Guild Wars 2

I’ve had an 80 necro for a while but have only just come back to playing him, so I’m pretty out of touch and running a fairly basic and probably outdated conditions set up. want something more up to date/viable for wvw and easily adaptable to pve without too much hassle. Builds, tips and tricks will be greatly appreciated! Also, what build sites would you guys recommend, there are that many that I’ve seen people use, I don’t know which are best and kept most up to date.

Cheers in advance!

Well you should run Wellomancer if you zerg much. Otherwise Condimancer.

i usually run full healing with all wells as its great for support and has great survivability
traits: 10/10/20/30/0 spite 3, curses 6, death magic 5 and 7, blood magic 2 8 and 12
armor is power toughness healing power and i run full azurite orbs. i use axe war horn, and then staff. sigil of agony sigil of leeching and sigil of restoration. full ascended trinkets toughness healing power condi dmg. my weapons are all power toughness vitality. my skills are well of blood well of sufering well of corruption , and (well of power, or well of darkness) and of course plague

Teabandit.9417:

I’ve had an 80 necro for a while but have only just come back to playing him, so I’m pretty out of touch and running a fairly basic and probably outdated conditions set up. want something more up to date/viable for wvw and easily adaptable to pve without too much hassle. Builds, tips and tricks will be greatly appreciated! Also, what build sites would you guys recommend, there are that many that I’ve seen people use, I don’t know which are best and kept most up to date.

Cheers in advance!

Builds have not changed in 4 months, and many power builds (zergging power builds) are viable from over a year ago. As with every time this question comes up, you need to be more specific about exactly what role you want to play, what size group you generally run with, etc.

The only practical build that can be equallly usedful in PVE and PVP at a very general level is power, othwerise you could in up in an all condition pity party in a dungeon and want to slit your throat.

There are variable degrees of “tankyness” the farther into that spectrum you go, the less useful you are for PVE, but the less likely you are to die in WvW if you get caught or want to roam.

Provide some specific details on your goal and you will get some specific builds, otherwise I could list about a dozen, that do completely different things in different situations.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQAQNArYWjc0Ueb3NG3wfbCQSx1PPpI7vjeU8xBD-zECB4igoOBikGk8IQZSFRjtGsIasKZER1KlYkCAipRA-w

My build is focused on aoe condi damage and lots of it
I dont focus on more than 40% duration because in wvw with all the removal available there is no point in wasting stats.
this is what I run when roaming around or with my guild. (PS. Dumbfire is Bad and you should feel bad if you use it)

for duels I still use 0/30/20/20/0 I just change out a few trait#’s and utilities depending on the class/build im going to face.

Power is key for big groups

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fen.gw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FvQAQNBHhZakjmibbpxmG%2BbUEyMu2zmZ4txBVw9RFGGA-zECBoiCiEGBiIAMzsIasVNFRjVVDQbDTFbR1BAQAYo7co7coDtUAjqMC-w

With all my buffs, food, Corruption stacks, Applied Strength, I get around 2,369 Condition Damage and 70% duration. I enjoy nuking people with plenty of toughness and health to boot.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQEQRAod7Yjc00Tb5NW2wfbCZqw3A9IXwFQM6BxcMBDA-zEDBINCyoOg0CwUFQk0gk3AZSFRjtGsIasqbYKWJVHTQ2jIpBAQAYmzcoJzSBso0I-w

Power all the way.
Guildraid.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQAQNAnYWjc00SbNNG1wfbCB6h7VLOTUhhh6x64OfIA-zUCBYgCiEEgkFBKVdQsZPJreqIasabYKXCpqYRmUAMpMC-w

Roaming
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQAQNAoYWjc0UebrN+1webCZSx34NQK2Fch6h7wOfIA-zkCBYfBEDEi+IiUBAJqKrpqCilhFRjVbDT5SIVFLykCgJhRA-w

Probably a 30/10/0/0/30 or 30/0/0/10/30 hybrid in future. But never a tanky conditionmancer, i hate them and i rly dislike the playstyle.

I generally run a spectral, high uptime death-shroud, piercing, 100% crit-chance build… might swap out crits for healing allies when the new GM traits come out.

I run this build in wvw, it’s fine vs direct damage: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQAQNAW4Yjc00SbNNW2wejiQmx1sG0D3jLnFLgqg7A-zUCBYfJDDMyYhAkFQUBBO7sIasFOFRjVrETDjIqOAwBADHIFQELjA-w