Curse

Le Grinder · Feb 12, 2006, 11:48 AM // 11:48

Planning a new build around the death skill set for the necro...

One of the big things i've noticed is the amount of corpses that pile up in the tombs - corpse explosion can and does work nicely in some situations. However, minions generally seem to be frowned upon and they tend to lure too many bad guys for the team to handle...

So.

Stats:
Death Magic: 16 (+4)
Blood magic: 11 (+1)
Soul Reaping: 9 (+1)
Curses: 3

Skills:
1. Enfeeble
2. Virulence
3. Epidemic
4. Putrid explosion
5. Arcane echo
6. Blood ritual
7. Well of blood
8. Res Signet

One cannot just stand around and wait for a corpse to become explodable, that would be quite silly and a waste of peoples time. So, whilst waiting for a corpse to present itself, use the 3 skills Enfeeble, Virulence and Epidemic in that order. The combo should take exactly 2.25 seconds to cast, and will last 16 seconds on those close to the paticular target.

Enfeeble is there merely as a cheap and easy way to get a condition on a bad guy - 5 energy, nearly instant recast, 1 second casting time. Needs to be cast for Virulence to work.
Virulence works in two ways - massive health degen, coupled with weakness - cast this on Grasps and they'll be doing 1/3rd the damage, much easier for the monks to control.
Epidemic will, of course, spread all these conditions to adjacent bad guys. Which should be all bunched together if the tanks are working properly.

Of course, once a Grasp dies, arcance echo and corpse explode that dude. hopefully the virulence/other nukers have wounded at least one other guy in close proximity so that a chain reaction can happen with the corpse explosions. The 5 second recharge time is too slow for me, so echoing it seems like the right thing to do. ( i'm used to the old un-nerfed version... i miss those days).

Blood rit to help the casters regen, well of blood to aid in the healing occasionally - cast this on the lonely corpses that aren't near anyone else - casters can jump in here potentially.

And everyone loves the res sig. Well, someone will.

So get to the poisoning/diseasing/weakening and sit back and watch the fireworks.

Good/bad?