Guild Wars 2

I Hit 80 on my Necro last night and I tried looking through the “post your build thread”, but its a little chaotic. I’m wanted to know what builds people have been using for the necros for Dungeons, WvW, and PVP (and more importantly why). What are the popular builds now, what do you recommend and why. Are people stacking Crit/Power or Condition Damage/Duration? How are you using your Necro Solo vs Grouped? What are good places to look at builds besides this forum?

For me;

Dungeons I use condition duration (100% bleed rest condition damage)

WvW I use hybrid power for maximum farming and disruption. (solider, berserker)

SPvP I use full condition damage. (rabid, undead)

PvE full magic find. (dur!)

@Quorum – It depends on what you want to do. There are more viable ways to play as a Necro than any other class. The better question is who is on your team and what do you want to do.

My recommendation – check out Nemesis’ youtube videos, the SOACGaming podcasts, and CHIPS amazing encyclopedia of Necromancer abilities. For pure axe damage I would recommend Tak and kitteno’s Zerker build. It’s personally my favorite non-minion Necromancer build.

Bas.7406:

My recommendation – check out Nemesis’ youtube videos, the SOACGaming podcasts, and CHIPS amazing encyclopedia of Necromancer abilities. For pure axe damage I would recommend Tak and kitteno’s Zerker build. It’s personally my favorite non-minion Necromancer build.

Don’t suppose you have a link to these handy?

I would add that Necro is a class that has a lot of depth and complexity under the surface. Experiment a lot, because this class is somewhat underrepresented in the forums. It is very possible that you’ll uncover a great build that nobody has written a thread about. The current common builds are relatively simple.

Conditionmancer = Max Condi Damage, add some crit chance, equip sigil of earth. Lots o bleeds.

Minion Mancer = Take the minion traits, stat for Power and as much defense as makes you comfortable. Use Axe for vuln or Dagger for straight damage.

Wells Bomb = Dagger Mainhand. Lots of Power. Root something and drop all your wells, then Life Transfer on top of it. It dies.

Juggermancer = Loads of P/V/T, plus loads of defensive traits. Be very difficult to kill, and do decent single target damage.

There’s a few more builds on the forums as well, but I think there’s a lot more potential in the class than what we’ve uncovered so far.

Quorum Of Four.6837:

Bas.7406:

My recommendation – check out Nemesis’ youtube videos, the SOACGaming podcasts, and CHIPS amazing encyclopedia of Necromancer abilities. For pure axe damage I would recommend Tak and kitteno’s Zerker build. It’s personally my favorite non-minion Necromancer build.

Don’t suppose you have a link to these handy?

Nemesis Guide on Condition Necro. His whole channel is great.

http://youtu.be/bXhjICMN5No

Quorum Of Four.6837:

Bas.7406:

My recommendation – check out Nemesis’ youtube videos, the SOACGaming podcasts, and CHIPS amazing encyclopedia of Necromancer abilities. For pure axe damage I would recommend Tak and kitteno’s Zerker build. It’s personally my favorite non-minion Necromancer build.

Don’t suppose you have a link to these handy?

SOAC Gaming Channel or http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/

Nemesis Channel

CHIPS Channel

Click on anyone of those

I enjoy 1 PVT and 5 Knights armor. 3 Zerker and 2 PVT accessories.

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