Curse

idontgetit · Jun 10, 2005, 03:17 AM // 03:17

Hey im a lvl 20 n/m i was hoping u guys could give me some feedback on my minion build...hers my line up -

life siphon
life transfer
deadly chill
deadly swarm
bone horror
death nova
blood of master
heal area

any feedback would be appreciated

deathwearer · Jun 10, 2005, 05:37 AM // 05:37

what are your att point?

Epinephrine · Jun 10, 2005, 01:08 PM // 13:08

Well, I'd imagine he has at least 4 attributes running, or he's wasting skills. That said, having Soul Reaping is essential to any minion build, he's got two blood skills and a pile of death, with only heal area as a monk spell. I'm guessing a 10/10/8/8 type distribution, with the 8s in Healing and Blood for 10s in the Death and Soul Reaping?

I'm not an expert by any stretch on the use of death magic, but the lvl 20 death necro I partied with last night ran 12+1 soul reaping, 12+4 death and I have no idea if he even bothered with the lvl 3. Had two minion skills on his bar (horror and fiend), along with putrid explosion and well of suffering. It was neat to see how he ran it, and the way he didn't have to wait to re-cast a minion, he could just alternate them after a fight for faster army building, resulting in a nice mix.

idontgetit · Jun 10, 2005, 06:53 PM // 18:53

my attributes r -

12-blood
15- death
2- soulreapin
6 healing

Epinephrine · Jun 10, 2005, 07:09 PM // 19:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by idontgetit

my attributes r -

12-blood
15- death
2- soulreapin
6 healing

Houston, we have a problem...

Soul Reaping is the lifeblood of a minion using necromancer. I can't picture raising minions without 8+soulreaping, and 13 would be nicer.

idontgetit · Jun 10, 2005, 07:21 PM // 19:21

N-eed
A-nother
S-even
A-ttributes

=]P

hmm.. i kinda want to keep my deathmagic at 15 (minions last alot longer) any suggestions on how i should rearrange my attributes? i like life transfer and life siphon as a mix combo for health.. but i dont know where to take the points from...............

Epinephrine · Jun 10, 2005, 07:56 PM // 19:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by idontgetit

N-eed
A-nother
S-even
A-ttributes

=]P

hmm.. i kinda want to keep my deathmagic at 15 (minions last alot longer) any suggestions on how i should rearrange my attributes? i like life transfer and life siphon as a mix combo for health.. but i dont know where to take the points from...............

Well, as I said earlier, the necro I partied with last night was 12 +4 death, 12+1 Soul Reaping. I ran my necro as death/blood/soulreaping breifly, but didn't really have enough points to go around. Why do you want the blood?

You should be able to depend on your team for some healing, youu can heal your minions using death magic, so you don't even need your 6 in healing, there are spells to suck life from a corpse or from your undead (Soul Fest, Taste of Death); why do you need any other attribute? Blood of the Master should heal all the minions nearby 116 or so, right? Suck life from one of them if you need it, as a plus, you can pretty much guarantee it'll set off its Death Nova. You could even take a small investment in blood if you wanted to use Dark Bond to cut down the damage you take; a 12/10/8 distribution could allow a 16/11/9 quite easily, still giving you a nice long Dark Bond or a decent Well of Blood, but I think that it might be best to focus on death if you are using minions.

And no quoting Tom Stoppard at me, that's my blood necro's line

idontgetit · Jun 10, 2005, 11:41 PM // 23:41

hmm, taking your opinions from your previous post i tried to change things up a bit =]

blood - 10
death -15
soulreapin - 9
healin prayers - 3

life transfer
deadly swarm
fiend
horror
nova
blood of master
taste of death
light of dwaynda

.. eh what trips me out is that im hardly using anything from my secondary line....im thinking maybe i should of went mesmer or elementalist / necro .. But i dont know im at the ring of fire now and tryin differnt things.. but havent found anyting imtruly happy/content with..

Droghan · Jun 10, 2005, 11:45 PM // 23:45

Im the sort of the same way with my blood nec and fire elem. I use the fire to kill everything in sight and use well of power and well of blood to stack regen on me and my party. Its served me fairly well so far up past ascencion. I may try the water line with death just to change it up and play with my enemies