Necromant vs Diablo

[Heresson]

How do I open a channel?

[Darius871]

Where can I download this?

[Ben Kenobi]

You can do a summonmancer without dealing damage to anybody, even in the beginning of the game. Just put a point into skeleton mastery, and raise a skeleton from the stuff that the archer can resurrect for you. It's slow, but it's hilarious. The hard part is getting your merc, but if you wait long enough you'll have a clay golem, and the golem can take out Blood Raven.

End bosses are a bit trickier. The solution there is to use a Clay Golem, not a Blood Golem. Clay Golems can slow their target by 30 percent. The other thing is you can keep resummoning them on the boss, until you run out of mana poitions. To defeat diablo without any curses or spells, you make sure your merc stays alive, and as many skeletons and mages as you can preserve, and keep summoning the clay golem, since Diablo has to kill the golem before he kills you.

I've done that on normal level hardcore, I made it all the way to Nightmare Act 2, but I lost the character when my laptop went kaput.

[Felch]

Heresson, do you have the expansion pack?

If so, make sure your hireling is fully equipped. For a summoner, I favor the Act 2 hireling, the one with a spear. They have auras that boost your skeletons.

[Heresson]

I kept the Act 1 hireling. I think I have expansion pack. I give my hireling my second-best equipement.

I am up to level 30. I guess it's my mistake that I didn't use these bone specialities AT ALL. I have now level 1 claws or whatever, and level 1 next thing. One more level and I'll get bone spear or whatever.

[Lul Thyme]

When 1.10 came out, I played Hardcore Ladder for a while with a couple of friends.
It was some of the most fun I have had playing computer games.
You get a lot of adrenaline, with everything on the line.

Here's my highest, at level 89. (Name is Canot_L. Canot was our clan and I was running out of names )
At that point, you're basically competing with Koreans with hacks so it's hard to climb much higher.

I probably have lost 3-4 lvl 70+ and I can't remember how many lower levels


About your specific problem, yes bosses are hard for summon necros. Make sure to always level the raise skeleton skill and not the one that just boosts them (it becomes better much faster).

Clay Golem is key, as Ben pointed out.

[Heresson]

I am level 31 now.
71/62/57/56


I have two questions:
1) wtf is this "revealing" or whatever (yellow) potion for?
2) can I change gems in arms? If I have a good shield, but a lousy gem in it, can I pluck it out?

[Heresson]

I am level 32 now. I can take bone spirit level one or get level 2 bone spear or whatever. Which should I take?

[Felch]

Spirit has homing, spear has piercing. It's a matter of taste.

You can't pull gems out of socketed weapons. You'll come across a better shield soon enough though.

The yellow potion I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's mostly useless. I only used red, blue, and purple.

Here's a link full of info on all different weapons and skills and everything. It's got some spoilers, but spoilers aren't really that big of a deal in Diablo.

Diablo 2 info

[DinoDoc]

What's your build? I had no problem with him as a golemancer.

[Heresson]

I will make a screanshot.
But, in general, I invested mostly in skeletons and skeleton mages, though in golems as well.


I finally killed Diablo. I had to resurrect my hireling 20 times or so, and myself 15 or so (when I was killed, I had problems getting to my corpse before he snatched me). Running, hitting, sending ghost, running and stuff.

I thought it's the end, so I saved without taking some nice weaponry he left me
I am in some new thing now. I don't recall that from my last game.

[Heresson]

Ah, thank You Felch

[Felch]

No prob. You got me thinking I may want to reinstall and start up a character. I'm thinking about a druid.

[-Jrabbit]

Other Games.

[Lazerus]

I remember playing this on the PS1 and going toe to toe with Diablo vs my warrior, cut him down to size with my huge axe