Guild Wars 2

Coming from ele, i fell in love with my aoes.

Now as i´m levelling my necro, i can´t seem to take down even few mobs at once (i can take them down allright, one by one).

Sooooo….. does anyone have effective aoe build for pve purposes, no need to say anything about pvp, as i don´t plan on doing it on my necro for a good while.
Preferrably something that works from low levels till 80.

It depends on what you’re fighting when using Necros. I usually go Wells and switch them around as I situations call for it. (Well of Darkness for Well of Corruption when fighting Dredge for Instance). You should also probably invest in Well of Suffering and go S/D with Staff Offhand and take the Greater Marks traits.

Scepter 2 and Dagger 5 along with just about all the Staff Skills save 1 will go a long way to helping you max out your AoE with wells offering nice combo areas. Before I went off to Europe I also started using Bone Minions, now and I know these things AI sucks and they do. But they are probably one of the more decent spamable damage utilities. The blast radius was often large enough to set off combo fields and their skill recharge was quick enough that I could usually get them back in short order though I’m sure everybody on here will call me silly for trying to use them due to their large tendency to well… stand still. I only got my Necro to lvl 60 though before started backpacking.

Hope that helps.

try using Deistik.7802’s build in the “post your own build” stickies. running all ruby/berserker gear, this build is amazing fer aoe. takes a bit to get use to popping in and out of DS to max out might. it works well fer farming events. all your staff ablities wit axe 3 and dagger 5. axe 3 range is huge and if stacking enuff power/crit chance/crit damage does very good damage. plus retalialtion. works really good as a leveling build. what i used fer last 10-15 levels.

I personally run all rampage gear. Because as much as I’d like to say that necros are completely condition based, investing every point into condition damage sets you up for tight situations. (i.e. when you need to kill things that are immune to bleeds.)

I use a might stacking build to build on the two damage stats, since we have BiP, using 2 strength, hoelbrak and fire runes for your armor will give you a clean 60% might duration increase. I can typically stack to 14-20 without any problems. Plus, when you use sigils of battle on both sets of weapons you get a free 4 might stack right there.

One of the best ways to AoE on necromancers is, of course, epidemic. Let me just give you a run down on what I do in a group fight – (I use scepter/dagger + staff.) I open with scepter’s 2, then 5. I then use BiP then 4. (This transfers the bleeds from BiP to your opponent. You should be able to get a quick 7-10 stacks like that. Once you do, just hit epidemic and watch a whole group disappear. Swap to staff while everything is cd, and spam all your marks, switch back to scepter immediately. (This keeps ur might stacks up.)

That’s just how I play, it’s pretty effective from an AoE point of view.

jus spec wells….dont worry about gear as much till 80..

weapons = Staff/ scepter.dagger

make a choice now. 1)do i want ground target wells (20pt curses)

2) do i want to tank hits to the face ( Deathmagic – Wells give 3 sec protection)
3) Do I want every well to heal me (30 pt blood magic)

4) 20% reduced cooldown on wells ( 20pt blood magic)

yea i used dagger/ something during early access and wells to get to 80

jus play how you want necros are strong for long aoe fights.. as long as u use staff

don’t worry about all the micro adjustments to your build till 80

if anyone has any other traits that affet wells post em up i cant think of any at the moment

yea when epidemic had near unlimited range and no LoS i liked it and would switch some aggressive wells out but not anymore same with plague signet

Staff and Scepter/Dagger
utility spells: Blood is Power, Well of Corruption, Epidemic

Gather the group up by side-strafe kiting. Hit as many as possible with Staff 2 & 3 then scepter #2 and Dagger #5. Make sure to hit at least your main target with ALL 4. Then use epidemic on him, followed by blood is power and then drop your well…continue to attack the one that you cast epidemic on, the rest will melt to DoTs. Recast the aoe’s if needed (shouldnt be).

Dont worry if you cannot hit all of them with every single aoe. Sometimes you need the chill from staff #3 or the cripple from scepter #2 in order to kite without getting hit so just hit as many as you can. Epidemic works wonders.

Also dont forget to DS > #4 for added AoE and “added health” if they catch up to you.

I forgot to add, once everything is thrown out also cast daggers #4 skill to transfer the bleed and the weakness off of you. If you have DoT’s on you still, Staff’s 4 will transfer them also as long as you are in the AoE when it proc’s.

I dont know if this sounds complicated but i find it very easy in practice.