Guild Wars 2

kidbs.8920:

Use ruby orbs in all of your armor and exquisite ruby jewels in your trinkets. Ignore the knight’s armor comments as those are not ideal for a true zerker build.

This exactly! With necros already high hp pool we have no use for stacking vita or toughness. As far as zerker build goes in utilities you have 2 wells that do very nice dmg and should be used by any zerker necro.

The (Blood Traits) line is what bolsters wells, and the 2 wells that we have that do direct dmg and are the best of them are aligned with power over condition.

So I’d like to give my 2cents pertaining to axe.

1. I got a exotic axe and salvaged it the same day cause the ecto was worth more than its dmg and utility that it brought.

2. Where the dagger, staff, scepter, and war horn feel like necro weapons, I’ve never felt the axe to fit very well with the necro theme.

3. My suggestion is to drop the axe all together on a necro and add a new weapon type for the necro community like a 2hand scythe etc. that gives us the aoe cleave that every other class has and would allow us to drop having to go up the death magic trait – to add a little more mediocre dmg from weapon swapping to staff for marks in conjunction with wells, as a power necro I have no use for the conditions of marks or do I really want to use them, but staff is really our only option to add in aoe dmg in a our current rotation and its poor at that.

In short: Remove axe as a weapon for necros and add a 2hand weapon like scythe with cleave abilities for 1 and 2; 3 for a gap closer sorta like guards and rangers have and 4-5 as utilities skill. simply modify the axe trait in spite to benefit the new 2handed weapon.

To answer this question the (Rabid Jewels) are a spvp only jewel and can only be obtained and used there. Sucks I know cause the stats bonuses from it would be awesome in pve/wvw/etc.