Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

So my necro recently got to 80, and i’d love to see some unique builds that work. It seems the main builds that people run are Power builds that involve Wells and Epidemic/condition builds. I’d love to see some other ones that people have managed to form and they actually work.

Bonus points if it revolves around minions or being vampiric.

Double mega bonus points if its involve a rune that nobody uses a lot.

there’s a life siphon build on youtube that seems to work very well. If I weren’t trying to come up with a D/D build I’d go for the life-siphon build.

Well, my current build is a little unique. I’d call it an “attrimancer” (attrition necromancer). Its a PVE scepter/dagger & scepter/focus hybrid build. (Yes! just one scepter with two different offhands!) All my stuff is Rare quality, no exotics (well, except the Superior Runes & Sigils).

The philosophy is to not try to be a burst build, but to outlast the enemy yet not be so defense-oriented I can’t kill anything.

Traits & skills:
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.5.2.2.13.18.0.0.0.0.106.127.125.112.128.0.0.0.302.303.0.317.322.327.0.0.0.346.0.0.363.0.0.20.30.0.10.10

Armor: Rabid (CondDmg/Tough/Prec) (you can get rare “Strong” armor with these stats)

Trinkets: Rampager (Prec/Power/CondDmg) with Emerald orbs (Prec/Power/Tough)

Weapons: Rampager (Prec/Power/CondDmg)

Sigils: Scepter-Perception, Dagger and Focus-Generosity

Runes: currently 6xRata Sum, but I may go back to 5xLich + 1xRabid Crest for more Vit.

Food choice depends somewhat on rune choice. Currently I’m testing Veggie Pizza (CondDmg/CondDur), Mango Pie (88h/sec,Vit),Omnomberry Pie (Steal Health,Prec).

In this build, Enfeebling Blood + Withering Precision + good crit chance = perma-weakness on the enemy.

I like the passive condition removals from Sigils of Generosity and Spiteful Removal.

With 20pts in Spite, both Power & CondDur are pretty good. Veggie Pizza really helps to lengthen Weakness, and the Vulnerability from Focus5; the latter gives me decent crits of 1.5-2K from DS1.

I find Life Force refill from Scepter3 & Focus5 usually quite sufficient, especially because there will be lots of conditions (due to duration) so Scepter3 will refill LF quite a bit.

In other words, in this build DS is not just for damage absorption and escape; you can actually kill things with it, even though at first glance it looks like a condition build.

BiP+Epidemic is self-explanatory. WoS gets swapped for Locust or Undead Signet, Shrapnel Mine (I’m a Charr), or Bone Minions (for the explosion dmg) based on the situation and my mood.

About 1200-1300 Toughness, 21-23k health (depending on runes & food), currently 72% crit chance.

The variables I’m still playing with are food, runes, and scepter sigil (e.g., could use Corruption rather than Perception).