Necromancer - Core Signet Roamer

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Direct damage

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 20, 2022 and is up to date for the March 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

Necromancer WvW roaming build focusing on burst damage, fear, condition cleanse, carapace, and signet uptime to win by attrition.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Warhorn

Staff

Utility

Skill Bar 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

Variants

Fear of Death

- better resource management, longer CCs.

Equipment

Head
Marauder

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Marauder

Legs
Marauder

Feet
Marauder

Backpiece
Cavalier

Accessory
Cavalier

Accessory
Cavalier

Amulet
Marauder

Ring
Cavalier

Ring
Cavalier

Dagger
Marauder

Warhorn
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

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.