Guild Wars 2

Hi!

I´m slowly levelling my Necro (my first and only char, started playing 2 days ago) and now am level 10.

I´ve been playing with whatever weapons I can, in order to unlock all the attacks, so far my favourite is Scepter+Focus (unlocking staff right now)

I´m not sure how to setup my char. I got the Signet of the Locust for improved movement speed and secondary healing method for my 7th skill, but not sure how to keep traiting.

What I want is a survivability (sp?) build. I guess that would be using blood-magic line, health leeches, and so on. I want to build a “drain tank” of some sort, with good AoE power (since most of the time I´m fighting more than one enemy).

Any ideas on how to build?

I´m also trying different builds for sPvP, trying supportish builds right now (buff/debuffs), but this is not as important to me right now

Thanks!

For PvE i’m running around with sceper/dagger, and as utilitys Spectral Walk for the 30 seconds swiftness, and Well of Suffering and Well of Corruption as additional AoE. Between Sceper Nr2, Dagger Nr5, Deathshoroud 4 and the Wells, i have a lot of AoE to deal with groups. Since scepter 2 is also an AoE cripple, you can kite all melee enemys, and for ranged enemys you have Feast of Corruption as heal, Deathsshroud to soak up damage while your heal is on cooldown, and your dodge to avoid damage. With all the bleeds, you can also hide behind walls/trees while your bleeds are still ticking when faceing ranged enemys. If things get hairy, you have Spectral Walk + Deathshroud to get away. For traits i go mainly Spite an Curses for longer and larger bleeds. And for larger group fights, i carry a staff to support from the back.

The idea of a drain tank is nice, but with enemy hitting as hard as they do, you can’t leech as much health/lifeforce as they do damage to you. In this game, it is all about avoiding damage, not about standing still and soaking it up.

I agree, use your Well of Suffering and Well of Corruption with dual daggers number 5 skill, you can then lock enemies into your aoe with number 3 if you need to jump back out of your aoe

You will want a lot of power for this type of build which will actually make your staff hit pretty hard as well as your DS, so switch to these when your wells are on CD.

Using a scepter is decent ranged damage but I find feast of corruption too weak when you dont have anyone else helping stack conditions on your target. I think the utility you gain with a staff is much better than scepter, and it also helps keep your DS charged.

Shoot me a message in game and we can talk necro strats. Good luck

Thanks all for your tips! Scepter/Dagger sounds nice, will try that and some of your advices.

Is a shame that health leeching is not viable I really liked how it sounded.

What about survivality?