Guild Wars 2

which type do u think is the best for necro?
(Condition Damage / Power / Critical Damage)

I m trying to boost my Condition Damage but 988 is as far as i can go at the moment.

Can please guide me which armor set / weapon / traits will be the best for the condition damage build?

thanks in advance!

Just so you know, in general I think critical damage will be useless without precision. Correct me if I’m wrong, but CritD only increases damage of criticals while precision increases the chance for criticals.

I think to get the most bang for your buck will be to focus CD and Power and the only set armor that offers those two (with Vitality) is Carrion. Or go CD/Pow/Precision with Rampagers.

Necros don’t have enough abilities that have the base damage and scaling required to make Power/Crit/Crit dmg worth it.

thx for ur reply guys, currently i m using rampagers (rare)… going for exotic set… maybe after exotic set my cd will boost up…

here r a list of superior runes that can boost up as well…

Rune of Grenth -CD+Frozen
Rune of the Adventurer -CD+Power
Rune of the Afflicted -CD+ Bleed+Poison
Rune of the Krait -CD+Bleed
Rune of the Nightmare -CD+Condition Duration
Rune of Orrian -CD+Poison
Rune of the Undead -CD+Toughness

Rune of the Nightmare looks good… but do u guys think frozen works well with necro?

dont forget that with more crits you get more bleeds (barbed precision), so precision is a highly suggested stat for condition builds (even if your bleed ticks wont crit the basic attack from the skill you are using to cast them will)

bleeds (and conditions in general) wont crit so crit damage is pretty low on the totem.

if you are dead you wont put -any- condition on anything so some tough/vit is required too (generally better tough as we already have a lot of hp)

condition damage is good but it scales poorly, generally is better to have more bleed stacks (again, from barbed precision) than a few more hp of damage/bleed, with the caveat of the max 25 stacks limitation obviously.

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dont forget that with more crits you get more bleeds (barbed precision), so precision is a highly suggested stat for condition builds (even if your bleed ticks wont crit the basic attack from the skill you are using to cast them will)

Barbed precision base duration is one second. You would benefit most from critical chance stat by using Superior Sigil of Earth.

@OP: you could always try using Superior Sigil of Corruption, that’s +250 condition damage right there, provided you don’t get downed.

I have 1346 base condition damage add up to 250+70 from food and Superior Sigil of Corruption. I tend to load up both those sigils on the staff and sceptre to generate the most in any WvW encounters if I get downed. (That will end up 138 a tick if I also popped BIP on someone, they will be unhappy and after an epidemic goes off, everyone will be unhappy)

Off-hand, mostly Dagger and sometimes Focus, they both get loaded up with Superior Sigil’s of Accuracy for +5% crit chance and that’ll proc a few more bleeds off on the sceptre.
Thats all done with PC crafted mix of Carrion and Rampager jewellery, Karma Armour from Orr region (look them up, figure out the mix which works best, it’ll probably be the same as mine), Mystic Wand and Dagger, Invader Focus and Horn and some exotic stick I found on the merch for a couple of gold which is a Str 985-1111 (128 power, 128 vitality and 178 condition)

Not really out to re-invent the wheel, 30 Curses, 20 Death, but 20 in Soul Reaping for the benefits that it has.

Overall, its easy enough to do and achievable for someone like me who has a working week, on late nights in a US guild without a lot of assistance, hates PvE and spends most of it in WvW giving zergs ‘teh aids’.