Guild Wars 2

Hi Necro board,

I’m thinking of starting a necro and want to build it for WvW. I’m mostly planning on running with the zerg. What are my options as far as traits, gear, weapons, and skills?

Check out this build. I use it and it’s really great. Good survivability, lots of AoE, very effective.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Ascii-s-WvW-Wellomancer-Build/first

The build I run is 30/10/0/0/30, using axe/focus and staff with targeted wells (corruption and suffering) and lich form. I run in a zerker/Valkyrie set up and it’s pretty ridiculously fun. If you have trouble surviving you can add in more knights or soldiers gear, or a knight/cavalier mix, but generally keeping in good positioning is all you need.

There is another spec you can try if you search for it called Ascii’s wellomancer build which is a great bet for a new player.

Try this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBmODbkRrSPTTcjfPBMpo7xjUU8wUPKH9zB-jEyAYMBZCCMZJQJwiox2GKiGriBTfSEV7NKiWtUAPsFA-w

The main burst comes from this rotation (performed quickly):

Well 1→Well 2→Death Shroud→Life Transfer

The reason you do it quickly is that you get 5 seconds of fury entering death shroud – so your wells will tick with fury even though you put them down when you didn’t have fury – also your Life Transfer will hit everyone with fury.

You want to enter Plague form and use skill #2 to chill and blind the enemy blob. Blind cuts their DPS and chill is -66% movement speed so it spreads their blob out so your zerg focus individuals.

When you get focused switch to DS to absorb damage and protect your real health pool.

You also have stability on entering DS (and DS is on a low cooldown) which is very important in WvW with all the static fields, lines of warding and hammer stun.

Roe.3679:

The build I run is 30/10/0/0/30, using axe/focus and staff with targeted wells (corruption and suffering) and lich form. I run in a zerker/Valkyrie set up and it’s pretty ridiculously fun. If you have trouble surviving you can add in more knights or soldiers gear, or a knight/cavalier mix, but generally keeping in good positioning is all you need.

There is another spec you can try if you search for it called Ascii’s wellomancer build which is a great bet for a new player.

I ran the build you’re using for a while with success. Now I decided when running in larger groups to take 20/20/0/0/30 so that I can take the Chilling Darkness trait and run a better Well of Darkness and Plague 2. When I run in smaller groups I take Lich Form and snipe squishies. I have knights armor and berserker trinkets.

Here’s the build I use these days, a mix of Knight and Cavalier. For more resistance, I just go full Knight for the armour or I switch to the Ascii build, very strong.

healer/supporter and runing in the midle of the zerg doing cleansee, heal, some dmg, debufing http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAW4djMaV6Zaea8bKA5DYP9o7xFH+wuRFGG-jkCB4hAoNRmaAgcAmKAKLqIas1NFRjV1ATpiIq2loIa1SB40YA-w

dps build http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAW4djMaV6ZaeaM8JEoHvnu4MRFGGqHuz68hA-jEDBoiCyEEAUGwEBQJPFRjtMsIasqaRWzAT1CQ3KpeeCpeDYSBorwI-w

If you want a power build, buff deathshroud because it will be your main source of damage. If zerging the best setup imo is axe/horn staff.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQUQNBHhZakRrcPTzTjfPhIz4a+l4DDD1D3Zd+QA-jEzAYrAiugIGRkKAk9iYCcIrthioxqYw0nJV5CoijsPRZVKAr2CA-w
I havent had the chance to try this, I usually go 30 10 0 0 30, which seems to be geared more towards small scale combat.

For condi build, anything but dhuumfire is good. Dhuumfire is single target.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQUQNArYWjMad7Zaia87JApCXH9Y4iDm6h5ofOA-jkCBoOCiEDgUFAEIQ5QDZNTKi1gFRjVJLRqbY6YC1SBAz0I-w

Good luck out there.