Curse

Sjacob33 · Nov 02, 2005, 06:40 AM // 06:40

i got a necro/monk and i have played the HOH a bit i have found the best combo is points into blood and curses
Blood: 10+major
Curses: 9+supirior
Soul Reaping: 11+scar
rest in healing prayers to inprove your restore life
I usually take
Vaperic Gaze
Life siphon
Insidious Parasite
Spiteful Spirit
Shadow of Fear
Enfeebling Bloof
Restore Life
this build can res when needed and can usuall take on those pesky Worrior 1on1 if u have a healer monk consentratin on u u can take on about 3 worrors at a time due to the area affects of SoF and EB

Spura · Nov 02, 2005, 02:06 PM // 14:06

with weakness + insidious parasite you can pretty much neutralise warrior's damage on yourself, the problem is Insidious parasite is weaker than empathy and is not much of a kick and it is pretty expesive(15 en). I think you would run out of energy with this build in prolonged battle because of Insidious and Spiteful spirit. Also you can get 10 10 11 in attributes instead of 10 9 11. Perhaps this is pve char and you didn 't do attribute quests? I would suggest taking awaken the blood, dropping SR to 8 pumping curses to 12, taking minor SR rune.

ange1 · Nov 02, 2005, 02:24 PM // 14:24

um i'd take res signet, and pump up your curse
shadow strike instead of gaze,
drop insidious, and bring some fast corpse wasting skill to counter iway lol.

sorry i changed half of your build.=D

Yamat · Nov 02, 2005, 04:31 PM // 16:31

If you want to use Spiteful Spirit, I would think you don't want Shadow of Fear... you want the warriors to attack at full speed so they kill themselves! With weakness on them no one will care they're being hit by a warrior anyway

Bring Awaken the Blood: +2 to both Curses and Blood rules, and since you only have one sacrifice skill, Vamp Gaze/Life Siphon will keep you replenished nicely

Manfred · Nov 02, 2005, 07:50 PM // 19:50

life siphon is a surprisingly sucky skill.
Yeah, honestly, I'd really tear down your build and start over with a specific target in mind. Giving everyone on the enemy team large annoyances is less useful than giving one person insta-death.

Maybe going anti-combat, since IWAY is still going, and ranger spike is growing daily.

Yamat · Nov 02, 2005, 09:21 PM // 21:21

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Originally Posted by Manfred

life siphon is a surprisingly sucky skill. ... Giving everyone on the enemy team large annoyances is less useful than giving one person insta-death.

Maybe going anti-combat, since IWAY is still going, and ranger spike is growing daily.

Erm, that's what this build is... anti-warrior! Yes, insta-death is great, but one necro isn't going to do it. I've never seen a warrior who stops fighting with Spiteful Spirit on him... never... and Life Siphon is a great cover hex. Factor in Enfeebling Blood and you have an excellent anti-warrior. The only way to improve on that would be as a Mes secondary and then you can Archane Echo Spiteful Spirit on the warrior standing next to the first one!!!

Sjacob33 · Nov 03, 2005, 12:03 AM // 00:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yamat

If you want to use Spiteful Spirit, I would think you don't want Shadow of Fear... you want the warriors to attack at full speed so they kill themselves! With weakness on them no one will care they're being hit by a warrior anyway

Bring Awaken the Blood: +2 to both Curses and Blood rules, and since you only have one sacrifice skill, Vamp Gaze/Life Siphon will keep you replenished nicely

thanks mate will give that a go all the theory sounds good will see how it goes in practice

Sjacob33 · Nov 03, 2005, 12:07 AM // 00:07

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Originally Posted by Spura

with weakness + insidious parasite you can pretty much neutralise warrior's damage on yourself, the problem is Insidious parasite is weaker than empathy and is not much of a kick and it is pretty expesive(15 en). I think you would run out of energy with this build in prolonged battle because of Insidious and Spiteful spirit. Also you can get 10 10 11 in attributes instead of 10 9 11. Perhaps this is pve char and you didn 't do attribute quests? I would suggest taking awaken the blood, dropping SR to 8 pumping curses to 12, taking minor SR rune.

Year this is a PVE and i do have all 200 points i am considering to investigate the difference between 11 and 12 curses to see weather the extra 25 hp is worth is or not thanks anyway

Kwisatz_Haderach · Nov 03, 2005, 12:32 AM // 00:32

k i ve experimented with a build very similar to this one and I have something to say.

this is what i use

N/Me
stats
10+1+1 curses
11 domination
10+1 soul reaping

skills
1. empathy
2. backfire
3. chaos storm
4. {e} spiteful spirit
5. parasitic bond
6. enfeeble/enfeebling blood
7. (insert appropriate skill here)
8. rez signet

i know this is not even near the skills you use, but it accomplishes the same purpose. Pretty much you can shut down any build in the game with this build. Rangers/ Warriors get a combined spiteful spirit and empathy so every time the attack there losing 40 health. Also you use enfeeble/enfeebling blood to spread weakness around so those pesky warriors are doing minimal damage. then for castors you through on backfire, spiteful spirit(if not used on anyone else), and chaos storm pretty much you can be doing 150 damage to a castor everytime they use a spell while chaos storm drains 6 energy per sec while casting a spell to the castor, while your doing about 20 damage per sec. for best effect cast chaos storm right as an elementalist is casting a meteor storm or a monk attempts to rez someone. health problems are taken cared os by spamming parasitic bond as a cover hex and energy problems are taken cared of by soul reaping. the final spot throw in whatever you likethat best complements this strategy. I like wastrels worry because if a monk stops there to wait out a back fire he(she) has to deal with me spamming worry for 60 damage every 3 secs. also its great against runners.

I know this a far flung from your build(only 3 skills alike) but it accomplishes way more efficiently what i think you were trying to do. annoy the heck out of everyone while trying to incapacitate warriors totally. this build can kill warriors/rangers quickly(depending on how fast they attack) plus it can immobilize castors as they face numerous hexes that kill them if they do what they are best at, spells. (have ever seen a castor kill anything with just his wand/staff?)