User:Artist of Healing/builds/IV Transfusion

The original build's history

The "IV Transfusion" Necromancer brings heavy degeneration to the board via hexes, considerable direct damage capabilities and excellent long-term endurance via health regeneration and energy management, while also redirecting some of the health it steals to other team members.

Equipment

 * Blessed armor with superior runes of Blood Magic and Vigor, a major rune of Soul Reaping and 2 runes of vitae.
 * A Hale Staff with a "Have Faith" inscription and a wrapping of Fortitude or of Devotion.

Usage

 * Cast Demonic Flesh on yourself before you enter the fight.
 * Apply Reaper's Mark with Life Siphon on multiple targets to inflict -8 degen for nearly 30 seconds.
 * It is generally better to attack targets that have over 50% health at first so you can use Shadow Strike and Lifebane Strike to cause 200 HP damage spikes, healing you for 100 HP in the process.
 * Once a target drops under 50% life start using Signet of Lost Souls to bring in both health and energy. Make sure targets near to death have Reaper's Mark on them - that way, when they die you’ll receive +14 energy from Soul Reaping and +14 energy from Reaper’s Mark, giving you enough energy to spam both Shadow Strike and Lifebane Strike.
 * Finally, use Blood Bond on team members under pressure to give them +6 regeneration at a cost of -3 degen to you. This should be cancelled out by the regen you're getting from Life Siphon, along with the HP gain from Signet of Lost Souls, Shadow Strike, and Lifebane Strike.

Counters

 * Enchantment removal will drop the total amount of HP you can store up, which will hurt your survivability.
 * Anti-Casting spells, such as Backfire, will stop you spamming your Strikes, but your degen hexes will still be in place and you can still activate Signet of Lost Souls.
 * Spoil Victor

Variants

 * Demonic Flesh or Blood Bond can be replaced with:
 * Awaken The Blood, to boost your other spells
 * Order of Pain, to increase the damage output of the rest of your party
 * Blood Ritual, to act as a battery for your casters


 * Add Dervish as a secondary profession, and switch out Demonic Flesh and Signet of Lost Souls for Mystic Regeneration and Blood Renewal. Adjust attributes to include 8 points in Earth Prayers.  Mystic Regeneration + Blood Renewal provides +12 regen to fuel Blood Bonds and provide increased self healing.

History
(cur) (last) 23:22, 30 April 2007 Endamir (Talk | contribs) m (cur) (last)  21:31, 13 March 2007 BrianG (Talk | contribs) m (→Equipment) (cur) (last) 17:22, 13 March 2007 202.156.13.3 (Talk) (cur) (last) 01:00, 12 February 2007 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) m (cur) (last)  18:54, 18 January 2007 BrianG (Talk | contribs) m (added category to tested tag) (cur) (last) 01:25, 5 January 2007 Zerak-Tul (Talk | contribs) m (→Usage) (cur) (last) 08:03, 3 January 2007 Palinurus85 (Talk | contribs) m (→Counters) (cur) (last) 17:37, 1 January 2007 Akmdw (Talk | contribs) m (category tags) (cur) (last) 15:37, 28 December 2006 BrianG (Talk | contribs) (→Variants - added N/D variant) (cur) (last) 05:58, 20 December 2006 Krowman (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 03:35, 20 December 2006 Rapta (Talk | contribs) m (+untested) (cur) (last) 01:01, 20 December 2006 Sefre (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 23:34, 19 December 2006 BrianG (Talk | contribs) m (fixed broken category link - second attempt sorry) (cur) (last) 23:33, 19 December 2006 BrianG (Talk | contribs) m (fixed broken category link) (cur) (last) 22:40, 19 December 2006 Skuld (Talk | contribs) m (cur) (last)  22:36, 19 December 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (Why was this removed from the Tested page? And how is Reaper of Humility better? It has nothing to do with the concept. They are two different things; Sorry.) (cur) (last) 18:08, 19 December 2006 Skuld (Talk | contribs) m (+del) (cur) (last) 18:07, 19 December 2006 Skuld (Talk | contribs) m (cur) (last)  21:24, 14 December 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) m (cur) (last)  21:23, 14 December 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) m (cur) (last)  21:22, 14 December 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 18:52, 14 December 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 18:51, 14 December 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (Actually, there is a +45 HP while enchanting staff wrapping. Added that in. Called Wrapping of Devotion.) (cur) (last) 17:37, 14 December 2006 NieA7 (Talk | contribs) m (-stub, +tested, +cats, tidy (no such mod as "+45 health while enchanted" for a staff)) (cur) (last) 23:35, 13 December 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 01:50, 13 December 2006 Lemming64 (Talk | contribs) m (→Usage - mana -> energy) (cur) (last) 01:49, 13 December 2006 Lemming64 (Talk | contribs) m (→Usage - mana -> energy) (cur) (last) 22:38, 2 December 2006 Krowman (Talk | contribs) m (Minor Clean-ups, Added Variants) (cur) (last) 19:27, 2 December 2006 Wanted warior (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 05:51, 30 November 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 22:52, 29 November 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 22:10, 29 November 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 22:09, 29 November 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 22:09, 29 November 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 22:08, 29 November 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 22:05, 29 November 2006 Barek (Talk | contribs) m (N/any IV Transfusion moved to Build:N/any IV Transfusion) (cur) (last) 22:04, 29 November 2006 Isis In De Nile (Talk | contribs)