Build:N/any Competitive Missions Minion Master

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1 Attributes and Skills
2 Equipment
3 Usage
4 Variants
5 See Also

This Minion Master is designed for the Competitive Missions and Alliance Battles. It is also easily adapted for PvE.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / Any	Attribute Rank
Death Magic	12 + 1 + 1
Soul Reaping	12 + 1

[edit] Equipment

Bloodstained Boots are a must.
Weapons that halve skill recharge and cast times of Death Magic spells are recommended.
Superior Death Magic runes are not recommended against because the higher levels minions provided are not worth the decreased health.
Try to avoid Necrotic and Tormentor's Armor because of their weakness to holy damage (smiters are common in Competitive Missions).
If you add self-healing to the build, such as Taste of Death, the max health lost to a Superior Rune of Death Magic is not as severe (though still a threat), especially if you have an item set or staff with +60 health.

[edit] Usage

This build works best from the Luxon side in Fort Aspenwood, as it builds up a small squad of NPC assistance, and the minions are best used offensively, because they are short-lived.

Use Deathly Swarm when not raising and maintaining your minion army.
Use Malign Intervention on a Kurzick Mine Cleanser (in Fort Aspenwood) for best results. After a small burst of damage kills the NPC, the animated Bone Horror provided by Malign Intervention will kill the remaining Kurzick Mine Cleanser, and the Luxon defenders who immediately spawn should make short work of the masterless undead.
Malign Intervention also greatly assists any efforts to kill a single, called-out target.
Animate a Flesh Golem at the earliest opportunity, and Bone Fiends when more corpses become available.
Use Blood of the Master to keep them alive.
When it is nearly dead, turn your Golem into a bomb with Death Nova.
Use Verata's Aura to gain control of masterless minions. Verata's Aura can be used by both Kurzicks and Luxons. This is an important skill both to both reclaim your minions if you happen to die, and to steal your opponent minion master's minions if he is killed. Keep in mind that if you claim more minions than your minion limit, then the oldest minions will die to make room. This can be used offensively to thin a huge minion herd.
Use Gaze of Contempt as your primary enchantment removal. Use it on Master Architect Gunther to remove protections cast on him in preparation for spike damage. You may then follow up with Malign Intervention, which will put extra pressure on protective monks, since Enchantment-based healing monks are popular in these competitive missions.
If you are having trouble staying alive, Taste of Death can replace Malign Intervention for a few attempts. Sometimes there are builds on the Kurzick side made to counter minion masters, and self-healing may be necessary.

[edit] Variants

For PvE use, replace Malign Intervention with Bitter Chill and Gaze of Contempt with a resurrection skill; if you're a Monk secondary, Rebirth is preferable.
Also for PvE use, you can replace Death Nova with Signet of Capture where needed.
For use in battles other than Fort Aspenwood, Malign Intervention should be replaced with Taste of Death in battles where you do not expect to be focus-firing on a single, important NPC or Player target.