Guild Wars 2

First off I just want to say that I have A TON of respect for necromancer players now. They have to work soooo hard to accomplish what other classes can do much easier. Heck my Condition Spec Engineer can be about the same amount of dmg with more survivability/CC. And a good chunk of the weapons suck, I only use the staff for stomp/revive interrupts. And to think a week ago I thought Necromancers were sort of ridiculous because I had to go through like 3 healthbars to kill some of them.

This build is probably nothing new at all but I decided to post anyways. I played through several different necromancer builds and none were working for me, either because I just sucked at it, or the opponents didn’t care they just rolled through me like nothing. While I played through the different builds I kinda focused on what the Necromancer can do better at than any other class. And that was Boon Stripping, Necromancers can boon strip like a mofo, making bunkers go down waay too easy.

Umm the runes don’t really matter,in fact, you can totally turn away from the revive aspect of the build, I just use it when I get an organized team.

This build isn’t really meant for pubs 8v8 or 5v5, but actual organized teams, if you pub this build many headaches will be had. I think this build shines best if you are going against a heavy bunker team.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNArdWjMaZ6xbia87JgJFkPe0DiHOZKFu/OA;ToAAzCpoOyck4I7RujkHNIYSC

You can’t be a support necro with Wells without using ritual of protection. Your build is pretty bad in all honesty, ground targeting Wells is a waste of a trait considering curse trait line has some of the necro’s best traits. Weakening Shroud is such a basic trait for any necro, even though it’s bugged and doesn’t apply the correct bleeds, it’s still incredibly good.

The whole “look at my traits for ressing people, i’m so op” thing just doesn’t work, it just means you have traits that do nothing for the vast majority of the time and without any +healing the WoB on revive is useless, since you only get the HoT from it, which scales very well with healing power.

Im actually doing quite well against certain setups with this build, and from my experience the WoB on revive actually does the upfront burst heal

and upon looking at the well of protection trait, you are right, i didn’t know WoP also applies protection to allies as well, gonna incorporate that

Against certain set ups? You need to run a build that will always function. If you want to play a support type role I recommend a build like this

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=;044Z;2I-J0D4wJkJ0;9;5JJJ;213-13-27;2a3m6;2jwmAjwmA9cL

Last 10 trait points can go anywhere, even in blood for the WoB on revive if you think it’s worthwhile…

Jenia.2418:

Im actually doing quite well against certain setups with this build, and from my experience the WoB on revive actually does the upfront burst heal

and upon looking at the well of protection trait, you are right, i didn’t know WoP also applies protection to allies as well, gonna incorporate that

hmm its only 3 seconds tho screw protection ;D, i tried what you did also make a build mainly focused on healing and ressing went pretty good in spvp ritual of life is simply awesome imo

think i used a 30 blood 10 dm 10 soulreaping build in there. stability is very important in builds like this to land your life transfer res people with stability and stomping sometimes the best way to help your team is not by healing them or ressing them but to take a threat away as soon as its down

consider taking up signet of undeath raising up to 3 people can be a game changer even with the long cooldown its def worth it.

oh yea life transfer is really good also it heals anyone near you for 9×292 hp

@aga

not neccessarily, one can easily log out and switch to another character mid fight which is exactly what this build is to me, go into tourny, find out they got a huge bunker team, log out and log into my necro. And reviving could very well mean the difference between winning or losing a fight/game and experienced teams know that.

If guild wars 2 didnt come with the ability to switch characters, i might not even be playing necro at all tbh.