Guild Wars 2

So I’ve recently taken to necromancer like the plague (ha! PUN!), however I’m totally new to gearing priorities and runes.

I’m playing the 30/10/0/0/30 build that’s popular. I have soldiers main armour with scholar runes for now as a general go to. I was thinking about celestial trinkets to be an all rounder in terms of damage and surviving.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I wouldn’t invest in the celestial gear if it were me. Necros don’t get a whole lot of of celestial unless you are really eyeing the precision and soon to be ferocity.

That was the goal yes. However there has been a post saying all other stats on celestial will be buffed to compensate the ferocity changes.

KarlusDavius.1024:

That was the goal yes. However there has been a post saying all other stats on celestial will be buffed to compensate the ferocity changes.

Source for that?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Celestial-Ferocity-nerf

So in terms of the other section of my question, what kind of armour and runes should I be using?

Well I did put [WvW] in the title ????.

If you’re going to be running around in WvW with that, I’d recommend Valkyrie with ruby orbs and zerker weapons. With curry butternut squash soup and master maintenance oil, you’ll hit about 30% crit rate, which is enough so that all that crit damage isn’t just wasted space. The appeal will come from using Deathly Perception, which ranks up your precision from 30% to 80%, causing life blast to hit like a truck. The whole time you’ll still be sitting behind 24k health + 18.6k LF, so you’ll have enough bulk to take many hits and survive burst.

While scholar runes are great for PVE, they actually aren’t that good for WvW. Their only advantage over ruby orbs is that whole “10% above 90% health”, which drops in an instant in a PVP environment.

KarlusDavius.1024:

Well I did put [WvW] in the title ????.

Oh my … i’m so blind, sorry! Blood made a great post above me.

I use knights armor (amulet too), cavalier trinkets, soldier staff, zerk axe/horn, ruby orbs.