This build has been successfully vetted by the GuildWiki community according to the vetting procedure. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE-farming

This build is meant to solo farm the Bladed Aatxe in the Underworld for ectos and to solo the Grasping Darkness for gold drops and other rare items.

Attributes and Skills

Necromancer / Monk	Attribute Rank
Blood Magic	12 + 1 + 3
Death Magic	0+3
Curses	0+3
Soul Reaping	0+3
Healing Prayers	10
Protection Prayers	8

Protective Spirit

Vigorous Spirit

Spoil Victor

Healing Breeze

Plague Touch

Essence Bond

Balthazar's Spirit

Mending

• Consider replacing Vigorous Spirit with Suffering so that you can use it as a cover hex and be able to solo the Smite Crawlers.

Equipment

• Use cheap radiant armor, or cheap armor that gives you extra energy, and 5 superior runes to bring your health down to 105.
• Use a sword, or axe with a 20% enchantment mod (this is critical, because vigorous spirit's effect will activate slower with a wand, scythe etc.)
• The -50 HP grim cesta is also needed for this.

Usage

Fighting an Aatxe.

• Enter the Underworld
• Aggro the Bladed Aatxe group on the left, or right, and run in the opposite direction to the opposite corner.
• The Bladed Aatxe group should not follow you, but if there was a Dying Nightmare near the Bladed Aatxe group then it should have followed you, cast vigorous spirit and wait for the Dying Nightmare to remove it with Rend Enchantments, now use Protective Spirit and wand the Dying Nightmare to death.
• Stand in a safe spot, and cast all of your maintained enchantments. You should have at least 25 energy after the enchantments before you begin to aggro the Bladed Aatxe group.
• Cast Vigorous Spirit before you aggro the group of Bladed Aatxe, now use Protective Spirit, target a Bladed Aatxe and use Spoil Victor
• Begin attacking the Bladed Aatxe with your sword or axe. Health gained from Vigorous Spirit should be enough for a group of 2 Bladed Aatxe.
• Maintain Protective Spirit and Vigorous Spirit while fighting the group. If you have health problems, and your health stays steady at half full, use Healing Breeze.
• Apply Spoil Victor to your target(s) when it recharges. Most of the time 1 cast of Spoil Victor will fully kill a Bladed Aatxe or a Grasping Darkness, but if not recast it.
• Repeat steps 2-9 for the second Bladed Aatxe group.
  • Kill the Bladed Aatxe groups on the right and left, be sure to also include the lone Bladed Aatxe that walks around to both groups frequently (you can kill the middle group, but if there is a nightmare spawn and you run, the entire group will follow you).
• Take the quest after the Bladed Aatxe on the right and left are killed.
• Use steps 2-9 for the Grasping Darkness
• If dazed use Plague Touch on a Grasping Darkness.
  • Usually the health gained from Vigorous Spirit is enough without Healing Breeze to maintain stably high health against a group of 3 or 4 Grasping Darkness.
• Continue on through the chamber with in the direction of the Smite Crawlers and you will find more Bladed Aatxe and Grasping Darkness to farm.
  • Be sure not to aggro more than 2-4 groups at a time.

Path for aggroing.

Counters

• Rend Enchantments from a Dying Nightmare that you did not take action upon when the Dying Nightmare spawned.
• Interrupt.

Variants

• Live Vicariously can replace Vigorous Spirit so that your main way of healing can't be interrupted. Note that Live Vicariously provides less hp than Vigorous Spirit.

Notes

• This build cannot solo the Smite Crawlers (unless a variant is used). Or Coldfire Nights.