Archive:N/any Minion Master

This build was archived 17:57, 16 November 2008 (EST), for the following reason: Minion Bombing and other elites have proven to be more effective This build had been designed for the following use: PvE general PvE hero This build was in the category Great before being archived.

There are many versions of the Minion Master; however, this version, unlike many, does not use Healing Prayers line, removing any restriction on secondary class. This version is ideal for Sorrow's Furnace farming, or general PvE.

Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / Any 12 + 1 + 3 Death Magic 12 + 1 Soul Reaping 3 Blood Magic Gain 13 Energy whenever a non-Spirit creature near you dies, up to 3 times every 15 seconds. Animate Flesh Golem FactionsNecromancer. Death Magic 16Animate Flesh GolemElite SpellExploit nearest corpse to animate a level 26 Flesh Golem. The Flesh Golem leaves an exploitable corpse. You can have only one Flesh Golem at a time.10330 Animate Shambling Horror NightfallNecromancer. Death Magic 16Animate Shambling HorrorSpellExploit nearest corpse to create a level 18 shambling horror with 440 Health and 109 armor. When the shambling horror dies, it is replaced by a level 16 jagged horror with 440 Health and 109 armor that causes Bleeding with each of its attacks.15325 Animate Bone Fiend CoreNecromancer. Death Magic 16Animate Bone FiendSpellExploit nearest corpse to animate a level 18 Bone Fiend. Bone Fiends can attack at range.2535 Blood of the Master CoreNecromancer. Death Magic 16Blood of the MasterSpellAll of your undead allies are healed for 122 Health. You sacrifice an additional 2% maximum Health per minion healed in this way.5%512 Signet of Lost Souls NightfallNecromancer. Soul Reaping 13Signet of Lost SoulsSignetIf target foe is below 50% Health, you gain 88 Health and 9 Energy.¼8 Taste of Death CoreNecromancer. Death Magic 16Taste of DeathSpellSteal up to 420 Health from target animated undead ally.5¼ Dark Bond CoreNecromancer. Blood Magic 3Dark BondEnchantment SpellFor the next 36 seconds, whenever you receive damage, your closest minion suffers 75% of that damage for you.5220 Resurrection Signet CoreNo Profession. UnlinkedResurrection SignetSignetResurrect target party member. That party member is returned to life with 100% Health and 25% Energy. This Signet only recharges when you gain a morale boost.3   Template code

Equipment

• Minion Master's or Radiant insignias on all but one pieces.
• Bloodstained insignia on the head, hands, or feet.
• A 20/20 wand and a 20/+1 offhand.

Usage

When starting out in a new area or low on minions:

• Create a Flesh Golem with the first dead body to start off.
• Create other minions depending on your Energy pool.

Once you have a few minions:

• Create other minions, again dependent on remaining Energy.
• Use Blood of the Master to keep your minions alive.
• When without a monk on your team it is perfectly viable to use Taste of Death to keep yourself alive so long as you have Minions to feed off of.
• When idle, spam Blood of the Master on your minion army and use Taste of Death on a Flesh Golem to regain the health lost. Don't forget that it is usually easier to kill off an old Flesh Golem for a new one instead of repeatedly healing one.

This build can happily stay alive by sacrificing a minion with Taste of Death while other minions kill foes.

Variants

• Deathly Swarm can be used for AoE damage.
• Take Rotting Flesh to spread degeneration. (NOTE: not recommended against human foes)
• Use Infuse Condition for the transfer of conditions to your minions.
• By using Foul Feast with Infuse Condition, you can manage most conditions on your allies.
• Skills such as Deathly Swarm and Bitter Chill can be added to give the Minion Master some direct damage skills that are linked to Death Magic.
• You can bring Death Nova to make one last final use of a minion that's near death. Or cast it on your Flesh Golem, when it's in battle, cast Animate Flesh Golem and the other flesh golem will explode.
• For more self healing Animate Vampiric Horror can be used in place of Animate Bone Fiend. This allows a more meat shield-like role of the minion master protecting the back line casters. If making this switch, it is a good idea to cast Animate Bone Horror more often due to the recharge time of Animate Vampiric Horror and to refresh your minions. Also great way to gain a positive health gained to sacrificed ratio if enough are summoned.
• Bring Verata's Aura to reclaim your minions if you die, or possibly to steal minions from monsters who create them. Not many monsters can, however, and the ones that can do not create them nearly as fast as the average Minion Master Necromancer. As such, Verata's Gaze may be a better choice for stealing minions.
• Skills such as Putrid Explosion will exploit corpses, rendering them useless to a Minion Master.
• You can use Animate Bone Horror instead of Animate Shambling Horror. The differences between a Shambling Horror and a Bone Horror, except for the 'skin', include a different attack range from Bone Minions and Vampiric Horrors and the fact that when a Shambling Horror dies they will immediately turn into a Jagged Horror, which will cause bleeding with its attacks. Those using Shambling Horror will find a longer recharge time in return for this fact, so faster-recharging summons are advised.
• Resurrection Signet can be exchanged for any other resurrect.
• Using Dwayna's Sorrow on your minions can provide numerous cheap heals for your entire party.
• When used on a hero in PvE, Animate Flesh Golem can be replaced by Jagged Bones (Replace Animate Shambling Horror with Animate Bone Horror, too). Heroes are quite good at casting that spell on the right minion.
• When using this build with a hero, consider adding Leech Signet and/or Power Drain and putting some points in Inspiration.
• Consider using Mystic Regeneration as a self heal.
• Heal Area can be used for greater minion healing abilities.
• Mark of Pain can be used to further increase the power of your minions.

Notes

• Death of minions or foes creates a 13 energy gain which is usually more than enough to create new minions.
• Although it isn't stated in the build template Blood of the Master has a 5% blood sacrifice.

See Also

• Archive:N/any Flesh Golem MM