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The Minion Master PvE build
centers on creating and maintaining an army of minions. See the
General minion mastery guide
for in-depth discussion.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
[edit] Counters
[edit] Variants
- Some find the extra healing provided by Heal Area unnecessary. This
gives the Minion Master more choices in selecting a secondary
profession. Also, the points put into Healing Prayers
can be used in other attributes.
- Aura
of the Lich can be used in place of Animate
Flesh Golem to allow more spamming of Blood of
the Master, although not advisable when anticipating health
degeneration effects. This also makes Blood Renewal
useful for self-healing if Blood Magic is used.
- Taste of
Death can be used in place of Dark Bond healing.
- Skills such as Rotting Flesh, Putrid Explosion, 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.
- 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.
- Fill the optional slot with 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.
- Infuse Condition in combination with Dark Bond is useful in
scenarios where you are being targeted instead of your
minions.
- Some like to bring other healing skills such as Healing Breeze or
Blood
Renewal to offset the sacrifice damage suffered by using Blood
of the Master.
- Rebirth can be
replaced by the resurrection skill of your choice.
- Skills such as Putrid Explosion will exploit your corpses
rendering them useless to a Minion Master. Instead of using Animate
Bone Fiend and Dark
Bond, try Fetid Ground and Deathly Swarm for damage when you need to
kill enemies quickly without enemies.
- You can use Animate Shambling Horror instead of
Animate Bone Horror if you have Guild
Wars Nightfall. 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 immediatly 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.
- Using Dwayna's Sorrow on your minions can provide
numerous, cheap heals for your entire party.
- Signet of Lost Souls may be an energy
management option.
[edit] Templates
[edit] See Also
Necromancer / Monk 
