minion master
Yes.
More or less any MM build you do is good for PvE.
Reaper (for Rise!), death magic and blood/spite/soulreaping, with condition or direct damage equipment (your choice), full minions and go to conquer the world.
Everything is viable for open world.
Using minions for toughness, running Valk gear, my Reaper does very well in open world when it comes to survivability. Although almost every build is good for survivability, I even more difficult to kill than I would otherwise be.
It is fool proof, I run Death Magic, Blood, Reaper Power in Valk Gear, Ascended Great Sword, Exotic Axe Dagger, Ascended Non Armor pieces that are Zerker with two that are zerker with Vitality.
My question is whether this is viable in Fractals?
It is fool proof, I run Death Magic, Blood, Reaper Power in Valk Gear, Ascended Great Sword, Exotic Axe Dagger, Ascended Non Armor pieces that are Zerker with two that are zerker with Vitality.
My question is whether this is viable in Fractals?
While Viper is still top spot for necros, many parties don’t care what you bring.
I ran a minion master build (spite/blood/reaper) for a while after the lich form nerf and it worked well, absorbing aoe damage and what not.
I ran spite instead of death magic because of the dps increase and death magic is fairly worthless now. Since minions take 95% less non direct damage, they don’t really need more health. The death nova trait only really worked on condi builds with rise and jagged horrors, not basic minions who you want to stay alive. And the minion damage increase is far out dps’d by your own damage increase from spite. The only real reason to take Death magic is for the condi transfer from Necromantic Corruption which is wasted, for the most part, if you’re not running corruptions.
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It is fool proof, I run Death Magic, Blood, Reaper Power in Valk Gear, Ascended Great Sword, Exotic Axe Dagger, Ascended Non Armor pieces that are Zerker with two that are zerker with Vitality.
My question is whether this is viable in Fractals?
If by “viable” do you mean whether it will work? Sure, anything works in T1-3 and in T4, it will be fine if everyone knows that they are doing.
However, it’s not one of the more efficient choices for fractals. Start with the builds on metabattle (there’s a condi and a power build there) and then adjust it to fit your style or situation.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
If you like minions, you can always add them to a viper or berserker build. For example, I often use Blood Fiend, Bone Fiend, and Bone Minions under water to supplement ranged damage regardless of equipment stat’s.
I do not use Death Magic anymore, either. It just offers far too little sustain, dps, and group utility.
Spite and Curses are pure dps improvement while Blood Magic, Soul Reaping, and Reaper offer more sustain and group utility.
Toughness builds also draw the most aggro in PvE, which is the opposite of sustain, and agony ignores toughness, too. Until a new trait line arrives that lets Necromancer tank full time, Death Magic’s toughness theme is a dead end.