[23] Guild Wars 2 Builds - Necromancer: Staff & Scepter/Focus "Spectral Mark Mage" Build |WvWvW and PVE

By: Soul Step (7/10/2012)

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The build focuses on your Mark skills while using Spectral skills for support and survivability. You'll fill in the "mage" type roll weapon wise as you'll be using the Staff and Scepter/Focus combo. If you like being a power house from a safe distance, then this is a build for you.


Weapon Set:
Primary: Staff
Seconday: Scepter/Focus


Healing, Utility, Elite Skills:
Healing: You can choose any of the healing skills in this build. Specifically for me, I have two as options.
Option 1: 
(6) Consume Conditions - heal and condition remover in one.
Option 2:
(6) Summon Blood Fiend - with Protection of the Horde, you'll gain an extra +20 Toughness when your Blood Fiend is up.


Utility: 2 Spectral skills used here for your survival skills
(7) Spectral Armor - Gain life force and protection.


(8) Spectral Wall - another skills which grants protection and applies a condition.


(9) Signet of Spite - the passive improves your damage output, as the active inflicts plenty of conditions


Elite: 
(0) Lich Form - This elite's skill bar contains 2 Mark skills which is enough to warrant you using this over the over Elites.


Traits: Build output is 30/20/20/0/0 with traits chosen is maximize your Mark skills potential. It also maximizes Power as you can have high sustained damage.
Spite:
(III) Spiteful Removal - nice utility trait to have

(VII) Spiteful Marks - make your Mark skills hurt more

(XII) Chill of Death - a very nice offensive utility trait as it'll reduce the chance of your enemy of making a comeback

Curses:
(VI) Terror - To be used with Reaper's Mark and Doom (when in Death Shroud)

(X) Spectral Attunement - makes your Spectral skills last longer which is a great utility trait.

Death Magic:
(II) Greater Marks - makes your Mark skills larger.

(VIII) Fateful Marks - guaranteed that your Mark skills will hit when they are triggered by your foes.

This a fun build as it makes it can make you some sort of "death mage." Also, it's a step away from some of those high risk, high reward builds that Necromancers can be (like my "Corrupt and Dirty" build).

WvWvW: This is very useful in highly concentrated play battles and choke points as enemies will often run and trigger Marks.