Guild Wars 2

So I wanted to fill my 5th character slot and finally decided to drop necro in that spot…level up booked him to 80 and decided to try condi since I main a power build class.

I’ve been surfing meta build and trying to come up with a plan. I rabided up (cause full gearing off wvw merchant took 2mins) and decided upon staff for bombs shut down in groups and scepter/warhorn for single target condI?

Now this is were I get into trouble, I look at the major builds on meta and each appears to be lacking in something for a full condi load up and then there is also what utilities to put… spite signet paired with epidemic seems awesome but no builds call for it? I think I like plague for the elite. Spectral walk or locust swarm or both…and for that matter, off hand dagger or warhorn?

Anyone out there running heavy condi with success? I want to be able to help shut down boon kittens when guild runs into a boon heavy small group and to be able to melt small groups

Spite does almost no damage and people cleanse it really fast. It also has a huge tell. Epidemic is very situational. Plague does no damage, and you can now get easily inmobilized and cc’ed through it, which will make you die. Offhand dagger is really slow but has an extra transfer and an AoE. Warhorn provides swiftness, life force, and an interrupt. Both are ok.
Necro isn’t going to be killing boon heavy comps for you in WvW, because they can cleanse and boon spam faster than you corrupt. If you want to run necro, your team needs to be prepared to babysit you.

Roaming and zerging have different builds. Roaming is closer to PvP using corruption and conditions. Your rabid set will work well enoughfor that. Zerging is a staff, power-wells build people often use soldier’s or valkyrie but not condition damage.

Necromancer elites kind of suck for WvW. Plague does nothing but delay being downed. It should come with super speed. Lich is like a big, green target and is also useless. It should give fury to allies and the auto attack should be a blast finisher. Wandering flesh golem gets confused so often it ought to proc’ an AoE stun when it bumps into a target.

I run spite curse and reap for my lines with trailblazer armor and rabid everything else. Afflicted runes, hydro sigil and ice sigil. With all the chill output you will have a simultaneous burst of chill/bleed/vuln in addition to corrupted boons from spiteful signets and any other condis applied from weapon and util skills.

As for elite, i just run the shout. :/