Build:N/any OoU Minion Master

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The PvXwiki community finds this to be an excellent build. Through the PvX vetting system, it has reached an overall rating in the range from 4.75 to 5.0 and thus qualifies for the highest category of working builds: Great. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE hero PvE general

Contents 1 Attributes and Skills 2 Equipment 3 Usage 4 Counters 5 Notes 6 See Also

This build uses Order of Undeath with Vampiric Horrors to deal mass amounts of armor ignoring damage and counter the health sacrifice.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / No profession 12 + 1 + 3 Death Magic 9 + 1 Soul Reaping Order of Undeath Nightfall Necromancer. Death Magic 18 Order of Undeath Elite Spell For 5 seconds, your minions deal +19 damage, but you lose 2% of your maximum Health whenever one of your minions hits with an attack. 5 1 10 Animate Bone Fiend Core Necromancer. Death Magic 18 Animate Bone Fiend Spell Exploit nearest corpse to animate a level 20 Bone Fiend. Bone Fiends can attack at range. 5 3 25 Animate Vampiric Horror Factions Necromancer. Death Magic 18 Animate Vampiric Horror Spell Exploit nearest corpse to animate a level 20 Vampiric Horror. Whenever a Vampiric Horror you control deals damage, you gain the same amount of Health. 15 3 15 Masochism EotN Necromancer. Soul Reaping 10 Masochism Enchantment Spell For 30 seconds, you gain 3 Energy whenever you sacrifice Health. 20 1 5 Blood of the Master Core Necromancer. Death Magic 18 Blood of the Master Spell All of your undead allies are healed for 133 Health. You sacrifice an additional 2% maximum Health per minion healed in this way. 2 1 5 Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Template code

Optional slots for:
Death Magic or Soul Reaping (set Soul Reaping to 12 if only using these)

• Death Nova for additional damage (especially useful if played by a hero)
• Infuse Condition for condition heavy areas
• Foul Feast for condition removal, works well with infuse condition.
• Signet of Lost Souls energy management for heroes

Curses (put 9 in Curses)

• Barbs for more armor ignoring damage triggered by minions
• Mark of Pain AoE armor ignoring damage triggered by minions

Blood Magic (put 9 in Blood Magic)

• Dark Bond to direct damage to minions

Healing Prayers (put 9 in Healing Prayers)

• Dwayna's Sorrow additional healing
• Cure Hex for hex heavy areas
• Heal Area keep player and minions alive

Earth Prayers (put 9 in Earth Prayers)

• Mystic Regeneration to counter the sacrifice, use with an additional enchantment

PvE-Only skills

• Ebon Battle Standard of Honor additional damage for minion attacks

[edit] Equipment

• Bloodstained Insignia on boots, gloves, or headpiece.
• Insignias of choice.
• A 40/40 Death set or one with +1 Death Magic/20% chance.

[edit] Usage

• Raise minions, 4-5 Vampiric Horrors should be kept up when you have 10 minions.
• Spam Order of Undeath, micro it on heroes since they don't use it.
• Use Blood of the Master to keep minions healthy.
• Spam Signet of Lost Souls as much as possible to maintain energy.
• Death Nova dying stuff.

[edit] Counters

• Anti-Minion skills (Ray of Judgment, Banishing Strike, etc.)
• General anti-caster.

[edit] Notes

• You may take notice that having 5 superior runes and dying once will make your HP 1. Doing this with this build will help the build, as with you standing in the backline, you will not get hit and you will not take any life away using your sacrificing skills. Note that this is risky.

[edit] See Also

• Build:N/any Minion Master