Guild Wars 2

I guess this would be a pve only build, although I have managed to PVP with it and toe-to-toe people with dps builds without sweating their damage, but i was probably facing scrubs, because I am certain I am terrible at pvp.

So I love how sturdy my necro is after playing a mesmer and an elementalist. I am ok with doing less damage as I tend to dig supporty type builds.

I wanted to try and make a necromancer who could dance between wells for incoming healing and shroud for a secondary health pool by using marks in an up-in-your-face type tanking technique.

Here is what I was playing with:

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/necromancer#5|0|500|3918|4143|1199|1204|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|10|1566|0|0|30|1580|2320|693|30|1256|2401|2241|3|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

So I had a question, does Plague also count as a secondary health pool, and is there any way to gain stability for fights other than Foot in the Grave? And how bad does this build suck in reality? I am only 50 so I don’t know the hell of facing risen with this build yet.

I also think I could make this less “tanky” and more supporting by swapping the traits around in Blood to make transfusion heal and give death shroud an aoe heal upon leaving it, but I don’t know if that would be as useful as absorbing the aggro and damage for the team instead, but if I was going to do that I would probably do this instead:

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/necromancer#5|0|500|3918|4143|1199|1204|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|20|1566|2331|0|20|686|2238|0|30|1256|2401|2241|3|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Sigh and the whole reason I was going shroud/well tank instead of minionmancer/siphon tank is because I had read Agony resistance annihilated minions, turns out in Shroud form you also have no Agony resistance, which is an absurdly embarrassing mistake imo. Is this still true, and if so it probably is also true for plague then, isn’t it?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Agony-Resistance-and-Death-Shroud

Can anyone confirm about the agony resist/ DS part? That seems pretty crippling.

You do have agony resistance in death shroud, it’s just that for some odd reason the agony deals double damage while in that form.

I dont run fractals much yet (working on 100% world completion, and I must suck as its been a month and dont even have 40% yet lol), however, I just switched from a conditionmancer spec to a well / tank spec. I dont even have PVT gear, I have Power VItality and Condition gear, and I still can solo Champion mobs (at least one for certain ;p)

I cant wait until I get a full set of PVT gear (I dont run dungeons much yet, my time is limited and chaotic) and see how this build rocks.