Guild Wars 2

looking for a good offhand to use with a dagger on my necro and i cant decide. any ideas?

i was thinking focus for the chill/vuln?

For control our best offhand is warhorn hands down.

Personally I prefer warhorn when using dagger. #5 is great for both life force gain, additional damage (to break through things like aegis or blind) and crippling foes. And then you have an unblockable 2 second daze on #4, for really screwing over anyone trying to hide using a block skill (shelter guardians, shield wall warriors etc).
I find focus compliments axe far more though.

okay then, thanks

And then offhand dagger is almost purely a condi weapon. The only time I’ve used it in a non casual setting, is if you need some protection against projectiles (Corrosive poison cloud) but you don’t want to lose damage because of the self inflicted weakness it gives.

Warhorn for control, Focus for damage, and Dagger for utility.

Warhorn has an unblockable daze, life force generation, and both pro- and counter-kiting power. Focus scales well with Power as a stat, applies large amounts of Vulnerability, scales per boon on the target, and has synergy with traits such as Bitter Chill and Chilling Nova. Dagger gives you additional weakness uptime, a ranged blind, greater condition management, and an AoE boon corrupt.

Depends on purpose.

WH is great for small group fights due to the interrupt and swiftness access.

Dagger is amazing for large group play or aggressive power builds from the boon corruption and condi transfer which may not be run as much in traits and utilities.

Focus’s huge damage potential works well for 1v1’s.

1. Warhorn
2. Dagger
3. Focus