the game!

Firstly, I kind of think you’ll establish your own sort of build given time, but I’d be happy to give a couple of broad suggestions.

First, I would invest in blood magic traits. The blood magic spec focuses on healing, support, vampiric life draining, and can enhance your Well utility skills. It’s a great start, and the second Adept trait will greatly improve your movement when you use a dagger.

Second, I’d work on Spite, which helps enhance your damage output significantly.

Third, if you like minions then I suggest working on Death Magic, which gives traits to improve your survivability as well as the strength, utility, and power of your minions. The defensive traits are especially good at lower levels.

If you’re into conditions, equip a scepter and dagger and trait up curses. Get the Epidemic skill first thing.

When leveling my most recent Necro, I went for blood magic and spite with Well utilities for a power build with loads of life drain. By lv 70 I added curses and crit gear for added bleeding and enemies just dissolved. Great for dagger and focus or warhorn.

Going Blood Magic and Death makes a minion master with vampiric pets who give both you and themselves life on hit. They also cleanse your conditions by taking them and transferring them to enemies. By 70, I’d probably add in Spite for swifter murder. This is a good build for dagger/warhorn and staff. Dagger/horn for damage and staff for providing your minions with support via AoE conditions to debilitate groups of enemies.

stupidbear.1649:

Just got back after 2-3 years of not playing. I’m very confused. Anyone got any tips for how to get everything sorted and what to do? Any good leveling builds for questing?

Minions. My tip is minions. They aren’t the best utility skills for most high-level content, but they make leveling up to 80 through typical play extremely easy. Honestly, you can build haphazardly with whatever traits, weapons, and armor stats you want and as long as you have minions equipped, you’ll be able to breeze through most of Tyria without a care. I know this because I just helped my roommate optimize his build for the new Heart of Thorns maps and his only setup was… well, let’s just say there was a lot of exasperated groaning on my part. But he didn’t realize how silly his build was because he was still breezing through just about everything in the core game.

When you get a bit higher up, though, I would suggest using Dagger/Warhorn with Staff as a backup weapon, Spite + Soul Reaping + Blood Magic as your trait lines, Wells as your utility skills (though Consume Conditions or Signet of Vampirism are better heals most of the time), and prioritizing Power, Precision, and Ferocity as your armor stats (feel free to mix in some Toughness and Vitality if you want to be a bit tankier and not have to dodge so much, though). That’s a pretty solid setup that will help you rip through most content even without your bevy of minions to tank aggro for you. There are other builds that work pretty well too, but there’s a special place in my heart for our vampire builds.

Dagger in your mainhand, Blood Magic always equipped with Quickening Thirst in your first tier, Flesh Golem when you can.

Everything else is gravy!

My Necro is currently in her early 50s and I’m also playing as a Minionmancer. Bone Fiend, Shadow Fiend, Blood Fiend, Flesh Golem and Flesh Worm. I’m actually not using the Worm that much, unless I need the extra oomph.
Death Magic + Blood Magic: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQRBIhdu1IDN0Vjt1gfNweDjpBY+uf5oEA-e.
I’m not that sold on Vampiric Presence, but it’s alright. I’m far from a good player, so I still die due to losing overview a bit but the added survivability has proven valuable for me. Spite + SR line are ready to use once I reach 71 to see where I feel more comfortable with.