Hard MM Choices
So I’m focusing on PvE MM, but I can’t choose between Bone Minions or Flesh Wurm and Flesh Golem or Lich Form. Flesh Wurm deals much more damage and great sustainability and allows me to move more in a single battle, but is immobile. Bone minions don’t dish out as mich damage but move around and there are two of them. I have also found their life siphon and explosion to be quite useful.
In all game types I would always have Bone Minions as one of my minions. Flesh Wurm would replace one of my other minions in PvP but I wouldn’t really use the in general PvE, maybe in instances but even then combat tends to be over too quickly for the wurm to be of use.
For veteran abilities, Flesh Golem stays forever and can allow me to sort of position my target where I want them as well as tank. Lich form allows me to have a really good condi set ad well as five minions that can help me swarm my enemy and take the attention off of me. Their death damage is also useful in taking down multiple opponents. For lich, I usually only go in the form for a couple seconds to summon and get out if it to have a full set of minions to rek the opponent. I only really stay in lich form when the enemy is particularly hard and I need to diah out good condi.
I think in the long run Flesh Golem is clearly the superior choice. For short bursts the Lich is quite nice.
Flesh Golem is definitely better overall.
Bone Minions however are only better for general roaming. Longer fights Flesh Wurm is superior by quite a bit.
Bone Minions however are only better for general roaming. Longer fights Flesh Wurm is superior by quite a bit.
That is something that could be debated. All MM traits favor having more traits over having stronger traits (i.e. Flesh of the Master, Necromantic Corruption, Death Nova, Vampiric and Vampiric Presence, alright VP can only be considered an MM trait when soloing, but still…). I think both have their place. But I can’t really think of situations where you have to choose between the two. The Shadow Fiend and Bone Fiend are both inferior to both the Wurm and the Minions.
My own suggestion is to try them all out and see which one you like best. PERSONALLY I would choose Bone Minions and Flesh Golem, but I’m not you and I neither should nor want to tell you how to play your build.
Flesh Wurm definitely has stronger DPS, but I like the lower recharge time and mobility on the Bone Minions. I also think that the Bone Minions probably make better long-term use of vampiric traits, but I have absolutely nothing to back that up with other than a feeling. Finally, I also like using them as a blast finisher sometimes for the puppy of it.
The Lich is an outstanding elite which gives stability and good DPS on top of the 5 jagged horrors, but it takes a long time to recharge. That recharge time makes a Death Magic trait-buffed Flesh Golem look pretty darn attractive, especially if you’re good at making use of its knockdown.
Good luck!
That is something that could be debated. All MM traits favor having more traits over having stronger traits (i.e. Flesh of the Master, Necromantic Corruption, Death Nova, Vampiric and Vampiric Presence, alright VP can only be considered an MM trait when soloing, but still…). I think both have their place. But I can’t really think of situations where you have to choose between the two. The Shadow Fiend and Bone Fiend are both inferior to both the Wurm and the Minions.
Shadow Fiend and Bone Fiend are both heavily superior to Wurm/Bone Minions. Bone Minions have their best DPS when summoned and blown up immediately, with absolutely no attacks launched at all, and even when they do this they still only have 75% of the DPS of the other minions. If you leave them out to attack, their DPS is more like half. Bone Fiend and Shadow Fiend both make superior use out of traiting, they have the same attacks per second of Bone Minions, but do so with higher DPS. The only thing they are worse on is a meaningless loss of toughness.
Its debatable whether Flesh Wurm is better over Bone Minions, but that’s about it.
wurm sucks, golem is meh, jus use lich for short jagged horror burst, since they proc,minor vamp sig when traited, and you will have some dps, though its all about what you like more