Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I did some searching on necro leveling and couldn’t find much that’s up to date with hot, just looking for some suggestions on what skills to get first and which trait lines to max first, currently using dual dagger and staff.

If you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them!!

Thanks!

Depends on what you want. If you want to be most optimal, just spam dagger 1 with sigil of bloodlust and runes that give power.

I would suggest that you pick stuff that is not optimal, because at level 80 the chance is high that you will run a more optimal build and even forget about all the stuff the class has. A not optimal bould would be using axe mainhand with dagger offhand. Or using staff as main weapon. For trait lines, use that what you unlocked last.

Just dinged 80 in my third necro tonight, and what you unlock depends on how you’re leveling. I ran staff + dagger/warhorn with signet of locust, signet of spite (great burst against veterans) and whichever well does the most damage, don’t remember the name. Spite can be replaced for the other damaging well for absolutely stupid aoe damage. The minions elite mastery has always been my favorite as he can do a ton of damage and his stun is handy, plus you don’t have to worry about cool down management.

First trait line should be spite so you can grab whatever procs might on auto attacks under 50%. It’s a great trait line for damage.

I’ve leveled as condi previously and it does excellently when you can group mobs together, but condi damage leaves something to be desired against solo mobs thanks to relatively slow ramp up times.

If you’re leveling in EotM or some sort of karma train, a standard wellomancer build is ideal, with both damage wells, axe/wh + staff.

Honestly though, necros are probably the easiest class to level the j the game thanks to how versatile they can be. You have four or five different builds that will be fast and virtually anything will still be viable. Play around with it a bit and explore what Tue class has to offer.

Use “Well of Suffering”, “Signet of Locust” and then either “Well of Corruption” or “Well of Darkness”.

For leveling and general PvE this will be good enough in all situations. For weapons Staff is always okey and then you go dagger/x for power damage or szepter/x for condition.

I think thats the most basic/easiest ‘build’.

For traits “Soul reaping” always works (but it is mostly the second or third choice for survivability). With the wells you can go “Blood Magic” first.

Thankyou everyone for the suggestions!!