Build:N/Mo 27hp Sacrifice Necro Farmer

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This build has been archived as of 21:20, 22 July 2008 (EDT), for the following reasons: Dark Aura functionality changed to match description; since neither Protective Spirit nor Aura of the Lich prevent "lose life effects", you pretty much kill yourself whenever you cast Changed functionality of Aura of the Lich. This build had been designed for the following use: PvE farming This build was in the category Other before being archived.

The purpose of the 27hp sacrifice farmer is to bring the necromancer down to 27hp and use sacrifice skills combined with Dark Aura to deal massive AoE damage.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / Monk 12 + 1 + 3 Death Magic 1 + 3 Soul Reaping 3 + 3 Blood Magic 9 Healing Prayers 9 Protection Prayers Protective Spirit Core Monk. Protection Prayers 9 Protective Spirit Enchantment Spell For 16 seconds, target ally cannot lose more than 10% max Health due to damage from a single attack or Spell. 5 ¼ 10 Healing Breeze Core Monk. Healing Prayers 9 Healing Breeze Enchantment Spell For 15 seconds, target ally gains +7 Health regeneration. 2 1 10 Dark Aura Core Necromancer. Death Magic 16 Dark Aura Enchantment Spell For 30 seconds, whenever target ally sacrifices Health, Dark Aura deals 53 shadow damage to adjacent foes, and you lose 21 Health. 10 1 10 Blood of the Master Core Necromancer. Death Magic 16 Blood of the Master Spell All of your undead allies are healed for 122 Health. You sacrifice an additional 2% maximum Health per minion healed in this way. 2 1 5 Dark Pact Core Necromancer. Blood Magic 6 Dark Pact Spell Deal 25 shadow damage to target foe. 2 1 1 Aura of the Lich Prophecies Necromancer. Death Magic 16 Aura of the Lich Elite Enchantment Spell All corpses within earshot are exploited and you animate a level 18 bone horror plus one for each corpse exploited in this way. For 48 seconds, your Death Magic attribute is increased by +1. 45 2 15 Mending Core Monk. Healing Prayers 9 Mending Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains +3 Health regeneration. 2 10 -1 Balthazar's Spirit Prophecies Monk. Smiting Prayers Balthazar's Spirit Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains adrenaline and Energy after taking damage. (The amount of adrenaline gained increases depending on your rank in Smiting Prayers.) 2 10 -1 Template code

[edit] Equipment

Armor

• Use Radiant insignias on your armor to boost your energy.
• Every piece of armor should have a superior rune. Death Magic is a must.

Weapons

• Any 20% of Enchanting with extra energy such as Totem Axe or Rajazan's Fervor.
• The Grim Cesta obtained from the quest Cities of Ascalon is required to bring you down to 27hp.

[edit] Usage

The usage is similar to 55hp builds. Cast Balthazar's Spirit and Mending when you enter an area and wait for your energy to return to max. Once you see your enemy, cast Aura of the Lich, Protective Spirit, Healing Breeze and Dark Aura. Once you are in the fight, spam Blood of the Master and Dark Pact to deal AoE damage through Dark Aura. Maintain Aura of the Lich, Protective Spirit, Healing Breeze and Dark Aura during the battle.

[edit] Counters

• Enchantment removal. This can be survived by using cover enchantments (like Vigorous Spirit) to protect Protective Spirit and Healing Breeze.
• Conditions or Hexes that cause degeneration. Stack too many and you'll negate your health regeneration.
• 55hp for this build won't work efficiently since the sacrifice skills will damage you.
• Interrupts, excessive Knockdowns, Dazed, and Life Stealing.

[edit] Variants

• Replace Dark Pact with Blood of the Aggressor for life stealing and damage. Since it will steal up to 23 health with 6 blood magic, you should recover your health fully in one cast (Other life stealing skills can be used also such as Vampiric Bite.)
• Replace Mending with Insidious Parasite. Since you have 27 hp, your Healing Breeze alone will heal you enough even without Mending. With Insidious Parasite's help, your health will stay topped off and you can do even more damage to one particular enemy.
• Mending can be changed to Essence Bond for better energy management. Again, with this change Healing Breeze alone should be enough to heal you.
• Also, you can drop Mending, drop Protection Prayers to 8, increase blood magic to 5+3 and bring Blood Renewal instead. Blood Renewal causes you to sacrifice health, but your low hp and Aura of the Lich will make the sacrifice manageable. The advantage of this change is the ability to have a backup in case Healing Breeze gets interrupted, and Blood Renewal deals damage through Dark Aura because of its sacrifice.
• Drop Dark pact and lower Blood Magic to 3, increase Curses to 3+3 and bring Meekness instead. Meekness will decrease the damage you take and do damage through Dark Aura.

[edit] Notes

• This build can survive larger groups of enemies than a normal 55hp build because of Aura of the Lich.
• Another advantage of this build is the fact that you don't have to wait for the enemy to attack (or cast a spell) to deal damage, unlike SS or SoJ. You can also run down enemies that scatter.
• The idea of this build is to decrease your health below 55hp without any Death penalty, so you can keep your energy as high as possible.
• With Aura of the Lich, 15% Death penalty will decrease your health to 16 (with the -50hp Grim Cesta unequipped), 30% is 18hp (with one piece of armor off), 45% is 19hp (with two pieces of armor off).
• If you don't have the -50hp Grim Cesta, you can still use Aura of the Lich to bring you down to 52 health. In that case, dark aura and sacrifice skills can be changed to other attacking skills (such as Mark of Pain.)
• With 27hp, sacrificing 5% health results in 0 damage taken, 10% = 1 damage, 17 = 2 damage, 25% = 3 damage

[edit] See also

• A video of the build in action will be added.