Guild Wars 2

New to Necro and after reading a lot of posts/watching video’s I have come up with a power build which my or may not be useless so i’m looking for input from experienced players.
This is for single/small group WvWvW play

Dagger/whorn
Spite 30 – Death shiver – Spiteful spirit – Reapers blast
Curses 15 – Withering precision
Soul reaping 25 – Unyielding blast – Near to death

• can change CURSES to 20 for banshee call and reduce Soul reaping to 20*

Well darkness+suffering+spectral grasp (can swap for spectral wall)

Knights armour (for power/toughness) – Dolyak runes (for bonuses and regen)
Bezerker jewels/rings/amulet – for crit damage
Weapon upgrades – Accuracy +blood lust

The idea is to tab in and out of Ds for the bonuses, D3, drop wells, Wh5, d1

Would this work ok? of am I making an obvious rookie mistake? (maybe too much in ds attack as i’ll only be tabing in-and-out of it for bonuses)

If you are looking for a build to tab in and out of DS for the bonuses, then go 10/20/10/0/30. Bonuses you get for tabbing in and out: Spiteful Spirit in Spite will give you retaliation for 3s, Furious Demise in Curses gives you 5s of Fury, and Shrouded Removal in Death Magic will remove a condition. The 30 points in Soul Reaping is to take Near to Death for a 5s cooldown on all those bonuses.

You must be looking at a really, really outdated build calculator…Death Shiver isn’t in the spite line, Withering Precision is 30 points and so is Near to Death, you can’t get them with just 15 or 25 points in those lines.

As for the rest, Knight’s + Berserker’s is a good choice for the build, especially since you’re getting extra crit damage from the Soul Reaping line. Weapon set is good too.

Yeah, it was from the early days:-(
Shame they had to mess up the traits so much… makes my build useless now with 13.5 crit chance …
Ok back to the drawing board :-)

Shame to give up “Foot in the grave” but I have to agree if you’re really into maximizing your shroud bonuses “near to death” is the way to go.

Its the only stability we get outside of a form change, so you have to time your ds right going the foot in the grave route.