Necromancer PvE | Dungeon Scepter/Dagger, Axe/Focus | Damage Nemesis' Necro Damage Hybrid

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Summary

Note: This is NOT MY BUILD. It's the build detailed by Nemesis in his "Ultimate Damage Hybrid 2.0" video. Go watch that for more details, rotations, etc.
I just made the guide here because seriously, who's going to watch an 80 minute video?


I. Weapons and Skills

Rabid Scepter
  • Weapon Strength: 895-1010
  • Condition Damage: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Toughness: 85
Rabid Dagger
  • Weapon Strength: 924-981
  • Condition Damage: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Toughness: 85
Berserker's Axe
  • Weapon Strength: 986-1205
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Focus
  • Weapon Strength: 832-883
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Spear
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Rampager's Trident
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Precision: 120
  • Power: 85
  • Condition Damage: 85
  • Death Shroud10
    Death Shroud. Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
  • Blood Curse½
    Bleed your foe.
    Damage: 118Bleeding: 4.5 s (170 damage)Range: 900
    • Rending Curse
      Bleed your foe.
      Damage: 118Bleeding: 4.5 s (170 damage)Range: 900
    • Putrid Curse
      Poison your foe.
      Damage: 168Bleeding: 4.5 s (170 damage)Poison: 6 s (336 damage)Range: 900
  • Grasping Dead¾ 10
    Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area.
    Damage: 270Crippled: 7 sx3Bleeding: 10 s (398 damage)Radius: 240Range: 900
    • 0
    • 0
  • Feast of Corruption¾ 10
    Strike your target, dealing additional damage and gaining life force for each condition on them.
    Damage: 371Life force: 8% + 1% per condition.x2Torment: 4 s + 1 stack per condition.Range: 900
    • 0
    • 0
  • Deathly Swarm¼ 18
    Unleash an insect swarm, blinding multiple foes. Transfer three conditions to your target on a successful attack.
    Damage: 208Number of bounces: 3Blind: 6 sRange: 900
    • 0
    • 0
  • Enfeebling Blood¾ 25
    Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area.
    Damage: 168Weakness: 10 sx2Bleeding: 10 s (850 damage)Radius: 240Range: 900
    • 0
    • 0
  • Consume Conditions1¼ 24
    Corruption. Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed.
    Healing: 5,240Heal per condition: 724x5Self Vulnerability: 4 s
    • 0
  • Well of Suffering¼ 35
    Well. Target area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting vulnerability.
    Damage (5x): 1,220Duration: 5x2Vulnerability: 5 sRadius: 240Pulse: 1 sCombo Field: Dark
    • 0
  • Blood is Power24
    Corruption. Bleed yourself to gain might for yourself and nearby allies while bleeding your target.
    Damage: 130x8Might: 8 sx2Bleeding: 30 s (2550 damage)x2Self bleeding: 10 s (850 damage)Range: 1,200
    • 0
  • Epidemic1 16
    Corruption. Apply vulnerability on yourself. Spread conditions (up to 25 stacks) on a target foe to all nearby foes.
    x3Self vulnerability: 6 sRadius: 600Range: 1,200
    • 0
  • Lich Form 1 180
    Spectral. Assume the form of a lich for a brief time.
    Stability: 3 s (per pulse)Life Force: Grants 15% when it ends.
    • 0

II. Traits

Adept Master Grandmaster

III. Stat Specifics & Effects

Primary Stats

  • Health 22852 (+3640)
  • Vitality 1280 (+364)
  • Armor 2370 (+534)
  • Toughness 1450 (+534)
  • Attack 2639 (+727)
  • Power 1643 (+727)
  • Critical Hit 42% (+42%)
  • Precision 1790 (+874)

Secondary Stats

  • Bleeding Duration 20% (+20%)
  • Condition Damage 1112 (+1112)
  • Condition Duration 70% (+70%)
  • Critical Damage 33% (+33%)
  • Damage 996 (+0%)
  • Defense 920 (+0)
  • Experience from Kills 20% (+20%)
  • Ferocity 504 (+504)
  • Healing Power 364 (+364)
  • Life Force Pool 10% (+10%)

Boons

  • Aegis
    Block the next attack.
  • Distortion
    Allows mesmers to evade attacks for some time.
  • Frenzy
    Increases damage taken by 25%. It typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Frosty Armor
    Chills foes that hit you.
  • Fury
    20% critical chance increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Haste
    Regenerate endurance at 50% effectiveness when under the effects of this skill. It's typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Invulnerability
    Prevents the target from taking damage or receiving conditions. It is also placed on rallied players for one second.
  • Might
    X damage per attack increase. Stacks intensity.
  • Protection
    33% damage reduction. Stacks in duration.
  • Quickening Zephyr
    Prevents healing. It typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Quickness
    Makes all skills and actions 50% faster.
  • Regeneration
    Regenerates X health per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Rejuvenation
    Regenerates health. This effect is exclusive to the guardian profession through the Virtue of Resolve.
  • Resistance
    Resistance temporarily negates the affected target of all effects caused by conditions.
  • Retaliation
    Does X damage to an opponent each time they hit you. Stacks in duration.
  • Smiting
    Causes every fifth attack to apply burning. This effect is exclusive to the guardian profession.
  • Stability
    Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, or feared.
  • Stealth
    Allows the user to be invisible to enemy players and avoid being spotted by enemy NPCs.
  • Swiftness
    33% movement speed increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Vigor
    Faster endurance regeneration. Stacks in duration.

Conditions

  • Agony
    Agony is an effect unique to Fractals of the Mists that removes a percentage of the player's health every second and reduces received healing by ~50%.
  • Bleeding
    Bleeding is a stackable condition that deals damage over time.
  • Blind
    Causes the target's next hit to miss instead.
  • Burning
    Inflicts X damage per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Chilled
    Reduces movement speed and skill recharge by 66%. Stacks in duration.
  • Confusion
    Inflicts X damage each time a foe uses skill. Stacks in intensity.
  • Crippled
    Crippled is a condition which decreases movement speed by 50%. Stacks in duration.
  • Fear
    Causes the target to run directly away from the caster.
  • Immobilized
    Immobilized is a condition which prevents movement and dodging. Victims also can't turn. Stacks in duration.
  • Poison
    Inflicts X damage per second. Reduces outgoing heals by 33%. Stacks in duration.
  • Slow
    Slow is a condition that reduces the activation time of skills and abilities.
  • Taunt
    Taunt is a control effect that forces the affected target to run towards the source of taunt with all skills except stun breakers disabled while using their auto-attack skill.
  • Torment
    Deals damage every second; deals additional damage if moving; stacks intensity.
  • Vulnerability
    Increases damage the target takes by 1%. Stacks in intensity.
  • Weakness
    Causes 50% of attacks to be glancing and reduces endurance regeneration by 50%. Stacks in duration.

Control

  • Break Stun
    Stun break is an effect which can break control effects on a character.
  • Daze
    Interrupts and prevents the target from using skills for a period of time.
  • Float
    Forces the affected target(s) to move towards the surface.
  • Knockdown
    Interrupts and causes the foe to be unable to move or use skills for a short duration. Knocked down foes fall to the ground.
  • Launch
    Interrupts and tosses a character into the air.
  • Pull
    Shortens the distance between the user and the foe by drawing one of them to another. If a foe is pulled, this can result in an interrupt.
  • Push
    Physically pushes foes away from the player and interrupts them.
  • Sink
    Forces the affected target(s) to move away from the surface.
  • Stun
    Interrupts, immobilizes, and incapacitates foes for a short duration.
  • Teleport
    Teleport to target location.
  • Teleport
    Teleport (alternatively, flash) is a mechanic that causes the user or target(s) to instantly move from one location to another.

Fields & Finishers

  • Dark Field
    Dark Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Blindness
    Leap Finisher: Blindness
    Projectile Finisher: Life stealing
    Whirl Finsher: Leeching Bolts
  • Ethereal Field
    Ethereal Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Chaos Armor
    Leap Finisher: Chaos Armor
    Projectile Finisher: Confusion
    Whirl Finsher: Confounding Bolts
  • Fire Field
    Fire Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Might
    Leap Finisher: Fire Shield
    Projectile Finisher: Burning
    Whirl Finsher: Burning Bolts
  • Ice Field
    Ice Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Frost Aura
    Leap Finisher: Frost Aura
    Projectile Finisher: Chilled
    Whirl Finsher: Chilling Bolts
  • Light Field
    Light Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Retaliation
    Leap Finisher: Retaliation
    Projectile Finisher: Remove Condition
    Whirl Finsher: Cleansing Bolts
  • Lightning Field
    Lightning Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Swiftness
    Leap Finisher: Dazing Strike
    Projectile Finisher: Vulnerability
    Whirl Finsher: Brutal Bolts
  • Poison Field
    Poison Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Weakness
    Leap Finisher: Weakness
    Projectile Finisher: Poison
    Whirl Finsher: Poison Bolts
  • Revealed
    Revealed is an effect applied when stealth is broken, for example by entering combat or exiting a Shadow Refuge circle prematurely.
  • Smoke Field
    Smoke Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Stealth
    Leap Finisher: Stealth
    Projectile Finisher: Blindness
    Whirl Finsher: Blinding Bolts
  • Super Speed
    Activate your slick shoes, enabling you to move at superior speeds.
  • Water Field
    Water Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Healing
    Leap Finisher: Healing
    Projectile Finisher: Regeneration
    Whirl Finsher: Healing Bolts
Combo
  • Blast Finisher
    Blast Combo Effects

    Dark: Area Blindness
    Ethereal: Area Chaos Armor
    Fire: Area Might
    Ice: Area Frost Aura
    Light: Area Retaliation
    Lightning: Area Swiftness
    Poison: Area Weakness
    Smoke: Area Stealth
    Water: Area Healing
  • Leap Finisher
    Leap Combo Effects

    Dark: Blindness
    Ethereal: Chaos Armor
    Fire: Fire Shield
    Ice: Frost Aura
    Light: Retaliation
    Lightning: Dazing Strike
    Poison: Weakness
    Smoke: Stealth
    Water: Healing
  • Projectile Finisher
    Projectile Combo Effects

    Dark: Life stealing
    Ethereal: Confusion
    Fire: Burning
    Ice: Chilled
    Light: Remove Condition
    Lightning: Vulnerability
    Poison: Poison
    Smoke: Blindness
    Water: Regeneration
  • Whirl Finisher
    Whirl Combo Effects

    Dark: Leeching Bolts
    Ethereal: Confounding Bolts
    Fire: Burning Bolts
    Ice: Chilling Bolts
    Light: Cleansing Bolts
    Lightning: Brutal Bolts
    Poison: Poison Bolts
    Smoke: Blinding Bolts
    Water: Healing Bolts

IV. Food, Armor, Trinkets & Upgrade Items

Food Nourishment

Rare Veggie Pizza
Duration: 30min
Condition Duration: 40%
Condition Damage: 70
Experience from Kills: 10%
  • (30min)
  • Condition Duration: 40%
  • Condition Damage: 70
  • Experience from Kills: 10%

Utility Nourishment

Master Tuning Crystal
Duration: 30min
Gain Condition damage equal to 6% of your toughness
Gain Condition damage equal to 4% of your vitality
Experience from Kills: 10%
  • (30min)
  • Gain Condition damage equal to 6% of your toughness
  • Gain Condition damage equal to 4% of your vitality
  • Experience from Kills: 10%

Armor & Runes

Norgu's Mask of Balthazar
  • Defense: 73
Superior Rune of Divinity
  1. +8 to all stats
  2. +10 to all stats
  3. +12 to all stats
  4. +14 to all stats
  5. +16 to all stats
  6. +18 to all stats
Norgu's Mantle of Balthazar
  • Defense: 73
Superior Rune of Divinity
  1. +8 to all stats
  2. +10 to all stats
  3. +12 to all stats
  4. +14 to all stats
  5. +16 to all stats
  6. +18 to all stats
Norgu's Coat of Balthazar
  • Defense: 314
Superior Rune of Divinity
  1. +8 to all stats
  2. +10 to all stats
  3. +12 to all stats
  4. +14 to all stats
  5. +16 to all stats
  6. +18 to all stats
Norgu's Gloves of Balthazar
  • Defense: 133
Superior Rune of Divinity
  1. +8 to all stats
  2. +10 to all stats
  3. +12 to all stats
  4. +14 to all stats
  5. +16 to all stats
  6. +18 to all stats
Norgu's Leggings of Balthazar
  • Defense: 194
Superior Rune of Divinity
  1. +8 to all stats
  2. +10 to all stats
  3. +12 to all stats
  4. +14 to all stats
  5. +16 to all stats
  6. +18 to all stats
Norgu's Boots of Balthazar
  • Defense: 133
Superior Rune of Divinity
  1. +8 to all stats
  2. +10 to all stats
  3. +12 to all stats
  4. +14 to all stats
  5. +16 to all stats
  6. +18 to all stats

Armor Stat Totals

  • Defense 920
  • Power 78
  • Precision 78
  • Toughness 78
  • Vitality 78
  • Condition Damage 78
  • Healing Power 78
  • Ferocity 78

Rune Bonuses

Superior Rune of Divinity
  1. +8 to all stats
  2. +10 to all stats
  3. +12 to all stats
  4. +14 to all stats
  5. +16 to all stats
  6. +18 to all stats

Accessories & Jewels

SyzygyUtility Slot
  • Power: 72
  • Precision: 72
  • Toughness: 72
  • Vitality: 72
  • Condition Damage: 72
  • Healing Power: 72
  • Ferocity: 72
Book of SecretsDefensive Slot
  • Power: 63
  • Precision: 40
  • Ferocity: 40
(Infused)
Solaria, Circle of the SunOffensive Slot
  • Power: 57
  • Precision: 57
  • Toughness: 57
  • Vitality: 57
  • Condition Damage: 57
  • Healing Power: 57
  • Ferocity: 57
(Infused)
Lunaria, Circle of the MoonDefensive Slot
  • Power: 57
  • Precision: 57
  • Toughness: 57
  • Vitality: 57
  • Condition Damage: 57
  • Healing Power: 57
  • Ferocity: 57
(Infused)
Ancient Mursaat TokenOffensive Slot
  • Power: 50
  • Precision: 50
  • Toughness: 50
  • Vitality: 50
  • Condition Damage: 50
  • Healing Power: 50
  • Ferocity: 50
Celestial SigilDefensive Slot
  • Power: 50
  • Precision: 50
  • Toughness: 50
  • Vitality: 50
  • Condition Damage: 50
  • Healing Power: 50
  • Ferocity: 50

Accessory Totals

  • Power:349
  • Precision:326
  • Toughness:286
  • Vitality:286
  • Condition Damage:286
  • Healing Power:286
  • Ferocity:326

Weapon Set Sigils

Rabid Scepter
  • Weapon Strength: 895-1010
  • Condition Damage: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Toughness: 85
Rabid Dagger
  • Weapon Strength: 924-981
  • Condition Damage: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Toughness: 85
Sigil of Superior Earth
60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.
Sigil of Minor Corruption
You gain +10 condition damage each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down)

Weapon Set I

Sigil of Superior Earth

60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.

Sigil of Minor Corruption

You gain +10 condition damage each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down)
Berserker's Axe
  • Weapon Strength: 986-1205
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Focus
  • Weapon Strength: 832-883
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Sigil of Superior Earth
60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.
Sigil of Superior Force
+5% damage.

Weapon Set II

Sigil of Superior Earth

60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.

Sigil of Superior Force

+5% damage.
Berserker's Spear
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Rampager's Trident
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Precision: 120
  • Power: 85
  • Condition Damage: 85
Sigil of Superior Fire
50% chance to cause flame blast on critical hit causing AoE damage. (This effect cannot trigger more than once every 5s)
Sigil of Superior Earth
60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.

Water Weapon I

Sigil of Superior Fire

50% chance to cause flame blast on critical hit causing AoE damage. (This effect cannot trigger more than once every 5s)

Water Weapon II

Sigil of Superior Earth

60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.

V. Basic Gameplay

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@ 10:02 AM, Fri July 26 2013 Reply
Actually there is a reason he has Hemophelia, because of Lingering Curse you can actually go above the 100% cap: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lingering_Curse
@ 01:33 PM, Fri July 26 2013 Reply
So I've discovered. Thanks!
@ 11:23 AM, Fri August 30 2013 Reply
I highly endorse this build. It's a great hybrid build and not too far of a leap from the "traditional" condition necromancer.