How to Rune and Gear Your Necromancer at Level 20 in Guild Wars

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Updated Sep 27, 2009
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Guild Wars is an MMORPG game that allows players to sink deep in a world that is full of beauty and fighting. The Necromancer is a specific character class in Guild Wars that offers players a unique opportunity play the game like never before. Learn how to gear a level 20 Necromancer.

Character Introduction

The MMORPG game that has entered the hearts and minds of millions of gamers across America and the globe, Guild Wars, offers players versatile and unlimited worlds consisting of PvP and PvE. Reaching level 20 in the game is the highest level one can obtain. When a character reaches level 20 they will begin choosing primary skills and attributes which will need to work in harmony with runes, insignias, second professions, and weapons. The Necromancer is a caster character in Guild Wars.

The Necromancer can raise the dead from corpses lying around them as well as place hexes, curses, and do major damage in the areas of one on one combat as well as multiple opponents. Necromancers normally use a staff or wand and offhand to boost stats and fight with. Necromancers can fight in both PvE and PvP against a multitude of enemies.

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A Necromancer is typically a ranged caster who also specializes in minion making. Many Necromancers become minion masters and their only goal is to raise an army and keep it alive to fight alongside tanks and other players in a Guild Wars group. The Necromancer is the only character class that can be a minion master and are often seen as essential party members that a group cannot do without.

Armor Selection

The Necromancer has many different armor types specialized just for their class. Level 20 Necromancers should have “maxed” armor since it will give the character the most protection against enemies. Maxed armor for a Necromancer is 60.

Here is a list of the different maxed armor types and where to obtain each:

  • Obsidian Armor: The Fissure of Woe
  • Asuran Elite: Rata Sum
  • Deldrimor Elite: Central Transfer Chamber
  • Monument Elite: Eye of the North Outpost
  • Norn Elite: Gunnar’s Hold
  • Ancient Elite: Bone Palace
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  • Sunspear Elite: Command Post
  • Primeval Elite: Throne of Secrets
  • Vabbian Elite: The Kodash Bazaar
  • Canthan Elite: Divine Path
  • Kurzick Elite: Vasburg Armory
  • Luxon Elite: Leviathan Pits
  • Judge Elite: Granite Citadel
  • Saintly Elite: Marhan’s Grotto
  • Woven Elite: Granite Citadel
  • Flowing Elite: Granite Citadel
  • Labyrinthine Elite: Marhan’s Grotto

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Amikee San Aug 30, 2009 9:45 PM
Builds?
I was really hoping to see some example builds. By the time your Nec reaches level 20 you already know most of the stuff in the article. I usually don't use any 2nd profession skills unless it is called for in a mission. I find the EON skills better enhancers.
 
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