Guild Wars 2

Just got a few questions as I am thinking of stopping my elementalist to pick up on my necrosis, which conceptionally is my favorite class.

1) I know pets are far from ideal currently, but just curious if their health and armor scale with the necros stats.

2) what would be the best weapon combo to maximize life leeching and damage to keep the health bar as long as possible, using shroud to get that “2nd life” and coming out of shroud with cooldowns ready to refill the life bar.

3) what traits and trainable skills would Support that the best

4)what equipment stats would be most important to Support that build, I would think maybe more toughness than bit so your heals do more

This is more for WvW group/guild play. I want to try and draw more of the attacks onto myself freeing my guildies up to focus on killing.

1)Looks like the minions don’t scale with any of your stats.They are only affected by your level, and your traits.

2)The best combo to maximize life leeching would be either dagger/focus or axe/focus.
Life leeching of necro in general is pure cr*p.You leech like 25 HP with each critical , and if you trait for 50% more, it goes up to 29.
3)I have played conditionmaster/MM/Well-o-mancer and I think the Wells is your best choice.
Conditionmaster just won’t do enough damage and die fast
MM will do very good damage when the minions don’t bug,and will survive a lot.
Wells will help you get protection almost all the time,change boons into conditions and conditions into boons etc.
My traits:
Spite 20
Death magic 20
Blood magic 30

4)I go for toughness/vit/power.

With a good well build you will have one of the biggest survivabilities in the game and make up for good support,but your damage will be medium.

In just messing around some, I’m finding I like Staff with Dagger/Focus combo. Staff has 1 life steal, Dagger has 1, focus has 1. I’ve been opening with staff and dropping my marks on the enemy, then weapon swap, hit all the close range damage spells, switch to Death Shroud, stay in that form till ive used all my life force, then rinse and repeat. So far I’m able to fight numerous monsters equal level to me that way.

Also, it seems like going 30/30 death and blood is the way to go… maximize health regain, wells, and possibly make pets better (saw one that gave them 50% more health)

Bump for some help

Thanks that answers a lot. Being still fairly new at this onething I’m not familiar with is conditions, and the importance they play in wvw. Is there a good thread anywhere, or somewhere in the wiki, that gives good info on the different conditions, their effects, and skills that swap conditions and such.