Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if anyone has tested or knows what the best gear setup for a power build using DS with Axe/Focus and Dagger/Dagger?

I was thinking:
Berserker armor
P/T/V Weapons
Mix of knights and berserkers trinkets

or is it better to do berserkers weapons?

I will run with knights armour and berserker trinkets, berserker weapons…

I do knight’s armor and weapons. Some of my jewels are Knight’s and some are Berserker’s, but they all have the Berserker jewel in them. It depends on how much toughness you want, really. I like having more.

You should use the P/T/V weapons if you are willing to sacrifice crit chance and damage for more survivability.

I’ve found that a mix of P/V/T, berserker and knights gear to be optimal theoretically. Remember, our damage scales best with power and knights doesn’t have a huge amount of that. Crit also sees a little diminishing returns so after a certain point the precision becomes less valuable.

Also, the value of toughness scales with vitality so throwing in some vit from P/V/T or even P/V/CritDam gear can be very helpful for a build. You still want much more toughness then vitality as we have a naturally high HP but there is a point achievable with less then a full set of knights gear that vitality becomes more valuable.

Try and play around with the spreadsheet here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Gear-calculator-spreadsheet as it gives you a good feel for how the various stats interact.

Edit: Full knights gear does give you a nice balance between offence and defense if you can’t be bothered to mix and match. The difference in value to an optimal blend isn’t huge to be honest.

Edit#2: As for what piece to have as berserker, each piece of gear has a different ‘value’ for 1# crit damage. You can easily calculate this value by dividing the lower of the other stats on the gear by the crit damage. You want to choose gear that has as low a value as possible so you get ‘bonus’ crit damage. I believe the spreadsheet I linked has these values in it as well if you’d like a list.

I’m using PVT armour and Berserker Trinkets and Weapons.

Also, don’t forget about the new Cavalier sets that give Power, Toughness, Crit Damage.

If its not strictly for SPvP, go for another class. Basically every other class has a better output for Power crit builds than necro.