Guild Wars 2

I was looking for a build that went around the way i play my necromancer and found this
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcVczm9cmwnLMmwnLMaxGa0mMkqoRz

I hope that link isn’t too big
I was out soloing and trying to get a skill point and a person helping me said i needed to use minions or else i’m just playing support…

what do you think?

That’s ridiculous. Many necros are not minion masters. I found minions to be generally unhelpful, although I occasionally use the flesh golem in specific situations.

Minions are not nessesary.
Minions are cool, (I run a power/minion necro) but by no means is building into them a requirement.

That’s a fairly generic build, plenty of people run that. You should be fine.

That build is for PvP I’d say.

Corrupt boon sucks for PvE: enemies that buff themselves either can do it constantly or die too quickly for your corrupt boon to matter.

Plague signet is OK (if its working atm) but in situations where you can strip conditions from allies they probably can remove it easily already, not very necessary in PVE. Take spectral walk for a stun breaker + swiftness.

For that build you want more points in healing so you get siphon on hit. Then you want to be using Blood is Power and Wells. No Epidemic.

XiL.4318:

For that build you want more points in healing so you get siphon on hit. Then you want to be using Blood is Power and Wells. No Epidemic.

imo siphon on hit is weak. it returns only double digit hp points per hit from what i remember. like… 32 when buffed with 50% efficiency trait? so thats only 256 or so for a channeled x8 skill.

Sheobix.8796:

XiL.4318:

For that build you want more points in healing so you get siphon on hit. Then you want to be using Blood is Power and Wells. No Epidemic.

imo siphon on hit is weak. it returns only double digit hp points per hit from what i remember. like… 32 when buffed with 50% efficiency trait? so thats only 256 or so for a channeled x8 skill.

Siphon Builds are much more effective against multiple targets than you tend to give them credit for. Necro has many skills that create a scenario where multiple adds can exponentially increase the number of “hits” resulting in massive Siphon Heals combined with the secondary effects of the skills that create the hits.

You should spend some time working with Siphon builds and trying to turn those double digit pops into double digit waterfalls that scroll so fast you can’t see the numbers anymore.

How do you build a Siphon build? Do you have any examples?
BTW that build was just a build I tweaked it some (especially for pvp) until i suited it to my taste, but i’m more than welcome for ideas on types of builds