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Skills Used: 1. Awaken the Blood 2. Arcane Echo 3. Spiteful Spirit 4. Suffering 5. Desecrate Enchantments 6. Sympathetic Visage 7. Blood Ritual 8. Resurrection Signet
Attributes:Curses - 12
Soul Reaping - 8
Blood Magic - 5
Illusion Magic - 9
Equipment:
The best Curses staff available, preferably with +5 energy and +1 curses (20% chance).
Rune of Superior Curses, Rune of Superior Soul Reaping, Rune of Minor Blood Magic, Vigor Rune, Rune of Attunement
Description:
In the 55/SS team build, the 55 Monk will be doing all of the aggro work. It is ABSOLUTELY VITAL that, when using this SS build in the Underworld, you avoid aggroing any enemies. You do not have any armor boosting or healing skills, and will be killed almost instantly if attacked. ALSO, it is important to note that some of the enemies in the Underworld, like the Aatxe, have larger aggro ranges than normal. Stay as far away from Aatxes as possible, until they are busy attacking your 55 Monk. NEVER use your wand to attack, only use your spells, and only in the correct situations.
All of your skills are designed to assist the 55 Monk in surviving and in killing the enemies that are grouped around the 55.
The first 3 skills all work together. Spiteful Spirit is the key skill in this build, and is the main offensive skill in your arsenal. For most enemies you fight, Spiteful Spirit is the ONLY damage spell you will use, as the others are more likely to pull aggro to you. Awaken the Blood will increase the damage of your Spiteful Spirit, and Arcane Echo will allow you to use multiple Spiteful Spirits.
Once the enemies are gathered around your 55 Monk, you will approach just close enough to cast SS on some of them, starting with the enemies closest to you. With such high Curses and Awaken the Blood raising Curses 2 more levels, your SS spell will drop the enemies very quickly.
The rest of your skills are for specific situations or are small additions. Suffering can be cast over a group of enemies to speed up their death a bit. It is also an effect cover hex against the Smites, who will heal themselves of SS very quickly. Because the Smites are so effective at avoiding SS, Desecrate Enchantments is included to deal extra direct damage to the Smites (it is based on enchantments, which the Smites use many of).
Sympathetic Visage is an important skill for helping your 55, especially agianst the Smites. Casting it on your 55 will cause the Smites attacking him to lose energy and all adrenaline. Wait for their energy to be drained, and THEN use Spiteful Spirit on them, otherwise they will just remove it. Some of the phantoms can use adrenaline-based knockdown spells, so casting Sympathetic Visage on your 55 at those times can be useful as well.
Blood Ritual is handy in case your 55 Monk runs out of energy, because he needs plenty of energy to keep up his many vital enchantments. And Resurrection Signet gives you a 2nd chance if your 55 dies for some reason.
