I have no idea where im going now, please help N/Ele build

[frozenoo]

i currently playing on a lvl 12 N/Ele build, mainly using N skills.... and i have no idea what i'm doing with the skills... pleaes help

Attributes: (cost)
Blood Magic: 9+1
Death Magic: 3
Still have 11 attributes points



Currently using
Skills:

1) Vampiric Gaze - Steal 46 health from target foe.
2) Deathy Swarm - Deathly Swarm flies out slowly and strikes for 28 cold damage (before armor) on up to three targets.
3)Life Siphon - For 20 seconds, target suffers health degeneration of 2, and you gain health regeneration of 2.
4)Animate Bone Horror - Exploit nearest corpse to animate a level 4 Bone Horror.
5)Blood Renewal - Sacrifice 33% max health. For 10 seconds, you gain health regeneration of 3. When Blood Renewal ends, you gain 140 health.
6)Vampiric Touch - Touch target foe to steal up to 59 health.
7) Weaken armor - For 10 seconds, target foe has an armor penalty of -20 against physical damage.
8)Soul Feast - Exploit nearest corpse to steal 69 health.


It's such a mess, i don't know what to do, i mainly use life siphon then vampire touch then vampire gaze and then hit with my Trunchoen 7-12 dmg 20%+ weapon...


can someone please help me?

[Chaos Knight Soul]

Sure, I'm a Necro/Ellemantalist level 19 so I sort of know what you mean :D . Now then first off I can see that your mainly a Blood Mage which is fine but you need to raise up your death magic a bit as well. Most people over look Death Magic but it's really useful (I'm a Death Mage). You also need to get your Elly skill up a bit (only fire magic). Fire magic is the best for Elly's nothing else competes :D . Now then I'll tell your what skills you should add and delete... Frist keep your Vamp Gaze very useful. Now then you should get rid of your Death Swarm and Life Siphon good for beginners not good later on trust me. I tried using it against a monster and got owned not fun. So I suggest you trade those skills for Fire Storm and Immomolate if you have it if you don't have Immomolate use Flare (you should have both of those). Now keep Bone Horrors but only if you raise your Death Magic Weak bone horrors are useless unless high levels. Get rid of Blood Renewal absoulutaly a waiste and add something that dishes out good damage but not to costly. Vamp Touch as well get rid of it mostly because your a ranged guy you don't want to get in the heat of battle just to do something as simple as stealing like 30 health that's what you have Vamp Gaze for may steal only 22 but still for the health u loose running up there it equals out. Weaken armour should be replaced with a curse that makes them slower, loose health over time, or weaken them but nothing to costly. Last thing you have on the list is Soul Feast... KEEP THAT!!! I love that spell best thing ever a real life saver once u get your death magic up u can heal urself for 200health every body i use this skill ALL THE TIME. Well that's all i can really tell you hope it helps you out. :D

[frozenoo]

shouldn't i should keep vampire touch and vampire gaze.... those two skills are the only two i use to output dmg..

[Chaos Knight Soul]

Vamp Gaze you definetly keep that's what I use half the time. But as i said Vamp touch is good but only if u plan on doing close range but necro's arnt good at that so gaze is much better. and as i said u replace soem of them with fire spells that do things like that as well.

[frozenoo]

the way u suggested... only good for pve, that ain't a pvp necro player...

[Chaos Knight Soul]

O sry u wanted PvP i never saw you say that. Cause that's a build For PvE bad in PvP sry about that. :(

[goblintrain]

shouldn't i should keep vampire touch and vampire gaze.... those two skills are the only two i use to output dmg..

Vampiric Gaze is considerably more efficient than Touch as far as health return for energy spent. Also, being ranged is a very nice feature. Of the two, i think Gaze is a safer investment, especially when energy use is an issue.

On my N/w however, i use Touch for specific reasons. One, i am melee obviously, so it is convenient. For another, it does steal more life, & sometimes that extra bite is the difference between life & death for my hero. Another very small, but sometimes important point -Touch is simply classified as a skill, while Gaze is a spell. When i am under a hex effect like Backfire that is activated when i use a spell, i can still safely use Touch.

As for your use of Blood Renewal, take another look at the skill. It can be very powerful when put in a combo with other skills, but by itself as a heal, it is very dangerous. Some ways are to use it in conjunction with an instant heal like Vampiric Touch, Soul Feast, or better yet, Grenth's Balance. Blood Renewal, Grenth's Balance, Vampiric Touch/Gaze, followed by a heavy hitting direct damage skill can give you a big advantage over an opponent in a hurry. Basically, i'm just saying that though they give us necros Blood Renewal early in the game, it is actually an advanced skill that works best later when you have a good selection of other skills to use it with.

One last point: i've noticed a lot of Necro Elementalists employ Glyph of Energy in thier build from the elementalist line. This skill is real handy for helping to dish out those 25 energy skills you will have access to later.

Good luck