Necromancer - Core MM Roamer

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Hybrid damage and Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on November 21, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A core Celestial damage Minion Master Necromancer build for WvW roaming.

Skill Bar

Pistol/Torch

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Weapons

• If you don't own the Secrets of the Obscure expansion you're going to have to play with Scepter/Dagger instead of Pistol/Torch.

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Equipment

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Celestial

Chest
Celestial

Hands
Celestial

Legs
Celestial

Feet
Celestial

Backpiece
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Amulet
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Pistol
Grieving

Torch
Grieving

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Grieving

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Stats

• Running a full set of Trailblazer for maximum tankiness and more focus on condition damage also works.

Relics

• Relic of the Wayfinder - you may choose to sacrifice the relic slot of the build for passive mobility, freeing up the rune slot for something better like Rune of Superior Rune of the Trapper.

Consumables

Food

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Utility

Usage

General

• Summon your minions before you mount up and leave spawn so they can be ready by the time you need to fight someone.

• Entering shroud is your primary method of surviving enemy focus.
  • Shroud is instant and you can enter/exit even while stunned, granting you a second health bar.
  • It procs Enfeebling Blood which is a great way to apply AoE Weakness to melee enemies even while you're stunned, mitigating their damage.
  • Plague Sending provides cleansing, and it can proc when Enfeebling Blood hits a target.

• Both weapon sets (when playing with offhand Dagger) and even shroud has access to condition transfers, this is where most of your active cleansing comes from.
  • Deathly Swarm on Scepter/Dagger.
  • Putrid Mark on Staff.
  • Plague Sending when you enter shroud and Unholy Martyr when you exit it.

• Necromantic Corruption provides steady passive cleansing as long as your minions live. If your minions are overwhelmed by conditions, Unholy Martyr could bail them out.

• Lich Form is where your burst damage comes from. With Celestial this skill still deals good Power damage on skill #1, and the elite even has some minion synergy. Having Fury from Furious Demise is a plus.

• Let minions do their thing. Don't use the active of Summon Bone Minions and Summon Blood Fiend as it kills the minions. Exceptions include sacrificing them for some value when they're about to die from damage, or squeezing out some burst damage from the Bone Fiend explosion combined with Death Nova.

Related Builds

• Necromancer - Condi Minion Master - Conquest PvP version of the build.