Guild Wars 2

Hello Necro friends. I’ve been working on my Champion Phantom title, and doing it as mostly a power Necro. There are times it’s really tried my patience, though. I was doing Fearmancer a bit, too, but it doesn’t have the effect it used to, which made me sad. Anyway, what kind of builds are you guys having success with in solo queue? I have yet to try MM. I honestly don’t see a lot of MM in solo queue, so I figured it wasn’t the best route. Advice is appreciated. Thanks!

It seems what you need isn’t a build per se, but a team that compliments your build… Despite you saying that you want it in SoloQ, I think you should try and form a team of which you can play with on a daily basis – this’ll ensure so many more wins…

Although MM doing well in solo play, you are a complete waste of time for your team since you (most of the times) lack the mobility to assist points quickly, and you cannot do anything usefull another necro spec can, namely boon removal/corruption… I am one of the last to recommend a MM build since it is pretty much insulting to see a class that can provide so much do so little (usually bunker, or afk at home)

What you also might need to learn is to do what, at what time… You can spam your staff skill at one place (as I see many people do), but if you are against me, I will literally /laugh and dodge through them, proceeding for a kill… Know that you, no matter what necro, are suspicable to certain setups and classes… Most of the time classes with a lot of CC’s…
In respect to your team, you really shine the most when you come “unnoticed” – enter first and you are dead…
Find the classes who will have the most trouble with you – Engineers, Thieves, Mesmers and Warriors after berserker stance have a lot of trouble if you can keep them from outsmarting you…

It would also work if you were to post the builds you have tried so that people can come up with more reasonable feedback… Despite “Power Necro” being a thing, the term is really vague as there are almost a dozen of itterations of said build… “Fearmancers” have been divided in several specs as well after the nerf from Dhuumfire (which was needed), so there are multiple specs of that as well…

In respect to the question of which build I have the most succes with – I use a pretty standard Power Builld in SoloQ which rips people apart since most people on SoloQ nowadays seem to miss more than half a brain and just stand there as they get autoattacked by a Lich…

You can do pretty well in soloq with the standard dhuum terror build, nothings better than making someone run at a wall for 6 seconds.

My power build is 6/2/0/0/6
VI X XII
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II VIII XII

The condition build I was using was 0/6/4/0/4
II IX XII
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II IX

The only issue I really have with my condition build (aside from it not being what it used to be) is Dark Path not being reliable at times. With my power build, I die pretty fast if I’m not careful. I don’t really want to play MM, I’m not a big fan of minions, really.

Same builds I run.

I run a spectral power build. Its pretty decent at 1v1s and with spectral walk you can be fairly mobile as well.

Right now I’m using Well of Corruption as a utility, and it’s doing pretty well. I’m running a condi build, also. The Well really helps, since this meta is so boon-heavy.