Necromancer WvW | Large Group Staff, Axe/Focus | Assaulter Noobers Necro
Table of Contents
Summary
This is the Necro build I use for guild roaming. Here are some video's of me using it.
I. Weapons and Skills
Weapon and Skill Details
Two different staffs, One with precision stacks, other with restoration. Second weapon set is really up to you. Just remember to swap to restoration after you get your 25 stacks. If you plan on just doing zerg vs zerg then having one with sigil of fire is nice. I also have another staff with bloodlust for when I'm using the full PVT armor/trinkets setup.
Skills are pretty obvious, little trick, drop wells and then enter DS for fury, click it to get back out and drop your marks. This works as a nice spike on a balled up group of people.
Plague Form can be used to spread mass blind for 20 seconds, its extremely use full for that initial push into Zergs.
II. Traits
Spite
Curses
Death Magic
Blood Magic
Trait Details
Traits are setup so that you shouldn't have to swap to your secondary set to often. Between the wells, marks, ds and plague very rarely do I ever have to swap to secondary set.
Chilling Darkness is used with Plague Form 2 and well of darkness. When in plague form spam the 2 skill in the middle of a Zerg or on top of your guild leader to cause blind, poison and chill.
III. Stat Specifics & Effects
Primary Stats
- Health 22792 (+3580)
- Vitality 1274 (+358)
- Armor 2394 (+558)
- Toughness 1474 (+558)
- Attack 3378 (+1351)
- Power 2267 (+1351)
- Critical Hit 38% (+38%)
- Precision 1718 (+802)
Secondary Stats
- Boon Duration 20% (+20%)
- Condition Damage 200 (+200)
- Condition Duration 30% (+30%)
- Critical Damage 28% (+28%)
- Damage 1111 (+0%)
- Defense 920 (+0)
- Experience from Kills 20% (+20%)
- Ferocity 433 (+433)
Boons
Conditions
Control
Fields & Finishers
Stat and Effect Details
Food is up to you, it will depend on you guild. Most like negative condition duration food but where we run a bunch of guardians and I have remove 3 on kill trait I find that I personally don't really need it.
IV. Food, Armor, Trinkets & Upgrade Items
Food Nourishment
Precision: 100
Ferocity: 70
Experience from Kills: 10%
- (30min)
- Precision: 100
- Ferocity: 70
- Experience from Kills: 10%
Utility Nourishment
Gain precision equal to 6% of your toughness
Gain precision equal to 4% of your vitality
Experience from Kills: 10%
- (30min)
- Gain precision equal to 6% of your toughness
- Gain precision equal to 4% of your vitality
- Experience from Kills: 10%
Armor & Runes
- Defense: 73
- Power: 20
- Precision: 14
- Ferocity: 14
- Defense: 73
- Power: 20
- Precision: 14
- Ferocity: 14
- Defense: 314
- Power: 20
- Precision: 14
- Ferocity: 14
- Defense: 133
- Power: 20
- Precision: 14
- Ferocity: 14
- Defense: 194
- Power: 20
- Precision: 14
- Ferocity: 14
- Defense: 133
- Power: 20
- Precision: 14
- Ferocity: 14
Armor Stat Totals
- Defense 920
- Power 120
- Precision 84
- Ferocity 84
Rune Bonuses
Accessories & Jewels
Accessory Totals
- Power:692
- Precision:108
- Ferocity:108
- Toughness:358
- Vitality:358
Weapon Set Sigils
- Weapon Strength: 985-1111
- Power: 239
- Precision: 171
- Ferocity: 171
- Weapon Strength: 0-0
Weapon Set I
Superior Sigil of PerceptionGain +10 Precision each time you kill a foe. (Max 25 stacks; ends on down.)
- Weapon Strength: 857-1048
- Power: 90
- Toughness: 64
- Vitality: 64
- Weapon Strength: 832-883
- Power: 120
- Toughness: 85
- Vitality: 85
Weapon Set II
Sigil of Superior RestorationGain Health on Killing a Foe.
Sigil of Superior EnergyYou gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (This effect cannot trigger more than once every 9s)
Upgrade Item Details
Gear and upgrades are up to you, these are what I use and what I prefer but I also have a full PVT set with 28k hp for running into bigger groups.
I would suggest running in the full PVT armor/trinket sets and have a staff with bloodlust stacks if you new to necro/wvw or are not good at avoiding damage until you get use to it.
V. Basic Gameplay
Game play will differ from person to person, I personally like to start off with dropping staff 3/5 onto a zerg/guild group so chill/fear them then drop wells followed by ds for fury and into plague when needed.
DS 4 skill can be used to take down arrow carts threw walls that your marks can't hit. I personally never use the DS 1 and 2 skills.
Staff 4 is a blast finisher but it's pretty much useless for statics/water/fire fields so you can just use it on your own fields when you know it will go off.