Guild Wars 2

Hadri.8125:

Why choosing axe over scepter? Scepter synergies way better than axe with condition damage.
Stack a few bleeding’s from scepter, use signet of spite and epidemic + well of suffering and let the damage flow.
Take a look at rune of the afflicted.

I have to agree with this, However I’ve swapped Well of Suffering for Corrosive Poison Cloud as when I’m in a tough area or see a large amount of enemies I can get my conditions down before hand spread them with epidemic then heal using Consume Conditions to get rid of the side effects of these skills. Got to admit it’s worked so far. As for Armor I’ve yet to get end game armor such as yours but I am using lvl80 armor with 3 superior runes of the krait and 3 superior runes of the afflicted. This gives me a nice extra set of Condition damage as well as bleed duration. My armor is Condition, Power, Vitality as I agree with a previous poster we are taking damage when Grasping dead is on CD. Despite this it is down to you how you play your character what may work for one person won’t always fit another persons play style. I’m in the DsC anyway so I can always chat to you in game or on steam about the necromancers play style.