Blood and Curse?

I was wondering if you guys could help me with figuring out a good Blood or Curse build. Or using both for that matter, I really don’t care. Anyway, I also remember back in the day that there were a few N/W builds. Is that still practical or has that died and the only good builds now are SS or MM. Please give me your input, it would be appreciated.

SS is a Curses build, obviously.

I think some Feast of Corruption builds were posted recently too.

For PvE, GvG, RA, HA or TA? Please clarify.

Quote: Originally Posted by JR-

I'm sure if you go to the Necro Builds archive you can find plenty, well maybe not plenty of good ones, but a few.

Here's a GB build I that doesn't rely on illusion of weakness

1.Awaken the Blood (help increase sac / raise blood)
2.Demonic Flesh (raise potential health)
3.Blood Renwal
4.Defile Flesh
5.GB
6.Dark Pact
7.Vampiric Gaze
8.rez sig

This is for a quick blood spike. Starting with ~ 450 health you should be able to lower your health to ~50 while raising your potential health to ~650 just before you unleash GB. Now, that's some whooping amount of dmg (~300).

Dark Pact and Vampiric Gaze are your finishers. I would sub out Dark Pact for something else depending on your secondary. If you were a Mes maybe energy burn. Or a monk maybe divine intervention...

The risk you run with this build is that you take yourself to neardeath, that's why i suggest something such as Divine intervention. GL and have fun =)

Quote: Originally Posted by ender6

Heh, I can just imagine going into a TA or GvG game and having the majoirty of your team setup as the above build... Opposing team sees your team suddenly getting dangerously close to death and then wham!!! half their team just dropped to less then 100 health. Hate to be the opposing monk on that.

Would prot spirit/bond negate a Grenth Balance cast tho?

Quote: Originally Posted by bobrath

Sweet, i never would of thought of that build. Now is the the most efficent in PvE or PvP?

Wait a moment. Taking your health to 650 is pretty irrelevant to Grenth's Balance unless the opponent's health is up there too, right?

So does it matter much except against warriors?

I guess it does matter a little if you're running more sup runes than the opponents are ...

Also, if multiple GBs go against the same target, some of the spikers will be awfully sick post-spike. While if they go against multiple targets, I'm not sure how that makes their team better off than the other guys'.

Yup, using multiple GBs on one target would be a waste. Multiple Targets means that there would be multiple heals needed for the opposing monk - meaning at least one opponent would be ripe for a simple vamp gaze/shadow strike spike. Plus remember that GB does steal life so that would mean all your spikers would have just healed themselves...

But after you cast GB, your guys have no more health than your opponents do.

So when is this nonetheless a good strategy?

Blood and Curses don't exactly go together that well... This is why there are secondary classes =p

The build that I suggested is based upon the classic Blood line GB build.

1) You can't have a team of GB necors wielding this build against the same target, because only one would be effective the rest would have zero effect. For more information regarding this, read up on Grenth's Balance.

Grenth's Balance {Elite} - Spell
If target foe has more health than you, you gain half the difference (up to your maximum health), and that foe loses an equal amount.

2)

Therefore the benefit of upping your potential health to ~650 while downing your health to ~50, is with a 600 point spread you've allowed yourself ability to steal 300 points of health. So if they are at say 500 the difference between your health and theirs is 450, half the difference is 225. You can steal all of it.

Is it necessary to have your potential health at 650? No. Why then did i choose this as a skill on my skill bar? Well the trick to any good GB build is to get your health as close to zero as possible without dying before you unleash GB. Demonic Flesh has a great sacrifice to it, while raising your health. Therefore it fit perfectly. At the end of the entire process with GB and Blood renewal your health should close in on 650. So in a matter of seconds you go from near death, to ridiculously strong.

Note: try this build out in PvE against Hydras, or Glint...watch the effect and get an idea of its full potential.

Sweet, thanks. Do you know where I can get GB though?

Facet of Darkness, Dragons Lair

infuse health works well with GB

If I had a Monk secondary for my Necro...

I would use infuse health/RoF/Divine intervention....

1)I would spam infuse health to get my health down without dying prebattle
2)throw on RoF /and Divine intervention (most likely use 1 or the other) before engaging enemy. Thereby making sure I don't get nailed before i had a chance to unlead GB.

In otherwords, yeah infuse health is great for a GB necro

Quote: Originally Posted by Wretchman Drake

Looks like you listed only blood skills....not sure how you rebuked "blood and curses not going together".

But their most certainly are builds that combine the two...many classic SS builds utilize both skill catagories.

For example:

Awaken the blood (blood)
Blood Ritual (blood)
Vampric Gaze (blood)
Spiteful Spirit (curse)
Spinal Shivers (curse)
Parasitic Bond (curse)
Arcane Echo
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