Will this build work
Really really weird choices.
1) Off-Hand dagger isn’t great. Warhorn or focus are better choices for damage.
2) Utilities are kinda fine I guess. You’ve got options and damage there so I guess you’ve gone for flexible choices.
You can have a completely different build in WvW and templates are coming soon™ so that’s irrelevent to your choices. PvE and WvW are completely different places and require different builds.
3) In your reaper traitline you should really go for decimate defences, get that extra crit chance in fractals and open world events. With fury from your party you will be at 100% crit chance.
4) Your gear is a bit all over the place, but it seems as though you’re trying to be a bit more tanky while still doing decent damage. You should be able to survive in Beserker gear, but if you want to get your crit chance to 30% and use Valk. gear for everywhere else that’s fine. I’d recommend trying to get a rune with Power as a major stat. Scrapper Rune is pretty good if you’re trying to be a bit tankier. Perhaps even take “Rise” utility skill to get a 50% damage reduction.
The build should be fine in organised groups, but it won’t be optimal by a long shot. (Also celestial amulet ew try get a beserker one).
Having said that it won’t hamper you too badly. I’m running this at the moment, switching out pieces for a bit of valk/Soilder for WvW.
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Using the “-condition duration” food to survive condition heavy encounters.
For an optimal fractal/dungeon build look towards people such as Brazil on Youtube. Some people like Nemesis’ builds too for the massive amount of effort put into making them.
There is no such thing as an all-rounder for Necromancer, though Berserker-Scholar excells more often in PvE. HoT is a little more aggressive so the vitality is fine.
Try this out. I did not mess with your build too much.
thanks for the guidance, it is very much appreciated!
ive gone with the scrapper runes – which were a great suggestion and im using this build at the mo, ive only used it in HoT but im actually liking it (probably because i dont know any better – but im doing damage and staying alive most of the time)
the trinkets are a bit of a hodge podge, but thats what i had in store
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if you don’t like condi then just get yourself a full set of zerker gear and use basically any power build
spite/soul reaping if you like your shroud, or spite/blood magic for group support in the form of life siphon
if you wanna do easy mode, slot in all minions with rise and use blood magic/death magic trait lines
weapons use dagger/warhorn and staff for its utility. gs is a pack of crap with its incredibly slow attacks except where loads of cleave is needed. and even then you have shroud for that
axe/focus is trash tier for everything so i wouldn’t bother with them.
for reaper, decimate defences is stupid strong especially considering you can get near 25 stacks of vulnerability if you build around it
you can use that in pretty much all pve content except probably raids cause viper horror is just so strong, even still, shroud makes you tanky enough with zerker stats and with decimate defences you can dish out some pain with almost 100% crit
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works fine for every map on hot, did fractals 100 with it (can even do lvl 90 fractal solo), dont know about wvw but well not my type of gameplay^^