Guild Wars 2

OK, so I’m messing around with a new necro (Mad Skullz, feel free to say hi). I’m using soldier gear (cos like, it’s teh pimpingest) and I’m doing some work to try and understand which runes/build to use.

Toughness and power

Power and tough/vit

RotV are my favourite runeset, despite the requirement to strip and re-gear after each death to reset the 2, 4 and 6 rune bonus. That 3s mistform can often bridge the gap into another DS. Svanir serves a similar function, but is much, much stronger (5s is a lot better than 3s).

So – +240 power (for the power build), or +400 toughness for the toughness build? Though the power build also has Close to Death, 400 toughness does insane things in WvW. Also the Svanir runes… phew. A last ditch DS is amazing.

I was going to go with 100p/70t food but it’s like 75s a go

One thing; are you sure you want to spend 20+ gold on 2 bloodlust runes? If not, figure out which weapon you could do away with so you have 2 swap weapons and 1 constant.

Second. Your idea about using Svanir to go from 1 DS to another is interesting. However in advanced wvw (zerg busting) its a bad idea. You need to be able to stay on your driver, especially as a heavy character. If you self root for 5 seconds and your commander decides to go left, fall back or really maneuver in any way beyond “Bomb dead center” you are screwed.

For roaming though it would get you some troll points, which is always a good thing =D

As for helping you choose…I’m inclined to go with the toughness myself. I was running something like this for awhile but moved on.

Mmm.

25 pts in DM gets you 10% T as P, which with a 2k T character is 200 P, or… about 20 points in Spite.

Still trying to work out how to exploit this to the max… I used to run 30/15/25/0/0, thinking about doing it again.