Help Me Design an Order of the Vampire Hero Build

I dont know why you are so hung up on saving your poor poor minions in every post you made. Minions are not suppose to live forever and if you are that worried that they would all die out on you, then bring Blood of the Master and Aura of the Lich.

I usually dont bring Blood of the Master and I have no problems dealing with mobs. If you cannot survive without your minions then how do you deal with your first mob and low corpse areas?

So, bringing Life just to ensure minion survival between mobs is far from necessary. Also most mobs are not that far away anyway. Because Minions provide a great deal of defense and shouldn't be neglected. Bombing is awesome but it doesn't mean you have to blow up your entire wall. Also, more Minions before battle = more bombs = more uber damage right when you need it. It's not a question of whether my setup can survive without minions or not, it just becomes stronger with minions. If I feel like the mob I'm fighting is weak, I simply disable BoTM (if i take it that is). The reason people stopped running BoTM was because both Sabway and Discordway had life, the latter also had enormous minions wall that meant enormous sacs with BoTM. Majority of people don't understand that though, they don't run it simply because someone else said so.

As for Life, you don't bring it just for minions. You bring it because all of the aforementioned advantages as a whole.

In low corpse areas I usually just drop MM altogether and take more damage.

Because Minions provide a great deal of defense and shouldn't be neglected. Bombing is awesome but it doesn't mean you have to blow up your entire wall. Also, more Minions before battle = more bombs = more uber damage right when you need it. It's not a question of whether my setup can survive without minions or not, it just becomes stronger with minions. If I feel like the mob I'm fighting is weak, I simply disable BoTM (if i take it that is). The reason people stopped running BoTM was because both Sabway and Discordway had life, the latter also had enormous minions wall that meant enormous sacs with BoTM. Majority of people don't understand that though, they don't run it simply because someone else said so. What I am saying is, I don't bring BoTM and still have enough minions going from mob to mob, but I understand that certain areas need you to run further between mobs. In those areas, bringing BoTM should be enough.

Besides with less than 20s of running, your team can easily run outside of spirit range, making Life not that useful for keeping minions alive between mobs. Besides the heals from BoTM and your healers are more effective in keeping your minions alive than Life. Whatever heals it gives to minions between mobs is negligible because the heals can be inconsistent with the pace of your battles and can easily be substituted by more reliable heals like BoTM.

What I am saying is, I don't bring BoTM and still have enough minions going from mob to mob, but I understand that certain areas need you to run further between mobs. In those areas, bringing BoTM should be enough.

Besides with less than 20s of running, your team can easily run outside of spirit range, making Life not that useful for keeping minions alive between mobs. Besides the heals from BoTM and your healers are more effective in keeping your minions alive than Life. Whatever heals it gives to minions between mobs is negligible because the heals can be inconsistent with the pace of your battles and can easily be substituted by more reliable heals like BoTM. Maybe. But usually not. Spirit range is quite large. Based on my observations, more Minions get from a mob to a mob with Life than without. At an rate, it's one more advantage Life has over the other two spirits. Comparing it to BoTM makes no sense.

Comparing it to BoTM makes no sense. With BoTM, you should not have trouble bringing your minions from mob to mob. You dont need to bring Life for that.