Necromancer sPvP | Tournament Scepter/Dagger, Staff | Team fighter Condi Bruiser
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Summary
Hi, I'm Blackmoa, some might know me from my time playing for MiM during PAX qualifiers. I am the current co-host of the SOAC necromancer Podcast and have been playing nec in pvp since the 2nd beta weekend. This build is a rather basic necromancer build that I quite enjoy playing atm, it has some more unusual choices but i will go into that later on in this guide. Overall this build is a good starting build for pvp aswell as capable of being utilized in high level "competitive" pvp.
I. Weapons and Skills
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- Rending CurseBleed your foe.Damage: 118Bleeding: 4.5 s (170 damage)Range: 900
- Putrid CursePoison your foe.Damage: 168Bleeding: 4.5 s (170 damage)Poison: 6 s (336 damage)Range: 900
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- Necrotic TraversalSacrifice your flesh wurm, teleport to it, and poison foes.x3Posion: 6 s (240 damage)Radius: 180Life force: 10%Breaks stunCombo finisher: BlastRange: 1,200
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Weapon and Skill Details
While staff is set in stone dagger is not a must in all cases. If you want you can drop it for a warhorn to add more mobility, a unblockable daze that can be quite useful to end blocks or get a cc on warriors in berserker's stance.
For skills you can change out SoS for either Spectral Walk, Spectral Grasp(ye I am strange, deal with it), Well of Corruption(in this case use ground targeted wells as adept trait in curses),epidemic or spectral wall(if you want to take wall practise placing it so it fears on cast, start with still standing golems until you always hit, cause if you dont it's not realy worth most of the time).
Honorable mention to well of power, plague signet and signet of undeath.
II. Traits
Spite
Curses
Death Magic
Blood Magic
Soul Reaping
Trait Details
The traits that will seem odd to alot of players are hemophilia(to some extend) and lingering curse(what are you smoking moa?) but heres the reasoning for those:
basicaly your job as necro is to apply pressure in fights. Path of corruption can be realy clutch, yes, but it is not particulary reliable, puts you into the middle of combat and does not realy add alot of pressure in most cases. Your main pressure tool are your auto attacks on scepter, and this traits maximize this.
I also take greater marks over reapers protection because it is in general a way more reliable trait and having unblockable fear can be a game changer(ye so can a aoe fear, take it if you want to but that's your choice).
Also soul marks over master of terror for realy good lf generation which you will need in longer fights while the extra fear duration can be useful but you will mostly use fear to interrupt key skills or set up a burst which wont need alot of duration anyway.
III. Stat Specifics & Effects
Primary Stats
- Health 19572 (+360)
- Vitality 952 (+36)
- Armor 2972 (+1136)
- Toughness 2052 (+1136)
- Attack 2128 (+216)
- Power 1132 (+216)
- Critical Hit 59% (+59%)
- Precision 2152 (+1236)
Secondary Stats
- Bleeding Duration 20% (+20%)
- Boon Duration 35% (+35%)
- Condition Damage 1536 (+1536)
- Condition Duration 10% (+10%)
- Critical Damage 15% (+15%)
- Damage 996 (+0%)
- Defense 920 (+0)
- Ferocity 236 (+236)
- Healing Power 36 (+36)
- Life Force Pool 20% (+20%)
- Movement Speed 25% (+25%)
Boons
Conditions
Control
Fields & Finishers
Stat and Effect Details
Well whats there to realy say, you are a condi necro and put out alot of conditions while having high condition dmg. Like what did you expect?
IV. Runes, Sigils, Accessories & Jewels
Armor & Runes
- +8 to All Stat
- Boon Duration: 5%
- +12 to All Stat
- +10% Boon Duration; +10% Condition Duration
- +16 to All Stat
- Movement Speed: 25%
- +8 to All Stat
- Boon Duration: 5%
- +12 to All Stat
- +10% Boon Duration; +10% Condition Duration
- +16 to All Stat
- Movement Speed: 25%
- +8 to All Stat
- Boon Duration: 5%
- +12 to All Stat
- +10% Boon Duration; +10% Condition Duration
- +16 to All Stat
- Movement Speed: 25%
- +8 to All Stat
- Boon Duration: 5%
- +12 to All Stat
- +10% Boon Duration; +10% Condition Duration
- +16 to All Stat
- Movement Speed: 25%
- +8 to All Stat
- Boon Duration: 5%
- +12 to All Stat
- +10% Boon Duration; +10% Condition Duration
- +16 to All Stat
- Movement Speed: 25%
- +8 to All Stat
- Boon Duration: 5%
- +12 to All Stat
- +10% Boon Duration; +10% Condition Duration
- +16 to All Stat
- Movement Speed: 25%
Rune Stat Totals
- Power 36
- Precision 36
- Toughness 36
- Vitality 36
- Condition Damage 36
- Healing Power 36
- Ferocity 36
- Boon Duration 15%
- Condition Duration 10%
- Movement Speed 25%
Rune Bonuses
PvP Rune of the Traveler- +8 to All Stat
- Boon Duration: 5%
- +12 to All Stat
- +10% Boon Duration; +10% Condition Duration
- +16 to All Stat
- Movement Speed: 25%
Accessories & Jewels
Accessory Totals
- Precision:900
- Toughness:900
- Condition Damage:1200
Weapon Set Sigils
- Weapon Strength: 895-1010
- Weapon Strength: 924-981
Weapon Set I
Sigil of Superior Earth60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.
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)
- Weapon Strength: 985-1111
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Weapon Set II
Sigil of Superior GeomancyYou bleed nearby foes for 10s when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (This effect cannot trigger more than once every 9s)
Upgrade Item Details
Traveler runes to compensate for your lackluster mobility, so if you take warhorn offhand you are free to exchange them for nightmare(you can keep them though if you want to). Rabid amulet cause it offers better survivability in longer fights(carrion for short fights with no incoming heals from teammates) aswell as the higher crit chance for our bleed procs which add quite a bit of dmg.
The double energy sigils are basicaly mandatory as you lack blocks or vigor and not being able to chain dodge can realy hurt you.
Geomancy on staff is used for burst rotations, see below, while earth on scepter is for maximizing auto attack pressure.
V. Basic Gameplay
Your job is basicaly to stand on the edge of fights and auto attack people your team doesnt like.
i.e. you have a mesmer on your team and he gets attacked by a thief forcing him to lineback and stop doing dmg in the fight, so you start attacking the thief so he needs to disengage from the mesmer and your mesmer can deal dmg again. If you pay good atention you can peel multiple people by attacking one target while dropping aoes on another. In general you need alot of awareness of what is happening and might need to change targets alot in order to peel, set up bursts, corrupt key targets and all this while kiting people that will most likely come after your life.
If you are not sure who to attack just go for enemy mesmers and thiefs at the start of combat, engies and necros are also good targets, but as those are already high up on the burst priority list of your team you should be fine fearing them when needed to oneshot them. Also try to keep Chillblains for putting poison on downed targets.
The following rotations are not meant as fight openers but mid fight "combos". I'd advise you to usualy start combat on staff from max range.
Main Skill Rotation
used in no particular order 
i guess you get the idea xD
"small" bleed burst
Full Burst
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Your fast kill option, bear in mind you basicaly blow everything you got on this so you better be sure its going to be enough and you dont look like a fool for not having fear anymore if needed afterwards
That said this is one of your main tools in killing eles, wait for them to switch out of water (can be often forced by hitting a sos on them, or even just autoattacking for longer periods of time sometimes) and then hit them.
If using warhorn simply activate locust swarm instead of enfeebling blood(posibility of crits that add bleeds after dark path hits).
VI. Wurm and Jumping Puzzles
Some Basic stuff for you not used to using Wurm in PvP or Jumping Puzzles (note: this is not a complete list, but just basic stuff, however it will be enough for most games but i highly advise you to just go onto a server and try out some other stuff aswell)