Which utility skills to use on power necro?
In WvW the entire point of bringing a Necro is wells, without them we’re essentially crappy Rangers and Plague-bots. If you are talking roaming, I’d say bring spectral skills, probably Corrupt Boon, but it is much more open what you bring for roaming, pretty much anything that isn’t fully condi is fine.
Honestly, the wells will allow for you to burst down enemies much quicker, especially in a power build. If you are really against using them, some other good utilities are:
Corrupt Boon- Remove boons and apply pressure; it’s fairly simple. Also, you can remove stability to turn it into fear, which helps out your pressuring.
Spectral Walk- Swiftness and allows for juking (escape chasing enemies).
Spectral Armor- Stunbreaker and allows for you to gain life force at an alarming rate (negate all damage pretty much if you are in Death Shroud with the skill on).
Flesh Wurm- Allows for you to teleport + stunbreak.
Spectral Wall- Good in WvW to knock people off cliffs and to allow for better escape (people run into the wall and are feared away more often than you think).
Blood is Power- On demand 10 might which is useful for increased damage.
Well of Power- Condition removal; extremely useful in WvW
I’ve seen people try to run through spec-walls three or four times without getting the message. It’s hilarious.
But yeah, wells are pretty much your best friend. Power necro doesn’t have many other options when it comes to pumping out some serious damage.
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For zergs, just use wells and the build you’re using.
. For roaming, I prefer using well of suffering, spectral grasp, and spectral armor with pack runes, mix of zerk and vitality, ferocity, and power armor. 4/4/0/0/6. Does good against thieves, and with pack runes you have 100% swiftness uptime just from a trained warhorn. Also have a good bit of crit, 40-50%, so can prof the air and fire sigils quite often. The vitality I like because deathshroud scales with vitality, so you get more outta that as well, and going back to warhorn, you can have locust swarm up for a pretty good but, 15 out of 24 seconds, along with a 3 second daze. This build is mainly for fighting thieves though so keep that in mind.
Wells for zergs, spectrals for solo roam.
I use Spectral Armor, Wurm and Corrupt Boon on my Power Necro in tpvp. Damage isn’t any problem, but it’s not focused on teamfight as Wellspam PvP variation is.
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Spectral walk is the only utility besides wells I use. And on occassion sigil of spite (passive only) to give me a bit more power if swiftness is abundant like travelling with group/zerg and I dont need spectral walk.
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