User:Mgrinshpon/Grinch Necromancer

My Minion Master build, with moderate self healing, designed to make a wall of minions and make tanks pointless (because minions are the awesome).

Equipment
Scar Patterns for the extra energy.

Bloodstained Boots

Death Magic Headpiece.

Optionally, get the best Vigor Rune you can get for suvivability, but it's not important. It will allow you take more damage from attacks incase things get dire, but will increase the sacrifice from Blood of the Master.

Ghial's Staff is probably the best Minion Master staff ever, but something less expensive, either a wand/offhand or with +15 energy or more would due fine.

Usage
4 Vampiric Horrors are enough healing in combat to cover the sacrifice costs from Blood of the Master for an army of 10. Make 4, and don't make more. Shambling Horrors and Bone Horrors are better otherwise. Basically, make sure ~40% of your minion army is vampiric to take pressure off the monk and to allow self dependance in combat.

Stay back and don't even bother attacking except to tell the minions where to go, just spam your minion spells from the sidelines.

When your Flesh Golem is getting old, cast Taste of Death on it, followed by Animate Flesh Golem (since they leave exploitable corpses). This will lower it's health degeneration inherent with all minions.

In the occasion you're under attack, use Dark Bond and Heal Area to preserve yourself, followed by calling out the target(s) attacking you. Be snappy with the minion creation spells since Dark Bond will seriously damage all minions.

Counters
Corpse Denial, like Wells such as Well of Blood, Well of Power, and others take corpses from the Minion Master (yourself).

Animate spells take a long time to cast. Interrupting them is easy, and makes the master waste energy that he doesn't have alot of.

Ray of Judgment, Banish, and Holy Damage in general is absolutely devastating to minions.

Variants
If your group has a bonder already, Dark Bond can be removed entirely with a skill such as Rebirth or Resurrection Chant for a res, or a damage spell like Tainted Flesh to get that first corpse for your Flesh Golem, or even Verata's Sacrifice when starting out.

Help and Suggestions
If you're trying this out for yourself and need any help, don't hesitate to contact me in Guildwars by adding me to your friends list as Grinch Warrior. Just message me and say you saw this from the Wiki.