Guild Wars 2

So recently I’ve come back to GW2 and decided to give my Necro another shot. After going through the typical meta builds and getting bored quickly, I got down to Theorycrafting (and testing) a different kind of Necro.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAoYWjc0UbbnN+0wejCkBRqOT2qU0BKkgqmA-TpBBwAAeAAYOEAgOBAGOCAoLDIb/BA

Essentially what this build aims to accomplish is to be a be a nuisance in team fights, and to give breathing room for your team against condition-heavy builds while simultaneously shutting down burst builds through constant weakness uptime.

In the testing I’ve done, this performs phenomenally well in both team fights and individual, and I’ve been able to bunker successfully against up to 3 opponents so far, and having access to copious amounts of condition removal/transfer I haven’t yet found myself overwhelmed by condispam. The addition of high weakness uptime also seems to do extremely well at shutting down high burst classes like Mesmers, Thieves, and RTW Rangers.

Let me know what you think, or if you have any critiques to add!

Copied from my reddit post.

I like the idea. But have you considered using a death nova build for weakness? It would give you a bit more aoe poison and weakness while still leaving you tanky. And it should free up those points from curses to go into something like death perception. Freeing you to take an amulet that doesn’t use percision.

If aoe weakness and being able to hold your own against multiple opponents for a time is the goal. A 20606 build or a 00626 build might work as well. Using bone minions for aoe poison and weakness blasts and maybe spectral skills to round out life force generation and provide a bit more raw defense.

I do however like the build idea you came up with. I may try adapting my blood shroud build to take that some of your choices into account.