Guild Wars 2

Good day to all necromancers out there I come seeking help with my build.

I have been using necro as a storage alt for quite some time when my friend decided to start playing and I joined him on my alt because my main was parked elswhere. I immediately had a blast and felt in love with the class. I have a makeshift build I made mostly on the run and I strongly suspect it is not optimal at all (here it is: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fQQQNArdWjMaV7hbKb8bKAJFPf9UhvhekLuOTVAeA;T0AA1Cto+x8j4H7Pufk/sMYAypgXBTDA – Staff, scepter+focus, 30/0/20/10/10).

What I actually want now is a wvw-build (wvw is where my guild mostly resides). My party as of today consists of Guardian Ranger Thief Elementalist. We invade borderlands, taking out guards, camps, occasional towers and small clusters of enemies. To be of any use to party, I need to be mobile (both to escape and catch people), provide a lot of debuffs (and maybe some support? like condition removal) and NOT DIE (i guess long-range weapons are my best bet?). Can you recommend any build that can achieve that and is pretty simple to use? I am sadly lacking in actual skill department =) any tips on how to use the build will be highly appreciated.

Bonus points if the build does not use minions in any shape or form, as they are taking party buffs (we already hate our ranger enough).

you could try 20/30/20/0/0 (hybrid w/ scepter+staff) using carrion gear or dungeon obtained cond/tough/prec gear. use sigils of earth in your scepter.

or 30/30/0/0/10 for a speedy flying nuke, same gear.

you could try my juggermancer thread, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Update-28k-HP-3k-Armor-3-4k-Attack-Necro/page/2#post910631 PTV gear necro

conditionmancers do really well in WvW. less people carry cleanses, and when fighting a zerg, BiP+epi is the best thing to happen to the game.

my best advice for you would be to take out the 30 points in spite (wth?) and put it in curses. keep the 10 points in soul reaping at all costs, perma-swiftness and the extra crit+DS mod is topping.

10 in death is minimum for greater marks/dark armor (20 is cool, you probably picked staff mastery) and 10 in blood is also good for life transfer trait which allows you to bolster your team mates with AoE healing. the extra 1k hp and 100 healing power is nice as well.

my personal take on your build would be 0/30/10/20/10 with evasive mark in blood for mark of blood on dodging, use scepter/horn+ staff and use Carrion or Rampagers(DPS) for gear until you run CoF or Arah for the Cond/tough/prec gear.

edit: use runes of the afflicted mixed in with other runes to max bleeding duration to make up for lack of spite line)

- Signet of the locusts doesn’t stack with spectral walk
- Spiteful Marks instead chill of death
- Mark of Evasion… you want to attack from afar, maybe you should ditch blood alltogether and get 15 in Soulreaping for a free Spectral armor and another 5 in death for a little power boost
- Go scepter (range) or dagger (pull+root)

Though it all heavily depends on your gear choice.