Usage

The process of this build is basically the same as the old one. Cast Essence Bond, Balthazar's Spirit, and Mending Before battle and let your energy recharge. As you aggro your target cast Protective Spirit and Healing Breeze. Once your target attacks cast Spiteful Spirit and shortly after, Insidious Parasite on a different enemy. If the target group is large enough they will start taking turns attacking. If you are taking too much damage at once, cast Vigorous Spirit to keep your health in the clear.

Survive single enchantment removals by using Vigorous Spirit as a cover enchantment.

Counters

* Conditions also pose a threat to any 55. Stack too many and you will negate your health regeneration. You can survive with no regen by using only Spirit Bond.
* Be very careful of interrupting attacks from warriors, an example is Mountain Trolls' Disrupting Chop. This is especially dangerous as it adds 20 second cool down to the recharge of the affected spell, if this hits on Protective Spirit or Healing Breeze it can leave you dead in seconds.
* Skills that steal health or cause you to lose health, as they do not inflict any damage that Protective Spirit could reduce - this, however, does not apply to the mechanics of Vile Touch.
* Symbiosis , as it will increase your health with +191 (In Hard Mode).

Variants

* A secondary healing skill is advised for attacking large groups or farming in Hard Mode. Examples would be:Spirit Bond, Orison of Healing, Guardian, or Shield Guardian. All of these skills help provide additional healing when Healing Breeze and Mending aren't enough for all the attacks against you or if you are farming in an area with degen.
* The use of Putrid Explosion may be helpful in certain situations.
* Desecrate Enchantments or Defile Enchantments can be used for even more armor ignoring AoE damage.
* Reckless Haste can be used in Normal Mode to help SS kill faster. It is useless in Hard Mode, however, because the monsters can not attack any faster.
* Suffering can be used for degen while the monsters aren't attacking you.
* In Hard Mode, the build can also be run with 16 Curses, 12 Protection Prayers, and Shielding Hands and Shield of Absorption replacing Healing Breeze and Spirit Bond. With this variant, Mending should be replaced with Watchful Spirit. This way, all damage you take will be 0. Insidious Parasite's life stealing allows you to withstand moderate degen as well.
* This build can also be ran by Mo/N, replacing soul reaping for divine favor. The monk variant will have higher survivability due to heals from divine favor removing the requirement of spirit bond. However, it will take longer to kill..
* This Build can be run with SV (spoil Victor) and Dark Pact replacing Spiteful Spirit and insidious parasite, with all attribute points in Curses going into Blood magic, and also replacing vigorous spirit with spirit bond for the extra heal, which works well against all enemies. This variant can take down most bosses much faster than the regular build, and enemies running from AoE damage is much less, therefore making for faster killing of mobs.