Guild Wars 2

I am looking for some advice and suggestions:

I have searched the forum for a “vampire” build but most of them were quite dated. For PvE and an occassional WWW, how effective is a vampire build? And what is the general setup for it?

Many thanks!

PvE its plenty effective, in that you won’t die, and in WvW it can be very strong because you’ll get a lot of steal from wells in zergs.

That said, its never really an optimal build. In PvE you don’t need the extra sustain, and you lose out on damage, and in zergs you get plenty of LF gain to cover your defenses. It might be a good build to use to solo camps in WvW, but that’d be it imo. You can play it for fun, but not to min/max.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNBmQDbkhmmabpxmG2bT8LUyWCBw07wQcEwFmA-TxBGwAEV+l4iAQS9nK6GA8EAst/wUlgECw8EA-e

Damage isnt very high, but you’d have great sustain through siphoning Of course for pve the gear is berserker. I used minions in the build cause i find their siphoning is very good. If you dislike them:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNBmQDbkkmiabpxmGOcUMMEStO989PMxGkA-TxBGwAEV+l4iAQS9nK6GA8EAst/wUlgECw8EA-e

Here’s another

Thanks. I will give both builds a try.

But why no stun break and using a staff in a powerzerker build? Would that be a problem?

Don’t the marks, even with a condition aspect, have decent coefficients?

Bran.7425:

Don’t the marks, even with a condition aspect, have decent coefficients?

Only Putrid Mark does (1.2 coefficient). The rest are pretty low (Chillblains scales second-highest at .5).

Staff is decent in any build, poison/chill the enemy, give yourself regen, do some dmg with #4. It’s not the main weap to use but its useful.

Switch one well for Well of Power, there is your stunbreak:)

I created one, but I still have to test it out.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQRBIhdu1IHNt0WTjjNc4mAXQmeYymQeIQkXOB-T1hEABPcSAAw83H6HM4JAsi6PlqEkn9HlfECw8EA-w

Here’s another tankier version:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQRBIhdu1IHNt0WTjjNc4moWQmO5zpQ2IQkdaB-TFiEwAPOJADV+Bw8nhnAwK1fQoEk3+Dl0PQIAzTAA-w

I personally think the knights one is better but I don t know.

Any self-respecting power necro is going to run Lich Form, seeing as it’s 1.5x a backstab each #1 at 1200 range.

DeceiverX.8361:

Any self-respecting power necro is going to run Lich Form, seeing as it’s 1.5x a backstab each #1 at 1200 range.

Not in PvE.

Bhawb.7408:

DeceiverX.8361:

Any self-respecting power necro is going to run Lich Form, seeing as it’s 1.5x a backstab each #1 at 1200 range.

Not in PvE.

Or against anyone that has reflects. I’ve seen necros down themselves and get stomped before they ever knew what was happening.

In any case, you can also do vampire minions, although I think that’s fairly standard for a minion PvP build… or at least it was at some point. I don’t keep up with the necro meta too much.

I have used this build in WvW roaming: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW4Yjc0Ucb5N+1webCchaynoJg8NDAqbj04ZB-TVSBwAbOCC7U/Rryvk7PYWJYkLIAKdPLeQAAOIBkCwclRA-w

It’s not quite as “vampiric” as the other builds, but it can be pretty effective in battle. A focus or warhorn would work well instead of the offhand dagger if you prefer those. I haven’t really tried it out in PvE content, although it should work fine for general open world stuff. You’d probably want to go with a well build for dungeons though since everything is about stacking there.

In pvp vampire wells will beat vampire minions. But minions takes less control and strategy, wells are verry hard against a good player but still possible