Necromancer Help?

[Rinoa Hawkeye]

Hey all,

I just started playing my necro again, and I'm totally lost on builds. Anyone have any I can try out?

Thanks!

[Rynn]

do you have a preferred attribute line?
are you open to unconventional builds?

i have many a build.. some all purpose, some incredibly specialized.

i will try to put a few in from memories...

Curses. One of the most sought after necro's or builds is the SS nec.
one of my personal favorite ss builds now would be..:

Spiteful Spirit
Reckless Haste (or technobabble if many a caster rather than melee)
Enfeebling Blood
Parasitic bond
Necrosis
...and the rest of the skills are sort of optionals, for instance, for HM..
Prot Spirit
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a res (i go with rebirth)
Signet of lost souls if you'd like.
Mind bender ..speeds up ur ss and can provide for emergency running...
sometimes an asruan summon.
hexors vigor can be useful sometimes..

12+1+# curses
9 or 10 soul reaping
9 protection prayers

Death. Much death nec's or necs using death, or necs lfg will go as an MM. of course it seems heroes have taken on this role for the most part, but there are still some builds they cant run effectively... or not as well as a person. while i dont really mm all that much, i can offer some builds possibly..

Animate bone minons /horror
another animate spell?
Order of Undeath
Ebon Battle Standard of Honor (you'll have to get into the fray for this, unless you use fiends..) if no have this, can go with weaken armor.
Barbs
Dark Bond
Infuse condition
Blood of the master

12+1+3 death
9ish soul reaping
rest into curses
Dark bond is still effective at 0 blood, you'll just need to cast it a bit more.. (30 sec duration, 20 recharge)

Blood

i would say theres 3 or 4 main elites used in the blood line. Blood is power, Life transfer, Spoil Victor, Well of power

for a BiP or WoP..
take either well of blood or blood ritual as well (you'll probably be a battery..)
Blood Renewal possibly ..or hexors vigor if you can go atleast 7 secs without casting a spell.. just to make it worth while
an assortment of life steals to make up for your sacrificing... life siphon, vamp gaze, shadow strike, vampiric swarm all possibilities
a res spell
masochism!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you're with a bunch of melee, consider order of pain.
mindbender is fun.. would only be useful on br, life siphon, vamp swarm, shadow strike and oder of pain tho.. the other spells cast fast enough.
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sometimes you will want protective spirit (such as in the Deep)
i go with feel no pain over mending .. (3 regen, with no -1 energy, cant strip, no cast time... can be maintained indefinitely with a high norn title.

12+1+# blood
9-10 soul reaping
rest in another att.. (i'd suggest prot prayers, healing prayers, or inspiration...)

...im feeling lazy atm.. and my mind is wrecked, so ill add more later... srry whats here is so.. poorly compacted...

[Rinoa Hawkeye]

Thanks, Rynn! *bows down to king of necromancers*

I've never used Mind Bender before, and I have to cap Order of Undeath, but this helps me a lot!

It got a little easier to play necro after Iron Mines yesterday (Milak can attest to my constant dying and forgetting about minions), but then later on, a bunch of us did THK and Riverside Province HM, and playing necromancer went much more smoothly. I actually remembered to keep those minions alive, haha.

Maybe I'm getting the hang of necromancing again! I can put these builds to use... Thanks again!

[bandage dispenser]

If you want anything for PvP just ask the next time you see me in-game. I still think you should stay on mesmer, its so hard to find a decent one

[Rynn]

Thank YOU. for giving me a reason to post and waste time. and playing a necro, need more necros...

and Flesh golem is probably the other best elite for a human mm... no jagged bones.

[Fire Marshal]

Check out Fuzzy Taco's Necro Guide. <---click

[Nadar Cosain Amber]

My necro runs a curses Death by Degen build, aka the I didn't know that much degen was possible build.

	Necromancer / Ritualist 13 Soul Reaping 14 Curses You gain 13 Energy whenever a non-Spirit creature dies near you, up to 3 times every 15 seconds.

Prophecies Spiteful Spirit 10 2 15 Elite Hex Spell. For 19 seconds, whenever target foe attacks or uses a skill, Spiteful Spirit deals 33 shadow damage to that foe and all adjacent allies of that foe. (Attrib: 14 Curses) Core Parasitic Bond 2 1 5 Hex Spell. For 20 seconds, target foe suffers -1 Health degeneration. The caster is healed for 114 when Parasitic Bond ends. (Attrib: 14 Curses) Core Faintheartedness 8 1 10 Hex Spell. For the next 23 seconds, target foe attacks 50% slower, and that foe suffers -3 Health degeneration. (Attrib: 14 Curses) Core Suffering 5 1 15 Hex Spell. For 28 seconds, target foe and all nearby foes suffer -2 Health degeneration. (Attrib: 14 Curses) Nightfall PvE only Necrosis 2 1 5 Spell. If target foe is suffering from a Condition or Hex, that foe suffers 40..90 damage. (Attrib: Sunspear rank) Factions PvE only Signet of Corruption (Kurzick) 20 1 Signet. Target foe and all nearby foes take 15..30 damage. For each affected foe suffering from a Condition or Hex, you gain 2 Energy (maximum 12..20 Energy). (Attrib: Kurzick rank) Nightfall Signet of Lost Souls 8 ¼ Signet. If target foe is below 50% Health, you gain 88 Health and 9 Energy. (Attrib: 13 Soul Reaping)

Degen

[Rinoa Hawkeye]

Thanks for all the help!

I have a lot to try now.... should be fun, hehe.

[Anthony]

Since I treat my Necro's kind of like Mesmers (changing them a LOT based on where we're at instead of using generic builds) I won't throw a bunch of skills up here at you. But I think we can have some discussion about skills and build ideas next time you're on. My first primary was a Necro, and I still like her, so I'm no slouch. ; )

[Sarak Layghlin]

Anthony wrote:

(changing them a LOT based on where we're at instead of using generic builds)

That's how it should be IMO. Granted, some builds are "fit all" but I like to try to customize my builds to whatever I'm going to do. That's why I have almost 200 ranger builds

So do throw some builds at us and feel free to expand on what kind of situations you use them for.

[Anthony]

I try to do "fit all" builds that can be slightly tweaked for area to area. Since if they're so good that they only need a few changes they gotta be pretty good, .

But that's a monk point of view of course. Since I almost never have to change my build if I don't want to.

I haven't been in game yet this morning so I don't have anything to throw here...yet.

[Sarak Layghlin]

Also when it comes to builds, I have some kind of ADHD. I get bored easily and like to shake things up once in a while. I rarely run same build more than a handful of times. 4 or 5 times and boom its time for something new.