Guild Wars 2

building a necro focusing on condition damage what woudl be the best weapon/utility setup for single target damage and what would be the best for group damage such as spreading your conditions through crowds of players.

and which is the more viable option thx

In my experience, scepter/dagger & staff is best for group damage. I haven’t really found anything viable for single-target to be honest. I guess daggers / being downed half the time might be one option.

I’ve been using sceptre/dagger most of the time, have a staff as my secondary but I don’t switch to it often

Really wish people would detail whether they’re talking PvP or PvE. Anyway, here’s something I came up with just now, for PvE – it’s either near optimal or nowhere close. I also don’t understand the single vs group thing: The only thing that is different between the two is a cast of Epidemic.

Utility: Well of Suffering, Well of Corruption OR Blood is Power (not recommended), Epidemic.

Start with staff, cast 2. Then cast your wells/BiP, and recast 2. Swap to scepter, cast 1 for 5-8 seconds (if bleeding, for example from BiP, cast 4 on dagger offhand), swap to staff, cast 2, you’ve reached your max bleed stacks, cast Epidemic for group damage. Repeat.

The cool thing about Epidemic is, it only takes in account your own condition damage. So you can have 4 other people pop a bleed or two each, and no matter their spec, one spread, the 25 stacks will deal full damage (assuming you’re properly geared). In other words, you don’t have to inflict the bleeds yourself.