N/E hero, earth magic

Please let me know what you think of this build for a hero.

Necromancer/Elementalist, 12 soul reaping, 12 earth magic, 3 whatever

Skills are:

[sandstorm]
[churning earth]
[ash blast]
[ward of weakness]
[ward against melee]
[earth attunement]
[signet of lost souls]
[resurrection signet]

This is intended for HM. The idea is that [churning earth] will knock down any moving foe (since all foes move faster than normal in HM), and then [ash blast] will blind them.

Alternatively, you could use [eruption] instead of [ash blast], or [glyph of lesser energy] instead of [signet of lost souls], or [enfeebling blood] (after putting some points in blood) instead of [ward of weakness]. But I kinda think this line-up is the way to go.

why not a ele/rit with flesh of my flesh for res sig and glyph of lesser energy for sols

xD

I'll be honest.

When I saw "Necro/ele, Earth Magic"


I lol'ed


But I would guess you got this idea from Sab's Ie.

Exploting soil reaping


But when i actually think this could be a good idea

im not a very big Earth magic fan.

I would think a SF fir ele would be better.


But...in the end


Nice effort

My thinking was that since you have plenty of attribute points left over after spending 12 in earth magic, you may as well make this guy a necro primary and take advantage of soul reaping, and then you never really have to worry about energy. Of course that sacrifices the luxury of a hard res. (I kinda prefer [death pact signet] over [flesh of my flesh], but that's a different discussion.) You can put 12 into energy storage if you'd rather keep him as an elementalist primary.

Edited to add: To obsidian ectoplasm--there's a whole lot of good [searing flames] hero builds out there, but not too many that I've seen for earth magic. My one concern with SF heroes is that they can't use knock-down skills too easily. The only fire magic spells that cause knock-down are [meteor] and [meteor shower], and they both cause exhaustion. And this earth-magic build adds some nice defense; SF heroes usually don't contribute defensively.

dont take SF into HM....its baed

The conecept is cool 'nd all, but take Unsteady Ground, instead of sandstorm pl0x.

well the concept isn't bad
but the idea of a N/X is to use soul reaping to effectively spam their skills for the benefit of others
like the N/Rt can spam healing
but spells like [sandstorm] and [ward against melee] aren't really spammable spells :/

why try to "exploit" soul reaping if an ele can do a better job, and out put more dmg (runes)

Anet should really give eles some E management skills


/sacarsm off

[Earth Attunement][Enfeebling Blood][Stoning][Unsteady Ground][Ward Against Melee][Churning Earth][Eruption][Ebon Battle Standard of Wisdom]
13 soul reaping, 7 curses, 12 earth

What do i think?

A) Long recharge times are really good, srsly.
B) Having 12 spec is much better than going ele and having 14 spec with gole for your e-management
C) Its terrible

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Yeah, you guys have convinced me that this would work better as an E/Rt with 12 energy management and 12 earth magic.

And [unsteady ground] may be better than [sandstorm]; I'll try them both.

And as for the long recharge times...LOL! Can you put together an earth-magic bar with shorter recharge times? Earth magic doesn't really work that way. And [ward of weakness] and [ward against melee] last just about as long as their recharge times anyway.

Thanks for the comments so far.

this build would be better if u take a fire ele with [Searing Flames], that is spamable
[build prof=N/E sou=12 fir=12][Fire Attunement][Searing Flames][Glowing Gaze][Glyph of Lesser Energy][Searing Heat][Teinai's Heat][Signet of Lost Souls][Resurrection Signet][/build]

somethin like this

As celestial beaver has suggested, if you must run earth magic on a necro hero then [[Enfeebling Blood] is too good a skill to leave out. Then take [[Stoning] and [[Glowstone], also take [[ward against melee] all this combined with a half decent elite like [[Sandstorm] or [[Unsteady Ground] and you're set.

But... If you have N/E, why waste your skillbar and slot in team for useless fire damage that deals very little damage in HM over a much stronger necro hexes that deal more damage?

Or why use fire spells on Necro at all.

Awful idea.

Quote: Originally Posted by Abedeus

Best Earth skill you can use on a nec is Ward against melee. Get any random nec build and add that.