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need help with gearing

hi, im running a standard full MM build with a full set of exotic soldier armor, zerker dagger&focus/staff and ascended zerker accessory, ring and amulet, with scholar runes on my armor. im trying to get the fractals back piece. what stat should it be to maximize my survivability while still be able to tank a few hit? currently im moderately tanky, usually the last to die in my fractal party, but i feel like i can always use more tankiness since i dont have many options for healing. vampiric master is good, but its not enough to make an emergency button. at the same time, i can also use more damage. but would going for a zerker back hinder my survivability? im using exotic soldier back atm. how much do crit help for dagger and staff attack anyway?

also, should i get travelers rune when i get my ascended armor? i thinkk that 25% speed is mandatory for me. if i dont run scholar ill have to switch out a minion for signet of the locus. so is it better to stick with scholar or should i change to traveler?

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Posted by: Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046

hard to make choices for you. the meta changes every month or so .. so only invest in acended if you are running a solid build.

I personally only have ascended trinklets and will not invest anything in armor because the necro doesn’t have viable pve builds atm, same with wvw i just run with my exotic stuff untill some builds are considered basic.

Condi necro is the only build i can see being viable atm (in wvw that is) so i have some acended gear towards that, for the rest.. meh. ill wait till we actually become artrition or are at a spot where we might get some basic builds.

but i won’t see it happen atm.

PS: just grab a mm build from the forum you feel comfortable with and upgrade the gear.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ can also help paint a better picture of your build..

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Posted by: Falcon.8713

Falcon.8713

I run the same thing as you atm :p when my ascended armor is rdy I will change to full berserker, keep scholar , as a MM you prolly got Dagger+Warhorn and locust swarm is good enough for swiftness imo.. If you want a good emergency button, switch blood fiend to Consume Conditions + Use Flesh Wurm a little more and use it at a safe location so you can teleport to it in emergencies & use healing skill.. If you know +/- how to play necro you can keep up going more berserker because crit does increase dps a lot , that’s why I use
20/0/0/25/25 now for increased damage (Life blast does decent dps to if your getting on low hp and need to ‘survive’

My necromancer got upgraded to a scythe-wielding maniac.. I like it.