Guild Wars 2

I need some advice on a Tanky Power Necro build. I have already tried to construct such a build, but I am completely new to necros.
Here is my build. I have yet to hit lvl 80, so I haven’t even tested it yet.
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQRBHRhG2JGRFbWph2GMcmQgU8e7SkijJYoesOpzHC-j0CBYOFRjmsI0EBDRLVFK7BMBaIrVNFRjVxATdCRfaQ1+EFRrWKgIGDA-w

Replace the heal, it is a joke.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQRAnY4djMaF7VaabM8JEJFWzvAp49qFqHrT68hA-jUDB4LDiGzJZUEwkFgEBDRLVFK7BMBaIrVNFRjVxATfKQ6VK1+EFRrWKgIGDA-w

This would be my build

Replace SoV with Consume Conditions, i leave the other utilities up to you, SoV just sucks and simply isnt worth using. Personally trait wise i am running with:

Signet of the Locust – this helps alot with run speed and once i can afford Travelers it is getting replaced.

Spectral Grasp – Great at pulling back those trying to escape and solid at giving life force.

Spectral Walk – we lack SO much mobility that i find running with Walk over Armor to be better. I might swap them over once i get Travelers as well due to Armor being better defense

Traits wise:

Replace Signet Mastery with Axe Training, for the damage buff and lower Axe weapon cool downs

Moved the 20 points from Curses into Death Magic and picked up Shrouded Removal and Death Shiver. Weakening Shroud is Meh now that the weakness is down to 2seconds (imo) while Terror is Decent i dont think its worth 20 points in a build that has 1 fear.

With this change in traits you lose Signet Mastery which isnt as good as Axe training in my opinion as you would only get it every 48seconds anyway, Ignore SoC it REALLY sucks.

You will lose 200 Condition damage and the Precision but that is okay. In return you gain 20% Boon duration which is nice as well as 200Toughness and you lose a condition very time you go into DeathShroud which should be be as much as possible and Death Shiver is just another great way to inflict Vul on targets and combined with Reaper’s Might and Unyelding Blast you get some nice damage

In Soul reaping just 1 change, Removed Master of Terror, again kinda pointless with 1 fear and replaced it with Vital Persistence with the buff this trait got it makes DeathShroud builds A LOT better imo

On the armor side, Changed the weapons from Assassin’s to Valkyrie. Get another weapon and put Sigil of Perception on at 25stacks you will have the same amount of Crit chance as you had before

Then i just swapped a few of the accessories over to Assassin’s

Overall stats wise you are looking at:

Power: 58+
Attack: -9

Precision: 9+
Cir Chance: Unchanged

Toughness: 21+
Armor: 21+

Vitality: 128+
Health: 1,280+

Condition Damage: -200
Condition Duration: Unchanged

Boon Duration: 20% +
Healing Power: 4+

Critical Damage: 3%+
Life Force Pool: Unchanged

So the biggest change is to the condition damage, buffs pretty much everywhere else, the added health will buff up your Life Force pool a bit as well

Thnx a lot.
Do you meen something like this?
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQRBHRhG2IjWye1m2GDfCRSh18LQKevah6x64OfIA-jUDB4LFRjmiAkCBmIYIapqQZPgJQDZtqpIasKGYqTI6TpWvKQ+EFRrWKgIGDA-w

anything I missed and anything else I should change?
P.S. I forgot to add that I intend to do wvw with it. Does that change anything?

Yeah that is pretty decent, personally i wouldnt run with dagger offhand. I myself run a similar build with Axe/Warhorn and Dagger/Focus

Remember, once you hit 25 stacks of Perception you can swap the weapon to another weapon of same stats with a different sigil on it.

Also, you could swap to Travelers runes, you would lose a bit of Crit damage but you would gin condition and boon duration as well as 25% run speed which works inside DeathShroud as well and would free up that Locust signet spot.

WvW is okay, thats all i do

I overlooked that I had dagger as offhand, didn’t mean to. I will go with focus as well.
Thnx for your help.

You can go dagger offhand, as its the only offhand you can use in any build in my opinion. I would even argue its the best offhand for defensive we have (and for a condi build offensive as well).

Muchacho.2390:

You can go dagger offhand, as its the only offhand you can use in any build in my opinion. I would even argue its the best offhand for defensive we have (and for a condi build offensive as well).

It is nice, but I think focus fits more power builds and aids in boon removal.

borrok.9267:

Muchacho.2390:

You can go dagger offhand, as its the only offhand you can use in any build in my opinion. I would even argue its the best offhand for defensive we have (and for a condi build offensive as well).

It is nice, but I think focus fits more power builds and aids in boon removal.

I never said that its better then focus or warhorn in general. I only said that dagger offhand has the best defensive skills of all offhands, and that it is fine using in a power build. And he said he wants a tankier build.
In fact i prefer it to focus, because the casting times arent 1.25 seconds (focus 5).

Focus has regen as well as boon removal and chill, a very defensive line up. I guess it’s all in how you want to defend. Do you want to weaken and blind, regenerate and increase skill cd/decrease movement and remove boons, or do you want to make noise at people and run around with locusts lol

borrok.9267:

Muchacho.2390:

You can go dagger offhand, as its the only offhand you can use in any build in my opinion. I would even argue its the best offhand for defensive we have (and for a condi build offensive as well).

It is nice, but I think focus fits more power builds and aids in boon removal.

This is why i use Dagger/Focus as a set, decent regen as well as healing from Life Siphon and the Boon removal comes in VERY handy. Since the weakness nerf on #5 i find Dagger offhand to be rather Meh.

I run a 30/0/25/0/15 build toughness/power via Deadly strength and use knight/cavalier, it work well if you use spitefull vigor and ritual of protection, best use with dagger main hand.