Build:N/E Softening Bile

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The PvXwiki community finds this to be a good build. Through the PvX vetting system, it has reached an overall Rating in the range from 3.5 to <4.5 and thus qualifies for the medium category of working builds: Good. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE hero

Softens targets through the use of long lasting, AoE hexes and conditions.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / Elementalist 12 + 1 + 1 Death Magic 12 + 1 Soul Reaping Glyph of Lesser Energy Core Elementalist. Energy Storage 0 Glyph of Lesser Energy Glyph For the next 15 seconds, your next 2 Spells cost 10 less Energy to cast. 30 1 5 Icy Veins Factions Necromancer. Soul Reaping 13 Icy Veins Elite Hex Spell Target foe is struck for 79 cold damage. For 32 seconds, if target foe dies all nearby foes are struck for 98 cold damage. 5 1 10 Putrid Bile EotN Necromancer. Death Magic 14 Putrid Bile Hex Spell For 19 seconds, target foe suffers -3 Health degeneration. If that foe dies while under the effects of this Hex, all nearby foes take 81 damage. 12 1 10 Rising Bile Factions Necromancer. Death Magic 14 Rising Bile Hex Spell For 20 seconds, this Hex does nothing. When Rising Bile ends, that foe and all foes in the area take 6 damage for each second Rising Bile was in effect. 20 1 10 Signet of Lost Souls Nightfall Necromancer. Soul Reaping 13 Signet of Lost Souls Signet If target foe is below 50% Health, you gain 88 Health and 9 Energy. 8 ¼ Rotting Flesh Core Necromancer. Death Magic 14 Rotting Flesh Spell Target fleshy foe becomes Diseased for 24 seconds, slowly losing Health. 3 3 15 Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Resurrection Signet Core No Profession. Unlinked Resurrection Signet Signet Resurrect target party member. That party member is returned to life with 100% Health and 25% Energy. This Signet only recharges when you gain a morale boost. 3 Template code

Optional slot can be:

• Putrid Explosion
• Vile Miasma
• Hexer's Vigor
• Well of Suffering
• Death Nova when with a Minion Master

[edit] Equipment

• Whatever you'd like.
• Consider optionally using a bigger rune of Death Magic (Major or Superior) to increase damage. The tradeoff is that your hero loses a lot of health that come in handy in later, tougher areas with more enemy damage.

[edit] Usage

• The hero does all the work.

[edit] Counters

• Non-fleshy creatures to a degree.

[edit] Variants

• If in an area with human opponents, consider replacing Rotting Flesh with any of the two optional skills other than Vile Miasma.
• Consider running two of these combined with Edge of Extinction for EoE bombs in PvE.
• Rotting Flesh and the optional slot can be replaced with Animate Bone Minions and Putrid Flesh for a low-cost method of spreading disease (with Soul Reaping, it's very cheap).

[edit] See also

• Build:Team - IV Spike