Guild Wars 2

In the event that you’ve been looking for a hybrid build to replace the now-forgotten Mercenary’s spec from SPvP, this may be the build and video for you. I put a little bit of extra effort into editing this video, so as always feel free to ask questions, tell me what you think, and enjoy!

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Necromancer has an interesting place in the game where many of its damaging abilities also apply conditions, meaning that at any given time having both Power and Condition Damage can be a strong way of differentiating your damage, which can be useful for different matchups such as against Warriors and Guardians, but worse against other matchups such as the Necro mirror. In all, I find this build to be very entertaining to play; it plays very much like a traditional Condition Reaper build, just with some added punch and spike on a lot of your shroud abilities and a couple of weapon abilities. I stat-balanced this build to more or less mimic the now-nonexistent Mercenary’s Amulet in WvW, however having the additional stat points and greater flexibility allowed me to even further balance out its defensive and offensive stats. It’s hard to say whether or not you ever truly have the correct amount of Power compared to Condition Damage when creating a hybrid build, however I think the survivability stats are more or less in the right place.

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBLhZ6kZTodTszGwbTgeTsgLYxVxu4YMarlv+AQXtAwBA-TFjHQBC4IAgQlCA7BAQPVb2w+DLSNBypPAAnAAgoErIKL0oSwAcIACNEAYVlVVCBsYNA-w

I really wanna see people do these necro outnumbered fights with power

Nice vid

Ragion.2831:

I really wanna see people do these necro outnumbered fights with power

Nice vid

I’ll see what I can pull together for the next video ;P

Glad you enjoyed.

Nothing more embarrassing than losing an outnumbered to a single necro. Nice job, but it doesn’t change my opinion on Necro needing improvements.
What server was that? JQ?

Cecilia.5179:

Nothing more embarrassing than losing an outnumbered to a single necro.

Well, he’s basically playing Procmancer with Mercenary Stats. That’s pretty cheesy…

I tried the same build with Demolisher Stats (= power build) a few months ago… unfortunatyly it did just work against bad opponents (but these got totally wrecked).

Cecilia.5179:

Nothing more embarrassing than losing an outnumbered to a single necro. Nice job, but it doesn’t change my opinion on Necro needing improvements.
What server was that? JQ?

Necro can absolutely use some tuning in certain spots, but this is a testament to the fact that Necro can be done just fine in appropriate cases. Also yes, I am currently on JQ after being payed to move here by a couple guilds; T1 is still the worst time in WvW by miles, but T2 isn’t that bad.

KrHome.1920:

Cecilia.5179:

Nothing more embarrassing than losing an outnumbered to a single necro.

Well, he’s basically playing Procmancer with Mercenary Stats. That’s pretty cheesy…

I tried the same build with Demolisher Stats (= power build) a few months ago… unfortunatyly it did just work against bad opponents (but these got totally wrecked).

I’m a huge theorycrafter, and I’ve been playing what people are only just recently playing and referring to as “Procmancer” for months now. Also yes, I will absolutely put on the hipster glasses for this one because I take pride in my ability to make/find builds before just about anyone else that plays this class. I started using it primarily on Power builds as a way of making up some of the Condi management that you lose from not running Staff, and also to help out-trade opponents with the respectable Weakness uptime and Impairing Condition spam, and found it to be quite successful. I actually found it to be very in-tune with base Necromancer and quite a respectable build to play if you ever feel like going and playing base Power Necro again (you can find that video on my channel as well). Spiteful Spirit has easily been one of my favorite traits in the past 8 months, definitely my favorite GM in Spite.

You can say it’s cheesy, but isn’t almost everything in WvW? If I go roaming with it and it isn’t powerful in some meaningful way, then I die to everything that is. That’s just the nature of the game.

I don’t say you copied Procmancer (how should I know?!). I also did not copy it.

I ran Spite/Curses/Soul Reaping Signet Power Necro before HoT Release so a logical step was to try Spite/Curses/Reaper. But it only works on condition builds as it is much easier to keep up pressure. Running power stats you need shroud for sustain. Until tody I found not a single non-Soul Reaping power build that’s viable when you are on your own – not one!.

I really like running Spite+Curses. All these procs… everything is cool, the visual effects, the condi overload, the proc sounds. But not on power. Either Spite for raw damage or Curses for debuff and corrupt. SR and Reaper are mandatory.

If the next specialisation will give significant sustain that’s not just building Life Force like Reaper, then a solo play power necro can maybe swap Soul Reaping for sth. else.

KrHome.1920:

I don’t say you copied Procmancer (how should I know?!). I also did not copy it.

I ran Spite/Curses/Soul Reaping Signet Power Necro before HoT Release so a logical step was to try Spite/Curses/Reaper. But it only works on condition builds as it is much easier to keep up pressure. Running power stats you need shroud for sustain. Until tody I found not a single non-Soul Reaping power build that’s viable when you are on your own – not one!.

I really like running Spite+Curses. All these procs… everything is cool, the visual effects, the condi overload, the proc sounds. But not on power. Either Spite for raw damage or Curses for debuff and corrupt. SR and Reaper are mandatory.

If the next specialisation will give significant sustain that’s not just building Life Force like Reaper, then a solo play power necro can maybe swap Soul Reaping for sth. else.

Don’t worry, vocal tone is obviously difficult to show on a forum, but I wasn’t being confrontational in the slightest, simply showing you the toner I have through my jeans when it comes to theorycrafting and making builds. I don’t entirely agree about Soul Reaping or Reaper being mandatory, however, but that’s ok. Here’s hoping the next elite specs are pretty sweet~~