Incarnate slots for Necro/Dark

Did a little searching, but didn't find a lot of info on this topic.


Decided to finish incarnate stuff on my MM. Unlocked Lore/Destiny after a long period of inactivity. Now wondering what I should drop in the slots.


Necro/Dark as the title suggests, reasonable personal survivability, but the pets tend to die a lot when hits get through their defense (quite often actually)



Basically, I'm looking at Lore and Destiny options to improve the survivability of the pets.

I'm thinking of either Max HP Rebirth (10% extra HP for the first tier pets, for the last minute.. not too shabby) or Barrier, which provides res AND Def, but number-wise, not quite the level of survivability as the extra HP.

For Lore, I'm torn between having the improved damage pets (and for the full 5 mins- good for BAF, or even regular content given the /Dark support available to them) or going for the invincible support pets, with 50% up time, that provide 7.5% typed/5% pos def. Also was thinking of the Vanguard pet with 7.5% dmg Assault, and an extra Twilight Grasp (though with a 12s cooldown for 100 healing, this would be kind of meh)


Currently using Spiritual (would this improve the +Max HP from Rebirth? It does improve the up-front heal) Toxic dmg Interface and -DMG Judgement.

Salvage isn't really an issue, so I was considering of maybe building extra sets (such as more Lore pet options) but would prefer not to, if any of you can provide negative experiences for said pets/powers, or speak highly of any of them in particular compared to others.


Cheers!

Persoanlly on my main MM (Beast/Time) I really prefer the Rebirth with the Regen Attached to it. Main reason is with their defense the regen is a nice way for them to repair their own HP in-between my own heals. Also, spirital is supposed to buff that but I believe the regen and max hp buffs are bugged at the moment and not be affected.

I would highly suggest transfering to beta and testing out both destinies.

I went with Barrier on mine, it's been pretty handy.

Though frankly, if you're talking about survivability on Trials, ehhh. There's not really much you can do, pets just die -horribly- on trials kind of regardless.

For stuff like regular content and Dark Astoria though, Barrier does just fine.

As for Lore. Honestly, my stance on core vs radial is that -I'm- pretty much some of the best support for my pets already, so I may as well go for more damage.

Probably not the answers you're looking for but that's what I went with on mine. Also used the Support Hybrid tree for added Defense

I've been thinking about what I'll do to my MMs once I get them up to incarnate content as of late. For Necro I'd suggest having a look at the Intuition Alpha, specifically Radial Paragon - if only it had Fear, it would be perfect

I had a similar toss-up between Rebirth and Barrier but came to the conclusion that the burst heal and extra regen (I wouldn't go +HP, personally) aren't as important when you and fluffy have Twlight Grasp, even the constant 5% Def and Res of Barrier would be pretty handy. Stack it with the unique pet procs and that's quite a decent boost for a debuff set.

As far as Core vs Radial for Lore, I've found the Radial support pet to be less-than-constant in their contribution so you may as well go Core.