Guild Wars 2

bump hopefully devs will see it

Well why do you need 30 in curses for your build? so scepter conditions last longer? Meh. You can get the extra 50 points on condition damage from elsewhere.
You take 25 in toughness for the added 5% of toughness to power.
Since you do have 25 in curses you also get an additional 2% dmg for each unique condition on them.

I havent personally played this style im either all conditionmancer or all powermancer

I would go 10/25/25/0/10
Grabbing Reaper’s Might, Reaper’s Precision, Focused Rituals, Greater Marks/Staff Mastery (your choice), Reaper’s Protection, and Spectral Mastery.
Rampager Accessories, PVT Armor either with soldier jewels on your armor or runes of the undead for more condi dmg and toughness.

It depends on your playstyle. Mainly, will you be using DS offensively to stack might and increase condition damage? Or, will you use it as the “oh crap” defense mechanism?

While using the scepter it is hard to build LF.
So I would recommend using a dagger or axe for an offhand unless you want 20 points in soul reaping for marks regenerate LF.

Reaper’s Touch still does not have the proper cool down when the Spiteful Talisman Trait is being used.
Normal CD is 18. When I have Spiteful Talisman, which is suppose to reduce cool downs on the focus, Reaper’s Touch still has the same CD of 18 seconds, not the 14 seconds the tooltip says.

For my power/zerkermancer i roll PVT armor with the exquisite rubys on my armor.
full zerker accessories. I find that with the PVT armor your adding a little more your survivablitity sure you wont be hitting AS much as LastDarkness but trust me you still pack a punch.
I roll 30/0/10/5/25
I use my DS to shrug off the self-bleed from BiP
my weapons are dagger/warhorn axe/focus
spectral walk/bip/spectral grasp
still working on getting my zerker weapons, may even go pvt with weapons tho with sigil of force and precision sigil

hit and run tactics, spectral grasp and dark pact
and use your DS Fear effectively to finish them off
mostly run WvW

Hopefully the fixed spiteful talisman and the reaper’s touch CD is now correct.

I’m zeroing in on 600 hours of play just as a necro, i’ve tried every weapon combo there is except axe/dagger. All i was ask was for theoretical builds.

My belief as the axe main hander, your primary tool is retaliation. So i’ve been trying to focus on the damage output from retaliation.
pop unholy feast, then with retaliation on DS you get a stacked duration of retaliation and then ds 4 for aoe. Axe can be aoe damage, just has to work in tandem with DS

I fail to see how 75 more attack over the focus can be bad

I’m currently running this in WvW.
i have yet to see any sort of build with the main weapons being axe/dagger

I don’t wanna use scepter or staff, so… im running axe/dagger and dagger/warhorn.
axe/dagger because you get the MOST power with that setup. the dagger provides more damage over the focus and the warhorn.

I would like to see what the necro community can come up with for builds around those weapon choices. I use warhorn for the swift primarily

currently i’ve been using 10/0/25/20/15
All PVT armor. pvt axe and zerker dagger, and pvt dagger/rabid warhorn. 2 zerker rings, pvt amulet with ruby orb, 1 zerker earing and 1 pvt earing with ruby orb.
trying to use retaliation as a main weapon as well

im going to try 30/0/25/15/0 and 30/0/25/0/15

15 in vit adds to survivability, however, so does the added 15 in soul reaping for the spec armor so between those two im having issues deciding.

with 10/0/25/20/15
currently 3079 power on the axe/dagger
33% crit chance (with precision buffs)
58% crit damage (precision buff)
2492 armor
24292 vit

comments/suggestions on utilities anything will be helpful
more concerned about the axe/dagger combo tho and what the necro community thinks about it

Main thing about necro’s that i have found.
The MINOR traits. Pay close attention to them, in the curses the 2% per unique condition can stack up to and extra 12% damage boost if you simply use signet of spite on your target add the +5% damage boost in the soul reaping line when your LF is 50% or more thats 17% more damage. Put 20 more in the spite line you can have Life Blast stack might for you, or your signet on reduced cooldown and your signet can give you might upon cast. With a zerker build sure you’ll be glass as hell, but you will be a like a freakin Automatic Missile Launcher

Only critique i can say is use Life Blast more!
when some is coming at you drop the chillblains pop ds form and smack a few times with Life Blast.
As a power necro my goal is to make the opponent put his heal skill on CD before me

Soul Reaping:
Mark of Revival

When I have greater marks from the death magic trait line, the reaper’s mark is normal size. I figured since my Mark of Evasion is a “greater mark” the Mark of Revival would be “greater” as well. Don’t know if thats intended or bugged but i figured i bring it up.

Someone who is “blinded” shouldn’t be able to successfully finish stomp someone.
just sayin

Thats why i play necro.
i’m useless

then it wouldnt be strength now would it? o.O

Here an idea that didnt get a lot of attention in the suggestion sub-forum. So i thought i’d bring it here to my fellow necromancers.

“I am a necromancer, I like to switch between spectral walk and spectral grasp in the same utility spot. I would like to be able to “queue” up spectral grasp as spectral walk is on cool down. Spectral grasp will show up immediately but still have the cool down of what spectral walk was on, or as spectral walk is up choose spectral grasp and as soon spectral walk is off cool down it automatically switches.
You have to be out of battle to even be able to choose a different utility in a slot so i don’t think it would hinder the gameplay or pvp battles in any way shape or form. Even if you become into battle while your waiting for your “queue” to pop it shouldn’t be effected”

Does anyone think it would be good/helpful?

mark of evasion with greater marks works wonders.

although i do agree our regen kinda bloooows

Dont chase them. Chances are they are luring you. Nothing you can really do against d/d eles my man. you timing has to be perfect with your fears, dazes everything to take out a good d/d ele their mobility is just to beast mode. they are like thieves, they decide when to fight. They usually run away from tho after awhile

i think people just find dagger to be more effective. dagger 1 outputs more damage faster than axe 1. and i only get about 500-1k difference with axe 2 comapred to dagger 2

trust me, ive ran the axe as a necro for a good 4-5 months before ever putting it down for a dagger. Ran wvw, pve , and spvp with it, only recently the last 2 weeks did i drop the axe for a dagger.

I am about to try a dagger/warhorn and axe/focus setup again tho. I think i can deal out some decent burst for a necro with that setup

edit:
yeah tried the axe/focus and dagger/focus combo not viable. i’ll stick to axe/focus or dager/focus + staff

i run with Sigil of Fire on my focus and bloodlust or preception on my axe works beautifully, personally go with perception if your gonna go with a crit chance sigil on focus.

Can we get a Utility Queue?

For expample;

I am a necromancer, I like to switch between spectral walk and spectral grasp in the same utility spot. I would like to be able to “queue” up spectral grasp as spectral walk is on cool down. Spectral grasp will show up immediately but still have the cool down of what spectral walk was on, or as spectral walk is up choose spectral grasp and as soon spectral walk is off cool down it automatically switches.

You have to be out of battle to even be able to choose a different utility in a slot so i don’t think it would hinder the gameplay or pvp battles in any way shape or form. Even if you become into battle while your waiting for your “queue” to pop it shouldn’t be effected

However to limit it, you are allowed only one queue CD Utility swap?

It would greatly be appreciated im sure by many!

oh how the tides have turned.

FA 4 lyfe.

Avigrus.2871:

They are planning to nerf AOE damage, so expect a nerf in the next patch or two.

Great news. /sarcasm

Were condition aoe tho not direct damage.
Maybe we as condition aoe’ers instead of direct damage aoe’ers we wont get hit as much?

rglaredo.9467:

Hats off for you Dylninja …I need to try that axe/focus thing ..I seen axe dagger or horn but not focus ..we need more builds … for offence wvwvw ..

Thank you. I just do not like the horn at all same goes for the scepter, perhaps why my conditonmancer lacked in badges but i dont think so.
i understand both, just not a fan.
Horn just seems useless in my power/crit build i have signet of locust and spec walk and i have no problem keeping up.
and axe/focus just seems to fit well together, afterall they are BOTH in the spite trait line. spinal shivers, purely awesome for catch up alongside unholy feast, chill from staff and DS dark path, and our fears i hardly ever lose a target for me or my group.
today i just started with the dagger/focus in wvw and im enjoying the hell out of it so far. Im considering DROPPING my staff for a axe/focus and dagger/focus setup just to see how it goes. matter of fact i’ll try it out tonight.
However, i could see horn being a good tool with my dagger as i dark pact, set well of suffering and spam #1. Could get even more DPS if i popped Deathly Swarm a sec or two after dark pact along with cripple effect.

EDIT:
i have the same success with axe/focus as i do with dagger/focus in the badge department.
I did not like dropping the staff tho for a dagger/focus and axe/focus.
I recommend that you use either with the staff

it all depends on how you play.
i found as a conditionmancer with 1.6k condition damage unbuffed and 2k condition damage with buffs is hard to get badges. conditionmancer is GREAT for defense however, defending your group, camps, castles, and towers awesome!

i’ve been playing as a power/crit mancer lately.
30/0/10/0/30
PVT armor zerker accessories.
20k vit 2.1k toughness
3k power
32% crit chance and 62% crit damage
i switch my weapons between axe/focus dagger/focus always have staff.
i’ve seen 5k damage with axe #2 on a frequent occasion.
utilities are signet of locust and well of suffering.
my third i swap out between as a “situational” utility. mostly its been spectral walk or spectral armor.
i’ve earned about 150 badges over a span of 15 hour play time in wvw
just my two cents.

does this trait work with conditions?
an enemy is 50% below health and you apply bleed or something, does your bleed do 50% more damage?

i personally went with the condition/toughness/power karma set. only thing is you cant get any shoulders, chest, or boots with those stats i believe so you gotta grind out a dungeon i did TA

if your gonna go zerker i would go with the armor set as zerker and your accessories with toughness on it or vitality or better yet both!

i would drop Master of Corruptions for Focused Rituals if your looking for a wellcromancer, because it looks like you play with a ranged play style. if you had D/D then i wouldnt say anything but with S/D it seems to be more viable for well use.

i’ve been playing around with the fear. 6 necromancer runes for 20% fear duration, 30 spite for 30% condition duration, and Master of Terror for 50% fear duration. I have played WvW and PVP with it. I am not doing too bad at all.

I run 30/0/20/0/20.
I’ve switched between 30/10/10/0/20 and 20/10/20/0/20 however as well.
Staff main and axe/warhorn alt.
Spite i have reapers might and i switch between singet power and spiteful marks.
if i have 10 in curse i have terror so fear does damage,
death magic i have greater marks and staff regen. altho when i only have 10 in death magic i use staff regen.
and 20 for soul reaping with DS skills regen and fear lasts 50% longer
for pvp i use the carrion amulet and jewel to make up for lost condition damage.

utilities i use BiP, signet of spite, and epidemic.
elite i have plague but sometimes use lich.

Any ideas or opinions on my build would be great ^^
basically i roll up throw down BiP. signet of spite, then depending on if its solo target or multiple i use epidemic then i let the fear fest begin! sit in ds build up some might throw some more marks use my axe when viable to build up ds. i also go DS build up might then go plague if its a bunch of targets.

if i dont have BiP on utility i use signet power and sit in ds to stack might then use signet of spite still gets you about 10 stacks of might just takes a little longer

Fear is great i love it, howver, it does need to be a tad bit longer. If it was like 1.75 seconds that would awesome and realistic in a devs eyes. with 70% increase to fear with necro runes and specced into it with soul reaping that would make it just shy of 3s fear. and with a rare veggie pizza which adds an additional 40% to condition duration that would be a total of 110% condition duration, which would bring the fear duration to 3.66 seconds of fear. stacked fear that would be a nice 7.32 fear duration now that would feel like forever and looking at the numbers, i just contradicted myself and it would appear, and deemed by the community, to be overpowered haha but hey i would love a 7s+ FEAR XD

but as of now with our 1s fear with the 110% additional duration our fear is only 2.1s stacked twice it would be a 4.2s fear which is nice but it would be great if we could get it to 4.75 or even 5s

not to mention we can also go 30 in spite and get an additional 30% condition duration bringing it to 140% fear duration bringing the fear duration to 4.8s. thats a long time to not be able to do a kitten thing!

did i miss anything that adds to condition duration? is my math right-ish lol?
but would it be viable to spec into something like that? 30 in spite and 20 in soul reaping, i see a new build for me ^^ utilizing an axe and staff btw i love axe

lol i get kills in wvw all the time, and get a lot of top player kills reward in spvp

yeah i think its from mostly AC and a little from TA, i know mixed armor sets but whatever not worried about looks right now just stats.
I dont play all day everyday so for me it takes a bit longer to get to where some others are gear wise

i like 10/30/0/30
i use axe/focus and dagger/warhorn. if defending i switch out my dagger for the staff.
Spite
Reapers mark. Lifeblast grants might
Curses
Reaper Precision 33% chance to gain life force on critical.
Banshees Wail warhorn skills cd reduced/last longer
(switch this one for Focused Rituals when defending well use ground targeting)
Withering Precision 25% chance to cause weakness on crits
Soul Reaping
Vital Persistence Life force drains 25% slower while in death shroud.
Spectral Mastery Spectral skills recharge 20% faster. (in combo with Banshee Wail, pretty much endless swiftness)
Unyielding Blast Life Blast pierces and causes vulnerability.
(sometimes i switch this with Soul Marks when using staff for gaining fast LF with staff)

my armor is exotics that is precision focused with power and condition damage as secondaries with rune of the eagle attached to my armor. my amulet, rings and earings are power focused with precision and crit damage as secondaries.

My axe is precision focused with power and condition damage with Superior Sigil of Perception and my focus is superior sigil of fire.

Dagger has bloodlust and warhorn has sigil of battle.

staff has sigil of force.

Utilities
Usually Consume conditions, however if im in staff mode im more likely sitting back farther so i use well of blood to help me allies.
I always have spectral walk
between the other two slots i change between blood is power, well of suffering, signet of spite, and epidemic with plague or lich for elite

i use axe the most. with full stack of 25 on sigil of perception ive seen crits in the 7k range with axe skill #2

I have yet to play my other characters. I have 4 others lined up at character selection that i havent even logged in with. I love the versatile playstyle of the necro. I honestly feel i can do just about do anything, except for the whole burst damage thing. The necro is a DoT class no matter what build you make. Anet said the necro is about survivability, if you can survive longer than your opponent then they will either be dead or run away

I see this trending as well. The problem with people is they just wanna rush through it and do everything as fast as possible. Well, with necro’s in the group we just slow them down because we are a DoTs class whether specced for prec, condition, power, whatever you want we are DoTs.

Also, this is why, when I get into a group for a dungeon I ask them, do you want me to tank/heal, or be dps?
I have two armor and weapon sets that allow me do both all it costs me is a measly 3s and some copper and i can switch. Well rounded is mediocrity so i go all or nothing in one aspect.