Necromancer Hybrid PvE DPS (Gold Road/U43) (2024)

Pillar of Nirn

• Frontbar
  

  Dagger(Secondary)

  Charged

  Poison
• Frontbar
  

  Dagger(Primary)

  Nirnhoned

  Flame
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  Ring

  Bloodthirsty

  Increase Magical Harm
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  Ring

  Bloodthirsty

  Increase Magical Harm
• 

  Medium

  Divines

  Magicka

Perfected Ansuul's Torment

• 

  Medium

  Divines

  Magicka
• See Also

  UESP:ESO Character Build DataDo you have ESO Plus and why, or why not? - Page 3Raidificator (Trial, Arena and Dungeon Timer)PostCount.Net - Guild Wars 2
  

  Medium

  Divines

  Magicka
• 

  Medium

  Divines

  Magicka
• 

  Medium

  Divines

  Magicka
• 

  Medium

  Divines

  Magicka

Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet

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  Necklace

  Bloodthirsty

  Increase Magical Harm

Perfected Crushing Wall

• Backbar
  

  Flame Staff(Primary)

  Infused

  Weapon Damage

Slimecraw

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  Light

  Divines

  Magicka

Master-at-Arms50Biting Aura50Thaumaturge50Wrathful Strikes50

Bloody Renewal50Siphoning Spells50Sustained by Suffering50Boundless Vitality50

• Battle Mastery

  40

• Blessed

  20

• Eldritch Insight

  20

• Elemental Aegis

  20

• Flawless Ritual

  40

• Hardy

  20

• Mighty

  30

• Piercing

  20

• Precision

  20

• Preparation

  20

• Quick Recovery

  20

• Tireless Discipline

  20

• War Mage

  30

• Bashing Brutality

  20

• Defiance

  20

• Fortification

  30

• Hasty

  16

• Hero's Vigor

  20

• Mystic Tenacity

  50

• Nimble Protector

  6

• Piercing Gaze

  30

• Savage Defense

  30

• Sprinter

  20

• Tempered Soul

  50

• Tireless Guardian

  20

• Tumbling

  30

Necromancer

Grave Lord

Reusable PartsDeath KnellDismemberRapid Rot

Bone Tyrant

Death GleaningDisdain HarmHealth AvariceLast Gasp

Living Death

Curative CurseNear-Death ExperienceCorpse ConsumptionUndead Confederate

Armor

Light Armor

GraceEvocationSpell WardingProdigyConcentration

Medium Armor

DexterityWind WalkerImproved SneakAgilityAthletics

World

Soul Magic

Soul Shatter

Guild

Fighters Guild

SlayerBanish the WickedSkilled Tracker

Mages Guild

Persuasive WillMage AdeptEverlasting MagicMagicka ControllerMight of the Guild

Undaunted

Undaunted CommandUndaunted Mettle

Racial

Orc Skills

CraftsmanBrawnyUnflinching RageSwift Warrior

Dark Elf Skills

AshlanderDynamicResist FlameRuination

High Elf Skills

HighbornSpell RechargeSyrabane's BoonElemental Talent

Khajiit Skills

CutpurseRobustnessLunar BlessingsFeline Ambush

Imperial Skills

DiplomatToughImperial MettleRed Diamond

Craft

Alchemy

Medicinal Use

• Changes:
• Ghostly Embrace (PTS):
• Flex Skills
• Rotation
• Elemental Catalyst

Changes:

U43 (PTS):

• Replaced Evil Hunter with Ghostly Embrace (see below why)
• Vemon Skull is back again as main spammable

Ghostly Embrace (PTS):

I know what your thinking. Why Ghostly Embarce? Isn't that a tanking ability? Well as of the current PTS (U43) Ghostly Embrace now does aoe damage per circle! So if you can get an add in at least 2 patches then it will do a lot of damage and will be a good AoE spammable. I also like to make my builds in theme with my class so you can always just replace it with another skill. I just think this ability looks cool and is fun to cast.

*BUT JUST TO BE CLEAR AGAIN THAT IT ONLY DOES DAMAGE ON PTS RIGHT NOW AND NOT LIVE SO WAIT UNTIL PATCH DAY (Aug 19).

Flex Skills

• Detonating Siphon can be morphed into Mystic Siphon if you want more recovery.
• Skeletal Archer can be morphed to Skeletal Arcanist if you want more of an aoe pet.
• Unnerving Boneyard can be morphed to Avid Boneyard if you or your group doesn't need an aoe Major Breach.
• Necrotic Potency can be replace with any skill you need or want to use.
• Glacical Colossus can be replace if there is another necromancer in group using it or if tank is running a major vulnerability set like Turning Tide and/or Archdruid Devyric. Ice Comet is a good replacement for bosses and Elemental Rage is good for trash pulls.
• Ghostly Embrace can be replaced with another skill.

Rotation

First rule for necromancer is to make sure blastbones is always active. It is our hardest hitting ability making it the bread and butter of the necromancer. It's has a 2.5 sec arming period and if your close to your targets a .5 second exploding period. So you should be able to cast 2 skills before recasting blastbones if your fast enough. Also try to make sure you are on your front bar when blastbones pops so get max damage with it. Not a big deal if it goes off on your back bar.

BB = blast bones

Skeleton Archer > Elemental Explosion > BB > Wall of Elements > BB > Boneyard > Siphon > Skull (spammable)

When you have time between blastbones and your DoTs you can use your spammable.

Elemental Catalyst

This set is a match made in heaven for necromancers since they are the only class that naturally has all 3 elementals in our toolkit. Rotation is about the same but with catalyst you want to make sure you have all three elements on the target at all times. So you'll want to make sure your not on your backbar for no more then 3 secs. Spend as much time on your front bar as possible.

You can also make a ranged version of this build just by switching daggers to a Ice staff. Yes the ice staff light attacks counts towards catalyst.

*Only one person should run Elemental Catalyst per group!