Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, just recently made a new char after playing guard and ranger for a long while.

I was wondering if there are any tips for this class in terms of pvp, pve and WvW for gearing and traits.
I don’t want to use metabattle as a focus because meta is fickle, so I was wondering what kind of playstyles out there are tried and true

Necromancer is a hard choice at this moment. But also a beautiful class.
Necromancer is expecially good in WWW, where you can become a Cannon, the real dps class of a zerg. You stay with a pure Power build in the second line of the zerg and kill with the DS. When it end you have to try to recharge it faster to return in DS state and continue to deal damage.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNBmODbkjmWarpx2GOcTgLUQ/mBQLE1FQdbcGPLA-T1RDgAJXEQJYvyP29HA1NAY+LW9njnAAA-w
That’s the most valuated www build

For PvE you cna use a similar build, if you want to be a direct damage build with Dagger instead of Axe. I use this build, is good.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNBmQDbkjmWarpx2GOcTgLUz1EQ/mBQLE7FcCA-T1RDgAJXEQJYvyPQdD87PAY+LW9njnAAA-w

For spvp, you can use the same of the WWW. But Necromancer isn’t a good choice for spvp. It’s good, you can deal damage and kill someone, but all the other classes can deal better damage or survive better or give support.

If you want a condition build I can’t give you it, but in www Roaming and spvp a condition build can be very good. Also in pve, but not in dungeon or big events untill ANet don’t make it’s changes to condition damage.

Oh, I thought necros ran rabid or carrion, thanks! I’ll give that a try

necro good choice for spvp to get skilled as it is the hardest class to play in spvp right now.
because it have survivability mobility problems. after that you can reroll celestial and dps guardian faceroll. also necro is a pain to play with bad team.
if your teammates don’t care about you. enemy team just farm you for 20 mins and you cant do nothing alone other than die in 3sec and wait for respawn to go die again. cant run away cant defend yourself cant do damage with 2+ on you. i like the teamchat when none helps vs hard focus and some random write in teamchat. omg necro how you die 3 sec?

Armor: Power, Toughness, Condition Damage
Traits: many different builds, but make sure that you heal while in death shroud.
I either go full minion master with weak minions that easily die and go death nova, or build a well based necro. When wells heal you (choose that GM trait) and Death Shroud Also Heals you, and critical hits heal you, take some daggers and a staff and you will be invincible.
Runes: Undead Runes, they give you toughness, condo damage, and power. Take the trait that converts toughness to condition damage. Then watch your enemies just drop like flies all around your necro while you just stand there doing nothing

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I don’t want to use metabattle as a focus because meta is fickle

If you’ve ever been to the site you should know that ~80% of the builds on the site are not part of the meta. Besides, the meta in GW2 changes maybe once every year or 2nd year (depends on the gamemode), it’s not like you have to adapt every month.