Necromancer - Core Condi Roamer

• Core Condi Necro - the Conquest PvP version of this Necromancer roaming build.

Variants

• Warhorn-only: 女妖之嚎 lowers your survivability but makes your Warhorn skills stronger, most notably improving the Fear duration on skill #5 and the 迅捷 uptime from skill #5.

Variants

• If you feel like you're not getting enough value out of 德姆火焰 in your fights because you often find yourself Life Force starved or simply don't have opportunities to use shroud autos, then consider picking up 无尽生命 instead. Eternal Life is a decent defensive CD in general, especially in a build that doesn't have a lot of instant cast defensive abilities.

Specialization Variants

Replacing Blood Magic with Death Magic is an equally viable option. While Blood focuses more on adding new sources of damage and healing such as Life Steal, Death improves your passive stats, condition cleansing and damage mitigation:

Skill Variants

Weapons

• To play Pistol/Sword you need to own the Secrets of the Obscure expansion. SotO's where you unlock Sword and Weaponmaster Training for the Pistol.

• Free-to-play players are going to have to play Scepter/Warhorn instead of Pistol/Sword.

• Warhorn remains a perfectly viable option even for expansion owners, offering an unblockable Fear and better mobility in exchange for longer cast times and lower Fear duration (unless traited). You can read more suggestions regarding the Warhorn variant below.

Utility

For the optional slot:

• 腐蚀毒云 - excellent sustain tool against both ranged and melee, it's even good at pressuring targets.

• 腐化法池 - great AoE pressure against groups, and could scare off melee enemies for a few moments.

• 召唤血肉地虫 - more mobility and a stunbreak with a bit of Life Force gain on the side.

• 鬼灵影步 - mobility, cleansing, stunbreak.

• 鬼灵铠甲 - medium CD stunbreak, defense against strike damage and excellent LF building.

• 增益腐蚀 - on-demand boon removal, post-nerf this is mostly a tech-option against builds with 稳固 spam. You're not guaranteed to hit the right boon but it's your best bet at countering specs with high Stability uptime.

Elite

None of the options are that great for this build, they are just different shades of passable:

• - area denial tool that can scare off attackers, make it harder to rez downed enemies, or inflict heavy damage on targets trapped inside , forcing them to either tank it or cross the ring and get feared. This skill isn't hard to avoid however outside of these niche scenarios and has a fairly high CD. Also takes quite a while for the damage to ramp up.

• - the idea here is to use a weaker elite with a low recharge time and grab for another source of Fear.

• - this elite mostly scales with Power, a stat this build is lacking. Still it offers some minor burst damage and an AoE Fear.

Food:

• 胡椒味熏肉薄饼 - passive damage mitigation and great stats.

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - more active damage mitigation via dodging.

  • 碗装鲜肉冬菜煲 - budget version

Utility:

• Optimal: 尚雅调谐水晶

• Budget: 紧密优质调谐水晶 (found in Canned Food Crates looted from WvW Skirmish Chests)

General

• If taken Use before you mount up so you don't have to cast this at the start of combat right after dismounting.

• Consider building up your Life Force on critters and hostile NPCs before setting out to fight players.

• Both weapon sets have access to Fear: on Staff and either or on the other set.

  • The Staff and Warhorn fears are also unblockable but the Sword one isn't.

• All of your marks are unblockable and generate Life Force.

  • Tip: enemy players who block Staff skills can work against themselves. Long duration blocks such as Shield Stance give you more than enough time to land important staff skills like with little to no risk of being avoided as blocking players normally don't dodge.

Damage

• is the strongest damaging condition in the build thanks to .

• Pistol/Sword (or Scepter/Warhorn) is a bit more bursty while Staff is more of a utility weapon used to snare targets, transfer conditions, and CC/build Life Force from range.

• When playing with Scepter is a strong burst skill but only when used on targets with at least 4-5 different conditions. It also corrupts a boon which means with a little luck this could add another source of to the build.

• On Pistol can be used to quickly set up a Fear chain.

• There are 4 sources of in the build, try chaining them together when you're going for the kill on an already pressured target:

  • - Shroud #3.

Equipment Variants

Stats

• Use Dire instead of Trailblazer gear if you're F2P.

Relics

• - another offensive option if you can't get Relic of Agony.

• - significantly improves your mobility (which is the biggest weakness of the build), works best with Warhorn and . The only reason we're not recommending this as the main option is due to the lack of consistency against boon removal. Necromancer lacks frequent access to or even a decent amount of cover boons, which makes it very easy for enemies with any amount of boon removal to strip our Swiftness and render a relic like Speed ineffective.

• - better survivability.

Sigils

• over Generosity - if you're having trouble dealing with conditions. At this point you could also consider dropping the Rabid rings for Dire for a slightly more tanky but lower damage option.

• over Generosity - the brief makes it easier to get a off right after weapon swapping, while the fits nicely into the Warhorn + variant - adding another source of Swiftness makes you less susceptible to boon removal.

Runes

• - the stats on this are fairly weak, but it could provide better mobility when playing with offhand Sword.