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Scourage's MM Guide

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Kali Magdalene
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #21
Quote: Originally Posted by Scourage of Death
leprechaun: its right under the pictures of my weapons
Cory M: thanks man its good to know someone has gotten some use out of this

Kali:Inbetween fights your natural regeneration wil kkick in thus healing you as youi run between groups(if not enough space between them I often just wait a few seconds for it to heal up) I find that the sacrifice from Blood of the Master handily interferes with natural regeneration. If I don't use it about once every six seconds, I might get to a fight without any minions, especially if the team I'm with has a tendency to stop and argue about which direction to run in.

That's not a flaw with your build though, that's a flaw with people who are annoying.
Scourage of Death
Scourage of Death
Frost Gate Guardian
• #22
Ok Kalle: N/Mo, N/Me whichever you like, it really doesnt matter(I only chose monk b/c I like to have a hard rez, rly helps when playing with henchies a lot). As for how to reach my build, I did somehting similar to you. I first put all my points into death magic to get 16 as having lvl 18 minions in kryta/wilds rly works well. I also put some points into curses and used such skills as faithhardness and suffering b/c henchies at that point in the game dont deal much damage(rest of points I put into soul reaping). All in all I like your plan of dropping the blood when you get to kryta, as that is where I dropped my curses(I still have a minor curses and blood magic runes on my armor in case I want to use skils form those attributes). The 20/20 Death Magic staff is can be obtained from this collector: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Merin_Trollsbane
or
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Luven_Underwood


Kruzing Low: If you want to I will make the weapon for you(just give me the materials and trade me the 5k it costs to craft it when we trade)...my IGN is Scourage of Death, pm me anytime in game if you want to...also I have 5 of those griffon wings if you dont want me to craft the 20/20 for you(you can have them for free).

Kali: I see your point but I often dont even use BoTM inbetween groups b/c in factions there are so many people in each group that I can easily keep my mnions at 10.
Undead Preacher
Undead Preacher
Banned
• #23
Build looks VERY familiar, i posted the same thing a long time ago!

Heres the link... your skill bar looks EXACTLY the same!
I guess Great Minds think alike, or do they?
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s....php?t=3031906

Scourage of Death
Scourage of Death
Frost Gate Guardian
• #24
Lol yes undead i did get ideas from your build however I did make minor changes, I added you in credits in op(all great ideas come from someplace lol...also sry bout not adding you earlier i totally forgot who it was that helped me with this build)
byobodybag
byobodybag
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #25
isn't it that when you have someone craft a weapon for you, that weapon will be customized for them and it'd be useless for you? no bonuses whatsoever except for the white text in the item?
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Harold
Ascalonian Squire
• #26
Thanks for the build, I will try some of those skills out. Any chance we can get a guide on wrangling the minions? I have poor control over them and it's frustrating

I'd like to point out the weapons guy in Leviathan Pits will craft the Bone Rod as well: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Telamon


Quote: Originally Posted by byobodybag
isn't it that when you have someone craft a weapon for you, that weapon will be customized for them and it'd be useless for you? no bonuses whatsoever except for the white text in the item? No, it doesn't come customized, fortunately. You have to ask for it to be done after you recieve the weapon.
waiver
waiver
Academy Page
• #27
Where do I buy/cap botm and vs? I finally got my nec to lvl 20 and 16 death, and now I need to get decent skills.
Kruzing Low
Kruzing Low
Frost Gate Guardian
• #28
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Blood_of_the_Master
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Kalle
Pre-Searing Cadet
• #30
I think I'll go N/Mo over N/Me. I reckon the healing will be more useful for PvEing solo/with henchies, esp. earlier on. Proabably switch to N/Me for PvP and certain PvE at the latter stages of the game.

Since I last played summer '05, what significant changes have been made since then? I heard that attributes can now be re-distributed to your heart's content when not in an instanced area.

Thanks again.
Undead Preacher
Undead Preacher
Banned
• #31
Quote: Originally Posted by Scourage of Death
Lol yes undead i did get ideas from your build however I did make minor changes, I added you in credits in op(all great ideas come from someplace lol...also sry bout not adding you earlier i totally forgot who it was that helped me with this build) thanks, its appreciated
Scourage of Death
Scourage of Death
Frost Gate Guardian
• #32
bumping this up b/c of many recent posts related to MM, hopes it helps all you out thhere who have questions
Carinae
Carinae
Forge Runner
• #33
Since, the MM nerf, you can run ANY secondary safely. You can even run pure necro builds safely. There's some fun stuff to do with each class as a MM. However.....

I still find N/Mo to be the strongest class. HA is a *strong* self-heal and a minion heal. Plus, you get hex and condition removal skills, and renewable ressurects!
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AuraofMana
Wilds Pathfinder
• #34
Vampiric Horrors take too long to recharge.
Why do people insist on using Verata's Sacrifice, it is bugged so that it ONLY affects your 3 oldest minions. If you look closer at your minions after using it you will notice.
Mending and Healing Breeze works well as healing when you lack a minion or a corpse to eat off of.
As for Heal Area, it's not exactly necessary to use since you can just use Taste of Death on your Golem + spam Blood of the Master and reraising your Golem. Sometimes your golem is on recharge and it is nice to have another sudden boost heal skill that doesn't require a minion or a corpse.
Scourage of Death
Scourage of Death
Frost Gate Guardian
• #35
I'm gonna bump this up yet another time just b/c ppl dont seem to use search and keep making new threads about MM. Maybe if its the first thread they will give it a look through before posting or come to it to ask their questions.
ibex333
ibex333
Desert Nomad
• #36
There's an easier way to obtain the spiral rod... You can get if for 5 plague dolls.
I dont remember exactly where the collector is, but I think he is outside of Vezunah Square "Local Quarter".. or was it Foreign Quarter? (check the wiki)

Why would ANYONE pay large sums of money for MM equip is beyond me...

And yes I think that the spiral rod/cesta is a lot better than the ghial's staff.
but if you are obscessed with the ghial's staff...
Why would you pay ridiculous amounts like 28k or more for ghial's staff, when you can simply get the collector staff with EXACTLY THE SAME skin AND inherrent mods, buy the +1(20%) death magic staff wrapping for like 7k or less, and get a +5 energy staff head.... VOILA!! You got yourself an exact copy of the ghial's staff for like 10k or less....
Scourage of Death
Scourage of Death
Frost Gate Guardian
• #37
Yep no need to buy an expensive staff, as for the othe rbone spiral rod as far as I know there is no collector that trades for them("doubling checking"...yes im correct the closest you can get is 20% recharge adn +5 energy while health is above 50%...bascially a bortacs wand)

Here's where I checked:
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Necroma...lector_weapons
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Blackhawk
Wilds Pathfinder
• #38
Quote: Originally Posted by ibex333
There's an easier way to obtain the spiral rod... You can get if for 5 plague dolls.
I dont remember exactly where the collector is, but I think he is outside of Vezunah Square "Local Quarter".. or was it Foreign Quarter? (check the wiki)

Why would ANYONE pay large sums of money for MM equip is beyond me...

And yes I think that the spiral rod/cesta is a lot better than the ghial's staff.
but if you are obscessed with the ghial's staff...
Why would you pay ridiculous amounts like 28k or more for ghial's staff, when you can simply get the collector staff with EXACTLY THE SAME skin AND inherrent mods, buy the +1(20%) death magic staff wrapping for like 7k or less, and get a +5 energy staff head.... VOILA!! You got yourself an exact copy of the ghial's staff for like 10k or less.... Care to share where you're getting the DM+1 20% wrapping for 7K from please? as in over a year of playing I've not seen one for that price or less anywhere and I do watch the market.
Mr.Pickle
Mr.Pickle
Academy Page
• #39
the official gw guidebook has a great pve cookiecutter mm build. N/MO> ABF,AFG,DS,RF,BoM,ToD,HA,Rebirth (DM:16,HP:10, SR: 9 or 11)
It's balanced well and although it's coming straight out of the book it works very well. I usually switch out up to three skills depending on area and party setup.

On conversation of weapons I switch between the trader outside kaineng wand/offhand and endgame traders green variant along with a longbow.
The wand is superglued to the back of my characters hand
Scourage of Death
Scourage of Death
Frost Gate Guardian
• #40
Updated: added a section on MM basics(hopefully to help beginners)