Guild Wars 2

Had the same problem today. Thanks a lot for the solution. Works fine.

I will try and answer your questions Arcades Saboth. Mainly I use daggers and staff is used only, when it is not possible to run quick enough to my enemies or when I have to deal with many trash mobs (AOE) in combination with Well of Suffering and Life Transfer (Death Shroud). Deathly Swarm is my first option to get rid of 3 conditions. Well of Power is for breaking stuns and removing conditions. With Signet of Spite I have an ability to send a lot of conditions to a boss or a tough enemy just before I switch to Death Shroud. The Charge of the Flesh Golem is quite useful to break some abilities of tough mobs and bosses. Additionally with Spite III I remove 3 conditions every time I kill an enemy.

Death Magic V and VII are set to give my staff a little boost and to improve my AOE performance (trash mobs).

I have chosen Quickening Thirst, because I did not like Signet of Locust and wanted an additional 25% of speed, which is active every time I switch to my daggers. You assumed right, that I wanted more speed during fights. This is, because I have to close up quickly when a target is moving out of the auto attack of my daggers or I have to hurry to the next enemy during the same fight. Of course it is possible, to use Ritual Mastery or another trait instead. It is just my personal preference.

Nice build. I use a vampiric build myself and know it can be very useful. Especially beginners do not care about maximum dps and are glad to have a build, that grants more survivability.

We have had the same conversation in the german forum a few weeks ago. Sad to say, that very few people understood, what we were aiming at. No one wanted to offer a new max dps build or something else. Neither do vampiric builds grant a big amount of support to the party. The most often used phrase “The best support the necromancer can offer ist it´s damage.” was the reason, why I decided to change my build to a more defensive one. A dead necromancer deals absolutely no damage and is less helpful for the party, than a surviving necromancer which deals average damage, but I use much less minions than Arcades Saboth.

Actually I am using this build (link to external page):
http://de.gw2skills.net/editor/?fRMQNAoYWjk00SbPNO2wejCihSyT4CmOGqhWAqqMqAA-ThRAwAAM/5T9HmK/soE8l+ACeH8HkCQPhRA-e

Sorry for bad English. It is a while ago, since I used this language more often.