Curse

knives · Sep 30, 2005, 03:28 AM // 03:28

I was thinking of a N/Mo farming build...

Aura of the Lich {E}
Dark Aura
Dark Pact
Blood Renewal
Touch of Agony
Protective Spirit
Essence Bond / Balthazars Spirit (whichever you like better)
Life Siphon

Death: 12 + 1 + 3
Blood: 10 + 3
Protection: 8
Soul Reaping: 2 + 3

Scar pattern set + sup runes on every piece

One or two points can be taken from death and put into blood for some more damage from ToA + Pact. Half your health (should be low from sup runes). (185 health about with runes, half of that = 92.5 = 93) then half damage 46.5 then prot spirit 10% of 47 = about 5 damage. Watch out for your health from aura sacrifices, and renewal whenever you can for MAJOR healing. Siphon things to keep a constant 10 regen / 9 regen depending on how much time you plan to spend siphoning. Then aoe from aura should do some damage + agony + pact spam. I have not tried this build, but it sounds like it may work..

sph0nz · Oct 02, 2005, 03:37 PM // 15:37

Can anyone confirm if any varation of this build is solo farmable? I've tried farming minotaurs/hydras(note; this was BEFORE the update.) and I always die after I manage to kill the first mino. Once I get a DP it's almost impossible to keep farming. Maybe I'm not using it right.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Blood Magic - 16
Death Magic - 12
Soul Reaping - 7

1. Aura of the Lich {E}
2. Dark Aura
3. Blood Renewal
4. Touch of Agony
5. Dark Pact
6. Signet of Agony
7. Plague Touch
8. Unholy Feast/Demonic Flesh/Life Siphon

Xenophon Ualtar · Oct 03, 2005, 03:45 PM // 15:45

I just tried this build for the first time this weekend. It is absolutly awesome and just crazy fun. Of course there is the issue that once you die once you are pretty much toast, but I sure had a lot of fun anyway.

lynxxClan · Oct 03, 2005, 04:14 PM // 16:14

I perosnally Love this build, I run it in Arenas and Teams all the time. I also love to face it when i use my mesmer, interupt mesmer completely destroys this build.

Healing Spells targeted against you are Halved however, regen effects are godly with aura.
Some Necro Skills Say Sacrifice 10% Max Hp and Some say sacrifice 10% Current Hp, some healing Skills arent considered to be a Heal Target ally spell.

Jasso · Oct 05, 2005, 05:23 AM // 05:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by lynxxClan

Healing Spells targeted against you are Halved however, regen effects are godly with aura.

Copy&Paste from Update notes :

Aura of the Lich – Decreased Energy to 10; decreased casting time to 2 seconds; decreased recharge to 20; decreased duration to 15..45; removed “half healing” from description.

Tainted Poon · Oct 11, 2005, 02:46 PM // 14:46

I perfer:
16 blood
15 death
4 soul reap

1. res sig
2. Aotl
3. Dark Aura
4. Touch of agony
5. Dark pact
6. Death nova
7. Consume Corpse
8. Blood Renewal

AncientBeerMan · Oct 15, 2005, 07:28 AM // 07:28

Yo big up's to ya arredondo.Nice research on this skill;you cleared it up good for me.But i was wondering what u thoght about infuse condition to help with condition degens like poisen.I know this wouldn't be a big problem with a good healer but I think it might help in random arenas.

Peewee · Nov 24, 2005, 02:01 PM // 14:01

quick question, casting aura of the lich, will that half ur maximum possible health, or will it half ur maximum health, and the health u have currently

eg: i have 250 out of 500 health. i cast aura of the lich, will i now have 'maximum health' of 250, or will i have 125 health out of 250. if it is the former, then surely this spell is better cast once ur down to half health, or below?
to reply to the person that siad AotL is useless while working with sacrafice skills, not really, it may only half the dmg dealt to u, but remember that ur are going to get a 200 health boost at the end, so consider ur health, i u have 400 max health for example, once u use AotL it will be half (200) plus the 200 that u will gain at the end. clearly if u use this calculation then sacrifice is a mere 1/4

Bale_Shadowscar · Nov 25, 2005, 09:09 PM // 21:09

I'm using Faustus' build from the previous page and it works well for me. I don't like the dark pact in there (#5), I just don't think it fits right. Its cheap and spamable yes, but I think I do enough damage without it, and I think a bit more defense woul be nice. All the other skills work really well together (I'm using Unholy feast for #8).

I think that one of the following skills would probably be better for the last slot (instead of dark pact):

Perhaps a warrior stance such as Wary/shield/defensive stance.
An Elementalist ward spell.
Symbol of wrath/Balthazar's aura/other AoE continuous damage spell.

As you can change your second profession, and only need one spell from your second (if any) it shouldn't be too hard to get one of those^

Although I like Tainted's build with consume corpse, to gain back some of the energy and health lost.

Also, perhaps replace Plague touch with Plague sending. Not only will the life sacrificing trigger Dark Aura, but for example the bleeding recieved from Signet of Agony (which I must say does work very well. about 80 dmg to each nearby foe if used with dark aura) to ALL the enemies around you.

Putrid explosion might be quite nice as well when being mobbed.

NatalieD · Nov 26, 2005, 01:21 AM // 01:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peewee

quick question, casting aura of the lich, will that half ur maximum possible health, or will it half ur maximum health, and the health u have currently

eg: i have 250 out of 500 health. i cast aura of the lich, will i now have 'maximum health' of 250, or will i have 125 health out of 250. if it is the former, then surely this spell is better cast once ur down to half health, or below?

As far as I can tell... neither. It actually subtracts half your maximum health from your current health, leaving you with a minimum of 1. Basically the same as receiving a deep wound, except for 50% instead of 20%. So, uh, be careful when you cast it, I guess. I got myself killed a couple times last night using it incautiously.

Valheru · Nov 26, 2005, 01:33 AM // 01:33

Watch out for life-stealing spells. i was using a AotL build during a jungle mission and got vamp touched to death by the moss scarabs. I believe life-stealing spells do full damage to you.