Necromancer sPvP | Tournament Dagger/Dagger, Staff | Team fighter So you wanna 1v5? Hard carry power Necro
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Summary
A hard carry power necro build for carrying those newb teammates in solo queue. -By Neglekt (former editor of gw2 content at esportsgaming.net)
Tribute to Khalifa; the origional d/d power necro. Original build/interview video
I. Weapons and Skills
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- Necrotic StabStrike your foe again.Damage: 235Life force: 2%Range: 130
- Necrotic BiteStrike your foe and gain life force.Damage: 403Life force: 6%Range: 130
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- Spectral RecallSpectral. Return to the point where Spectral Walk began.
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Weapon and Skill Details
Dagger/Dagger: Really, you can use any offhand. The benefits/cons of each are listed below.
Dagger
Pros: survivability (condi clear/multi-target blind on 1/4s cast time and another enfeebling blood to keep weakness up). Looks cooler.
Cons: Less mobility, no cc.
Warhorn
Pros: CC + so much mobility you won't know what to do with yourself.
Cons: Less survivability, cc can be annoying to land with .5 sec cast time.
tip; take this if you plan on roaming a lot.
Focus
Pros: Damage + boon rip.
Cons: You already have a free spinal shiver in your traits, the huge cast times on both skills make using them mid team fight impractical.
Signet of Undeath: use whatever you want in place of this. I added it into the original guide and cannot change it now (ppl on forums informed me that it was nerfed some time ago). I've been using spectral armor in place of it, but there are many alternatives you can use to help cater to your individual playstyle.
II. Traits
Spite
Curses
Death Magic
Blood Magic
Soul Reaping
Trait Details
30 in spite: Mainly for +300 power passive and XII "Close to Death: Increase damage by 20% to enemies below 50% hp." Chill of death is a nice little bonus and spiteful spirit is the least-garbage choice out of the remaining prereq traits.
20 in curses: Mainly for the 3rd minor trait "Furious Demise: Gain fury for 5s when entering death shroud" and "Terror: fear deals damage." This gives us 50% fury uptime (which we need if we're rocking soldiers amulet), 1k dps ticks on fear, and +200 precision to yield some base crit chance which makes it all worthwhile.
20 in Soul Reaping: for the +20% life force and +20% crit damage mainly. But we also needed "Master of Terror: Fear you inflict lasts 50% longer" to justify picking up Terror earlier. This will make your fears tick twice for damage (at least that's how it used to work, either way 50% fear duration ain't bad).
Alternate picks::
Near to Death [VIII] instead of "Master of Terror" [IX] in soul reaping for higher fury up time. This is a solid choice paired with soldiers amulet and Superior runes of Rage. This playstyle requires you to pop in an out of Death Shroud constantly to achieve high sustained DPS -but significantly reduces fear duration.
You can also swap out "Path of Midnight" [III] in SR for "Spectral Mastery" [IV] or "Vital Persistence" [II] depending on your playstyle. [III] for more CC uptime, [IV] if you plan on roaming around a lot, [II] if you want to be a little more tanky and exploit DS to negate Heal cooldown in tricky situations.
III. Stat Specifics & Effects
Primary Stats
- Health 29212 (+10000)
- Vitality 1916 (+1000)
- Armor 2736 (+900)
- Toughness 1816 (+900)
- Attack 3397 (+1500)
- Power 2416 (+1500)
- Critical Hit 10% (+10%)
- Precision 1116 (+200)
Secondary Stats
- Condition Damage 375 (+375)
- Condition Duration 30% (+30%)
- Critical Damage 13% (+13%)
- Damage 981 (+0%)
- Defense 920 (+0)
- Fear Duration 20% (+20%)
- Ferocity 200 (+200)
- Life Force Pool 20% (+20%)
Boons
Conditions
Control
Fields & Finishers
IV. Runes, Sigils, Accessories & Jewels
Armor & Runes
- Condition Damage: 25
- Vitality: 35
- Condition Damage: 50
- Vitality: 65
- Condition Damage: 100
- Fear Duration: 20%
- Condition Damage: 25
- Vitality: 35
- Condition Damage: 50
- Vitality: 65
- Condition Damage: 100
- Fear Duration: 20%
- Condition Damage: 25
- Vitality: 35
- Condition Damage: 50
- Vitality: 65
- Condition Damage: 100
- Fear Duration: 20%
- Condition Damage: 25
- Vitality: 35
- Condition Damage: 50
- Vitality: 65
- Condition Damage: 100
- Fear Duration: 20%
- Condition Damage: 25
- Vitality: 35
- Condition Damage: 50
- Vitality: 65
- Condition Damage: 100
- Fear Duration: 20%
- Condition Damage: 25
- Vitality: 35
- Condition Damage: 50
- Vitality: 65
- Condition Damage: 100
- Fear Duration: 20%
Rune Stat Totals
- Condition Damage 175
- Vitality 100
- Fear Duration 20%
Rune Bonuses
PvP Rune of the Necromancer- Condition Damage: 25
- Vitality: 35
- Condition Damage: 50
- Vitality: 65
- Condition Damage: 100
- Fear Duration: 20%
Accessories & Jewels
Accessory Totals
- Power:1200
- Toughness:900
- Vitality:900
Weapon Set Sigils
- Weapon Strength: 924-981
- Weapon Strength: 924-981
Weapon Set I
Sigil of Superior Fire50% chance to cause flame blast on critical hit causing AoE damage. (This effect cannot trigger more than once every 5s)
Sigil of Superior Air50% chance to cause a lightning strike on a critical hit. (This effect cannot trigger more than once every 3 seconds)
- Weapon Strength: 985-1111
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Weapon Set II
Sigil of Superior Fire50% chance to cause flame blast on critical hit causing AoE damage. (This effect cannot trigger more than once every 5s)
Upgrade Item Details
Runes: Fear duration stacking for Terror damage.
Sigils: My friend Zombify (2013 NA Pax champion) informed me that the fire + air sigils now stack to make power necro retarded. SO, jump on that OP bandwagon and burst some fools.
Amulet: Take soldiers if you wanna be an efficient bruiser, zerkers if you wanna be a funny glass cannon.
*Soldiers: 'Why not berserkers?' you may ask. Well, we have enough crit from our Fury generation to justify taking a simple power amulet. Vitality stacks with our life force and toughness helps us deal with burst. Soldier is just the more efficient amulet for power necro and will allow you to live through 1v2+ situations against direct damage opponents. Consider switching out necro runes for Rage runes and the "Master of Terror" trait in Soul Reaping for "Near to Death" -it will grant higher fury uptime and mitigate the dps loss from taking Soldiers amulet over zerkers.
*Berserkers: Although I believe soldiers is probably the more viable option for serious play, zerkers is the funner option for manly play. It allows you to stack fear duration comfortably, but you'll wanna consider taking the "Vital Persistence" [II] trait in Soul reaping over "Path of Midnight" [III] so that you can kite your ass out of fights more effectively when you get bursted down and heal up. Also consider taking "reaper's Precision" [V] in Curses over "Weakening Shroud" [IV] so you can stack up life force faster -because you'll need it a lot more.
V. Basic Gameplay
This build revolves around cooldowns. It's like playing a fed AP mid in LoL; you're a god as long as your ult is up, but you may not be able to 1v3 with it down. As long as lich form is up; you will be able to 1v5 [against wvw skill leveled players].
Cooldowns to keep an eye on: Staff 4/5, Dagger 3/4, death shroud 3/4/5, Lich form, Well.
Your "OH SHIT" buttons: staff 2/4, dagger 4, ds 5+4, spectral walk, heal. LICH FORM IS NOT AN OH SHIT BUTTON. Yes, it increases HP by a lot and grants stability, but it is still an offensive spell and you will die and waste it if you use it below 40% hp.
Hypothetical "OH SHIT" situation: Let's say you're half hp with your heal on cooldown, you're all dotted up with conditions and a mesmer just casted phantasm immob on you and is about to shatter. What do you do? -clear the immob/condi with staff 4 (which will AoE immob them), fear them all with staff 5, go into death shroud, cast 5 for anoother AoE immob while you kite away, cast DS fear their burst, then continue to kite spamming 3 until you think your heal is off CD.
Main Skill Rotation
Situationally, you should use every skill at your disposal.
But basically, just jump in and out of death shroud to keep fury up, you should also be using ds 2/3 to keep them controlled. Never use Well of suffering without an immob, but don't be afraid to use it in general; it's only a 35s cd. You'll have it back up by the time they rez.
Other than that, just spam auto attack for rude damage and hope for flame/air procs.
Remember you have 3 condi clears; staff 4, dagger 4, and your heal. You should never be immobilized with this build. Use dagger 1/5 and staff for ranged encounters. If you arrive to a teamfight without any life force, play it safe and just auto attack with staff and spam 2+3+5 on the group until you've got enough LF to jump in without being naked.
1v5/team fight carrying
Basically, the idea here is to be prepared. Throw up spectral walk up if they have a lot of burst (it will ensure that you're able to stay in DS long enough to cast shackles), throw out your blind, then jump in there and shackle them into your well. You can cast staff fear before well if you wanna mitigate damage, but I usually don't bother if I'm doing this from 100% hp. After you set all this up, go lich form and 4 shot everyone with auto attack. Your AA in lich does about 3.5k damage and it pierces, so just line them up and knock them down.
They'll get you pretty low in the process of all this, so be ready to hit death shroud immediately after your lich form ends and spam Life Transfer until Shackles is back up (should be 5-7s cd remaining), then shackle and kite far enough away to safely heal. Shackle first if it's off cd already, the whole point is that you want them immobed so you can disengage for a quick heal then jump back in to maintain pressure on their downed players with another well (which will be off CD by then).
VI. Counters
Thief: an obvious necro counter accross the board, but especially sucky for power necro. They will spam blind your auto attacks, which makes your lich form useless. Try to catch them in a fear and mark for team to burst down before you pop lich. Also, their elite "Dagger Storm" actually reflects projectiles as well, although it's rare to see this skill in tournament play (which is all your pro ass will be doing anyways, right?).
Mesmer: Sometimes they will rock that reflection heal. It's a poor heal choice, but some of them think it's just hilarious when they reflect your lich form auto attacks back at you. It's not. Don't do it. They also have a phantasm that blocks projectiles (focus 5 I think), and some of them might even run feedback (rare to see these days), which is basically a giant pink bubble that also reflects projectiles.
Engineer: (Warning: offensive language) If they are rocking a shield in theif offhand, they also have a 3s reflect. It looks like a little black bubble surrounding them as they crouch down to take a shit. Just avoid hitting the shitter and you should be good.
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