Guild Wars 2

I created a asuran necro for fun the other day
“His name is Millkk, because Millkk makes for strong bones,… now ain’t that humorous?”

I was playing around with builds in PvP, even though I’m primarily PvE right now.

I’m extremely intrigued with the death shroud and it’s abilities. I was wondering if there are any viable builds surrounding the death shroud? I took out a large group of (likely inexperienced) people in PvP by myself with a combination of death shroud and AoE bleeding skills, like Grasping Dead, so I thought it was a viable build to pursue.

Does anyone have experience with experimenting with this? Any tips?

Anyone believe I’m an idiot and should try a different build? XD

Lastly, how does it fair in PvP/WvW (aside from making people run in fear, literally.)

For early pve you can do anything, same for spvp if you got stun breaks, later on id say going for wells or Crit/DS build for fractals.
Either way here:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/70626-list-of-necromancer-builds/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Epic-conditionmancer-TPvP-with-commentary/first#post1403015
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/The-definition-of-glass-cannon-tutorial/first#post1368918
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Fear-is-my-weapon-6x-fear-WvW-build

(overall any build nemesis makes is at least viable if not better than some “top” builds other classes have)

Andele.1306:

For early pve you can do anything, same for spvp if you got stun breaks, later on id say going for wells or Crit/DS build for fractals.
Either way here:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/70626-list-of-necromancer-builds/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Epic-conditionmancer-TPvP-with-commentary/first#post1403015
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/The-definition-of-glass-cannon-tutorial/first#post1368918
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Fear-is-my-weapon-6x-fear-WvW-build

(overall any build nemesis makes is at least viable if not better than some “top” builds other classes have)

What he says, We are strong in some cases, though my minions hate high level fractals. I end up going with a DS Boring build for fractals because with Agony Minons just die.

DS has a number of very straight-forward uses in builds, and then a number of more nuanced ones that I’m hardly an expert on.

The straight forward ones are going in and out of DS a lot with traits so it applies boons/removes conditions and various other “on use” effects, generally in power builds since while you are in DS you can use the 1 skill once or twice for big crits then get out and use those new toys its on entry traits gave you.

Other straight forward ones are less about on entry effects and more towards just building high power/crit damage and using DS 1’s ridiculous crit damage.

Some less obvious uses are like Nemesis’ guide that uses DS 3 for fear damage, or using a condition build that applies conditions with every crit; going into DS will give fury (more crit %) plus DS 4 is a huge AoE 9 tick ability, where every tick can crit.

Plenty more uses (using DS 2 in a dagger/wells build for gap closing) offensively, and there is always defensive use for a second, easily refillable HP bar and awesome fear access.