New to the forum, here's my Necro!

[earthman]

Hi all.

I've been experimenting with builds from here and also guildwiki, but I have to say I keep on coming back to my own N/Mo build that I just sorta threw together as I went.

It runs a little like this:

Curses: 10+2
Death: 11+1
Smiting Prayers: 10
Soul Reaping: 1+1

1) Enfeebling Blood
2) Mark Of Pain
3) Spiteful Spirit (E)
4) Suffering
5) Putrid Explosion
6) Banish
7) Smite
8) Rebirth

I think that's about right, I'm doing this from memory. My weapon is a gold Hale Accursed Staff of Shelter (I think!) that I picked up in one of the jungle missions - I haven't even got a green weapon yet! - which gives +10 and +5 Energy, and I think +20 Health, so it's not particularly amazing. Oh, and armour is Droknar's Fanatic's. The Death is only that high so that the Putrid Explosions do heavy damage in crowds of enemies - 101 dmg in fact!

It works really well as a PvE support char, I find, as you can do some nuking with SS and Banish, and you also have good area/adjacent cover with SS, Mark of Pain and Suffering plus Enfeebling Blood to make groups of warriors (Summit Carvers for example) hurt a bit less. There's no healing or energy management in there, I know, so it requires Monks to keep you alive, but Banish and Smite are quick to recharge and low cost (5 and 10 respectively) so by the time one enemy is down, SS has recharged and you can launch into the next one.

I dunno... it works for me!!! Any comments? Suggestions for improvement?

--c.
(Bob Solid [ACME])