Guild Wars 2

I just want some input on building a Necro.
I am a ~Minion Master~ who wants alot of survivability and wants help setting up armor and skills properly. I mainly PvP, or WvW roam, with some Dungeons.

1. What would you say the best stats to run are for a heavy tank build?
(PVT) , (CHT) , (CVT) ?

2. I’m using 20,0,30,20,0. Building around minions. Think its the best?

3. Is Consume Conditions a better overall Heal than a Minion with a target on its head?

4. Do Minions actually scale off any stats where its noticable?

5. How do you feel about Healing Power in general on a MM Necro?

Thanks for all the assistance in advance.

1. PVT or HPT is the way to go, Soldiers is generally the easiest to run, but I personally love Clerics (slight loss in damage and up-front tankiness, but you gain sustainability).

2. For PvP (WvW or sPvP) yes, dungeons you should never go full minions like that. Also make sure you are picking up Death Nova, and are not taking Bloodthirst.

3. Yes, almost always. If you are using Blood Fiend, you need to use Soldiers, 30 in BM, and some extra condition cleansing somewhere as well, CC opens up a lot of extra variety (and with Clerics you easily heal for 10k with a few conditions on you with CC).

4. They scale off your condition damage/duration, and the duration is very important to note, because having at least 20-30% condition duration is important for your CC chaining and Flesh Golem being able to perma-cripple.

5. It is great, as long as you are not running Blood Fiend. It makes for a much more sustainable necro if you can stay alive for a while, and with the traits you should be taking (transfusion or MoB, plus high regen uptime in general, and CC or WoB) you get a lot of extra healing.

1&2: using knights with a 20/0/20/0/30 in dungeons and even in WvW, it works well. Most players don’t expect the hard DS crits this build serves…

5. every time I use a healing-centric build/equip i’m disspointed regardless of profession. Imho its wasted and you get not anywhere near back from healpower as you invested.