Build:N/any Life Degeneration Necromancer (LT Necro) (LD Necro)

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This build is not favored by the GuildWiki community. The general consensus among users of GuildWiki is that this build is not viable. This build was voted unfavored for the following reasons: Poor energy management for the volume of spells required

Contents 1 Attribute and Skills 2 Equipment 3 Usage 4 Variants

[edit] Attribute and Skills

This build is collected from Prophecies things.

Necromancer / Monk	Attribute Rank
Blood Magic	12 + 1 (up to 3)
Death Magic	12 + 1 (up to 3)
Soul Reaping	3 + 1 (up to 3)

Life Siphon

Life Transfer

Shadow Strike

Deathly Swarm

Unholy Feast

Putrid Explosion

Blood Ritual

Rebirth

[edit] Equipment

• Necromancer armor of personal preference.
• Right Hand
  • Deadly Cesta from Karl Jakobs (Halves skill recharge of Blood Magic spells (Chance: 20%))
  • Pronged Rod from Tarena (Halves skill recharge of Blood Magic spells (Chance: 20%), Energy +5 (while Health is below 50%))
• Left Hand
  • Grim Cesta from Sir Pohl Sanbert (Halves casting time of Death Magic spells (Chance: 20%), Halves skill recharge of Death Magic spells (Chance: 20%) )
  • Blood Knife from Jefri Whylir (Halves casting time of Blood Magic spells (Chance: 20%), Halves skill recharge of Blood Magic spells (Chance: 20%))

[edit] Usage

• The main points of view in collecting skills are:
  • Low activation time
  • High damage, usually its a self healing too.
  • Do damage against mass foes in the area.
• Stand in the second row mainly!
• If the tanks do their job, cast Life Transfer to the healer, or high-damager foe, cast Life Siphon to the others.
• If foes are in group, cast Deathly Swarm, and if your health is below 60%, cast Unholy Feast.
• Blood Ritual is used as a quick supply of energy for the party, especially Batterying the Monks.
• To prevent the enemy in animating of corpses, or simply do a big damage to ALL nearby foes, use Putrid Explosion. The MM necros will not love you:)
• When the situation needs a fast big damage, use Shadow Strike or Vampiric Touch (bar 3nd place skill), for example in the neverending-main-mob-killing, or against influenced fighters in the second row. I think Vampiric Touch is better than Shadow Strike in this situation, the short walk to the enemy and +5 energy is disadvantage, I have no doubt, but the 3/4 Activation Time and 2 Recharge time is better, than 2 and 8 (or in Vapmiric Gaze case 1 and 5). Who use what? Self taste.
• A few numbers: The full spike (Life Siphon->Life Transfer->Unholy Feast->(Vampiric Touch->Vampiric Bite:||)) takes 6.25 seconds (if you stay near the enemy) and does 4..12 health degeneration what you get as Health regeneration and deals 68..253 damage, what you get as life stealing.

[edit] Variants

• Replace Putrid Explosion with:
  • Necrotic Traversal in Bonus of Dunes of Despair mission
  • Well of Suffering when there is big mass of foes, for example scarabs in the desert.
  • Awaken the Blood in PvP situations
• Replace Blood Ritual with:
  • Awaken the Blood in PvP situations
• Replace Shadow Strike with:
  • Vampiric Touch or Vampiric Gaze or Barbed Signet
• Replace Deathly Swarm with:
  • Vampiric Bite or Vampiric Gaze in PvP situations
  • Vampiric Swarm
• Replace Life Transfer with:
  • Soul Leech against spell caster enemies
  • Virulence when Condition makers are in the party
• Replace Rebirth with:
  • Resurrection Signet if the second profession is not Monk
  • Light of Dwayna when the party members are died often.