Diablo 2 1.10 Patch BETA

[Dis]

I tried necromancer, but I just could not get into it. I don't like standing around waiting for my stupid summons to actually kill something.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by da_hal
try the strats in the dii.net compendium.

That's where I got them from.

Diss: I guess I just like RTS too much because the Necro just naturally appealed to me.

[BustaMike]

Fire Golem Golemancer
-Fire Golem = 20 points
-Lower Resists = 5 points
-Bone Spirit = 20 points
-Poison Nova = 20 points
-No Summon resist
-All other skills *except* skeleton warrior, skeleton mage, skeleton mastery and revive at 1 point

This is a good build, kind of. I made this build a while back, and gave him all the best items. Even with +11 to all skills, my necro still couldn't kill anything in Hell difficulty. He could never die either, but what fun is sitting there waiting for mana to recharge all the time. Hopefully in 1.10 the necro won't suck, cause they're tons of fun.

[Zero]

my last build was a zon with NM a2 merc. I had this zon since 1.0 and it was the slowest build I ever did (mainly cause I stopped whenever I didnt have next level bow to play around with)

I also enjoyed my druid+LOBD merc (a1 with +skill) and barb with uber armored a3 merc, but Sorc with a5 merc was the one who did all hte mf quests until zon could take over on that field...

[da_hal]

dino: oh, sorry. my memory of the SC is that none of the necro builds suggested more than 5 CE.

everybody else: yeah i had tons of offense problems too until i built up the a2 merc. a5 is also sad as most revives from that area have pitifully slow offense. the only decent ones i used were the minotaurs.

after i got the a2 merc, it got a lot better, and then i could use most revives as meat shields. PI's are still a problem, as are most bosses with any kind of aura. but i make up for it with quantity.

[H Tower]

I still play open games, look for h-tower as my account name or an amazon named Hydey, a barbarian named War4Ever or a sorceress named apolyton

I mooch most of my items off of my brother who has a program called pindlebot which goes on repetetive runs that kill this one boss in act5 who supposedly drops really good items.

IIRC, my Zon is ~lvl84, the barb is in the mid 20's and the sorc is 18.

[DinoDoc]

Do you have any good Necro items?

[Dis]

sigh. each of these threads always seems to convince me to resinstall diablo2.

well time to get the cd's out. you know where I'll be.

[Skanky Burns]

Must be strong, must resist...

[Harry Seldon]

You know, I quit playing when I realized that you will never, ever get relevant items for your character in single player. I've played through with the necromancer, the knight, and the barbarian and I never get good items for the characters I'm playing. I was lucky and got a wand for my necromancer that gives +8 to bone spear but it tooks me hours to save up the money to buy it (can't level up or change boards or items change). Maybe that's how they get you to buy in to MP but with my dialup it's not worth it.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Do you have any good Necro items?

I've never really played as the necro, so no

[BustaMike]

I was lucky and got a wand for my necromancer that gives +8 to bone spear

Are you playing a mod, cause IIRC that is not possible.

[FrustratedPoet]

Would it be possible to have +2 Necro Skills, +3 Poison and Bone Skills, and +3 Bone Spear on the same wand? That'd be one hell of a find, but I'm not sure you can get that under normal rules either.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by H Tower
I still play open games, look for h-tower as my account name or an amazon named Hydey, a barbarian named War4Ever or a sorceress named apolyton

I mooch most of my items off of my brother who has a program called pindlebot which goes on repetetive runs that kill this one boss in act5 who supposedly drops really good items.

IIRC, my Zon is ~lvl84, the barb is in the mid 20's and the sorc is 18.

That would be Pindleskin.

ACK!

[Dis]

I never get good items, but I have fun playing nevertheless.

I just started my new Amazon character. She has a crappy bow, but she's cool. Amazon's are real dependant on good items. Having a good bow is imperative.

If you want a character not dependant on items quite as much, try a sorceress. While many items are very useful for a sorceress, they can still kick some major ass without them.