A couple questions regarding Poison vs Bone

[:1]I'm not really familiar with necros so I finally wanted to give them a real try (I had a fishymancer once, though, which was pretty fun). Been debating between Poison/summon vs. Bone necromancer, and I just had a couple of questions...

1. Seems like Lower Resist is a curse everyone picks up for Poisonmancers. Does LR actually consistently remove poison immunities in Hell? Are there large portions of levels where it simply cannot cope with due to poison immunities being impossible to break?

2. Bone necromancers are legit for PvP, but how are they adapted to PvM? Seems like the damage is a tad on the low side for PvM purposes, but this is coming from a guy who is used to 6k+ Lightning with an Infinity merc, 4-5k Hammers at 125fcr, etc etc.

Also, your opinion on Poison/summon (or straight poison, doesn't matter) vs. bone necros would be legit. My assumption is that their playstyles are way too different for an objective comparison to be made, but I can hope, eh?|||They're actually similar in many ways. Like any necromancer build your skills are basically just a way to help your merc make corpses so you can 'splode them with CE. They're both safe-ish as boners have some range and bone armor, while nova builds can have a decent investment in the summoning tree without losing out on damage. Kill-speed... both roundabout equal? I'm not sure.

Magic immunes are pretty rare: (from Onderduiker's Hell Immunity spreadsheet)

http://i56.tinypic.com/157kocj.jpg

Unbreakable poison immunes are fairly rare as well. Basically none in Act 1/2, the exploding dolls in act 3 and maggots in the river of flame (their spawn are breakable thought) are unbreakable. There are some in act 5, but the only really notable ones are the 2nd last wave of Baal, Achmel the Cursed (2nd wave) and in the WSK souls and some mummies.|||Quote:








They're actually similar in many ways. Like any necromancer build your skills are basically just a way to help your merc make corpses so you can 'splode them with CE.




This.

A Poisonmancer is essentialy a Summoner with PSN so you wouldn't get bored (even more entertaining with full TO's).

For Bonemancer you can check the very recommanded Explosionmancer: http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=772133|||LaZeR, any idea how the standard explosionmance build fares in PvP?|||Obviously poorly, unless you keep CE at 1pt, and then is essentialy a Bonemancer, which are pretty good PvPers.

Was he looking for a viable PvP char?|||No, I have a char that's basically the explosionmancer build, I was just wondering if it was viable to use him for pvp.