Build:Team - Triple Necro Vanquish

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The PvXwiki community finds this to be an excellent build. Through the PvX vetting system, it has reached an overall rating in the range from 4.5 to 5.0 and thus qualifies for the highest category of working builds: Great. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE general PvE hero PvE team

This is a Hero Necromancer set-up designed to handle extreme pressure, notably in Hard Mode. It has been successfully used for Vanquishing and acquiring Protector titles with much ease and minimal hero micro-managing.

[edit] Composition

• 1 / SS Necro
• 1 / Necro Healer
• 1 / Jagged MM Necro

[edit] SS Necro

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / Ritualist 12 + 1 + 1 Curses 12 + 1 Soul Reaping 3 Restoration Magic Spiteful Spirit Prophecies Necromancer. Curses 14 Spiteful Spirit Elite Hex Spell For 19 seconds, whenever target foe attacks or uses a skill, Spiteful Spirit deals 33 shadow damage to that foe and all adjacent allies of that foe. 10 2 15 Reckless Haste Factions Necromancer. Curses 14 Reckless Haste Hex Spell For 12 seconds, target foe and all adjacent foes are Hexed with Reckless Haste. While Hexed, they attack 25% faster but have a 50% chance to miss with attacks. 12 1 15 Enfeebling Blood Core Necromancer. Curses 14 Enfeebling Blood Spell Target foe and all nearby foes suffer from Weakness for 19 seconds. 8 1 1 Barbs Core Necromancer. Curses 14 Barbs Hex Spell For 30 seconds, target foe takes 14 more damage when hit by physical damage. 5 2 10 Rip Enchantment Nightfall Necromancer. Curses 14 Rip Enchantment Spell Remove 1 enchantment from target foe. If an enchantment was removed, that foe suffers from Bleeding for 24 seconds. 10 1 5 Mark of Pain Core Necromancer. Curses 14 Mark of Pain Hex Spell For 30 seconds, whenever target foe takes physical damage, Mark of Pain deals 38 shadow damage to adjacent foes. 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 Death Pact Signet Nightfall Ritualist. Restoration Magic 3 Death Pact Signet Signet Resurrect target party member with your current Health and 32% Energy. The next time that ally dies within 120 seconds, so do you. 12 3 Template code

[edit] Equipment

• Armor : Survivor Insignia, Attunement Runes
• Weapons : Any Curses weapon will do, 20/20 is a good set-up

[edit] Counters

• Massive Hex Removal
• Caster hate; Backfire or Blackout for example

[edit] Variants

• Replace Rip Enchantment with Defile Flesh in areas with very heavy healing support.
• Replace Mark of Pain with Insidious Parasite for areas with multi-hitters (i.e. Triple Chop, Hundred Blades, etc.)
• You can make this character N/Mo in stead of N/Rt and use a Monk resurrect instead of Death Pact Signet.

[edit] Necro Healer

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / Ritualist 8 + 1 + 1 Soul Reaping 12 Restoration Magic 10 Channeling Magic Xinrae's Weapon Nightfall Ritualist. Communing Xinrae's Weapon Elite Weapon Spell For 4..9..10 seconds, target ally has Xinrae's Weapon. Whenever a foe casts a Spell on that ally, that Spell is disabled for an additional 5..13..16 seconds for that foe and all party members of that foe. 30 ¼ 25 Splinter Weapon Factions Ritualist. Channeling Magic 10 Splinter Weapon Weapon Spell For 20 seconds, target ally has a Splinter Weapon. Target ally's next 4 attacks deal 35 damage to up to 3 adjacent foes. 5 1 5 Mend Body and Soul Factions Ritualist. Restoration Magic 12 Mend Body and Soul Spell Target ally is healed for 96 Health. That ally loses one Condition for all Spirits within earshot. 3 ¾ 5 Spirit Light Factions Ritualist. Restoration Magic 12 Spirit Light Spell Target ally is healed for 156. If any Spirits are within earshot, you don't sacrifice Health. 4 1 5 Protective Was Kaolai Factions Ritualist. Restoration Magic 12 Protective Was Kaolai Item Spell Hold Kaolai's ashes for up to 51 seconds. While you hold his ashes, you gain 24 armor. When you drop his ashes, all party members are healed for 70 Health. 15 1 10 Life Factions Ritualist. Restoration Magic 12 Life Binding Ritual Create a level 8 Spirit with 160 Health and 50 armor. When this Spirit dies, all non-Spirit allies within its range are healed for 6 Health for each second this Spirit was alive. This Spirit dies after 20 seconds. 20 3 10 Signet of Lost Souls Nightfall Necromancer. Soul Reaping 10 Signet of Lost Souls Signet If target foe is below 50% Health, you gain 70 Health and 7 Energy. 8 ¼ Death Pact Signet Nightfall Ritualist. Restoration Magic 12 Death Pact Signet Signet Resurrect target party member with your current Health and 83% Energy. The next time that ally dies within 120 seconds, so do you. 12 3 Template code

[edit] Equipment

• Armor : Survivor Insignia, Vigor/Vitae runes
• Weapons : Any 20/20 Restoration Magic will do, better if the hero has more energy though.

[edit] Counters

• Caster hate
• Spirit removal will gimp Mend Body and Soul and Spirit Light.

[edit] Variants

• Vengeful Weapon instead of Splinter Weapon. Increase Soul Reaping to 12+1+1, taking the attribute points out of Channeling Magic.
• If conditions become a problem or in condition heavy areas consider bringing Weapon of Remedy instead of Xinrae's Weapon.

[edit] Jagged MM Necro

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / Monk 9 + 1 Soul Reaping 12 + 1 + 3 Death Magic 9 Protection Prayers Jagged Bones Nightfall Necromancer. Death Magic 16 Jagged Bones Elite Enchantment Spell For 30 seconds, whenever target undead servant dies, it is replaced by a level 16 jagged horror that causes Bleeding with each of its attacks. 15 1 5 Animate Bone Minions Core Necromancer. Death Magic 16 Animate Bone Minions Spell Exploit nearest corpse to animate two level 13 bone minions. 5 3 15 Death Nova Core Necromancer. Death Magic 16 Death Nova Enchantment Spell For 30 seconds, if target ally dies, all adjacent foes take 105 damage and are Poisoned for 15 seconds. 2 5 Blood of the Master Core Necromancer. Death Magic 16 Blood of the Master Spell All of your undead allies are healed for 122 Health. You sacrifice an additional 2% maximum Health per minion healed in this way. 2 1 5 Foul Feast EotN Necromancer. Soul Reaping 10 Foul Feast Spell All conditions are transferred from target other ally to yourself. For each condition acquired in this way, you gain 30 Health and 2 Energy. 2 ¼ 5 Protective Spirit Core Monk. Protection Prayers 9 Protective Spirit Enchantment Spell For 16 seconds, target ally cannot lose more than 10% max Health due to damage from a single attack or Spell. 5 ¼ 10 Aegis Core Monk. Protection Prayers 9 Aegis Enchantment Spell For 9 seconds, all party members within earshot have a 50% chance to block attacks. 30 2 10 Signet of Lost Souls Nightfall Necromancer. Soul Reaping 10 Signet of Lost Souls Signet If target foe is below 50% Health, you gain 70 Health and 7 Energy. 8 ¼ Template code

[edit] Equipment

• Armor : 1 Bloodstained Insignia on the head/hands/boots, Survivor Insignia on the remaining slots, Attunement runes.
• Weapons : A Death Magic 20/20 set with +12 energy focus.

[edit] Counters

• Corpse consumption, see Variants for help

[edit] Variants

• If there are no corpses available for any reason, swap this necro for another SS necro, but give him an interrupt for better control or you can add an SV necro hero.
• Putrid Bile and/or Rising Bile instead of Extinguish and Aegis in areas that are low on physical attackers.
• If going on 4-man party areas switch Extinguish for Foul Feast.
• Hex removal instead of Foul Feast in hex-heavy areas with little to no conditions. Convert Hexes, Remove Hex, and Reverse Hex are good choices.

[edit] Usage

• Call a target so all necros lock onto it.
• The SS necro will start putting hexes on, while the MM will accumulate minions to do damage through Barbs and Death Nova
• Vanquish the mission/area while repeating the previous steps.

[edit] Notes

• All will go on auto-pilot, even in areas with less party members.
• You may need some micromanagement to flag your heroes out of AoE spells and environmental hazards.
• The flaws in this build are its susceptibility to interrupt and its lack of hex removal. Having hex removal, interrupt(s), and Pain Inverter is suggested for the other players/heroes.
• Use this build with the following henchman set-up: At least one protection hench, one warrior or dervish, one support hench and one elementalist. For harder areas, take both monk henchmen. You are, of course, interchangeable with all of these professions.

[edit] Trivia

• This team build is often called Sabway by the community, named after the original author who used it in PvE instead of HA.

[edit] See also

• Video guide to vanquishing and this build- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QfAziVA9vA
• The discussion of the build on Guru
• N/Rt Signet of Lost Souls Healer