Army of the Dead: My Tanky/Damage or Support Necromancer build

[Cheshire King.6970]

The Necromancer is my second fav professions behind the Engineer. I like the idead of having an army of minions taking the damages while giving some back while I do most of it of the work. With that, I when with the Death Magic for the minion thing, The Reaper for from what I head is really good at dealing damage. Now the third Specs is hard chose with either Blood magic, spite or curses. I think Blood magic for life stealing and helping my party a bit. Spite, Curses or Soul Reaping for more damages. If there a way then I would like to be able to switch between Blood magic and Spite, Curse or Soul Reaping for what is needed. For gear, I decided to go with Setter as it seems to allow me to switch between specs. Take a look at my [build](http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRQQNAR3dnM0AN1gt1AebCs3glpBbaEcBqASDgTWAIOEmCbhA-jxhBQBA4JFEk9H0wFUATq/4RlfrUJIf09AA-e "build") and feel free to tell me your advice and suggestions traits, witch specs to go with and what gear to use.

[Dawdler.8521]

> @"sdt.1697" said:

> For gear, I decided to go with Setter

Well at least it'll look hilarious if you're strapping dogs around you for armor. Although its probably a bad idea while being surrounded by hungry necro minions.

 

[Cheshire King.6970]

> @"Dawdler.8521" said:

> > @"sdt.1697" said:

> > For gear, I decided to go with Setter

> Well at least it'll look hilarious if you're strapping dogs around you for armor. Although its probably a bad idea while being surrounded by hungry necro minions.

>

So you're saying that the settler gear isn't a good idead?

 

 

[Dadnir.5038]

Assuming it's for open world PvE it's not that bad. You'd have better results by switching axe for scepter. _Deadly strength_ could be replaced by any of the other 2 traits. When playing solo don't keep _ritual of life_, _Blood bond_ will give you a bit of extra damage and _quickening thirst_ can improve a lot your quality of life.

 

Personally, I think that if you're gonna go condiminionmancer, core or scourge might very well be the "better" picks.

[Cheshire King.6970]

> @"Dadnir.5038" said:

> Personally, I think that if you're gonna go condiminionmancer, core or scourge might very well be the "better" picks.

What condiminionmancer and I know what scourge is but what is this core you talking about.

 

 

 

[Trollocks.5084]

"Core" simply means necro without elite specs (Scourge or Reaper). "condiminionmancer" is a condition-built necro that uses a lot of minions.

[phs.6089]

That is alot of toughness, try to keep 3-4 settler and change rest to shaman