Guild Wars 2

Hi, so about 1-2 months ago I got my necromancer to 80, and stopped progressing in the story because my necro was getting pounded in orr by two mobs at any time. I was a conditionmancer, focusing on spreading condis to mobs and switching to DS to steal life force. Worked beautifully while leveling but once I hit Orr I had so many problems. I was getting creamed when i would take on more than one mob. I eventually and literally said “kitten it”.

Then came “the patch”. I took two weeks off, came back and leveled a warrior, who just hit 80 last night. I figured I would try to finish the Necro’s story..

Respeccted to a vampire build, focusing on life siphons via crits and life siphons via wells. The nature of the build, where I put my traits, gave me a lot of power/toughness/vitality so I can take a few punches. Weapon set, intially, was D/D but tried D/Wh. Both are equal in my opinion.

I took on 6 or 7 lvl 80 risens without much issue. I soloed a veteran risen giant to about 50% without the Flesh Golem(he was on CD).

I see a lot of people here thinking that life siphons and vampire builds are weak, I disagree. It stored a LITTLE faith in the necromancer class for me. I am liking this build because it allows me to be semi-tank. When I have time, maybe I’ll post the build.

let me guess, 20 t 30 points in blood, with precision gear (either knights or rampagers) utilizing dagger mainhand and omnomberry ghosts or something similar that gives 66% chance to siphon on crit.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQRBIbdG2IhWyezmmG9eCQSB2QPpgbwhekrtSD;TsAA1UFZKSUktIXRyiWbMsYHyEEA (if you get bad link copy paste it) This is what I use and I just LOVE it, locust can heal for up to 3k, BF heals 400-600 each hit, golem hits like a second dagger ,offers you full buffs-condition removal, and of course the charge.
Play with that build a bit and let me know if you like it.

I believe it was 20 in curses, 30 in blood, 20 in death magic

prec/vit/toughness
d/d

no food buffs

cesmode.4257:

I believe it was 20 in curses, 30 in blood, 20 in death magic

prec/vit/toughness
d/d

no food buffs

so i pretty much got it right. knight’s gear with 30 points in blood.
you’d get 300 more healing proc’ing on your crits if you used the food buff i stated.

d/d to proc bleeding.. i hope you have a sigil of earth on your mh dagger.

btw, the 20 in death could be lowered to 10 and you could use that to pump 10 in spite or soul reaping. sr: perma swift or DS goodies, spite: might ramping w/ DS1 trait + condition duration add.