How will Masochism change the Necromancer class?

Energy problems for bipers eventually happen. You usually see someone calling his energy with bip answring call with his low energy.

Masochism enables bip to keep on bipping 24/7 even without stuff dying.

When I read Masochism, I instantly combined it with Cultist's Fervor. Think about it, a necro Nuker. Hed have good energy management with Masochism and Cultist's Fervor, not to mention SoLS and Soul Reaping. The only think he would have an issue with is health, that is if he went straight SR and lets say, Fire Magic.

Re: Chthon

First, the Bippers. While it's true that in most areas a bipper will seldom if ever run out of energy, it happens frequently in Domain of Anguish, especially in City. There are some powerful energy-denial environmental effects in many areas of Realm of Torment that makes bipping less than a walk in the park.

Second, about the infamous meleemancers. While putting a necromancer on the front line might be very foolish in many instances, there are, actually, ways to make it work by the /D combination. As a test, I used a Mystic-powered N/D melee build with a hero-hench party to complete Hell's Precipice, with the necromancer as the only frontline figure. This worked. (By the way, this was before the release of Eye of the North.)

There are some instances, when you fight with only hero-hench, where it's a huge benefit to be the one leading the charge for strategic purposes.

I resorted to the same strategy while completing a GW:EN Masters quest for Kilroy Stonekin where you had to kill a huge amount of Stone Summit who loved eating up your corpses before the hero-MM could get to them. This time I went with a Vampiric Spirit/Masochism/Mystic build utilizing Verata's Aura as a fourth enchant, and Angorodon's Gaze since I kept getting conditions on me (by the way - Angorodon's obsoletes Vampiric Gaze. Totally.) Initially I tried doing it with my standard SV build but it proved difficult. The melee character swiped it, easily. Again this is a specific advantage of being at the frontline - Verata's simply wouldn't have worked otherwise.

As for the viability of the /D Mystic MM, there's much to be said. I nearly always use /D for MM in every PvE area. It creates an anchor character that is ridiculously stable and hard to kill. However, I never use Aura of the Lich. My specific build is:

Dark Bond - Infuse Condition - Mystic Regeneration - Order of Undeath - Animate Bone Fiend - Animate Bone Horror - Signet Of Lost Souls - Blood of the Master

I have recently replaced Signet with Masochism and this does a better job.

The synergy between Mystic and the maintained enchantments is simply supreme. At 8 Earth Prayers it does a FAR better job healing you in battle than anything Healing Prayers has to offer. It counters degeneration, it muffles damage, it does everything.

Even if you only bring Dark Bond (which most MMs definitely do) and Masochism, Mystic Regeneration will heal you for 18*20=360HP over 20 seconds. This makes it easy to spam BotM and OoU. If you do add the fourth enchant, you pop it up to +12, which makes you have a positive health regeneration while bleeding and burning at the same time. (And as a side note, of course these conditions won't take effect until you've lost your last minion.)

My Olias runs the exact same build as I rarely play MM myself, preferring a Curses/Blood build that is difficult for hero AI to handle properly, and he's the most resistant hero on my team (if you discount the rare instances where I utilize Sousuke as an ele-tank.)

And again, please move this to Necromancer PvE?

Cheers!