Guild Wars 2

Who says Necromacers suck?

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AOEmancer condition/power build

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Curses: 30
Death Magic: 30
Blood Magic: 10

REDONE Mark of Blood on dodge is just too powerful to pass up. This build doesn’t rely on DS as much as my previous iteration. The overall attack style remains the same though.

Attack Plan:

The staff lets you quickly turn someone into a ‘aoe bomb’. Drop BiP and CPC on him, then staff 4 then epidemic. With any luck staff 4 sucked every condition in the area onto him and you epidemic’d it around before he had a chance to react. Use the rest of your marks, dodge roll around the enemy twice for more bleeds, then if your LF is full, go into DS and run in jumping around consuming life force and using dark claw on stragglers. Or Plague form..

Plague Form: If you don’t know how to use it, here is a quick explanation. It’s a escape and or delay button. In Escape mode you use its cripple button(#3) and in tank mode you use Blind button(#2). #1 is suboptimal so don’t use it, you really do more damage with marks. Anyway, its situational; I like to use tank mode to stop a control point from flipping until help arrives. Also after I do my mark alpha I sometimes use it in group fights to kitten the enemy teams dps. Kittens…

Gear Choices:

Staff is obvious in this build.

The offhand set is for utility, it will give you 3 stacks of might + a swiftness buff and some extra aoe effect. Dagger can be used to take down structures and the immobilize + swiftness is good for catching runners. Remember you have power with this build, the dagger can be used to attack in a pinch.

Carrior plus Rampage jewel gives a nice balance of condition, power, crit and vitality. Vitality works well with DS and Plague Form. (Given how much anet wants us to take vitality…it’d sure be great if life siphoning scaled with HP HINT HINT.)

Nightmare runes synergize with Reapers Protection. Even though you are using a very offensive set of stats, you have surprising survivability if you play your cards right. Your enemy will fear you, literally.

Why is sPvP shaman and world shaman different? I reallly love my necro build in sPvP and would like to mimic it for WvW but I can’t.

Shaman armor in the regular world has Vit instead of toughness.

There are other inconsistencies too, like Knight Armor in sPvP is Vit, Power, Toughness and in world its Toughness, Power, Vit. First stat being primary.

It would be nice to have this combination for world play. The obvious quick fix would be to make Shaman stats match up. Maybe make them all match up, so you know a build you tested in sPvP can translate over into world play.

And while I’m griping, why on earth does this game pair precision with condition damage for the necro? All of its strong condition applying weapons (scepter, Staff) lack a good damage multiplier(how much benefit they derive from your attack stat). Thus they have inherently low damage and you know the multiple of a small number is a small number. So Precision is useless for such weapons.

So the best stats for a Condition necro are Condition dmg, Toughness, Healing power/Vitality

But you can’t get those stats without having to take worthless power and/or precision.

This isn’t a problem for the other classes since their primary builds are direct damage builds. Even the other ‘conditiony’ classes like thief and Ranger split their dps 50/50 between direct and condition.

http://gw2.luna-atra.fr/skills_tool/?lang=en&code=3680007b1s151tmci0u0a0u3c3d44fsgrgth1

This is another 30/0/10/0/30 Beastmaster Build.

This has served me very well in sPvP so far. Like getting first place multiple times despite running on a 1.9ghz amd and integrated graphics. So yeah.

Don’t stat crit. Stat Power and vitality. Toughness too. Maybe condition damage. Opening strike gives you a psuedo crit mechanic. Your pet crits too.

So now you have tons of survivability. You get 50% more endurance + a vigor buff on a short cd. USE IT. One time I dodge tanked a whole group for a good 20 seconds by dodge rolling forward through a guy, then lightning backfliping past them when they turn around after me, then roll through them again, then roll away, then use shortbow evade, then roll, then wolf fear, on and on.

Now when you want to kill someone, open with longbow, then switch to short bow. Rotation: Barrage, weakness, knockback, rapid fire, switch, then poison arrow, cripple, and auto attack till they are dead. Be sure to circle around them as you fire to get bleeds. The reasoning is that opening strike works best with a big attack like Barrage. It will drop weakness and crits on everyone. When you kill someone be sure to switch back to longbow and drop another barrage.

Oh, and when you swap to shortbow, do a pet swap too. Use Quickness when you can, preferably with shortbow and a good flank.

Lastly, your pet is a beast. No, I mean it, pop your pet skills and watch him get 3.8k crits. Well my wolf does anyway. Switch pets often. Each fresh switch pops out a pet with 3 stacks of might, 2 secs of quickness, and a fresh skill bar…

So that’s pretty much it. Simple and powerful build. Solid single target dps through pets and quickness, and lots of aoe effect to spread the love (and conditions) around.

Well, my BM/GS build seems to kill pretty darn fast. I constantly pet swap for quickness buff so I get aggro a lot. The quickness makes the 3rd strike evade proc a lot more. And this build IS thick with the right equipment and traits. I stood toe to toe with a Hammer guardian in sPvP and won. It was a close fight and a long fight but I did win. Any damage I lost from going tank spec I get right back with my buffed up pair of wolves, and the synergy between Quickness and Rampage as One. I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on this build so I know it works.

I’m playing this game on a poorly made Compaq CQ50 laptop with a 1.9ghz Athlon X2 and 4gb of ram. Oh and a integrated 8400g M grahpics with 256mb shared.

The heatsink for the gpu had about a mm of gap between it and the gpu with some heat foam to gap it. Hence I used a folded piece of paper held in place with a band aid to press on the heatsink from above to close the gap.

It still gets hot enough to burn my fingers. The keyboard, that is.

I run it in a window with bare minimum graphics at half sample. I get 15 fps outside, 5 in a cave, and .1 fps in a zerg vs zerg.

Kittens..