Minion Master

Necromancer / Monk

• Skills:[Cost/Casting Time/Recharge Time]
  

    1)Animate Flesh Golem [10/3/30]
    2)Animate Bone Fiend  [25/3/5]
    3)Animate Bone Horror [15/3/5]
    4)Blood of the Master [5/1/2]  + 5% Health +2%/Minion
    5)Dark Bond           [5/2/20]
    6)Heal Area           [10/1/5]
    7)Rebirth             [10/5/-] + lose all Energy
    8) - empty -

• Attributes:
  

    Death Magic      12 + 1 + 3  [Headgear, Superior Rune]
    Soul Reaping     10 + 1      [Minor Rune]
    Healing Prayers   8
    Blood Magic       2 + 1      [Minor Rune]

• Equipment:
  

    Bloodstained Insignia is a must.
    Health Bonus and Energy Bonus will help you too.
    Weapons with Halves Casting Time or Death Magic +1 are good.

That are the basics of a MM, have fun with this.

Healing Breeze is a useful skill to put into the empty slot, if you cast it on yourself right before or right after BoM you drain less of the monks' energy

i like it without no points in healing prayers
and then taste of pain, taste of death, or that soulreaping signet.

so the basics would be:
1)Animate Flesh Golem [10/3/30]
2)Animate Bone Fiend  [25/3/5]
3)Animate Bone Horror [15/3/5]
4)Blood of the Master [5/1/2]  + 5% Health +2%/Minion
5)Dark Bond           [5/2/20]
6) - empty -
7) - empty -
8) - empty -

But that's my opinion.
it's less self healing though, but that's why you have monks in your party don't you?  ;)

Of course but the Heal Area isn't for Healing yourself

If the Battle is over you can heal Minions easier

yea maybe, i think blood of the master alone is good enough.
I like to spike with poison and decease more with death nova and putrid flesh..:P

yeh its even better if u have NF as well shambling and jagged horrors are good

You can also go for an AB mm. The principle there can be to make sure the other MM's don't get any minions.

Take the Flesh Golem, Shambling Horror and Bone Horror for minions. (The Bone Horror because it's cheap and recharges quickly)
Take Taste Of Death to heal your minions (yes, it kills a minion, but the key to this build is constantly refreshing them), and Feast For The Dead to heal yourself.

Then of course there's the key to annoying other MM's, which is Verata's Aura and Verata's gaze. (Make sure you maintain Verata's Aura as long as you can, else you lose all your minions)

The last skill is free, but I tend to use Signet Of Lost Souls.

This build is not good for anything but AB, because you need ennemy minion masters and loads of corpses to get it to do the job.

For hardmode (on your heroes if you want):

Dark bond and infuse RLY are needed in hardmode. I see too many people without those in Hardmode (it's not fun when you allrdy are getting crushed by 50% faster attacking foes and then LAOS loose the MM and get 10 extra foes.)

i use skills in order so it's easier to cast
> Damage spell( i use Death swarm \0
>Taste of death
>Bone Minions ( Meat shields ) but dont use them much
>Shambling Horror
>bone fiend
>Flesh golem or Jagged bones depeds on amount of corpses
>blood of the master
>Karies Healing circle

atti: 16 Death Magic
    : 10 soul rep
    : 8 healing prayers

I use the build Frizz posted usually. But instead of N/Rt I go N/De because then you can go Mystic Regeneration. I then mostly add 1 last enchantment or  a rez (instead of 1 minion spell.)