Guild Wars 2

Hello, I am looking for a Necro build for PvE mostly, but wouldn’t mind it being viable in Zergs as roaming is not really my thing with my bad latency.

I don’t mind power or condi, no do I mind the weapons, I just wanna Get story / world / dungeons done and do it well.

Thank you for any and all input.

tope of the page,

PvE Necromancer guide done by " Spoj"

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Guide-DPS-Necro-for-PvE/first

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good stuff in there.

I read that but sounded so confusing :C I’ll go through it again – thanks alot.

I admit its a little much to digest if you don’t know what your looking for. It took me a handful of reads to get all the information out of it.

however, Spoj did a good job and was genuinely trying to be helpful and concise.

the very basic.
20, 25, 0, 0, 25

berserker gear with Scholar runes. (knights gear is you are not comfortable as glass,)
Berserker weapons, with Dagger being Primary DpS weapon, have sigil of force/night or (insert enemy) slaying. Focus and warhorn in off hand on swap, with Sigils of perception. Have an Axe handy for range fights.

Utility Bar: well of suffering for aoe melee damage, and 2 slots for your choosing. (( I run signet of spite and well of darkness usually. but its situational. your whole utility bar is really situational. and it will depend on where you are and who you are with.

If I am running dungeons and there is an Ele in the group I take out the wells. I will not mess with the fire fields. signet of spite, blood is power, and signet of locusts. If there is no Ele in the group. I have the well of suffering, well of darkness, and signet of spite or Blood is power. It really is just trying to figure out what it is that YOU want to have and can use for your advantage. Just don’t cover up some fields with your wells if you can avoid it.

elite is variable based on need. I usually have the flesh gollum out for extra Damage. but will swap to plague for dungeons and various other encounters.

hope that helps a bit.

Thank you very much, just wondering – How do you deal with no speed signet, I feel so slow :C

When I am in the open world and just bopping around I will take the locust signet.

when I am in a dungeon and actually running with a group I don’t need locusts for a boss fight. For trash skips sure, it comes down to just knowing your encounters and what You can bring to the table that will help you. Movement seed is nice but is not always required.

The other one you might look at is the DS Power Build. Not as much damage as the Dagger build suggested by Spoj but, since it’s ranged, better survivability.

30/10/0/0/30
Spite – VI, VIII, XII
Curses – VI
SR – II, VI, XII
Axe/Focus and Dagger/Warhorn

Scholar Runes in the armor (this build like no other has the potential to maintain that 10% buff since you do not take HP damage while in DS).

*In it’s initial version (still not changed on youtube) this build used to have 10 points in Death Magic for extra boon duration and might duration runes. SInce without the you will have a constant of 10 stacks of Might withiout Blood is Power and the rest of might is provided by other classes, might stacking runes are pretty useless. WAY better to make place for those Scholars here.
The build will carry you through all the content with no problems.

Bear in mind that it is not suggested for Meta speedruns. Well in my opinion Necro doesnt really have place in Speedruns at all. People seem to misunderstand that Meta is all about dealing maximum dmg. In reality however, it is all about dealing Maximum Dps WHILE maintaing good means to stay alive and WHILE providing useful utilities to a party. Necro is more of a selfish class – no good party wide utilities there and if they are…well simply other classes do it way better.

The DS Power Build is great for Living Story content, Open World PVE, normal Dungeon Runs and Fractals. Should you learn to play it well youre in for some good dps on your part. Just the pick the one that suits your needs better

Thanks heaps Emkay, I just dropped 50g to gear up for ds, any needed utilities or whatever i like?

Both Spoj’s and DS build make use for the core 3 utilities: Well of Suffering, Blood is Power and Signet of Spite. The Heal is Consume Conditions and for the Elite I’d suggest Flesh Golem.

On occasion you may swap Signet of Spite fo SIgnet of Locusts for 25% Speed Buff (useful when running Open World with not many foghts on the road and in the cicties) ora change the signet for another Well should you need more AoE to tag mobs (like the current Living Story content). Hope that helps

Thank you so much for all the help I am having so much fun with the ds build , the aoe capabilities double well with ds 4 and 5 omg