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Just curious if there is any non minion necromancer type builds where it is actually hard to die unless your completely not trying at all.

Something that can really solo champions and help a ton in fights solo or with others.

I understand it won't be the highest dps and kill things extremely fast but I'm looking for something strong and sturdy to really explore with and join in everything without fear of dying, something that can really shine in its own way by just being alive and helping.

Always solo pve. Looking for suggestions, anyone?

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  1. Herald with full zerk or marauder and vampirism rune (strength rune is fine). Jalis + Glint as usual, best part is after the revamp both glint and jalis can be used underwater. Just pop Vengenful Hammers and you'll be fine plus sword/sword rev has a lot of light CC not to mention 2 more from utility skills.

  2. Renegade with full Viper or any condi stat works for you and tormenting rune, Malyx + Kalla. This one is costly but the healing you get is insane, Darkrazor is a wonderful AoE CC skill on low cd. The dps is really good along with other flashy stuffs make this one really enjoyable while keeping you alive. Tho the biggest problem is energy management won't be easy with this one. *Note that this build can also works wonderfully with power version (same gear setup with herald build but using renegade), using Kalla + Jalis, you get vengenful hammers + soulcleave as regen and 2 official heal skills (Darkrazor alone carries you hard).

  3. One man army Spellbreaker build by Lord Hizen, you can find the build on youtube. I've tested and confirmed this one is really strong and tanky while still doing very ok dps.

  4. Condi mirage with staff/scepter/axe/torch and tormenting rune, this one by all mean not a tanky but rather squishy build, the selling point here is infinite dodge while having the healing from torment rune as a back up. Able to solo pretty much anything with practice and time given.

  5. PewPew double bears vanilla ranger or soulbeast.

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Not sure if you're looking for something else than necromancer but I personally like this:

Chronomancer is extremely tanky while keeping a decent amount of damage depending on the stats you're choosing.

The main tankyness comes from a few passive effects:

  1. Illusionary Inspiration - heals aoe whenever you summon an illusion.
  2. Signet of the Ether - heals whenever you summon a illusion.
  3. Restorative Illusions - Heals yourself and cleanses conditions whenever you shatter.
  4. Chronophantasma - Phantasms resummon themselves once before turning into a clone.

What this means:

  • Summoning a clone will heal you twice. (Signet of the Ether + Illusionary Inspiration)
  • Summoning a Phantasm will heal you three times as much as summoning a clone does. (Phantasm summon, Phantasm respawn via Chronophantasma, Phantasm turns into a clone)
  • Healing of the abilities will be:
    • 212+0.3*HealingPower for Illusionary Inspiration
    • 350+0.6*HealingPower for Signet of the Ether.

Other key Traits for the Build are:

  • Phantasmal Force, which grants you might whenever a Phantasm dies.
  • Phantasmal Haste, which grants Quickness to phantasms and to you whenever they are summoned (or resummoned)
  • Sympathic Visage, which causes phantasms to take one condition from you when they are summoned (and resummoned)

Stat wise you'd probably be looking for a lot of power and precision, a bit of toughness and/or vitality to prevent 1 hits and depending on sustain you'd want healing power.The best stat sets would be:Marauder/Zealot/Cleric/Berserker

Weapon wise you'd want to go either Sword Sword / Scepter Shield (more damage)orScepter Sword / Staff (more sustain and purely range)

Rune wise I'd take something like Pack which boosts Precision, Power and Boon duration or for sustain Defender or Grove.

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Power Herald using glint/jalis:http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAscmnXN2gSqJvQR/kbosgyPU4Q5IKYr8ElFZlxu6tDXNgFigNmd+B-jRCFQBIU5BAeEAV7IAkFlgoTfQN2fQfq/4ElYC4EAAA-e

2800+ armor with a constant ~30-50+% damage reduction on top of that, all while healing 400-700 hps passively, not even counting your two heal abilities and staff skills. The damage isn't top of the line of course, but it's actually very good for how tanky you are. Can swap out charged mists for either song of the mists or roiling mists if you want something even easier, just means you have less energy to spend on fun, active abilities. Sword/sword is default for dps, can switch to staff for burst condi cleanse or additional ~300 hps sustain and weakness. Hammer is also an option as some solo pve is very melee unfriendly.

Alternatively, power greatsword/axe-axe core warrior:http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAR3XjMdQnHW1BGeAnIGICKsF67RQ/ipPGsAIC6ZA-jxBFABFcRAA4JAUo6PBqEsm9HST3QTK/AA-eNot quite as tanky-tough as the rev but better dps, especially burst aoe. Healing and dodges for days with tons of condi cleanse.

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@"gateless gate.8406" said:Condi mirage with heavy sustain:https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Tormentinghttps://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Sigil_of_Tormenthttps://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Sigil_of_Stamina

Weapon: Axe + TorchGear stats: RabidTraits: Dueling + Chaos

Is that even correct anymore or nerfed? When I tried a torment renegade even if one dumped 20-30 stacks of torment down the healing was kitten.
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@Dawdler.8521 said:

@"gateless gate.8406" said:Condi mirage with heavy sustain:

Weapon: Axe + TorchGear stats: RabidTraits: Dueling + Chaos

Is that even correct anymore or nerfed? When I tried a torment renegade even if one dumped 20-30 stacks of torment down the healing was kitten.

The video is pre-nerf (the rune initially healed from every condition, not just torment). It still works well IMO, it's just not silly anymore.

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@"Stand The Wall.6987" said:I realize this is for pve, but if you step into wvw you can't beat the 5k armor warrior (potion of karka toughness will give you an extra 150 toughness):http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJASRnUJClkideAmhAEliltATJGE4aBvX2O7pF5vFACdA-jVCDQBT4CAAgjAABfAAUb/hEpEkGq/YFlflQXQ3OEAiBgJ-w

Toughness doesnt scale well past 3k.Toughness alone wont make you invincible.Warrior has almost no dmg reducing modifiers like protection or sometging like revs jalis.

Why would you go for berserk instead of spellbreaker in a contest for invincibillity?Full counter adds dmg negation and can even be specced to give atleast some protection and resistance

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@RedShark.9548 said:

@"Stand The Wall.6987" said:I realize this is for pve, but if you step into wvw you can't beat the 5k armor warrior (potion of karka toughness will give you an extra 150 toughness):

Toughness doesnt scale well past 3k.Toughness alone wont make you invincible.Warrior has almost no dmg reducing modifiers like protection or sometging like revs jalis.

Why would you go for berserk instead of spellbreaker in a contest for invincibillity?Full counter adds dmg negation and can even be specced to give atleast some protection and resistance

its just a fun build dood relax. if you have good support and dodge the big bombs, you sort of are invincible with prot and/ or jalis elite.

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@Stand The Wall.6987 said:

@Stand The Wall.6987 said:I realize this is for pve, but if you step into wvw you can't beat the 5k armor warrior (potion of karka toughness will give you an extra 150 toughness):

Toughness doesnt scale well past 3k.Toughness alone wont make you invincible.Warrior has almost no dmg reducing modifiers like protection or sometging like revs jalis.

Why would you go for berserk instead of spellbreaker in a contest for invincibillity?Full counter adds dmg negation and can even be specced to give atleast some protection and resistance

its just a fun build dood relax. if you have good support and dodge the big bombs, you sort of are invincible with prot and/ or jalis elite.

I am relaxed, düde. im just saying that its totally not what the op was asking for.

Especially since op said hes always in solo pve where surely is no jalis rev around, and like i said, bad prot uptime.

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Heavy sustain builds are doable with any profession, really. At PoF release there was a guy that was uploading video with each profession on a heavy sustain build, showing how easy it was to go through the content with those builds (and it was even before the busted runeset we got nowaday). It's just convenient to think of the necromancer as the easiest, however, unfortunately the necromancer tend to be weaker against hard hitting foes than other professions (even with a full minion build).

Elementalists, warriors, engineers, guardians or even rangers can have so much passive sustain that it's disgusting. Thiefs can gain so much life through dealing damage, even while only attacking, that it's not that hard to outsustain a fight and like other said, mesmers and revenants have their share of sustain as well when properly built.

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Full Viper/Rabid Condi Mirage and just face-roll on the keyboard, with Energy Sigil... I can't even think of how you can die on this.

However, when against break bars, a Sw/Sh or Sw/Sw + GS Chrono with Gravity Well wil be better. Full Berserk or with some Marauder. Just learn to use Continuum Split and you can break the tankiest bar in the game in less than 20s. It's also a bit of a face-roll.

There is a reason why Chrono rules #1 solo clears. Boons, CC, safety, all while on full damage builds.

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Revenant with retribution, salvation and herald.Ventari and glint.Sw/Sw and staff or hammer instead of sw/Sw.

Stack as many dmg reductions as possible with commanders gear or something similar with a decent mix of defensive and offensive stats.

You can facetank pretty much everything.I even fought champs that couldn't do kitten against me.

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@Anchoku.8142 said:

@Anchoku.8142 said:Such irony reading this after years of listening to Arenanet and others saying Necro could not have nice things because it has a second health bar and was naturally heavy on sustain.

U were saying?

Thank you for linking a comedic video showing PvE content being soloed.

Btw its not just any PVE content, he's soloing GROUP META EVENTS that even some groups fail.

And isn't that what OP is looking for?He wants a non minion necro that can solo Champs and events.

To OP, pls use this asap before Anet nerfs it. LordHizen posted something similar on his Firebrand previously and Anet nerfed it hard pretty fast. Use it before we say goodbye to Parasitic Contagion.

Realised some1 also mentioned about his 1man spellbreaker army, yes thats still working properly and is still really good.

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@mizaru.1385 said:

@"Anchoku.8142" said:Such irony reading this after years of listening to Arenanet and others saying Necro could not have nice things because it has a second health bar and was naturally heavy on sustain.

U were saying?

The gameplay is awesome, the video editing is completely stupid, but minimal.

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@mizaru.1385 said:Btw its not just any PVE content, he's soloing GROUP META EVENTS that even some groups fail.

The thing is that it's working because he is doing it alone. The scaling in GW2 can be pretty scary and the visual polution don't help players, especially with boss that have AoE.

Really, this much can be achieved by any profession if you are willing to build for it.

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