My N/Mo Minion Master

Hi All,

I've been playing GW for almost a year and have developed, what I feel, is an effective MM build that I haven't seen posted before and thought I'd put it up here to get everyone's feedback and and possibly make some improvements. I know it's likely someone else has posted this exact build already or something similar, but I developed this on my own without finding it the forums, so please don't flame me saying so and so has posted this and i'm trying to steal his credit, cause i'm not. This build is what I use for my necro when I MM, or I use it for my Necro Hero and run a curse build. Either way, I find it very effective for me.

Death Magic = 15 (12+2+1)
Soul Reaping = 10+2
Healing = 8 (i think, at work and can't check)

Skills
animate bone fiend
animate shambling horror
animate flesh golem (E)
blood of the master
deathly swarm
bitter chill
healing breeze
ressurect

Usage:

Generally I'll raise my golem first and alternate between fiends and shambling horrors (bone fiends recharges faster) until I reach my max minion count. I use healing breeze to have a nice hp regen while I spam BOTM on my minions to keep em alive. I only use deathly swarm and bitter chill when i don't have any minions or manage to spare a few seconds between raising corpses to throw some extra damage in. As for resurrect, I like that I can bring someone back to life without losing all my energy.

I play entirely in pve and don't pvp, but I find that unless there are absolutely no corpses around, this build is very good at adding numbers to the party side. I find that using a mix of melee and ranged minions helps spread the damage to the party around and can provide some excellent secondary damage to the party's primary damage dealers. Throw in a curse necro with barbs and suddenly minions can become very deadly to the cursed target.

Also, I have found that if I give this build to a necro hero, they can run it so well that he almost indefinately controls his maximum amount of minions. I have decided that since he can run it so well, I'll bring my necro hero as MM and run my Curse build on my necro. This works very good for me, as I enjoy cursing the enemy over trying to manage and maintain a small army.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post and please post any constructive comments regarding the build.

Thanks,

BeefEater

Fairly interesting. I use nearly the same build, but I use bone horror instead of shambling horror, and Karei's Healing Circle instead of Bitter Chill. The reasons: Bone Horror beceause of the recharge, although I like the jagged horrors, and Karei's healing Circle beceause you can use it with BotM, first to use BotM and then circle. Double heal and you just restored your own sac.

Nothing new, standard scrub N/Mo MM, with a sub-par res, non-max Death Magic, and it's missing a vital skill, namely Dark Bond. Most minion masters who use Healing Prayers also take Heal Area, it's not particularly great on heroes, but much better than HB at healing health sacs.

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The more I play, the more I seem to be drawn towards Deathly Chill... It lacks the AoE of Swarm, but it's quite an effective damage spell at the beginning of battle, a 106 strike on such a low cast/recharge is a pretty sweet deal. Not needed at all in PvE, where most of your resources/time should be spent maintaining an army, but definately a spell to bring to AB. I guess any other Death Magic based necro could use it too...

Damn, i'm starting to like Chill quite a lot... I want my necro back

First of all, you need 16 Death Magic and Bloodstained Insignia. It is crucial to MM's; unlike monks/mesmers/eles who can live with slightly less damage/healing, that 1 extra Death Magic translates into A LOT of extra damage and armor for minions.

Two direct damage skills is a bit too much since you really want your minions to do damage and you should be focused on keeping them up and animating new ones the instant a corpse becomes free so AI MM's don't hog up the corpses. Drop them both and bring Rotting Flesh; it lasts long and provides decent damage to members of the same species.

Healing Breeze sucks. Take Heal Area/Karei's Healing Circle as it heals you and your minions. Or use AotL and Mystic Regeneration + one other random enchantment if you can free your elite. Or go /P for Leader's Comfort; despite having 0 in Leadership you still get a 140 heal nearly all the time due to minions. And Signet of Lost Souls is pretty much a must, it gives energy and health.

Bloodstained is NOT needed for MMing, anyone who thinks that way is a moron. The only things stealing your corpses in PvE are well+consume+putrid. Kindly stfu. And in AB? MMs are utter trash there, they are fragile little things that get raped by an assassin or warrior as soon as they can find the necro using minion spells. Bloodstained= nice but not needed. And expensive as RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO too, so there.

And SoLS? Silence pig. Soul reaping will completely take care of your energy, things will be dying left and right. Don't be stupid. Clearly Maverick hasn't been MMing long, or he would know these things.

And AoTL+MR? That's two slots wasted, plus some atts wasted in Earth Prayers. Maverick, unless you can pull 3 extra skill slots out of your ass, don't suggest stupid things.

On to the matter at hand. Remove Healing Breeze, take Heal Area. It's a better heal, and heals your minions as well. Use either Deathly Swarm or Rotting Flesh if you need a damage skill. Use Rebirth, it's a better rez. And completely ditch the flesh golem, go for Order Of Undeath or Aura Of The Lich. Much more useful.

Remember: simpler is better in an MM build. You need to look after your army first, yourself second.

Priest has good points. There's not really any unique MM builds. All are generally the same.

I don't use bloodstained boots/insignia and my MM works fine. I just use MM boots. I would rather have extra armor and besides, I already use a staff that halves cast/recharge of spells 20% chance. It works fine for me.

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