N/Mo Hexgiver

Hi fellow Necromancers,

Since I posted the MM build I've been using, I got quite a bit of good feedback and have made some adjustments to that build and am currently running it on Olias to great effect. This has allowed me to modify my usual SS curse build, and I feel I have made some improvments to it and am posting it here to get some feedback on it to improve it even more.

Stats:

Curses: 16 (12+3+1)
Blood: 13 (11+2)
Soul Reaping: 6

Gear:

So, having been playing with my Necro for the past week after a long vacation from GW, I got looking at his droks bonelace armor and decided it looked old. Time for a change, so I stole all my money from 6 of my other chars and bought and dyed him a new set of Factions Revenant Krytan armor with a Wicked scar pattern (+1 curses). The Revenant set gives a HP bonus of like +/- 35 hp, leaving me with 405 hp. For a weapon I am currently using a green curses staff called the Stonereaper (I think, can't remember and am at work) which I find very effective.

Skills:

[skill]Awaken the Blood[/skill][skill]Spiteful Spirit[/skill][skill]Reckless Haste[/skill][skill]Barbs[/skill][skill]Insidious Parasite[/skill][skill]Desecrate Enchantments[/skill][skill]Unholy Feast[/skill][skill]Rebirth[/skill] or [skill]Resurrect[/skill]

Usage:

Since I'm not usually one to play with a PUG unless I can't beat a certain mission with heroes & hench (not too often but occasionally) I generally order my party to attack, then cast AtB and barbs on the called target, then I'll switch to another target, preferrably with a few friends nearby, and hit him with SS and RH, switch targets to someone with an enchantment and hit him with desecrate enchantments. Then I'll look for an enemy likely to cause damage (like a war or ranger) and hit him with insidious parasite. By this time SS and DE have likely recharged so I'll throw them around again. Usually by this time the enemy group is mostly dead or all dead, but if not I'll throw some more curses in there or just use my staff if there's only one left.

I really enjoy playing this build much more than playing an MM build as there is less micro management and I get to see lots of damage numbers fill my screen

Please post any comments and feedback to help me improve this build.

Thanks,

BeefEater

EDIT: WOOT!!! figured out how to use the skill pics thing!!

Do you not find energy to be a problem?

Soul Reaping: 6?

Not even a minor rune for Soul Reaping?

What a thief! A Necro stealing from his fellow characters....

I'd rather have Signet Of Lost Souls over IP. Parasitic Bond over UF. UF is too much recharge time and a high cost.

Lower Blood Magic and raise Soul Reaping so you can gain more energy per death.

I hardly ever run out of energy, I have 45 energy with my staff and can fire off almost my whole skill bar without running out. I also have one of my heroes with BIP which they cast on me when I'm low, so that helps. Insidious Parasite does massive damage to enemies who are dealing damage and I just threw Unholy Feast in there cause it's not very often I need a heal, but when I do it's usually a large amount. I can get over 200 health back from one casting.

Of course, I haven't played much with the changes I made to this build from what I was using before, but my first impressions are that it is working much better. I may take my necro to a higher end area and try it out, but so far in Kourna I can steamroll most enemies with no trouble. I was massacring (sp?) am fah and jade brotherhood in Cantha as well while I was travelling to the Kryton armorer NPC (numerous times I might add cause I kept forgetting to bring all the right materials)

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I'd rather use more Soul Reaping and not waste a hero elite on BiP.

Take out awaken the blood and unholy feast, try something... useful?

Beef - try starting with a "classic" SS build, and try deviating from there...

Curses 15 (11+1+3)
Blood 11 (10+1)
Soul Reaping 11 (10+1)

Spiteful Spirit (E)
Arcane Echo
Reckless Haste
Awaken the Blood (flex)
Parasitic Bond (flex)
Well of Blood (flex)
Blood Ritual (flex)
Rez

You see deviations on the four last skills very often, but that's the base that people normally play from. I've worked a Curses/Domination necro utilizing Empathy with SS, and it really devastates enemies quickly.

[skill]Price of failure[/skill] owns [skill]Empathy[/skill] in the face.

I don't know why anyone would run Awaken the blood for, 4 points of damage in SS?

At high curses [skill]Barbs[/skill] is Godly, especially if A) your group has a MM or B) A few physical damage dealers.

And of course 1 or 2 desecrates are always fun to have, and of course [skill]Suffering[/skill] is a nice cover hex, but Parasitic works just aswell.

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the replies.

I was playing this build last night near Camp Rankor. I had decided that I wanted to get to the Deldrimor War Camp and do some forays into Sorrows Furnace as I've never been there. I loaded up with my heroes and henchmen and proceded north through Snakes Dance. I had some difficulty with the Blessed Griffons, but other than that, Stone Summit, Azure Shadows, Trolls and Tundra Giants all fell quickly under the onslought of my party. This build performed very well as I only died once, which I blame mostly on inexperience fighting the griffons and a bad pull. Henchmen AI didn't help much in this area as I think Stefan needs a bit higher IQ and Orion isn't particularly useful. Once I got past all the griffons, it was much easier, and as I made my way into Grenths Footprint, it became a walk in the park.

Fought my way to Deldrimor to get it on my map, grabbed some better henchmen, namely Devonna and Cynn, and went back out to do some Sorrows Furnace quests. Grabbed the dwarf closest to war camp and accepted his quest and made my way towards SF with no problem. It was about halfway there that I realized Olias didn't have any minions. Looked at his skills and saw that he was running my hexgiver build (must have loaded the wrong template). Rather than map back to war camp, I decided to see how I would fare with 2 Hexgivers in the party. Proceeded to run through SF trying to keep up with the dwarf, destroying stuff along the way. I can't believe how easy killing things was with 2 of this build in the group. Was almost done the dwarfs quest when something funny happened and my whole party wiped instantly (I think the dwarf guy might have died, he's insane, running recklessly all over the place) and I had to return to the outpost. I probably should have been payin more attention at that point, but my fiance was distracting me

I really like using AtB with barbs, minions do an additional 17-18 points of damage per hit. And while and extra 4 damage on SS doesn't seem like much, with RH triggering it more quickly in a group, it can really add up. Also, the extra 2 in the attributes makes the curses last longer. In fact, I found almost every skill useful, with the only 2 I would consider optional being Unholy Feast and a res. I found that the few times I needed UF though, it saved me, so I was happy with that. I also needed a res once, so I think any res is fine.

I'd rather dump points into soul reaping over points into blood magic for ATB.

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