help my necromancer.

[ZenithZero]

well im a level 20 necromancer/elementalist [ im thinking of switching ]
PvE im in cantha and i've got nightfall and prophecies too. but im trying to finish cantha first. im honestly tired of minion mastering. its so boring, and having to constantly heal them. so im looking for a new secondary profession some and new attribute [ does damage duh ] thanks.

[Melandhrian]

Well, instead of healing them, you could bomb with them. Take two kinds of minions, I personally recommend bone minions (you can make so many) and shambling horrors cos you get double bang for your buck there too. Take off Blood of the Master, add death nova and taste of death. You should be rolling over everything in your path anyhow, so it won't matter if you run low on minions. Anyhow my secondary is /Mo, but the only thing I use is rebirth in case of um..serious difficulties with the rest of my party. :)

So my skillbar looks like this:

Meekness
Enfeebling Blood
Faintheartedness
Animate Bone Minions
Animate Shambling Horror (yay for peel and eat shrimps)
Death Nova
Taste of Death
Rebirth

I am planning to replace faintheartedness with icy veins, just haven't gone to pick it up yet.

Anyhoo, that's how I run my minioner, and it takes some skill to get them all arisen then blow them up. I hope you enjoy it

[halfthought]

well, necros arent at all limited to minions, there are loads of fun builds I run, most of them use prophecies and nightfall elitees though (cause faction elites suck) heres a build I run that uses a faction elite, though it uses other campaigns skills, just make a Pvp char, and get the faction to unlock them, go to that campaign, and buy em

deaths promise (N/a)
curse-16 (12+1+3)
soul reaping 9 (8+1)
Deadly arts 10

Mark of pain
reckless haste
enfeebling blood
insidious parasite
well of darkness
crippling dagger
Assassin promise (capped from xexuo the deceptive in pongmei valley)
rez

its really fun, its centered around melee hate, but MOP is enough to add so REALLY significant damage

[Shrakzara]

Uh... Necromancer Elites do not suck from Factions.

Icy Veins (e)
Signet of Lost Souls
Defile Enchantments
Desecrate Enchantments
Plague Sending
Enfeebling Blood/Mark of Pain
Insidious Parasite
Rez Signet

Or...

Blinding Flash
Viruence (e)
Vile Miasma
Signet of Lost Souls
Bitter Chill
Glyph of Lesser Energy
Well of Suffering
Rez Signet

Or (typical SS)... Or...

Discord (e)
Enfeeble
Stoning
Aftershock/Feted Ground
Parasitic Bond
Signet of Lost Souls
Desecrate Enchantments
Rez Signet.

There are many ways a Necromancer can do damage.

[Zaxares]

Yeah, try a Discord build. It's actually a pretty fun route for a Death necromancer. Parasitic Bond and Enfeeble are all you need to trigger the spell; about 4 Curses should be enough to make Weakness last long enough for you to kill them. Chuck in spells like Putrid Explosion, Consume Corpse and Well of Suffering to make sure that nobody else gets to use corpses in the meantime.

[TheFirebringer]

I'm using an SS build (don't know if it's typical)

curses 16 (12+4)
soul reaping 13 (12+1)
SS
MoP
RH
Insidious Parasite
Parasitic Bond
Desecrate Enchantments
SoC
Rez

But i'm getting tired of the build myself :)
I'm a N/W but I haven't found a build which combines the classes and survives the high levels of canthana or tyria :(

[ZenithZero]

shakraza can you help me sometime over the weekend [its tuesday today] pm me for my character name cause i really need help. i love the idea of the icey veins build. the others ones are alright. i need help getting the skills and how to use em' thanks MUCHO.