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Use Blood Magic to support you and your allies through health and energy management, also has room and sufficient attributes and energy for various support skills.
Attributes and Skills
<pvxbig> [build prof=Necromancer/any Bloodmagic=12+1+1 SoulReaping=8+1][optional][Blood Bond][barbed signet][Oppressive Gaze][optional][optional][Blood Ritual][Signet of Lost Souls][/build] </pvxbig> Optional elite slot for:
- Order of the Vampire for additional party life-stealing. (Do not use with Order of Pain or Dark Fury.)
- Cultist's Fervor useful with Orders skills.
- Ravenous Gaze cheap, spammable armor-ignoring AoE damage.
- Spoil Victor for hard-mode and boss shutdown.
Optional slots for:
- For Blood Magic support (change Soul Reaping to 12):
- Mark of Fury for physical support
- Strip Enchantment for areas with many enchantments.
- Order of Pain for additional damage. (Do not use with Order of the Vampire.)
- Dark Fury additional adrenaline gain for melee characters. (Do not use with Order of the Vampire.)
- Blood Renewal to counter sacrifice cost of certain blood skills.
- Jaundiced Gaze useful with Orders skills.
- Foul Feast to remove conditions from allies.
- For Curses support (put 10+1 in Curses):
- Awaken the Blood to buff both Curses and Blood Magic.
- Barbs if your party has many melee characters, or a minion master.
- Mark of Pain for more AoE damage.
- Enfeebling Blood for better protection against melee.
- Weaken Armor to decrease target's AL.
- Rip Enchantment for enchant heavy areas.
- Reckless Haste useful for blocking in HM.
- Smiting support (put 10 in Smiting Prayers):
- Strength of Honor for more melee support.
- Castigation Signet for better energy management.
- Smite Hex for hex removal.
- Smite Condition for condition removal.
- For Protection Prayers support (put 10 in Protection Prayers):
- Aegis for a party-wide block.
- Protective Spirit for damage reduction.
- Shield of Absorption for damage reduction.
- Spirit Bond when taking heavy damage.
- "Find Their Weakness!" for more damage + DW.
- "Fall Back!" for movement support.
- Anthem of Weariness for added Weakness.
- "Never Surrender!" to save dying allies.
- For Channeling Magic support (put 10 in Channeling Magic):
- Splinter Weapon for massive additional damage with melee characters.
- Ancestors' Rage additional AoE spike damage.
- Spirit Rift for additional AoE spike damage and cracked armor.
- Gaze from Beyond to inflict Blindness. (The team must have spirits.)
- For Restoration Magic support (put 10 in Restoration Magic):
- Spirit Light for massive 5 energy heal. (The team must have spirits.)
- Mend Body and Soul for condition removal and a heal. (The team must have spirits.)
- Weapon of Warding for 50% chance to block and health regeneration.
- Protective Was Kaolai for party-wide heal.
Equipment
- Survivor's Insignia and a Rune of Superior Vigor
- Any staff or wand. 20/20 Blood wand and offhand helps but is not required.
Usage
- If using Strength of Honor, disable this skill and micro onto melee characters.
Counters
- Anti-caster hexes
- Daze
- Hex Removal
Variants
- For areas with lot of resurrect, put 10 in Wilderness Survival and take Frozen Soil
See Also
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