Discordway

Discordway is a PVE hero team build that uses three Necromancers equipped with the elite skill, Discord. As with other necro-heavy teams, Discordway takes advantage of the Soul Reaping attribute of the heroes to manage energy and minion mastery to create an army of cheap fodder. A Discordway-based team can survive nearly every Normal Mode challenge in the game without much attention from the player.

The Necros
The typical team consists of:
 * Healer: uses a Ritualist secondary for critical Restoration skills, primarily Life and Protective Was Kaolai ( PWK ).
 * Healer/Curser: another N/Rt build responsible for hexing targets and also keeping the party alive, often with Recovery and PWK.
 * Minion Bomber/Protector: uses a Monk secondary for supportive skills that allow the minions to last longer and cause more damage or conditions and also uses Death Nova on the minions for damage.

Critical Dynamics

 * Soul Reaping: the required skills expend large amounts of energy, especially to create minions. High Soul Reaping and plentiful corpses are critical to support the builds.
 * Discord: this spammable skill deals damage to targets that are suffering a condition and either hexed or enchanted; the build offers some of the triggers by offering hexes and conditions, but it is important for the rest of the team (particular the player's character) to ensure this continues. Popular skills to do this are Assassin's Promise and Ebon Vanguard Assassin Support.
 * Minions: the typical Discordway team animates Shambling Horrors; their replacements, the Jagged Horror, help setup Discord by causing Bleeding. However, the primary purpose of the minions is to give the casting-heavy team time to survive in order to repeatedly spike with Discord.
 * Called targets: Heroes are often slow to react to new situations. To take full advantage of the spike damage from Discord cast three times, it's important early in a battle that the lead player calls targets, so that the necromancers all attack the same target.

Vulnerabilities

 * Hexes and conditions: the hero skillbars are fully loaded with key skills, leaving little room for hex and condition removal skills.
 * Hex and condition removal: the team's double dependency (on condition plus a hex/enchantment) leaves it relatively powerless when confronting foes with lots of removal skills. Discordway is particularly weak against smite-heavy teams, e.g. Smite Hex from Smite Crawlers.
 * Lack of corpses: as noted above, the team depends on a high rate of death to generate energy (and minions) through corpses. Areas without fleshy creatures or where the team cannot dispatch foes quickly enough are dangerous to Discordway teams.
 * Area of Effect: minions and minion masters often find themselves bunched together making them easy targets for AoE skills. For example, a single Meteor Shower can wipe the entire group.
 * Accidental aggro: minions are harder to control than heroes or henchmen, requiring players to take special care to keep minions out of trouble.

Variations
There are any number of variations of the traditional Discordway team:
 * Double-Discord: two players with 6 heroes. Take care that the N/Rt heroes do not bring overlapping spirit skills.
 * No-minions: one or more of the necromancers bring alternative hexes or condition-causing skills instead of minion-skills. This works well with melee-heavy party members in the other 2-4 slots or when the foes are primarily casters.
 * Sorrow Healer: The most common N/Mo hero build is based around Dwayna's Sorrow.