Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, I’ve been working on a Necro alt, and I have to go against the grain here and say how much I enjoy it! I know that I’m low level, but it’s a very different play style from my Ele. I just kind of pop condis on things and forget about them. With Ele I’m always doing so many buttony things that it tires out my hands!!

Anyway, on to the topic at hand, I’m working on a nice condi Necro build, so the gear is easily Rabid (Condi, Toughness, Precision) for simplicity’s sake. This build will be primarily for PvE. I’m not interested in really advanced builds or anything, so this is what I have so far:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQUQNArYWjMah7Zbeb87JCIFvHXRPEWwUGlC4lOA-jgCBYhERj0CJjqAkABiIAIHqIasVTFRjVdDTHjIq2crIa1A-e

Let me explain some of my choices, and then I’ll explain some of my tough decision that I want help with!

So I chose to go a spectral build for the utilities, because I read that Scepter/Dagger Staff builds have a hard time with Life Force, and it looked like I could augment Spectral skills to really help with that through traits like Spectral Attunement. If this isn’t really much help in actuality (due to not significant enough LF gain), please explain why!

I chose Scepter/Dagger and Staff because those seem like really solid choices first of all, but also because I personally like the feel of them together. I like that I can pretty easily transfer conditions with Dagger offhand, the Putrid Mark, and eat them with my heal. That’s definitely something I wanted to be strong at, since I didn’t bring along any basic condition removal. I also spent almost all my money getting a full set of the Dreamthistle weapons, which I think are absolutely beautiful. All this to say I am highly unlikely to change my weapon choices.

I didn’t want Dhuumfire for personal reasons. I really don’t like things that proc in a certain situation AND have a CD (proccing on crit and having a 10 second CD). Plus I also have read so much hate concerning Dhuumfire that I really wanted to make a Condi build that didn’t need it.

If anyone has any questions about my build, please just ask. I tried to think things through with my choices!

So now for my dilemma: It’s mostly about the Spite and Death Magic line. I wanted to go into the Spite line because I wanted the extra Condi Duration, but then I also wanted to go down the Death Magic line because of the nice staff traits (Reduction to CD on staff skills and Marks become unblockable is what I would probably take in the Death Magic line). Now I could just do both of these things if I gave up my points in the Soul Reaping line, but I really wanted to try and eek some more LF gain from my Spectral skills, because I heard it’s a challenge on Scepter/Dagger and Staff.

Please post your opinions and advice! Once again, I am a new Necro, so any advanced things might be over my head! And please be gentle if my build is really bad in the end.

TLDR: I linked my build. I’m uncertain if it’s good. Please post nice feedback. I do not want Dhuumfire. I am not planning on using different weapons for any reason. I am mostly interested in PvE.

PvE, SPvP or WvW ?

Mostly PvE, though I would like for it to be somewhat viable in WvW (which I assume a baseline decency will come from Marks, correct me if I’m wrong).

R.I.P Necro on sPvP