Necromancers!

Death Knight · Post by **Death Knight** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:24 pm

Necromancers have to be the best charecter.Who thinks so too?

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:22 am

I used to play only necr before but now that I have discovered how much fun it is to do the killing yourself I rarely play them anymore. They are also heavily dependent on skill items which I don't like as I don't spend loads of time mfing. The only really funny thing with necs is corpse explosion IMO and an assasin can get that one as well so...

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 3:01 am

I only play necros. my best is a lvl 58 with max bone spear, near max fire golem, near max bone spirit, near max sunmmon resistance, and near max golem skill.

He is my best character, he can take anyone, and he only needs his golem, and his barbarian hireling with an uniqe poison bastard sword, none of those pesky skeletons, or revives.

his name is Gumle, Slayer Gumle (but he is only on tc\ip so no battle.net for him)

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:01 am

@Asriel: Have you played in hell with him? As far as I know that kind of build is neraly useless in hell ass monsters to so much damage and have so many hitpoints that your bode spear and bone spirit will not affect them...

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:50 am

I took him to the very end of nightmare, but then i got tired of the game and haven't played it since. You're probablt right tought, but mid-game, he was a killer, nothing could stop him.

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:08 pm

paladins and barbs are easy to beat the game with...druids are fun to use and amazons are wicked....as for necros....IMO they suck

Nobleheart · Post by **Nobleheart** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:02 pm

Paladins are my personal favourite I tried Nec's, can't stand them at all. My buddy and I made a Patriarche many times with a Paladin, as for Hell mode with a Nec...well best of luck if you ever try it.

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:38 pm

Necros can be very cool. I prepared my Necro so that minimum skills were used early on. I have beaten Hell thanks to a fire golem, bone spirit and poison nova. And of course a barbarian.

Deadalready · Post by **Deadalready** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:44 am

Hrm I always play with the difficultly multiplayer set to /players 8 and summoners like the Necromancer and Druid get the short end of the stick. In nightmare and hell I can't even hope to damage monsters fast enough to kill them.

Necromancers are ok but generally I'm a ballistic guy that can't stand around doing nothing, which is what necromancers do. Stand there waiting and cursing monsters until it's time to raise another and that bored me to no end.

Still before LOD and when the Necromancer was dumbed down I managed to beat hell mode with a necromancer first. ARGH! NOT MY CORPSE EXPLOSION AND SUMMON MONSTER!

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Personally when it comes to LOD I prefer the melee types like the Barbarian, Paladin and Amazon. Though I have a few high level sorceress's for those times I like to slaughter.

Grimar · Post by **Grimar** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:17 am

Sorc and assassin is my favorite. assassin kick ass with burst of speed,claw mastery and block... paladins are also great. have not tried them in hell thought. necros i think suck.....

Macleod1701 · Post by **Macleod1701** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:35 am

Nah all the characters are good, I have one of each, all over lvl 80 and whatever mood I'm in dictates which one I use. The different classes require patience and skill to master, something some people don't have!

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:20 am

One good thing about playing with Necromancer-like classes is that it requires skill, rather than just clicking on monsters so they get hit.

Grimar · Post by **Grimar** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:05 am

[QUOTE=dj_venom]One good thing about playing with Necromancer-like classes is that it requires skill, rather than just clicking on monsters so they get hit.[/QUOTE]

i agree,but i suck with necro... but again so does the sorceress,and that's almost my favorite class

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:38 pm

As Macleod1701 said, different classes require patience. With the classes that focus on spell casting, you need to make sure you don't waste all the early skills on spells that become less effective.

ie. put only a couple on the first level and wait until you reach the end of that line of skills.

Macleod1701 · Post by **Macleod1701** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:26 am

Yep paitence is a virtue....then again so is the ability to drink 10 pints without being sick and THEN playing as a necro from scratch! Now that would be hard!

Darth Potato · Post by **Darth Potato** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:01 am

yeah

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Berniej b · Post by **Berniej b** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:55 am

My brother got a lvl 97 necro and a lvl 89 barbarian, its brutal=) but my guy is lvl 43 paladin... Cause Paladin RuleS!!!=)

Danthedrow · Post by **Danthedrow** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:16 am

Heya- Iv'e only just recently started playing a necro, it sounds like you guys know what the hell your doing, whereas i dont have a clue. i got him up to lvl 16, but i dont know what way to go with his skills

i was wondering if you could each shed some light onto my problems, from your own experiences, then i will be able to continue on building him up.

so far all i have is 3 skeletal mages, and 2 skeletons. Also a clay golem level 3. bone shield level 6. thats all. if you could help me, then id really appreciate your views on playing a necro.

thanks

Graceland · Post by **Graceland** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:37 pm

[QUOTE=Danthedrow]Heya- Iv'e only just recently started playing a necro, it sounds like you guys know what the hell your doing, whereas i dont have a clue. i got him up to lvl 16, but i dont know what way to go with his skills

i was wondering if you could each shed some light onto my problems, from your own experiences, then i will be able to continue on building him up.

so far all i have is 3 skeletal mages, and 2 skeletons. Also a clay golem level 3. bone shield level 6. thats all. if you could help me, then id really appreciate your views on playing a necro.

thanks[/QUOTE]
It sounds like you've already started down the summoning necro path. They can be very good untwinked characters and also good mfers.

Skill should go something like this:

20 Skeleton mastery
20 Raise skeleton
20 corpse explosion
1 in all curses
1 Clay golem.
1 Skeleton mage
1+ in Revive

Best bet is to use a might merc as the skeletons will get the benefit of the aura. They are very safe chars to play right the way through hell.

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 2:49 am

The best kind of necromancer is the poison and bone type. Specialise in bone spirit and fire golem. Side spells are poison nova and some curse.

Probably too late now though.