User:Lokibirth/Team - MM's Pet

This build is able to take advantage of the massive Damage Dark Aura is capable of without the usual side effect of quickly self sacing that normally makes the skill virtually unusable. This build performs extremely well in the factions campaign where it cuts right through Shadow Form and does massive damage to the generally tightly packed enemies.

Composition

 * 1 /Any Dark Aura MM
 * 1 / Bloody Dwayna

Attributes and Skills
 Any Minion Master build will do, Simply choose your favorite and bring along Dark Aura in one of the slots.  [build prof=necro/any deathm=12+1+3 soulre=12+1 bloodm=3][animate flesh golem][animate shambling horror][Animate Vampiric Horror][blood of the master][Animate Bone Horror][taste of death][dark bond][Dark Aura][/build]
 * Bringing Vampiric Horrors is a nice way to offset life sacrifice no matter what MM build you're running.

Equipment

 * Staff with +20% Enchantment mod

Counters

 * Lack of Corpses Makes Minion Masters useless

Attributes and Skills
[build prof=Dervi/Necromancer mystic=11+1+2 earthp=5+1 bloodm=12 windp=4+1] [Touch of Agony][Wallow's Bite][Blood of the Aggressor][Unholy Feast][Pious Restoration][Conviction][Eternal Aura][Avatar of Dwayna][/build]
 * Unholy Feast and Pious Restoration are safety heals and generally should not be used except in emergencies as Unholy Feast in particular will drain your energy quickly.
 * Because it only takes 5% health(which will give you back ~28hp from dwayna) and typically steals life(another 41hp), Blood of the Aggressor tends to be all the healing you need.

Equipment

 * Armor : Sentry's Insignia, Vigor/Vitae runes
 * Sword with +5 energy and +30hp
 * Sheild with Damage-2 while in stance and +30hp

Counters

 * Heavy Enchantment removal can reduce the damage output.

Variants

 * Faithful Intervention can provide a good anti-spike heal
 * Masochism Can provide a good cover enchant as well as providing extra energy management
 * If you're not worried about healing bring Signet of Agony in place of
 * Unholy Feast to creat a nice free AoE spike and then use Plague Sending to


 * transfer the bleeding.

Usage

 * Minion Master does his typical job while keeping Dark Aura up on the pet.
 * The pet keeps Avatar of Dwayna and Conviction up while spamming the first 3 skills to do massive damage and provide


 * self healing from Blood of the Aggressor


 * The pet uses Unholy Feast for a nice spike heal that still does damage when in danger.

Usage with Hero MM

 * Be sure to hold shift and lock Dark Aura otherwise your hero will cast it on himself
 * Hit "F" key to auto-target yourself before casting Dark Aura or once again the hero will cast it


 * on itself.


 * It can be a good idea to assign the hero skill to a quick key so that you do not have to click on it. The "V" key is


 * ideal for this situation since it sits right below the "F" key