Underworld Domination

It's up for debate to say that what I changed does actually do less damage compared to a "traditional" ss/sv build, but damage wasn't my concern. When planning my skills I set out to survive. Survive the mindblades, the riders, the threshers, etc. As long as I was alive, the speed of my damage was fairly inconsequential, seeing that ss provides steady damage on any enemies.
In my set I ran much lower illusion than is commonly seen in ss necros. I'm very confident in my timing and I don't need an excessively long sv to kill smites, or anything else I'd be using sv for. Also knowing that Sno's a cabable monk, there was nothing to worry about from losing a few seconds on sv. I ran max curses of course, and moderately high soul reaping.
I tossed the remainder of the points into inspiration for mantra of resolve, and inspired hex. Mantra was at a high enough level of inspiration that the energy loss from would-be interupts was managable and the duration was long enough that I didn't need to reapply constantly. Inspired hex more than payed for itself, and I was able to toss back hexes from the mindblades, should 1 or 2 slip onto me. The inspired/illusion combo worked well because mindblades hex with illusion most often (Migraine, clumsiness, conjure phant) Tossing them back on the mindblades added an extra little punch to my damage.
For my last slot I ran hex breaker, at little or no domination, depending on how my points looked on the run (Yes, I do alter attributes often, testing which works better overall). Hex breaker was mainly for the bone pits, but it also came in handy for coldfires that lost aggro, or charged blackness, etc. I wouldn't try to hold hex breaker constantly (at little to no domination magic it's a waste of energy) but what I would do was catch hexes on myself. I'm able to recognize long-cast hexes from the threshers and collectors (life siphon, suffering) and occasionally fast hexes (parasitic bond, faintheartedness) and use hex breaker during the cast to prevent myself from getting hexed. If you aren't familiar with the threshers and collectors, they use Feast of Corruption which will severely ruin your day if you are hexed, and only mildly ruin it if you aren't. Inspired hex came into play here as well because I was able to rip parasitic bond and faintheartedness from myself or gwen and back onto the mobs with max curses, upping my killing power. I ran no res at all.

You can guess or figure out my exact stats/runes/weapons on your own, everyone's only been concerned with the skills.

Questions and comments are welcome, feel free to yell and tell me it's a terrible build. The bottom line is that it cleared Uw and completed all the quests in a single 3-man run.

Enjoy, <3 Pants.


ps. thank you for the smiley Jiao. That was your build? sno is keeping it an extreme secret that you have inspired hex and hex breaker? Those skills make sense against mindblades. So you plan to tell the mo/me build anytime soon? :P i think i know a few of the skills, like holy veil and arcane echo spellbreaker and maybe another sv. About how long does it take y'all to go through all of Underworld?

Those skills make sense against mindblades. They make sense because I explained and probably because you've fought mindblades before. To someone with no experience with mindblades it could be a very different story.
It's worth noting that you can only use resolve OR hex breaker at any one time. No double stancing of course. I stated in the post quoted that it took us approx. 7 hours to clear every monster and finish every quest. You could cut time if you didn't kill everything, but where's the fun in that.

Pants.