Upon reading the skill description [of this site] on Death Nova, I find myself liking the skill less and less. But I'm still going to put up this with alternatives...
btw, this is PvE in mind and if PvP, using Bone Fiends instead.
stats: 10+1 soul reaping, 10+2 death, 11 ice
Deathly Swarm - good dmg and mob smasher
Animate Bone Minions / Fiend for pvp
Animate Bone Horror
Death Nova / Verata's Sacrifice
Taste of Death / Verata's Aura
Ice Spikes
Frozen Burst
Glyph of Energy {E}
I couldn't find any good ice or death elites for this build but I needed to conserve energy BADLY to keep a chain going. Glyph was about all I could come up with.
The alternative skills are for switching between pvp and pve accordingly. Did I make the right choices in alts and elite?
New minion build with possible alterations.
Yukito Kunisaki
theclam
I've found that, at least in PvE, I don't need Taste of Death to set off Death Nova. Minions die fast enough so that it isn't a problem. I like Death Nova a lot, but the UI for selecting summons is weak.
Yukito Kunisaki
I suppose I could just use Verata's Aura on the minions then. Let them live longer at my expense... That's why I put it there. ^_^