Guild Wars 2

ok so im using berserker jewellery mainly but for my gear im using knights atm.

what i want to know is do people use soldiers gear much anymore for power builds or is zerker/knights just plain better to use.

This is for pve and wvw please any insight in helpful

I use knights armor with ruby orbs and beserk accessories. I get alot of dmg this way and ok survivability as I use a spectral build using DS alot.

For WvW I play as a wellomancer, switching out utilities as needed. I have WvW invaders/soldier crests and berzerker trinkets. I sometimes go 30/20/20/0/0 but mainly am 0/20/20/30/0.

I am constantly switching utilities/weapons depending on what I’m going to do. The utilities I most use are WoS, WoC, Signet of the Locust, and sometimes use Spectral Walk or WoD. I’ve even experimented with Spectral Wall, Flesh Wurm and Spectral Grasp. My Elites I switch from Plague Form and Flesh Golem.

Typically Signet of Locust is used for speed, then I swap out for Spectral Walk/Plague Form against zergs. If I’m going solo against yaks/sentry/camp, I go with Spectral Wall/WoD and Flesh Golem.

With the current issues on top of walls and trying to ground target more people are getting very close to the edge to use skills and Spectral Grasp is less likely to be obstructed. I like Flesh Wurm as a way to hit AC on a wall that my marks can’t reach.

well i love using wells with my power build, sometimes traited to target and sometimes not, but im not sure on whether i should use solider or knights gear with zerk jewellery

I know its more hp if your against cond users and toughness against melee but you never know who your going to come up against in wvw, I like to roam solo and in small groups rather than in zergs.

as for pve i either run cond spec or power wellomacer traited to ground target.

(posted this just to give insight for anyone else that is going to give advice to know what i like to do)

why dont you go 3pieces of valk armor and 3 pieces of knights? maybe head chest and legs knights as they give most stats and the others valk for a little more HP (which scales with death shroud) and crit dmg.

just a suggestion.

For the best returns on critical damage to 3rd add-on points, you always want to go Berserker Shoulders, Gloves and Boots. My particular setup is:

Berserker Axe (5% Critical Chance Sigil)
Berserker Warhorn (5% Damage Sigil)

Knights Helmet (Ruby Jewel)
Berserker Shoulder (Ruby Jewel)
Knights Chest (Ruby Jewel)
Berserker Gloves (Ruby Jewel)
Knights Leggings (Ruby Jewel)
Berserker Boots (Ruby Jewel)

Cavaliers Amulet (Toughness Infusion)
Cavaliers Backpack (Toughness Infusion)
Cavaliers Earring (Toughness Infusion)
Cavaliers Earring (Toughness Infusion)
Cavaliers Ring (Precision Infusion)
Cavaliers Ring (Precision Infusion)

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.0|7.1g.h1.g.1g.h2|6.1c.h1h|1n.a7.1g.a7.1n.a7.1g.a7.1n.a7.1g.a7|2v.d1c.2v.d1a.3v.d1a.2v.d1c.3v.d1c.2v.d1c|0.p39.p25.k58.0|15.7|3r.48.4d.4a.4f|e

My build is a WvW build that focuses on heavy front-line tanking and disruption through Plague, Unholy Feast and Well of Corruption whilst still being able to dish out true damage (weakness immune damage) with high critical chance through Well of Power, Life Transfer and Staff skills.

There is no “one armour type fits all” in my opinion with the exception of Rabid which is truly awesome for Conditionmancers.

Soldier on necro is mostly for tank/melee heavy support setups (some picking up sentinel armor now what i personally see as a bit of a waste, but still good) as a damage dealer take Asciis setup (but swap 1 toughness and 1 precision on ring/earring so that you dont have to use the omni infusions).

Andele.1306:

Soldier on necro is mostly for tank/melee heavy support setups (some picking up sentinel armor now what i personally see as a bit of a waste, but still good) as a damage dealer take Asciis setup (but swap 1 toughness and 1 precision on ring/earring so that you dont have to use the omni infusions).

You can have 1 offensive infused ring and 1 offensive uninfused ring.

Ascii.9726:

Andele.1306:

Soldier on necro is mostly for tank/melee heavy support setups (some picking up sentinel armor now what i personally see as a bit of a waste, but still good) as a damage dealer take Asciis setup (but swap 1 toughness and 1 precision on ring/earring so that you dont have to use the omni infusions).

You can have 1 offensive infused ring and 1 offensive uninfused ring.

Why bother when you can have everything infused…

Andele.1306:

Ascii.9726:

Andele.1306:

Soldier on necro is mostly for tank/melee heavy support setups (some picking up sentinel armor now what i personally see as a bit of a waste, but still good) as a damage dealer take Asciis setup (but swap 1 toughness and 1 precision on ring/earring so that you dont have to use the omni infusions).

You can have 1 offensive infused ring and 1 offensive uninfused ring.

Why bother when you can have everything infused…

Because +5 Agony Resistance is the only difference between infused and uninfused rings were as the price between offensive and omni-infusions is quite big.

Rodyan.9241:

Great thread, but somehow i can’t manage to open gw2.buildcraft.com. Tried like every browser but still can’t open it. Any ideas ?

are you copying the link and putting it in the url or not?

Anyway, I guess Il add to this discussion since I really need an Opinion on this build:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.3|8.1n.h1.g.1g.h1j|7.1g.h14.d.1p.h15|1n.7r.1n.7r.1n.7r.1n.7r.1n.7r.1n.7r|2s.0.2t.0.3s.0.21k.0.31k.0.2u.0|u2ac.a4.0.0.u46b|0.i|3r.4d.48.49.0|e

The build is based around Melandru runes and Lemongrass soup. Pick it from the menu to see full effects of vitality and Condition duration (70+ Vitality and -65% condition duration on self + -25% stun Duration on self) . I wanted a Power build that didn’t have too much problem with being overwhelmed with condition (Heal is there, but it does have a CD).

for Comparison, this is what I am currently running:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.3|8.1n.h1.g.1g.h1j|7.1g.h14.d.1p.h15|1n.7c.1n.7c.1n.7c.1n.7c.1n.7c.1n.7c|3s.0.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1g.67.1i.67|k25.a4.a6.0.u46c|0.i|3r.4d.48.49.0|e

any input would be nice. On how i feel about the subject, I like the idea of maybe one Soldier piece, but since I usually spec into spite, I have the problem of having a decent amount of power but never a good amount of precision. Knights works because of this. If you are going down the line and getting Spectral attunement, It may be worth it to have a few soldier pieces. Really tanky though.

Ascii.9726:

Andele.1306:

Ascii.9726:

Andele.1306:

Soldier on necro is mostly for tank/melee heavy support setups (some picking up sentinel armor now what i personally see as a bit of a waste, but still good) as a damage dealer take Asciis setup (but swap 1 toughness and 1 precision on ring/earring so that you dont have to use the omni infusions).

You can have 1 offensive infused ring and 1 offensive uninfused ring.

Why bother when you can have everything infused…

Because +5 Agony Resistance is the only difference between infused and uninfused rings were as the price between offensive and omni-infusions is quite big.

You can still get the same setup of infusions as you suggested only as i mentioned it should be swapped like this:
Cavaliers Earring (Toughness Infusion)
Cavaliers Earring (Precision Infusion)
Cavaliers Ring (Toughness Infusion)
Cavaliers Ring (Precision Infusion)

So that he can have each of them ascended and then infused with their respective infusion option. Also not waste ton of optional AR.

Here’s the www build i’m using at the moment. A similar one to Ascii’s build.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.0|6.1n.9c|7.1g.h1.g.1g.h2|1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7|2v.d14.2v.d14.3v.d16.2s.d14.3s.e16.3v.d16|0.p39.p25.k58.0|0.7|3r.4d.4a.4b.4f|e

Pros: More crit chance, more power
Cons: Less Effective Health (EHP), less crit damage

and almost same damage reduction. Enjoy.