Curse

Vilaptca · Sep 23, 2006, 07:54 AM // 07:54

I'm just fooling around with this at level 3 and only have 4 points in Death Magic, so I don't know how well this really works with more minions, and or at 16 Death, etc...

Using the skill Animate Shambling Horror along with the skill Feast for the Dead, to heal my minions and go straight to an army of Jagged Horrors instead.

Basically, Feast for the Dead, you kill off a minion to heal all your other minions for X health. But killing a shambling horror will cause a jagged horror to rise up. So I'm not actually losing any minions, but I'm healing all my other ones to replace a, as far as I can tell, fairly useless minion, into a minion that causes bleeding with each strike.

You could combine this with the skill Death Nova, Jagged Bones or Putrid Flesh to either raise more minions at the same time or spread conditions.

Just something to think about before NF comes out. I'll be testing this again when I get the game and go buy these new Necro skills.

Edit: Feast for the Dead is bugged. You cannot actually target the minion you want to destroy. It picks a random one at the moment. So we'll see, I think it could work to some effect, but with Feast for the Dead not working correctly it means that occasionally I'm losing my Jagged Horrors, when I really want to kill of the Shambling Horrors.

Edit2: Apparently, I didn't realize we could make PvP characters too. Anyways, hopped on the island and played around with this in the training area. Feast for the Dead is targetting the nearest minion at the moment. It is possible to position yourself to make sure you only get Shambling Horrors, but its incredibly annoying.

Manic Smile · Sep 24, 2006, 08:08 AM // 08:08

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Originally Posted by Vilaptca

Using the skill Animate Shambling Horror along with the skill Feast for the Dead, to heal my minions and go straight to an army of Jagged Horrors instead.

I could be wrong because my preview necro is pretty low as well but from the GuildWiki info I see that Jagged Horros are two levels lower then Shambeling Horrors so I would worry about their brittleness against higher lvl/lager mobs...especially since they are mele. I'd think it best not to trigger the biggest strength of this spell early. Run some kind of other minnion healing as well and trigger one or two at a time just to get the bleeding effect and let the rest die in the course of battle.

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Originally Posted by Vilaptca

You could combine this with the skill Death Nova, Jagged Bones or Putrid Flesh to either raise more minions at the same time or spread conditions.

Used sparringly this would be awsome...if they fix that bug.

Hella Good · Sep 24, 2006, 04:37 PM // 16:37

Animate Shambling Horror
+ Death Nova
+ Jagged Bones (E)
+ Taste of Death
=
GG

One dead body is all you need. It's fascinating.

Zinger314 · Sep 24, 2006, 05:33 PM // 17:33

In PvE, I would prefer a normal Bone Fiend army with Order of Undeath than minion bombing.

In PvP, however, I may look at Jagged Bones.