Guild Wars 2

Recently i’ve played tpvp/spvp and guess what. I can’t and again, i can’t kill a minion necromancer. I’ve tried different builds and none seem to work. Chill, criple, immobilize, really get’s in my way and guess what? Shadow step doesn’t help at all. I’m running atm a 10/30/30/0/0 build and it seems i don’t have a change against them. Please, please, and for Dwaynas sake, please, explain how do i deal with them. Any viable builds against them, any detail that helps me at least down them is welcome. Thanks in advice !

If you’re playing tPvP, the viable trait lines atm are 10/30/0/0/30 or 10/30/0/30/0, depending on the weapon set you use. For either of those, you can never 1v1 a minion master on point. Try to make use of the terrain and kite the minions around. Shortbow has a lot of pressure. Kill the Blood Fiend first, if they use that. Interrupt the necro if he tries to summon the minions again once they are dead. Overall, it’s a pretty hard matchup and you really have to make sure you don’t mess up.

I haven’t fought a lot of them, but the ones I beat basically ended up with me charging in, dropping choking gas on the group, and spamming CB in between autoattacks. The weakness, AoE poison, and damage was enough to force the necros off the point or have all of their minions die simultaneously. Watch the necro (as best you can through the forest of minions) so you don’t get hit with dark pact.

Really hard match up indeed. You cant move in for a backstab or you’ll get melted. I just used SB to possibly kill a few of his minions until backup arrived, since it’s easier to take him down on a 2vs2. And watch out for dark pact, as Maugetarr said.

Use sword/pistol – 30 points in deadly arts and critical strikes for maximum damage output will melt them.

you can also use condi build with settlers amulet or power build with Valkyrie amulet dagger storm or dead blossoms very effective against all sort of minions clones…your health will be full all the time with signet of malice equipped !

I find S/P Pistol Whip with the typical 10/30/0/0/30 focus fire on the necro can catch them unaware with enough damage to melt them (the evade is great in mitigating damage from the minions). Any of them familiar with S/P thieves can probably adjust accordingly though.