Guild Wars 2

Hey guys im looking for suggestions to make this build better for PVE and some feedback of what you guys think.

http://www.gw2builds.org/create/bwe_1/necromancer#2.2.0.0-3.18.19.20.1-0.20.20.30.0-7.1.2.9.12.11.1

The stats for the armor should be precision, healing Power, Vitality.
for Weapon sigil : sigil of blood and Sigil of life… i do not own a Sigil of Blood atm so havent test with it yet

Personal Experiences so far:

Currently, I am able to face tank most things and be able to kite most things. The amount of up-time i have in a fight is simply great. It allows me to actually roll around looking for mechanics rather then waiting for people to lift me off the ground so i can continue the fight. My only concern is the damage output since im using power instead of crit atm but i believe the crit will make the build better.

From the teams perspective, i am able to provide protection, debuff removal, and all the combo fields in the world with the amount of wells i provide.

I know this build might get alot of ridicule since you usually use a necro for just mass DOT damage, but i enjoy making new builds and hope to provide more insight to the necro class!

Healing power isn’t really doing you too much good here. I roll a similar build with 0/30/10/30/0 with knight’s gear (toughness/precision/power).

There are a few threads about vampiric well builds out there. It doesn’t seem like a super-common setup (perhaps due to the lack of non-PVE viability), but it is highly effective and I don’t think anyone is going to ridicule you.

why whats wrong with healing power? does it not scale well with this build?

Healing power does not increase life stealing. It only scales your healing well.

I feel dumbfounded! Thank you so much i had no idea at all!

Mark of Blood causes “Regeneration” to allies (that includes minions). Doesn’t it benefit from Healing Power?

thanemorick.7023:

Mark of Blood causes “Regeneration” to allies (that includes minions). Doesn’t it benefit from Healing Power?

Not really, healing power in general does not scale well at all, and regeneration scales even worse. I have never seen any benefit from minions with the regen on vs without it, and even on myself I have a support build I run sometimes in dungeons and my healing power is over 1000 and my regens still suck.

I roll 0/20/20/30/0 w/ wells/BiP and ptv gear, dagger/focus, staff…but I am not sure whether this is the best type of well/life steal build. I do pretty well and it’s more fun than the condition build I was using before, but I am new to all this so I may be missing a key component.

I like the ability to drop marks/wells at range and the close-range tanky type play of this build though. Anyone have any suggestions for this type of build?

@OP:
I run a life siphon/vampire build as well. Any way you make the build, you wont be doing more damage than say an elementalist, or “tanking” better than a guardian…but you’ll be middle of the road in both. You can take a few punches to the chin while everyone else needs a rez.

That said your build needs work:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQBYiY6B38m4gK8+oHEbZDD

Try that.

I have Knights gear primarily(pvt) but Im going to mix in some berserker gear since I am not really tanking.

The benefits I provide to a group are:
-I can stand in melee and tank more hits than most of the others in the group, including a warrior/guardian.
-My HP is almost always slowly going UP, not down.
-Well of power: besides the combo field it provides, is an AOE condition removal
-Well of suffering: vulnerability and combo field
-Well of darkness: combo field

I LOVE this build.
Its the only reason I play a necro right now.

cesmode.4257:

@OP:
I run a life siphon/vampire build as well. Any way you make the build, you wont be doing more damage than say an elementalist, or “tanking” better than a guardian…but you’ll be middle of the road in both. You can take a few punches to the chin while everyone else needs a rez.

That said your build needs work:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQBYiY6B38m4gK8+oHEbZDD

Try that.

I have Knights gear primarily(pvt) but Im going to mix in some berserker gear since I am not really tanking.

The benefits I provide to a group are:
-I can stand in melee and tank more hits than most of the others in the group, including a warrior/guardian.
-My HP is almost always slowly going UP, not down.
-Well of power: besides the combo field it provides, is an AOE condition removal
-Well of suffering: vulnerability and combo field
-Well of darkness: combo field

I LOVE this build.
Its the only reason I play a necro right now.

Can you redo your skill builder link plz? It isn’t coming up for me and I’d like to see what you got for traits and gear, thnx mate. I’ll try to get mine up and show it as well. There’s 2 versions, 1 for general open world pve, and 1 for dungeons, I’m sure the open pve one might work for pvp if slightly modified but never tried it. I just default to the same boring pvp builds everyone else runs for now.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQIQRAoY3djMap7lbWb07JAZGNT9MDu9OSBxGD;TIBg1yrEUJtSVliKKnMOJcyCjzJpTLQGWcKYnwTjJGA – My open world pve one

Or this one: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQIQRAoY3djMap7lbWb87JAZGNz7MDu9OSBxGD;TIBg1yrEUJtSVliKKnMOJcyCjzJpTLQGWcKYnwTjJGA
Depending on where I am (usually if the minion isn’t viable and the retaliation from healing is preferred)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQIQNAoYWjQaV6Zaea87JAJFY/80DuHX8IFBPMA;TIBg1yrEcJtS1liLqoMRJiyGlLKZUrNGWcKYnwTjJGA – my dungeon one. You use the staff as a setup, then swap to daggers and close in, when things get tight you swap back to staff for some recovering or LF building.

….yes I know my links are broken…I gotta figure out what the kitten is going on with it and post fresh ones when I get some time…