Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, i am almost finished leveling my necro (78), my 8th and final profession to be 80. Honestly first i never liked necro (because i am usually a dungeon/fractal) player and necro’s are not very good in that dps wise hence i leveled it last. But i must say i REALLY enjoyed leveling her, almost as much as i enjoyed leveling my warrior and ele.

The DPS is there, huge amounts of cc, insane survivability , never died once leveling (besides the usual fall damage deaths) with masterwork gear changing almost every 10-15 levels. I never had any problem aggro’ing groups of 5 or so of simillar level and aoe them down. When i leveled my thief, pulling anything over 2 was a death sentence.

Anyway so i am now looking at my options about what gear i want to run when level 80.
Few things, i am NEVER going to use my necro for any dungeons/fractals (i have full ascended berserk warr/ele for that), neither i am going to do any PvP (Never done any pvp in my over 2 years gw2 time). Some WvW but mostly for world bosses, Tri-Wurm/tequatl etc so i am looking at condi build. Killing husks etc…

I am thinking Rampager as necro already have tons of health (20k) and huge survivability and cc like fears/stuns/death shroud which is basically a long invulnerability and minions which can take aggro off you so i am thinking i don’t need gear like dire/carrion. Does rampager makes any sense? I don’t really see any good use for precision for a necro.

Also is Axe + Warhorn a good combo? I really enjoyed leveling with it with staff for heavy aoe.

If you really want to go conditions in open world, the optimal would be a mix of dire and rabid. The precision lets you proc barbed precision (curses adept minor) and things like frailty and earth sigils which you might take if you go wvw roaming. Scepter is a far better condi weapon so should probably replace axe. Warhorn could be ok but usually its dagger off hand and you might wanna take signet of locust for speed on world bosses.

But power necro does a pretty good job in world bosses too. As for runes and stuff, idk, the closest i came to pve condi was a hybrid build.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKcDOIgEGLU&list=FLcOtAKNyo6G6ms-QwHuEMNg&index=3 It is outdated but uses axe as wall as some rampager/celestial gear. Definitely NOT the most optimal DPS but hey, if you have fun with it, nobody is gonna notice the less DPS on tequatl because of you :P

akaCryptic.2389:

If you really want to go conditions in open world, the optimal would be a mix of dire and rabid.

No. And video is seriously outdated.
Sinister gear+pref aristorcracy runes for condition pve fun, no need to mix anything
To run around you need warhorn+banshees wail (perma swift) or locust signet.

With sinister you can play with any weapon you want. Condi builds take traditionally scepter/dagger+staff, but you can play for example axe/focus-scepter/warhorn if you like it more.
Usually its dagger/wh because of locust swarm melee range, and axe is used with focus (open with focus 4 and burst with axe2 or life blasts). Life blast with axe+axe training trait hits more than dagger.

For wvw blobs its power wellmancer and as roamer either power or condi-terror(dire/carrion/rabid)

i been running sinister sceptre/rabid dagger + zerk dagger/zerk warhorn. Drop loads of conditions then close with dagger/locust swarm