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Minion Factory (MF) is a team PvP build based around on the production of minions, preferably bone fiends. The core of a MF team consists of:
The saccers, minion master, and rezmer work together to generate a large number of minions while the party waits to enter a battle.
These characters are usually primary or secondary necromancers, bringing:
Wearing a Vampiric weapon and usaully the -50 cesta given as the reward in Cities of Ascalon.
Two saccers are needed, who may also have several superior runes in their armor to help decrease their maximum starting health. Blood is Power has a 33% health sacrifice, which is increased to 50% with Awaken the Blood. Two casts of Blood is Power (usually on the rezmers) are therefore sufficient to commit suicide. Once their corpses have been exploited for minions, the rezmers resurrect them. They have 1 maximum health after DP stacks up so the Vampiric weapon kills them off.
This process can be also done with necromancer/mesmers with an attribute rank of 5 in Illusion Magic. Illusion of Weakness sacrifices 113 health at this rank, which is generally more than the maximum health of a character with five superior runes. Once resurrected, the saccers can use Signet of Agony because it requires no energy and the combined sacrifice and bleeding will kill the saccer.
Once their job is over and the round starts they can switch to a normal weapon set and spam Necromancer skills that would normally require health loss (Like Blood is Power). This is because they have one health, and at one health you do not lose any health when you sacifice. If they die it doesn't matter.
These are always primary Necromancers. The skillset usually is:
They can use their secondary to help the recharge for Verata's Sacrifice if their is only one minion master (by using Echo or Glyph of Renewal). They go secondary monk for Heal Area otherwise.
If the team has two minion masters, then one summons horrors and the other fiends. Fiends are perhaps more effective because they don't have to chase kiters. The minion masters use Verata's Sacrifice every so often to keep the minions' health degeneration minimal, and Blood of the Master helps the healer heal the minions.
When the battle starts, the minion masters must stay alive. Dark Bond diverts the damage minion masters would take to the minions. They should use Taste of Death for a quick heal in emergencies, and Grenth's Balance for even more dire situations (though it tends to be overkill).
If the minion masters die, they must be resurrected quickly so they can reclaim the masterless minions (who will have turned on the party) with Verata's Aura.
These characters are fast-casting mesmer/monks with:
Restore Life has fallen out of favor because of the buffing of casting times on other resurrections.
A rank of 16 in Fast Casting is ideal, as it halves the time spent on the resurrections. Try to use the echos on the high recharge resurrects because they have the best cast times. You always have a resurrection spell ready to cast with this build.
The usual skillset is:
While out of combat, the healer's main skill is Heal Area to keep the minions alive. In combat, the healer needs to keep the minion masters alive by any means necessary. Healing Seed is used to counter melee pressure, Infuse Health and Divine Intervention for spike damage, and Martyr or Restore Condition for condition spreading attacks.
These members are ranger/necromancer. Their skillset includes:
Healing Spring helps with healing the minions out of combat. When the combat starts, the spirit spammer summons his spirits one after the other in a place that is hard to reach. A good example is behind the stairs in the Global Tournament — the minions will body block it. If the spirits are killed prematurely, Oath Shot should be used to recharge them.
Fertile Season is used to increase minion health and counter the effect of spikes. Winnowing increases minion damage.