So I’ve been playing necromancer since release and have been deathly bored with conditionmancer and well/mark play. After going through all the combos and builds I could think of I’ve decided Dagger/Focus is my favorite besides the typical support build for playing with buddies.
Anyway, looking for anyone’s input on traits and gear, i’m not the best at min/max and I could be using bugged traits or who knows what else.
I have been playing this (and another build that is similar but not crit.) for about a week and a half now, and have been doing very well. I’m pretty unstoppable 1v1, and hold up well in team fights as long as I position well. Obviously this is an ‘I wanna stab kitten face off’ spec and not team support.
I am using 2/6 Warrior and 4/6 Eagle for runes.
Soldiers amulet + Berserker Jewel.
Might on Swap (Dagger) Lifesteal on hit (Focus)
Gain Endurance on swap (staff)
Fights usually start with staff out, so swapping to dag for might, and if I don’t win and need to escape I go staff so the +endurance is awesome.
Where can I improve? Gain free stats? Bugged Traits?
Is this tPvP? I have a hard time imagining you doing well with this build 1v1 outside of some obscure ambush circumstances in sPvP, and even then you could be doing better.
For starters, Reaper’s Precision is terrible, especially if you are going to be using a dagger, AND have spectral skills to gain life force from. You probably picked the worst trait available to you for 10 points into death magic, Dark armor is just…terrible.
You have 2 spectral skills which could do well with Spectral Mastery (as well as points into soul reaping in general for crit damage), but you have no Spectral Mastery. Spectral grasp sucks and will miss most of the time, avoid it. You’re better off with spectral wall since you want vulnerability and protection. Corrupt boon is quite bugged as well (just saying). Quickening thirst is bugged IIRC (but not for your circumstance), but you can probably do better with another trait. Maybe go warhorn as an alternate set for the locust swarm.
Now, what you really want, is either some power or some crit damage. Can’t go wrong with 6 runes of the ogre too if you are going to flat out attack.
“We just don’t want players to grind in GW2” – C. Johanson “it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun, rather than having fun”
Guild missions say otherwise.
I would probably demolish that necro if I saw that on the field. The dagger trait with spectral walk doesn’t stack so it would be max from the swiftness. I don’t understand the high precision line. That is a condition build you’re going down and yet you’re specced for power. You want to go into Spite where you’ll actually do some damage. Play with quickness on crit sigils. Quickness currently is OP.
And most dagger power builds run with wells as wells scale with power. And no soul reaping is going to get you rocked as that increases your damage with the crit and higher uptime with Death Shroud which is your defense and offense.
Also your only condition removal ability seems to be Putrid Mark, on the staff. It makes shrouded removal THAT-MUCH-MORE-IMPORTANT in your build, and even then, its not enough.
“We just don’t want players to grind in GW2” – C. Johanson “it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun, rather than having fun”
Guild missions say otherwise.
been using it for a week or two at relatively high level tPvP. Pretty much have to land immobilize for it to go well but flesh golem knockdown works too
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