Can i build a minion master with a N/R

As far as healing the enemy, well, the consequences of a MM dying are WORSE than healing one or two enemies. ^
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Major point that is sorely misunderstood.

This is my PvE build

I'm so glad there are other N/R minion masters out there. I've experienced some descrimination for not running a standard N/M build, but other people in PUGs have loved it. I use my ranger skills to have a pet and use him for interupts and/or to gain energy with ferocious strike. Energizing Wind seems like a nice skill, but I haven't used it. I use disrupting lunge to sometimes stop other necros from stealing my corpses or just to interupt other casters. It's not a typical build, but it's the most fun I've had with any of my characters. It's great to have a zoo.

By the way, this is my first post on this form, so hello!

My general build:
Death: 16
Soul Reaping: 9-11
Beast Mastery: 9-11

Charm animal
Comfort animal
Feral lunge, or Ferocious strike or
Call of haste or Disrupting Lunge (Choose any 2 for your pet)
Animate bone minions
Verata's sacrifice
Deathly chill, Deathly swarm, Rotting flesh (depends on location)
Wild slot: Bone fiends, taste of death, plague touch (depends on location)

I use two weapon set. One with about 70 energy and the other 44. I can go into more detail about that, but the since this is about builds, I'll just focus on my spells.

I use my pet and one or two offensive skills to start my army. In battle I either raise minions, heal minions or both (depends on the the situation). I'm ok with some minions dieing during battle. Since I'm using raise minions (2 minions per corpse), energy isn't a problem with soul reaping. With a huge shield of minions, healing myself doesn't become a huge issue.

It works for me, please don't flame me. This reminds me alot of how I played the game through my first time. In fact, kudos on thinking outside the box. My money is you will eventually drop the R secondary, but it will be nice to reach into for some builds you will come up with.

For a constructive suggestion, since you are using bone minions you should try to think less about the veratas sacrifice. The minions have less hp and do less damage so the sac isn't a great return. Try switching to death nova instead of the sac and don't worry about keep the minions at all. Monsters tend to aggro minions of all types before ANYTHING so the minions blowing up from the nova makes the bombers that replenish your health and put a nice hit on the enemy mobs. What you will find with this set up is that you will just use one or two corpses at the end of the battle and then death nova before the next mob. Four minion suicide bombers soften the toughest mob very well. Also, give well of suffering a try. AOE degen is great in PvE where you can control where the battle occurs (and its 6 degen combined with the poison off the death nova you can put each enemy mob at 10 degen for the whole battle).

To the OP:
A N/R minion master is ok but serpents quickness can't maintain constant verata sac alone. This means you need to be much more aggressive with your blood of the master and to use spirits to up your damage so that the minions do more damage while you have them. This way you maintain a good momentum (momentum is the only word a MM needs to know).

A N/R minion master is ok but serpents quickness can't maintain constant verata sac alone. This means you need to be much more aggressive with your blood of the master and to use spirits to up your damage so that the minions do more damage while you have them. This way you maintain a good momentum (momentum is the only word a MM needs to know). Good points, but remember that SQ also makes your summons available sooner as well. I like using it right before a battle for being able to use every corpse as soon as it pops - optimizes my soul reaping so that I'm not losing overflow energy.

Good points, but remember that SQ also makes your summons available sooner as well. I like using it right before a battle for being able to use every corpse as soon as it pops - optimizes my soul reaping so that I'm not losing overflow energy. I completely agree. Now that bloodstained boots work, there's always a bit of delay between the 2 animate skills while they both recharge. This is only made worse if you've got an item (such as bortak's set) which can further reduce cast time. I dont know of any MM build that can get an army up as quickly as a N/R with SQ in a corpse-heavy setting.

The fact that SQ also sometimes reduces the VS recharge is almost just a bonus.

Animate bone fiend
Verratta's Sacrifice
Offering of Blood
Serpent's Quickness
Favorable Winds
Winnowing
Healing Spring
Res Signet

SR 2+1
Blood 9+1
Death 12+4
MM 5
WS 8

This build works perfectly well, capable of keeping 16-20 fiends alive and also adding 10 bonus damage per fiend. OoB is used to assure a continuous fiend supply so you wont have to wait for energy regain therewith causing fiend degen to increase.

Edit: And reactions I had from ppl while I was running this build include "I never want a N/Mo MM any more, just give me a N/R" I'm 90% positive Winnowing doesn't stack with minions....

I've seen screenies.