Necromancer - Core Signet Roamer

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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

Easy

Overview

Power Necromancer WvW roaming build focusing on maximizing time spent in Death Shroud while attempting to win a battle of attrition.

Archival note: Signets of Suffering rework killed the build

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Weapon 1: Dagger

Weapon 2: Warhorn

Weapon 3: Staff

Weapon 4:

Healing skill: Signet of Vampirism

Utility skill 1: Spectral Armor

Utility skill 2: Plague Signet

Utility skill 3: Signet of Undeath

Elite skill: Lich Form

Skill Variants

Utility

• Spectral Walk instead of Plague Signet - trades a stun break/condition transfer with very low CD for another source of condition management that also enhances not only the build's mobility, but also its Life Force management.

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Specializations

Spite: Mid, Bot, Top

Death Magic: Bot, Bot, Bot

Soul Reaping: Mid, Top, Mid

Variants

Fear of Death - better resource management, longer CCs.

Equipment

Rune: 6 Superior Rune of Antitoxin

Infusion 1: 18 Mighty WvW Infusion

Infusion 2:

Relic:

Weapon 1: Dagger

Weapon 2: Warhorn

Sigil 1: Superior Sigil of Absorption

Sigil 2: Superior Sigil of Celerity

Weapon 3: Staff

Weapon 4:

Sigil 3: Superior Sigil of Absorption

Sigil 4: Superior Sigil of Energy

Main stats: Marauder

Backpiece stats: Cavalier

Accessory 1 stats: Cavalier

Accessory 2 stats: Cavalier

Ring 1 stats: Cavalier

Ring 2 stats: Cavalier

Runes

• Superior Rune of Speed - If you need mobility more than the extra cleanse and carapace.

Consumables

• Food: Spherified Peppercorn-Spiced Oyster Soup

• Utility: Superior Sharpening Stone

Usage

General

• All of your Signets are active while in Shroud and are off cooldown by the time you leave it due to Signets of Suffering so be sure to use them before you enter Shroud.

• Your life force gain consists of your Marks, Signet of Undeath and Spectral Armor, you can use Spectral Armor before entering Shroud too to make it even more durable and heal back all the life force.

• Your Sigils allow you to steal lots of boons when interrupting enemies with Reaper's Mark or Wail of Doom.

• Try to proc Superior Sigil of Celerity before you go into Shroud or do a long cast.

Damage

• Your main damage source will be spamming Life Blast.

• Your burst will consist of using Life Blast in combination with Fear to do damage spikes because of Superior Sigil of Celerity.

Sustain

• The main point of the build is the passive sustain, your Signets work while in Shroud, allowing you to heal back both health, and life force passively while in Shroud. You want to sit in shroud while you heal back all your health with Signet of Vampirism and Unholy Sanctuary to then gain back all your life force while out of shroud which Signet of Undeath helps with massively, this allows you to go back and forth between health bars while replenishing them.

• This build should be almost invulnerable to general condition builds due to the massive amount of cleanses it has with Shrouded Removal, Plague Signet, Putrid Mark and Spiteful Renewal in combination with Superior Rune of Antitoxin.

• The build utilises Carapace from Death Magic to get a ridiculous amount of toughness for free, you gain Carapace for example whenever you cleanse a condition with Shrouded Removal, which utilizes the condition clear listed above perfectly to gain more general damage reduction too making this build extremely durable.

• Life Siphon can act as a secondary heal skill.