Curse

Boomer the Gnome · Jun 16, 2006, 12:28 PM // 12:28

No this is not like any other minion master build. Because I thought about it before I created it. By emphasizing skills and knowledge I created a self efficent Farming tool that can waste everything. ( I soloed The "Lost boy" quest that you get in seitung harbor )

16 Death magic (12 Plus 1 plus 3 )
12 soul reaping ( 9 plus 3 )
9 into healing magic

Skills

Animate bone fiend/Animate vampric horror/Blood of the master/Taste of death/Putrid Explosion/Deadly swarm/Healing breeze/Death nova

Use of character. Well the backbone of this is an army of undead. Deadly swarm is a little kick to make those few moments go by faster. To start off in an enviroment zone to farm. Look for animals to kill. Low level and EASY target to make your minions. The more animals you kill, the more minions you make.

As of now I am still experimenting with some skills( I plan to get animate flesh golem and replace animate bone fiend with it ) But find that this works well if you want to take out a party.

Healing breeze is so you can sacrafice as much health as you want to your minions and you keep regening. Heck I even cast it on my minions so they don't die as fast. They become my "special minion" - also I've used judges insight( the spell that turns your attack into holy damage ) and casted that on them. Makes them destroy all those undead creations and send them back to the rift faster.

The point of death nova is to make a minion bomb. When a minion is near death (degening fast) I usally cast it and send him in the fray. Either that or I'll make a real minion bomb (a vampric horror ) cast death nova on him and then use Taste of death to make him blow up ( and maybe heal me ). It works gloriously and is fun( this works well on Assassins too, except you can't lick them..

). You loose a minion but when you have 5 or so it doesn't really matter because you'll beable to make another one in seconds.

I use putrid explosion as a means of last resort. If I have 5 or 6 minions (generally all you can maintain constantly without alot of maintaince when your not in a mission- minions have needs to you know!) I use putrid explosion to do a quicky 122? or so damage. Works well.

The Pros
-High damage capability
-Extremely pliable to most situations
-Quick killing and farming uses

Cons
-Lack of easy to get bodies = you'll probally die.
-Doesn't work that well in some places in cantha.
-Large distance battles hard on minions (start to degen faster)

Current uses

My necro Ironicly named "Corpse Thief" currently is using this skill set in haiju lagoon to farm. Dragon lillies drop some pretty good items, not to mention plant fibers out the ying-yang. How I get so much money. I got my Seeker of wisdom title up to 20 and made about 10 platinum in 2 hours, which for a mid-range zone isn't too bad.

Remember!! Sacraficing spells are measured in percent. Don't try to have alot of health. Necromancers don't need it and actually work BETTER the more they die. I have 350 health so I sacrafice alot less health then a necromancer with 400 or 450 health. I can keep a minion army of 8(never gotten it to 10 for too long) and I usally sacrafice 85 health? or so.

Turbobusa · Jun 17, 2006, 05:51 AM // 05:51

did you try with minions?
you could tainted flesh/death nova them doing great damages + degen to other nearby foes. 2 bombs in a corpse = more damages, faster, as they die pretty fast.