suggestions for N/Me builds?

[Chaos Deathstrike]

Hey I just started a Necro/Mesmer yesterday and wanted to know if anyone had good build suggestions for builds to use? I was originally wanting to specialize in Death magic but was also thinking of doing like a crippler build with illusion magic and curses.

[Vexed Arcanist]

Arcane Echo Spiteful Spirit is the hallmark of the PvE N/Me. SS is an elite though, easily captured if you have Ft Rankor.

If you are talking about early missions you can just stack degen. Some of the VERY early missions I highly recommend a very fast cast means of removing corpses, the necro bugs will plague your team with putrid explosion.

[Chaos Deathstrike]

so an Me/N would be better than a N/Me so you can use fast casting with spells that exploit corpses laying around?

[Vexed Arcanist]

No, the corpse exploiting spells like putrid explosion and ...the feast one that heals (name escapes me) and consume corpse, etc., are already fast enough. I was mentioning taking them as a tool to remove a corpse when there are the corpse exploiting necro bugs in the early missions. Hardly a reason to change from N/Me to Me/N. Going Me/N has it's own reasons, totally different from corpse exploiting.

Stick with what you have, I was just making a skill option for early missions.

[DuncanIdaho]

Basically here is the N/Me build I use in PvE:

Plague touch (or Mantra of 'whatever', or elemental resistance -LA and Denravi titan quest)
Consume Corpse
Enfeeble (or enfeebling blood, depending the area)
Parasite Bond
Arcane Echo
Desecrate Enchantment (or Putrid, even if I tend more and more often to chose Desecrate)
SS
Rez signet