Curse

Contessa · May 10, 2006, 08:21 PM // 20:21

I'm just trying out new stuff now. I've given up on doing minion mastering for now, which is sad, since it was my favorite build. Here's the new stuff I'm trying.

I finally got the hang of minion bombing. As suggested in another thread, I select the minion while it's rising from the corpse so I don't have to chase it around to cast death nova.

I usually get bored with blood spiking and spiteful spirit builds and it took me awhile to get the hang of minion bombing (selecting them and timing) but to cure my boredom I decided to do all three. Typically not the best to spread points across so many attribute lines, but it surprisingly worked for me.

I came up with:

Contessa's Kitchen-Sink Build:

Blood 13
Death 9
SR 9
Curses 13
Wilderness Survival 5

Awakening the Blood
Spiteful Spirit
Shadow Strike
Jaundiced Gaze (substituted Stripe Enchantment to kill Wroth)
Well of Blood
Bone Minions
Death Nova
Troll Unguent

Runes: Superior Curses, Superior Blood, Minor Death, Minor SR, Superior Vigor.

Armor (mixed): Fanatic leggings and gloves, Chest scar pattern, Blood-stained boots, Ragged Scar pattern (blood).

I went around Grenth's footprint last night. There's quite a mixture of professions and corpsy/non-corpsy creatures there. I had level 7 minions which gave me time to cast death nova on them so they gave 70 damage each when they died plus poisoning, but they weren't too tough to last too long or die too soon.

I used Spiteful Spirit on non-fleshy creatures and Shadow Strike/Jaundiced Gaze while waiting for a corpse.

There were times when I had Spiteful Spirit on 2 monsters next to eachother and about 3 minion bombers going off at the same time. I need to get a screen shot. It killed stuff really fast. It was pretty funny to watch and definitely cured my boredom.

If you have any other Kitchen-Sink builds for necros post them here.

This is not a thread for tearing apart people's builds. I just wanted to see what other people are doing for fun since the MM nerf.

Edit: I'm also using 3 weapons sets, one with max damage, one with max energy, and the last is a zealous bow.