Necromancer PvE | Dungeon Dagger/Focus, Staff | Damage Succubus ( Lifestealing, well, daggers)

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Summary

A very versatile necro that can change on the fly.
Thanks to all that have posted anywhere about necro builds and guides I have read many and thank all of you.


I. Weapons and Skills

Berserker's Dagger
  • Weapon Strength: 924-981
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Focus
  • Weapon Strength: 832-883
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Staff
  • Weapon Strength: 985-1111
  • Power: 239
  • Precision: 171
  • Ferocity: 171
  • Weapon Strength: 0-0
Berserker's Spear
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Trident
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
  • Death Shroud10
    Death Shroud. Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
  • Necrotic Slash¼
    Slash your foe twice.
    Damage (2x): 302Range: 130
    • Necrotic Stab
      Strike your foe again.
      Damage: 235Life force: 2%Range: 130
    • Necrotic Bite
      Strike your foe and gain life force.
      Damage: 403Life force: 6%Range: 130
  • Life Siphon3½ 12
    Siphon health from your foe.
    Damage (9x): 909Healing: 202 per pulseRange: 600
    • 0
    • 0
  • Dark Pact1 25
    Immobilize your foe.
    Damage: 252Immobilized: 3 sRange: 600
    • 0
    • 0
  • Reaper's Touch¾ 18
    Send out a scythe that bounces between foes and allies. Causes vulnerability on foes and regeneration on allies.
    Damage: 227Regeneration: 3 s (390 health)x4Vulnerability: 10 sNumber of bounces: 4Life force: 3%Range: 1,200
    • 0
    • 0
  • Spinal Shivers1¼ 20
    Chill your foe and remove three boons. Deals extra damage based on the number of boons removed. 1 boon deals 50% extra, 2 boons 100% extra, and 3 boons removed deals 150% extra damage.
    Damage: 151Chilled: 5 sRange: 1,200
    • 0
    • 0
  • Consume Conditions1¼ 30
    Corruption. Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed.
    Healing: 5,240Heal per condition: 724x5Self Vulnerability: 4 s
    • 0
  • Well of Suffering¼ 28
    Well. Target area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting vulnerability.
    Damage (5x): 1,220Duration: 5x2Vulnerability: 5 sRadius: 240Pulse: 1 sCombo Field: Dark
    • 0
  • Well of Corruption¼ 32
    Well. Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions
    Damage (5x): 610Duration: 5Radius: 240Pulse: 1 sCombo Field: Dark
    • 0
  • 0
    • 0
  • 0
    • 0

Weapon and Skill Details

Skill 9 - Signet of locust for running
- Well of Darkness for Melee foes
- Blood is power for Boss fights

 

Elite - Anything as none add any extra dps
- Plague Skill 2 is good for Melee groups.
- Lich form for ranged battles
- Fleshy for some good damage and knock down
- Just for fun Norn wolf form for Massive Life steal on skill 2

 

Heal skill - Consume conditions will be your standard
- Well of blood if your party likes stacking.

 

Death stroud - Skill 4 will heal all party members for ~3.5k
- Skill 1 will stack might to 10

 

Underwater:
Use Bone minions and signet of locust and Blood is power


II. Traits

Trait Details

Traits: Some on the fly retraining as wells don't work underwater
Spite: VII - Land
IX - Underwater
Curses VI - Land
IV - Underwater
Blood VI, VIII, XII - Land
II, VII, V - Underwater

 


For slightly less power and more group protection drop 10 points from Blood and add 10 to Death magic trait IV (Wells provide up to 5 allies with 4s protection)


III. Stat Specifics & Effects

Primary Stats

  • Health 22392 (+3180)
  • Vitality 1234 (+318)
  • Armor 1850 (+14)
  • Toughness 930 (+14)
  • Attack 3269 (+1421)
  • Power 2337 (+1421)
  • Critical Hit 42% (+42%)
  • Precision 1654 (+738)

Secondary Stats

  • Agony Resistance 40 (+40)
  • Condition Damage 100 (+100)
  • Condition Duration 30% (+30%)
  • Critical Damage 42% (+42%)
  • Damage 932 (+0%)
  • Defense 920 (+0)
  • Ferocity 636 (+636)
  • Healing Power 300 (+300)
  • Magic find 20% (+20%)

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

Duration:

Utility Nourishment

Duration:

Armor & Runes

Furnace Reward Light Helm
  • Defense: 73
Emerald Orb
  • Power: 14
  • Precision: 20
  • Toughness: 14
Furnace Reward Pauldrons
  • Defense: 73
Superior Rune of Vampirism
  1. Power: 25
  2. 15% chance when struck to cause your next attack to steal life. (Cooldown: 25 seconds)
  3. Power: 50
  4. After using a healing skill, your next attack steals health.
  5. Power: 100
  6. When struck below 20% health, you become mist. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
Furnace Reward Light Coat
  • Defense: 314
Superior Rune of Vampirism
  1. Power: 25
  2. 15% chance when struck to cause your next attack to steal life. (Cooldown: 25 seconds)
  3. Power: 50
  4. After using a healing skill, your next attack steals health.
  5. Power: 100
  6. When struck below 20% health, you become mist. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
Furnace Reward Light Gloves
  • Defense: 133
Superior Rune of Vampirism
  1. Power: 25
  2. 15% chance when struck to cause your next attack to steal life. (Cooldown: 25 seconds)
  3. Power: 50
  4. After using a healing skill, your next attack steals health.
  5. Power: 100
  6. When struck below 20% health, you become mist. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
Furnace Reward Light Leggings
  • Defense: 194
Superior Rune of Vampirism
  1. Power: 25
  2. 15% chance when struck to cause your next attack to steal life. (Cooldown: 25 seconds)
  3. Power: 50
  4. After using a healing skill, your next attack steals health.
  5. Power: 100
  6. When struck below 20% health, you become mist. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)
Furnace Reward Light Boots
  • Defense: 133
Superior Rune of Vampirism
  1. Power: 25
  2. 15% chance when struck to cause your next attack to steal life. (Cooldown: 25 seconds)
  3. Power: 50
  4. After using a healing skill, your next attack steals health.
  5. Power: 100
  6. When struck below 20% health, you become mist. (Cooldown: 60 seconds)

Armor Stat Totals

  • Defense 920
  • Power 189
  • Precision 20
  • Toughness 14

Rune Bonuses

Superior Rune of Vampirism
  1. Power: 25
  2. 15% chance when struck to cause your next attack to steal life. (Cooldown: 25 seconds)
  3. Power: 50
  4. After using a healing skill, your next attack steals health.
  5. Power: 100

Accessories & Jewels

Distinguished Circle of LogicUtility Slot
  • Power: 157
  • Precision: 108
  • Ferocity: 108
Magical InfusionUtility Infusion
  • Magic find: 20%
Book of Secrets (Infused)Defensive Slot
  • Power: 63
  • Precision: 40
  • Ferocity: 40
  • Agony Resistance: 5
(Infused)
Versatile Simple InfusionOmni Infusion
  • Agony Resistance: 5
Crystalline Band (Infused)Defensive Slot
  • Power: 126
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
  • Agony Resistance: 5
(Infused)
Versatile Simple InfusionOmni Infusion
  • Agony Resistance: 5
Ring of Red Death (Infused)Offensive Slot
  • Power: 126
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
  • Agony Resistance: 5
(Infused)
Versatile Simple InfusionOmni Infusion
  • Agony Resistance: 5
Althea's AshesOffensive Slot
  • Power: 110
  • Precision: 74
  • Ferocity: 74
Versatile Simple InfusionOmni Infusion
  • Agony Resistance: 5
Zinn's Data CrystalDefensive Slot
  • Power: 110
  • Precision: 56
  • Vitality: 18
  • Ferocity: 74
Versatile Simple InfusionOmni Infusion
  • Agony Resistance: 5

Accessory Totals

  • Power:692
  • Precision:448
  • Ferocity:466
  • Agony Resistance:40
  • Vitality:18
  • Magic find:20%

Weapon Set Sigils

Berserker's Dagger
  • Weapon Strength: 924-981
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Focus
  • Weapon Strength: 832-883
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Sigil of Superior Accuracy
+7% crit chance.
Sigil of Superior Blood
50% chance to life steal on critical.

Weapon Set I

Sigil of Superior Accuracy

+7% crit chance.

Sigil of Superior Blood

50% chance to life steal on critical.
Berserker's Staff
  • Weapon Strength: 985-1111
  • Power: 239
  • Precision: 171
  • Ferocity: 171
  • Weapon Strength: 0-0
Sigil of Superior Bloodlust
You gain +10 power each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down or weapon change)

Weapon Set II

Sigil of Superior Bloodlust

You gain +10 power each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down or weapon change)
Berserker's Spear
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Trident
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Sigil of Superior Accuracy
+7% crit chance.
Sigil of Superior Bloodlust
You gain +10 power each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down or weapon change)

Water Weapon I

Sigil of Superior Accuracy

+7% crit chance.

Water Weapon II

Sigil of Superior Bloodlust

You gain +10 power each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down or weapon change)

Upgrade Item Details

I Started running this Build with the gear you see above but now I'm running Zerka Armor with ruby orbs

 

My main aim was to keep Precision at 50% ( says 49% above but its 49.54% in game is rounded up to 50%)


V. Basic Gameplay

That all depends on the Foe, this build is designed to change tactics and fight style on the go.
Group Stacking - Staff
Single Target Dagger

 

Example: Grawl Fractal final boss, Lich form -> DS -> Well+ staff. Boss shield up Well of darkness Dagger attack.

 

The rest will depend on your play style and confidence on dodging.


Main Skill Rotation

Reaper's Touch¾ 18
Send out a scythe that bounces between foes and allies. Causes vulnerability on foes and regeneration on allies.
Damage: 227Regeneration: 3 s (390 health)x4Vulnerability: 10 sNumber of bounces: 4Life force: 3%Range: 1,200
Well of Suffering¼ 28
Well. Target area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting vulnerability.
Damage (5x): 1,220Duration: 5x2Vulnerability: 5 sRadius: 240Pulse: 1 sCombo Field: Dark
Death Shroud10
Death Shroud. Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
Life Blast1
Death Shroud. Blast a foe with accumulated life force, dealing more damage the more life force you have.
Damage: 336Damage (within 600 units): 470Range: 1,200Might: 15 s
Well of Corruption¼ 32
Well. Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions
Damage (5x): 610Duration: 5Radius: 240Pulse: 1 sCombo Field: Dark
Reaper's Touch¾ 18
Send out a scythe that bounces between foes and allies. Causes vulnerability on foes and regeneration on allies.
Damage: 227Regeneration: 3 s (390 health)x4Vulnerability: 10 sNumber of bounces: 4Life force: 3%Range: 1,200
Necrotic Slash¼
Slash your foe twice.
Damage (2x): 302Range: 130
Necrotic Stab
Strike your foe again.
Damage: 235Life force: 2%Range: 130
Necrotic Bite
Strike your foe and gain life force.
Damage: 403Life force: 6%Range: 130

Basic Close combat rotation
in DS its 10 Hits of Life blast and Skill 4 Life transfer when party members need healing as it can heal all members (except you) for 3.5k


Staff Rotation

Mark of Blood¾ 5
Mark. Inscribe a mark that bleeds foes when they trigger it, and grants regeneration to allies.
Damage: 122Regeneration: 5 s (650 health)x2Bleeding: 8 s (1020 damage)Radius: 240
Chilblains¾ 16
Mark. Inscribe a mark that chills foes when they trigger it, and leaves a poisonous area.
Damage: 204Chilled: 4 sx3Poison: 5 s (504 damage)Radius: 240Combo Field: PoisonRange: 1,200
Well of Suffering¼ 28
Well. Target area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting vulnerability.
Damage (5x): 1,220Duration: 5x2Vulnerability: 5 sRadius: 240Pulse: 1 sCombo Field: Dark
Death Shroud10
Death Shroud. Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
Life Blast1
Death Shroud. Blast a foe with accumulated life force, dealing more damage the more life force you have.
Damage: 336Damage (within 600 units): 470Range: 1,200Might: 15 s
Well of Corruption¼ 32
Well. Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions
Damage (5x): 610Duration: 5Radius: 240Pulse: 1 sCombo Field: Dark
Mark of Blood¾ 5
Mark. Inscribe a mark that bleeds foes when they trigger it, and grants regeneration to allies.
Damage: 122Regeneration: 5 s (650 health)x2Bleeding: 8 s (1020 damage)Radius: 240
Chilblains¾ 16
Mark. Inscribe a mark that chills foes when they trigger it, and leaves a poisonous area.
Damage: 204Chilled: 4 sx3Poison: 5 s (504 damage)Radius: 240Combo Field: PoisonRange: 1,200

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