Guild Wars 2

This is for PVE. So like the title says I’m looking for a build that takes advantage of life blast damage + DS survivability. Spectral skills will be used to regenerate life force obviously. I need help deciding which armour to be wearing and what sigils I should use. Any help would be appreciated.

I don’t PvE so this might be wrong but if I had to guess it would be 30/10?/0/0/30 (the ? by the 10 is because I’m guessing that would be the best place for it but that 10 could really go anywhere) I would use all zerkers gear and mix in knights/Cavaliers for added defense as needed. You would want to get crit chance to 50% so you will have 100% in DS. The all traits boosting damage and DS damage. Then just use spectral Armor and Walk. Even grasp if you want but I would go blood is power for more might.

That’s what I would do but I haven’t ran a dungeon in a long while so maybe some one with more experience could correct me.

Yea I was thinking maybe mixing Berserkers/Valkyrie and going 30/0/0/10/30 because I heard the more hp you have the more DS you’ll have.

Grandmaster Lee.9568:

Yea I was thinking maybe mixing Berserkers/Valkyrie and going 30/0/0/10/30 because I heard the more hp you have the more DS you’ll have.

Straight zerk is more dps then trying to use hps to extend ds. Also , with this type of build you will have great DS up time anyway.

Thanks for the input Azreell! I might try full berseker and then I’ll go from there!

I’ve been running a DS build for awhile now and I really like it. I consider the most recent update a buff

That said, I use D/D and Axe/Focus in zerker gear. My traits are 30/10/10/10/10. I used to spec 30/10/10/20/0 but the June patch made me want to take my character towards a full DS build

Reaper’s Might
Weakening Shroud
Shrouded Removal
Transfusion (for solo-esque bullkitten, I swap this out for Dagger Mastery)
Vital Persistence, Unyielding Blast, and Deathly Perception

My utilities are Spectral Grasp, Spectral Armor, and Signet of Undeath. I have no trouble generating Life Force, and I’m in Deathshroud more than I’m not, so consequently, I chose Vital Persistence over Near to Death. IMO, having both is redundant with how quickly I can get my LF pool up

About the most recent update…

My play style is very aggressive. I’ve used the pre-patch…exploit (I dare to say) to jump off the occasional cliff when getting from place to place. I also continue (as any Necro does) to pop into DS when I’m about to die. Aside from that, I use it offensively. I understand some people run Condition builds and such and can’t get much utility out of DS other than using it to soak up damage, but DS has five attacks. ATTACKS. They all do damage, and the ones lacking in that area are helpful in allowing us to do damage, whether it be getting into range or making space between you and your opponent. Deathshroud wasn’t implemented to be a Necro Aegis

If you don’t want to get one-shotted, dodge. Deathshroud has a cooldown for a reason

But yeah I love playing my DS build