Guild Wars 2

I’m chasing the dream of playing a Necro power build in pvp.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Power_Wellomancer

I’ve been testing different kind of idea’s, signets (obviously), minions (meh), spectral skills, shouts and corruptions. Now there have been some draft builds on Metabattle, using the Chronomancer Rune to gain quickness after casting a well. Altough these builds haven’t used a lot of wells in order to gain quickness at all. I’ve chosen these skills, traits and sigils by personal preference as I don’t actually calculate the best possible damage output / mitigation like some other people do.

Thats why I need feedback to improve the build in general.

I think you will have trouble versus condis especially from range condi pressure, so versus meta necro.

You have 2 condi cleanses to your disposal. Staying at range when the necro uses Reaper Shroud, and be right on top of him while he’s using staff/scepter allows you to avoid most conditions. Most Necro’s pop their Reaper Shroud early when they notice their health drop too fast. After that you can corrupt their stability to interrupt them.

Well of Power converts 5 conditions into boons, which is also a stunbreak, in case of emergency. Otherwise use your heal + Soul Spiral to clear about 7 condition I believe.

I think there’s a lot of things that will give you trouble with this build in sPvP…

As previously mentioned, conditions are going to wreck this hard… Also, I’m not sure how reliable Well of Power is as a stun break since it has a cast time? Seems like a lot of common cc chains would drop you before you had a chance to lay it down.

Also, I get why you picked Blood, but I think with a Power build, you’re going to have a hard time pressuring/downing anyone with a defensive build unless you take Spite. Speaking of Spite, Blighter’s Boon fairs much better with it.

And I dunno, if the whole point of this build is sort of trying to get quickness from your chrono runes, wouldn’t the Greatsword benefit most from that?

The point of quickness is the spikability and healing generated trough lots of hits in a short amount of time. Wells have extremely fast cast times (For Necromancers), as for the stunbreak, it breaks stun immediately before casting the well.

After some practice, I find these matchups easy or hard:

• Mesmer – Very hard (Teleports out of wells, lots of CC)
• Druid – Hard (Stealth resets while high pressure trough pets)
• Revenant – Medium (Very mobile, staff 5 one shot, easy ground denial, boons to corrupt)
• Thief – Medium (Very mobile, easy ground denial)
• Warrior – Medium (Tons of stuns and condispam, low mobility, boons to corrupt)
• Necromancer – Easy (Low mobility, easy to lockdown)
• Engineer – Easy ()
• Elementalist – Easy ()

I will look into the sigils you mentioned.

I haven’t done much PvP since HoT release so the following build is probably not great. Still, I thought I’d see if I could help at all so I put this together

At the very least, give Axe/Dagger a try if you think the build isn’t good. I don’t see many people running that and yet it’s a very effective weapon combination.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

I haven’t done much PvP since HoT release so the following build is probably not great. Still, I thought I’d see if I could help at all so I put this together

At the very least, give Axe/Dagger a try if you think the build isn’t good. I don’t see many people running that and yet it’s a very effective weapon combination.

Yes I really love axe 2, especially with quickness. Although I’m not a big fan of dagger offhand.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQRBHbhG2JHNQ3mY1mg5mA9mYpWwg6aBgZQ8WcMeGpGDzhqFA-TJRGABAt/A/lBW4kAAwTAAA

I use that build in sPvP and find it really good.
Good condi clean, high damage and good survavibility (for a necro).
I don’t use stunbreak, but that’s why there’s so much CC in this game that frequently break a single stun don’t change my life. Use the shout and the RS3 if you want stability.
You can anyway chose to use Spectral Armor or Plague Signet instead of one shout (rise or suffer for example).

I tried that more in unranked than in ranked, but I was able to win a 1vs3. They was really bad, but they was 3 (that just ended another fight, but with more or less full hp).
I’m anyway able to win some 1vs1 against classes like dh, reve, thief, ranger and warrior, classes that kick our a*s easy and fast.

I use the axe/focus more than everything and swap to dagger/horn only to active the wh 4 to daze or 5 to obtain lf and cripple, or eventually the dagger 3 to immobilize someone and make my team kill him, making him unable to follow me or easier to hit witht he RS5, that is a really huge hit on a dps build.

I made it as a for fun build, but it’s good and work. It’s not the best build ever, but you can try it.

Silv your build is probably one of the best builds for a solo necro.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBHhF6kjGocTsbTwvGgeTsULYQdtAQDgaMMHKDxbxx4ZE-TpBFABFt/ADHBA1PEAA8AAa4EAgVZAA

massive HPs in this build, lots of stun breaks, lots of stabs. Can sub out GS for D/W and swap Wh for Focus on axe (or D for more condi clear). Wurm for mobility but if you would rather be a full bruiser go for the unblockable shout. Avoid builds that can perma protect/heal like eles (you wont loose but the fight will never end).

i like the wurm variant simply because any +1 situation is bad for necro (even with access to 50-60k HPs)

equal skilled players this build can handle 1v1 duels very well (even meta necro). Lots of boon corrupts with Ax#3 + Spite GM trait (7s CD). Overall the effectiveness of the build is not anywhere near the condi poisonmancer builds for Solo/duo que. But running power builds is always fun! Use Shroud#2 to position yourself in fights, i like to use GS as it has a longer skill range w/ high shroud renewal skills but D/Wh can still work dependent on playstyle.

cheers!