Guild Wars 2

I’ve just finished grinding full set of Ascended gear for my Necromancer! My first and only character with Ascended pieces. I like it alot, very tanky super hard to kill with a decent amount of CC. However, damage output is a little low. I’d like to pickup some damage without scraficing any surviability or as little as possible.

I’m currently running:
-0/6/4/0/4
-Dire Armor
-Rabid Weapons / Trinkets
-Runes of the Krait
-Sigil of Geomancy and Energy in Weapons

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNArYWjc0UebvNG3wfbigBRyWfi+QgIU+NKA-T1hHABFp8DgTBwiq/cm+gAeCAgs/AUKBDAgAMzysMnZgje0je0je0O6RP6RP6RDA-w

I’m wondering about a few other builds:
-6/6/0/0/2
-6/2/0/0/6
-0/6/2/0/6

As well as perhaps switching out runes for:
-Nightmare
-Perplexity
-Balthazar

What about sigils?
-Earth
-Torment

Here is what I was thinking of switching to:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNArYWjc0UebvNG3wfbCchC63MAi2IzgJgyzYMA-TFiHABFp8D39HWU9HAOEAB8EAOTfAUKBB+EAEAABYmlZZOzAH9oH9oH9od0je0je0jGA-w

Swaping in perplexity runes, and torment sigil for confusion + torment. Also going 6/4/0/0/4 for reapers might, chill of death, dhummfire, hemo, terror, unyeilding blast, and master of terror. that way i have pretty much every condition able to be put up as well as rainting the fear traits.

Very strong solo build if not a bit of kitten build tbh.

You won’t lose too many fights on this, golem might be nice for elite but really the core of the perplex necro build is there.

Thanks for the input. Still debating on switching.

Currently my build is focused around bleed stacks and duration. I almost feel like the new build in thinking about I’m trying to do “to much”

So what do the forums think?

Keep my current setup of 0/6/4/0/4 with krait runes or 6/4/0/0/4 with perplexing runes? Or maybe nightmare / Balthazar runes?

Are you using Koi cakes? If yes, then your damage should be very high with 0/6/4/0/4. Krait runes and Koi Cakes are pretty scary. If you grab Koi cakes, you should remove Lingering Curse and grab Spectral Attunement or Path of Corruption. I would grab Spectral Attunement since you have no Wurm and you are using 2 spectrals. With regards to the runes…. you COULD swap to Nightmare (you would have 95% fear duration then, so it would be a 2-second fear on a 60 sec cooldown) or you could swap to perplexity. I wouldn’t use Nightmare personally in WvW because there’s too many people for it to be as effective… I wouldn’t use Perplexity because I feel like it’s a bit too strong in small scale fights (fighting about 5 or so other people) and not that strong in larger scale fights (fighting more than 5). But it’s up to you. Perplexity is perplexity. It’s strong. But… Krait just amplifies all your bleeds, which works anywhere besides zerg fights.

As for the Dhuumfire build… You COULD use balthazar. I haven’t tried it… but if you healed near a group of enemies, they’d really feel the pain. If you did something like Tainted Shackles, heal to cause the burn, then fear them, they would melt completely. You should use Koi cakes as well. Koi cakes + Spite traitline = 70% condi duration. You have a few other options rune-wise. You could grab Runes of Nightmare for an extra 15% condi duration, which would bring your condi duration to 85%. This means that your fears would be 85% longer (as well as every other condi). You could then remove Master of Terror and grab something else, like Soul Marks, which would give you more sustain. You could also take 10 points from Soul Reaping and drop it into Curses for Spectral Attunement, for example. I would also drop Unyielding blast because Dhuumfire applies only to the first person your life blast hits, not all the people in the line. I would also grab Weakening Shroud instead of Hemophilia. Perplexity would work on this one as well because confusion would last super long, combined with burning from dhuumfire… it could be very strong. Krait would NOT work on this one (or at least I think it wouldn’t) because the condi duration would go above 100% for bleeds so it’s a bit of a waste.

I think it’s up to you. If you haven’t tried 0/6/4/0/4 with Koi Cakes, try it and see if you feel like the damage will be higher. You could try the dhuumfire build with krait runes as well just to test it out and see how you like the burn – I found it a bit too clunky for my taste but the damage was crazy. Personally, I would use 0/6/4/0/4, but I’m biased because I’ve been using that general build for years.

6/6/0/0/2 with perplexity runes. It’s too good.

Good reply Methane. Very in depth.

Yes I am using Koi Cakes and Toxic Focusing Crystals. I’ll pickup path of corruption.