Ferguson's Crossing Standard WvW Builds

With the possibility of Spirits becoming viable again, I am going to reserve a moment in anticipation of my old (before I realized they had internal cooldowns and sucked) 20/0/20/30/0 trait setup. It'll be even better if one of these days they put traps in the proper trait tree!

Man, I hope they get a significant buff and not just a band aid over a gaping leg wound. Spirits seemed like such a cool idea but got utterly lambasted by banners existing.

EDIT: Oh look, you need a trait that makes their active ability remain useless, and all the ones except Frost Spirit still have internal cooldowns. Bah.

The "None Shall Pass" guardian.

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-Cleric accessories

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-Same builds, but this offers you different styles: if you want more damage and toughness opt for second link, if you want a little more heal, go with cleric

-i left the runes for the armor out on purpose: since we all have a certain preferance you can run what ones you want in it: some suggestions though:
-sup rune of melandru
-sup rune of forge
-sup rune of soldier:
-sup rune of earth

these are predominatly for controlling a choke point through massive amounts of area denials, reflects, and a 2 second kd through your elite.

-Through your elite you gain lots of nice little buffs for your allies: quickness, fury, might, swiftness. you can weaken and cripple the enemy (more control for you) and a nice kd to help you control your point.

between your hammer, staff, sanctuary, line immobilize, elite kds, cripples weakness you will hold your point if you keep on hitting your fields and controlling the enemy.

Usage: This is run in a pair (you can run a pack of them if you want, for better control) but absolutely you must have a tomb of courage guardian with you (you can have two, or three if you really want to troll the enemy as you farm the hell out of them with massive heals). The Wrath guardians take turns laying down their area denials, immobilizes, and rotating their elites. If timed correctly, you could almost keep up a perma Wrath-tomb frontline to keep the enemy in check, and perma fury, swiftness, and might (outside of the blast fields).

Hope you guys find this build helpful.

hey guys! I finally got around to post My WvW Condition Necro Build


This build focuses on two things: AoE condition damage and survivability.
All rabid gear ( condition dmg/precision/toughness) and 30 points in death magic should give you over 1800 toughness (CR/FSU approved!) This will give you enough survivability to last in large group battles.

30 points into curses, and a superior sigil of corruption means that you'll be doing an insane amount of condition damage. Combine this with you Epidemic skill , and now you're melting an entire zerg's health.

with that said, it's still more beneficial for your group to spam Plague of darkness(2) over withering Plague (1) while in plague form ( along with the occasional Pestilence (3) for the cripple when stragglers are trying to run away )

situational skills:
swap out Corrupt boon for Well of corruption when holding the enemy off at a choke point.
you can also swap your dagger off-hand for a warhorn when running long distances.


EDIT:

Okay, so this is my final WvW condition necro build here

synopsis:


Curses:
IV: weakening shroud - this casts AoE bleed and weakness on your position upon entering Death shroud. amazing dps in group battles
VI: Terror - Fear is actually the hardest hitting condition a necro has. + it deals more damage to players with another condition on them.
XII: Withering precision - 25% chance to cause weakness on crit. A high crit chance compounded Aoe skills, chances are that you're going to causing a lot of weakness.

Death Magic:
II: Greater Marks - your staff marks become bigger and unblockable.
V: Staff Mastery - staff skills recharge 20% faster.
You're going to be using your staff A LOT in WvW, and that makes these two traits invaluable.
VIII: Reaper's protection - cast AoE fear when disabled. awesome survivability tool and synergizes well with Terror.

Blood Magic:
Vi:Transfusion - Life Transfer heals allies.
life transfer is an excellant ability in group battles and this trait just makes it a whole lot better.


alterations
A strong case could be made for placing the 10 points from Blood Magic into Spite for Vengeful Spirit.

Spite:
V: Spiteful Spirit - Gain retaliation for 3 seconds when entering death shroud. excellant for pushing through chokes.

EDIT#2:
After some testing I noticed that Trait XII on curses, Withering precision wasn't as good as I thought.

I'd suggest replacing it with III: Chilling Darkness.This chills any foes that you blind. It's an awesome trait for spamming #2 in plague form.
( OR you might want to take II:hemophilia but with all the condition cleansing abilities out there I don't think you'll be getting all you can out of it. )