Curse

The undead Mesmer · Nov 10, 2006, 09:24 AM // 09:24

This is a build i spiffed up in my spare time... just need some constructive critisism its for the alternative MM i guess ^^

Attrb:
Death magic:12+1+3
Soul reaping:6+1
Illusion magic:11
unspend points:5

Equipment.
A 20/20 bone wand and a 20 +1 bone idol.

Skills:
1. Animate Shambling horror.
2. Arcane echo.
3. Virulence (e).
4. Feast for the dead.
5. BoTM.
6. Fragility.
7. Epidemic.
8. Rez signet

How it works: First of all get yourself some corpses ^^ use the arcane echo + shambling horror combo for more minions wich is always nice. Then sacrifice atleast 1 horror to create that other horror then the fun begins.

Cast fragility on your monster let him get bleeding cast virulence and on top of that if he is in a big group cast epidemic. Mass conditions on multiple foes.

Pros: Didnt think up anny of them

well its a mass condition build really.

Cons: Well if they kill your minions they kill your condition flow :/

Constructive critisism plz.

Hidden Prayers · Nov 10, 2006, 01:39 PM // 13:39

I'm a little confused as to your goal with this build. It seems like you are trying to get a minion or two up and then use them to cause mass condition spread/ target fragility spiking with the Shambling Horrors as a catalyst. If so, this build has a good premise, but I see a few major problems with it.

The first of which is your use of fragility with Virulence. A fragility spike condition causing build requires that you have low levels of death magic instead of high levels of death magic so that the conditons end faster triggering fragility. Using it as an MM means that you will have high levels of death magic, which greatly limits the power that fragility has. Now in condition spreading it proves much more effective than in fragility spiking, as the conditons last a good deal of time an epidemic can spread them quickly. So in essence I would say lose fragility.

Second, the sole use of shambling horrors is probably not in your best interest, as they are minions with a fairly high recharge time. In place of fragility, I would suggest putting bone horrors, or fiends in their place to help build your minion flow. Once you have an effective army rolling, you can then begin to raise Shambling horrors, and use the bone horrors that remain as you do this for Feast for the undead and maintain proper healing.

Now the previous considered, I'm going to go blasphemous and say lose BotM. With the use of FfD, and that in effect creating your shambling horrors, I don't believe you will need BotM in addition to sustain your minions. I would put signet of lost souls in it's place for minor energy and health management, considering you have such low soul reaping.

Here's my modifications (skills only):
Animate Shambling Horror.
Arcane echo.
Virulence (e).
Feast for the dead.
Signet of Lost Souls
Animate Bone Horror
Epidemic.
Rez signet

Metasynaptic · Nov 12, 2006, 12:20 PM // 12:20

Why this doesn't work:

As previously stated, fragility spikes rely on Death Magic = 0 so that Virolence has 3 conditions that drop after 3 seconds.

Also, using jagged Horrors to get the bleeding going is a poor foundation condition to start virolence off. Use s ranger secondary and Crippling shot, for example, is more efficient, and there are dozens of suitable necromancer curses that would also do this for you.

A better combination is Enfeebling Blood (AoE weakness), virolence, epidemic.

ibbo · Nov 12, 2006, 05:07 PM // 17:07

yup i agree wid them guys

but good idea where do u use the build? pvp/gvg/ha/ab/pve??