Necromant vs Diablo

[Ben Kenobi]

Good advice all around.

The skellies are ass-kicking for everything except the bosses. Just pump them full of points. Yes, curses are powerful but you can do without them, and at most you shouldn't need more then a point or two into each.

I would think Decrep is more useful for a summon necro, in slowing down bosses, rather then amp damage.

[Felch]

You're right that Decrepify is better, but it has three prerequisite skills. Amplify damage has no prerequisite, and it's good enough that it can be a real help. Since it only takes one skill point, someone who's stuck on a boss can level up once and grab it.

You're right though about Decrepify. It combines a significant enemy damage reduction with half of Amplify Damage's damage increase. It's a better curse for bringing down big bad act bosses.

[Heresson]

OK. I was very angry at that 3 ancient fellows. It seems hey gave me one level boost just when I was a tiny bit from reaching it myself. not fair. Or did they gave me something else, and I reached a new level just at the end of fight with them by a coincidence?

Anyway, I've found a great weapon, giving 111-161 damage, so I got very strong.
One of the hardest tasks were Baal's minions. The poisonous ones (I took some anti-poison stuff and beat them without a problem then) and the last ones. These were horrible. A single one was no match, but I almost got killed a couple of times due to their mass attack. I attempted a tactic of running in circle hitting them with my strong bone ghost spell, but it didn't work, so I was singling them out and killing them one by one, but it was hard.
Baal himself was disappointing. No match at all, perhaps due to my high resistance in all 4 stuff.
I am a slayer now, level 43.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Felch
You're right that Decrepify is better, but it has three prerequisite skills. Amplify damage has no prerequisite, and it's good enough that it can be a real help. Since it only takes one skill point, someone who's stuck on a boss can level up once and grab it.

You're right though about Decrepify. It combines a significant enemy damage reduction with half of Amplify Damage's damage increase. It's a better curse for bringing down big bad act bosses.

Amplify Damage has an additional use at higher levels of play - it can break physical immunity under some circumstances.