The Bubonic Summoner or Bub Summoner for short (and yes i am aware of what that sounds like
)Here it goes:
Attributes
Deathmagic: 16 (12 + 3 sup rune + 1 scar)
Soulreaping: 14 (12 + 2) {Might lower it, so open for suggestions}
Blood: 3 ( + 1 base rune)
Skills
MM skills:
Summon Bone Horror
Summon Bone Fiend
Blood of the Master
Verata's Sacrafice
(nothing new here im sure)
That little extra fun:
Signet of Agony (Blood)
Plague Touch (Blood)
Virulence {Elite} (Death Magic)
Epidemic (Mes: No Attribute)
The way this build works is as follows:
You have your standard MM skill line with lvl 18 minions and BoM and VS to keep the minions up for a long looooong time. Summon mostly fiends. Horrors when you are either low on energy (which you shouldnt really be with 14 soul-reaping but it does happen on occasion) or when fiend is recharging and you want to steal that corpse before any gnashers etc. can make a nasty something out of it themselves. Spinal Shivers for Monk bosses and other casters. This will interrupt most spells if not all. But since the duration is short with only 3-4 points in curses you need to know how to time it (should come easy with practice). Make sure you only pack Spinal if there is NO SS necro around (since its a staple on any Echo SS necro whos worth his/her salt).
Now to the fun bit:
Hit your "victim" with Signet of Agony and Plague Touch to make him bleed. Since Bleed is a condition, hit him with Virulence. That will cause your victim to suffer from Poison, Desease and Weakness as well (each 15 seconds with max Death-magic)
Then hit him with Epidemic to lay the smackdown on all the foes around your victim as well.
Totaled up this comes to:
-10HP degen (Poison - 4, Desease -3, -3 Bleeding...double check me on those numbers though)
33% Dmg reduction since foes deal only 66% dmg with weakness
Energy Cost Total: 25 (15-Epidemic, 5-Virulence, 5-Plague Touch)
Skill Recharge Total: Virulence-10 Seconds (15 second duration on conditions), Signet of Agony-15 Seconds, Epidemic-15 Seconds
Cast Time: SoM-3/4 Seconds, Virulence-1 Second, Epidemic-2 Seconds (looks like a nice progression IMO)
So all in all, for 25 Energy you get AoE Bleed + Poison + Desease + Weakness for a moderate 10% hp sacrafice.
The 25 energy can be hefty fine though unless you have plenty of Mobs around, like in SF (I had SF farm in mind when I made this)
My apologies if this post is a bit messy. It is my first ever on the subject of GW.
Cheers
Janelle
Side Note: Some people might say "and how do you pack Rend then". Short answer is you cant. Not unless you sacrifice that last additional skill. I do love Rend but I also noticed that, when timed right, SV will be a complete shut-down to any caster unlucky enough to get hit with it. And since cold is the standard dmg on death-magic wands you wont even have to go and spend those plats on something like Bortak's Claw (Im sure all the echo-SS without Villnars are getting jealouse right now
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