Guild Wars 2

Hello, I want to play a Necro. I heard Minion Master is a good way to level after 60 I plan to go Conditionmancer. I tend to solo pve but may group some. I put this together and want opinions. Thanks everyone.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAW7YjEat61aKb0bKCpHXjaPbqQ2gU4epRVAeA

1. Spectral Skill cooldown trait is pointless, since you have no spectral skills on your bar.
2. For conditionmancer, Epidemic is pretty much the best skill in your kitten nal for dealing with groups. However, conditions in the open world either a) don’t get enough up-timesince other people will be joining in group events, or b) take longer to kill the enemy than a power build. However, it’s your choice if you don’t mind the slightly slower kill speed.
3. From what I’ve heard, MM is good until level 30.
4. Not many enemies block while moving in PvE, meaning you could lay the marks down, then pull the enemy onto the stacked marks, meaning you can leave that trait out.

All in all, for a MM build, I’d say:

Level 11 – 39

Weapons: Axe + Focus / Staff (Lay down marks, then use Reaper’s Touch to pull. Stacks Vulnerability, increasing damage of Minions further, as well as the damage of the Marks)

Skills: Blood Fiend, Bone Fiend and Shadow Fiend at level 10. Flesh Golem at level 30.

10 in Death Magic first (Minion Master trait)
10 in Spite (Spiteful Talisman)

Level 40 – 59

20 in Spite ( Spiteful Talisman and Training of the Master)
20 in Death Magic (Minion Master)
The rest in Blood Magic (Mark of Evasion)

Then, for Conditionmancer:

60 – 80

Weapons: Scepter + Dagger / Staff

Skills: Consume Conditions, Epidemic, Plague Signet / Signet of the Locust, Blood is Power, Plague (The self conditions should either be sent to the enemy or used to boost Consume Conditions)

30 points in Curses first (Hemophilia, Master of Corruption, Lingering Curse)
10 in Blood Magic (Dagger Mastery)
20 points in Spite (Signet Mastery, Spiteful Marks)
10 in Death Magic (Staff Mastery)

Notes

• Make sure to use Death Shroud, since that gives you access to the Torment condition.

I’d say, don’t use minions till you are level 30 and have a full bar of minons at your disposal. Well of Suffering + Staff+ Death Shroud 4 can carry you through the early levels anyway. Just pull and stack the mobs a bit, then nuke them down with concentrated AoE. Gets you to level 20 quickly, from where you can start slotting some minions.

If you got a scroll, you can skip that part and start with minions right away, tho :>

Something like Axe+Focus/Staff with a full power setup should do the trick till you unlocked your utility slots.
Once you unlocked some slots and got your minions, it doesn’t really matter anymore. Just get whatever you feel confident with and don’t be afraid to experiment. It’s not like any of the <80 PvE content is hard.