Diablo II / III

[Asher]

Nonsense.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Ok, nonsense.

[Dis]

well since world of warcraft won't install on my computer (probably due to lack of any service packs lol), I just installed Diablo 2 and expansion. Here I was expecting a long patch download, but it only took a few seconds. The version is 1.12, is that the most recent version?

sadly they have spammers like wow. oh well. I created a private game until I can learn what the **** I'm doing. I have no clue right now.

OK so I'm a necromancer. What kind of armor can I wear? and what weapons can I use?

[Felch]

The wands and preserved heads are designed for Necros to use, and frequently have bonuses to skills. Armor is universal, with the only requirement being stats (or levels for the magical stuff). Equipment isn't as important for a Necro as it would be for a Barb, since most of your attacks will be bone magic or summons.

[Felch]

Just a note of caution - minions are worthless against bosses. So while it's fun to roll with a giant posse of skeletons and such to do your dirty work, you don't want to over commit. Or, if you do specialize as a summoner, be prepared to team up with someone to make the bosses killable.

I used to have fun running around with a big army doing my killing while I carefully combed through the drops for loot. It's one great advantage of the Necro/Druid summoners.

[self biased]

Balderdash. the Skellimancer is one of the safest ways to go about things. the secret is the act 2 Nighmare Merc that puts out a might aura, combined with Amplify damage and corpse explosion. the biggest hangup is Normal Duriel who requires you to have Decrepify to slow him down.

http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Fishymancer_by_Nightfish

[Dis]

up to level 11 now. I'm supposed to be using closed battle.net right? Open is the one that is unrestricted right? (the one wear hacked characters can play).

I'm on USwest round. Character name DarkestAvenger. Non hardcore, ladder character. I'm not sure what a ladder character means.

I'm pretty much doing the summoner skills. Should I be putting points into stam and strength?

This page has a build, I'm using it as a rough guide, when I first started i didn't understand some stuff, so it's not exact to that guide. The way he wrote it was hard to follow.

http://www.diablo2.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12680

[Dis]

Yeah, 1.12...latest version on Blizzard's website. 1.12 removes the cd check also, so you no longer need to play with the disk in (if you copy d2xmusic.mpq from the expansion disk to the install dir).

1.13 is out soon which will provide more fixes, features...it'll even let you re-spec your skill points.

by install directory do you mean the main directory for diablo2? It doesn't seem to work for me.

[Felch]

Balderdash. the Skellimancer is one of the safest ways to go about things. the secret is the act 2 Nighmare Merc that puts out a might aura, combined with Amplify damage and corpse explosion. the biggest hangup is Normal Duriel who requires you to have Decrepify to slow him down.

http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Fishymancer_by_Nightfish

My recollection was having tremendous trouble fighting Diablo. Mercs suffer the same penalties against act bosses as the summons.

Act II mercs are essential though. They're a huge force multiplier for summoners.

[Asher]

by install directory do you mean the main directory for diablo2? It doesn't seem to work for me.

Yes. You must've done a full install of both D2 and D2 Expansion also. Copy all MPQ files to the Diablo 2 dir from the discs.

[self biased]

up to level 11 now. I'm supposed to be using closed battle.net right? Open is the one that is unrestricted right? (the one wear hacked characters can play).

I'm on USwest round. Character name DarkestAvenger. Non hardcore, ladder character. I'm not sure what a ladder character means.

I'm pretty much doing the summoner skills. Should I be putting points into stam and strength?

This page has a build, I'm using it as a rough guide, when I first started i didn't understand some stuff, so it's not exact to that guide. The way he wrote it was hard to follow.

http://www.diablo2.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12680

whoever wrote that was a moron. a good skellimancer can walk through hell difficulty stark raving naked and beat the game. follow nightfish's guide on http://www.diii.net. it's far easier to read than that Pyrrhic mass.

My recollection was having tremendous trouble fighting Diablo. Mercs suffer the same penalties against act bosses as the summons.

Act II mercs are essential though. They're a huge force multiplier for summoners.

the synergies have changed alot. +1 skills can mean quite a bit. if i had a charm that granted +1 to the barbarians warcries, i'll recieve an additional +20% magic damage to berserk. because for every point i have in Howl and Shout, berserk recieves a +10% magic bonus.

[Felch]

Ah, I haven't played as much lately with the synergies. I was mostly into it back around 1.09.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Poison Dagger necros have more fun.


Unless you actually LIKE sitting back and doing nothing whilst skellies kill everything.

[Felch]

Well, I like hitting the bong while I watch my skellies kill everything. Does that count?

[self biased]

and besides after 2-3 corpse explosions there really isn't much left for my army to fight.