Guild Wars 2

So for a long time now I have been searching for a build that suits me just right for WvW and/or world PvE and casual dungeons.

I have tried conditionmancer, juggermancer, 30spite/30reaping power, and a vampire build. And I have taken my favorite aspects of all those builds and incorporated them into mine.

The Build: 0/25/25/20/0

Curses Traits: I usually run Hemo for longer bleeds, and I swap between the trait that reduces corruption skills recharge and the trait that auto casts enfeebling blood upon entering DS.

Death Traits: Pretty straight forward, I go with Greater Marks and usually Staff mastery, but sometimes I will use Dark Armor for Dagger#2 and DS4 channels.

Blood Traits: I use Bloodthirst, which really boosts your lifegain, and Vampiric Precision.

The gear for this build is easy to get. I run Knights Armor with 6/6 runes of the Undead. PVT Dagger/Dagger with PVT Staff on swap, using Sigil of Earth/Accuracy on daggers and Bloodlust on Staff. I use a PVT backpiece, and all other Accessories are Knights. All accessories have Rampager jewels.

For food buffs I use Omnomberry Ghosts, which are a big part of the survivability for this build, and the Oil that gives power.

Im actually not able to log in right now, however I will list my stats very close to what they are in game. Not going to include sigil stacks.

Attack Rating: 2900
Condition Damage: 625
Crit Chance: 53%
HP: 23000
Armor 3000
Crit Damage: 0%

So basically when I was making this build I was focusing on combining my favorite weapons(dual daggers) with my favorite utilities(epidemic, blood is power), with my favorite style of dealing damage(hybrid). I then added what is in my opinion the strongest method of survival to this build: Having very high toughness and a stream of constant healing.

Usually when I play this build, I try to keep Blood is Power up, transferring those bleeds to my target, hitting them with weakness from dagger5 and more bleeds, spreading them all with Epidemic, meanwhile dealing nice dagger1 damage. I swap between daggers and staff a lot, making the most of my mark cooldowns for poison/chill, bleeds, and fear for when im in trouble.

I can deal nice crits and at the same time deal solid bleed ticks with this build. My dagger auto attack chains usually crit for 3700ish, and bleeds tick for about 90. I can usually maintain a 5-6 stack of bleeds when attacking.

Strengths:
-Maximizes stat gains from gear via runes/traits/utilities.
-High toughness combined with lots of passive healing and condition removal makes you very hard to kill.
-Can deal strong direct damage and also pretty good condition damage(especially with Blood is Power)
-You can use almost any weapon set you want with this build. Scepter, dagger, staff, even Axe.

Weaknesses:
-Due to high toughness/cond damage/crit chance,.. this build lacks crit damage and condition duration.
-Due to not having pts in spite and using knights gear, this build lacks power(I make up for this with bloodlust sigil on my staff and gaining power from 25 death).

Thats all for now, I will probably refine this summary when I have more time, this was just to keep me from falling asleep at work.

Why not use focus/warhorn offhand?

Well I prefer the dagger for this build not only for the AE bleed stacks, but also I find it literally impossible to live without such a low cooldown condition transfer, its a big part of how I keep my HP high.

Why 20 Blood over 20 Soul Reaping/Spite?

This is something I might get hate for, as most people do not appriciate the Blood tree’s healing potential. But personally, I believe that when you combine Vamipric, with Vampiric precision, with bloodthirst, and you have a fast hitting weapon like dagger with a nice #2 ability to leech health, the healing you can put out is much better than a necro with 0 in Blood. Since I have such high toughness, this healing really shines too.

I almost consider 15 in Soul reaping to be a better build than 20 blood, as the auto spectral armor is very nice in pvp, but again, I prefer the constant blood heals.

I run nearly this exact same build as you except not as much toughness and just a tad less hp but I have a about the same attack power and a lot more condition damage so I’d like to know how you are hitting 3700 crits with your dagger? Highest I get is about 2500. My crit rating is actually a little higher than yours too, so I’m wondering what’s different to make me hit so much less than you. Oh and btw, with this build you don’t need to worry about soul reaping, so yeah let the haters hate, some people can only understand the most simplistic builds and are blind to everything else. Also running 0 in the power isnt as bad as people think, with signet of spite, blood is power, the 5% toughness to power conversion from the 25 trait, and gear you make up for it. You might wanna take out hemo for the bleeds and put in terror, I did and my damage nearly doubled when I pop DS and do a quick fear, plus I have yet to notice any change in my bleeds by taking it out.

Im not sure man, before I logged out today I was farming in Orr and I dagger chained a zombie for 990-1050-1500. It was something very close to that. My 3rd auto usually hits for 900-1000 non crit.

Yea, he meant the total damage of one dagger autoattack combo is 3700, not that he gets 3700 dagger crits.

Nice build OP. I too had a full Knight’s set for a while and experimented with a vampirism build. High toughness in gear is definitely a great starting point for necro builds. The difference between us is that you went a more hybrid build whereas I went for crit damage. That’s just a difference of preferred playstyle though, your build is great. Good work.

ooohhhh ok makes sense now lol, yeah that’s about what I’m getting although for #2 skill I can hit about 2500 with buffs going. I might consider trying knights gear, I run mostly rampagers right now with necromancer runes for lots of vitality and I usually don’t have much problem but I need to crunch some numbers and see if it might balance out for me if I run more toughness. I think i do focus more on condition dmg than you, yours seems to be a more balanced hybrid than mine, but I also built mine to be able to be swapped out on the fly (utilities and gear swap and 1 or 2 major traits) to be converted to a support build when needed.

Nice^^
I’ll test it out as I’ve done with 2 other builds too .
Let’s see what build suits me best^^