Necro for Nihlatak runs

Long time ago I played bone Necro and Nihlatak was my easiest boss to kill, BUT I killed him not with bone skills, I killed 2-3 monsters around him than spam Corpse Explosion to he's death.

Than 6 month ago I played sorc with full Tal set, and was aviable to kill Nihlatak with the help of ring that steal souls of dead monsters(don't remember name, sry), but it was not so easy as Bone Necro(and not so fast).

Now I want to create Necro for Nikhlatak runs and I found 2 interesting builds for that(fishy not interesting because he's too slow and some item dependent): Explosionmancer(20 CE, 20 bonewall, 20 bonespear, 20 boneprison) or Poisonmancer(60 in poison skills, 20 CE, rest in Raise skeleton). Ofc both builds will have 3 points in golems skills(Clay Golem, Golem Mastery, Summon resist).

The 1st question is witch build will be more powerful(faster running)?

The second is: I thought to use poison(because I played bone already and poison - never), but how's to be with poison immunes(or there no one such monsters in Halls of Vaught)?

And the third: Which build less item dependent?

P.S. Sry for my grammar English is not my native language. And thx for answers/advices!|||I've read that Poisonmancers are rather item dependant (Trang-Oul's Claws, Wing and a third item from that set, plus Death's Web I guess?), and my explosionmancers are probably the least item dependant characters I have. Sturdy Bone Prisons combined with piercing ranged attacks will do that. And personally I wouldn't want to stand close enough for a Poison Nova when I kill monsters that Nihlathak could explode in my face. I prefer to stand faaar away when I make the corpses, because with my lack of faster cast rate I can't guarantee that I'll explode them before he does. So there you'd have more item dependency for a poisonmancer: Needs more FCR than the explosionmancer when fighting Nihlathak.

As for which build is faster at running Nihlathak I couldn't say. There might be Blood Maggots (125% Poison Resistance) in the Halls of Pain and Returned Archers (130%) in the Halls of Vaught, but there ought to be enough corpses to explode to deal with most of these. I mean, that's how my explosionmancer deals with them. Not really sure how much slower it'd be if he had to rely on a merc to get those first corpses, but the Blood Maggots keep making new little corpses-to-be, and the skeleton archers can be left behind unless they're in there with Nihlathak, who also provides plenty of material for Corpse Explosion.|||Thx got explosionmancer necro, and got some stuff, today I killed Nihlatgak 25 times and no keys, are there some requirements that he may be able to drop keys?

P.S. I'm killin him at hell difficulty, with 82 lvl necro by corpse explosion. My baalQ at hel didn't completed maybe this is the reason? Or lvl, or... I don't know why

P.P.S. I got key at 29-th run 0_o|||I myself have a Skelliemancer with Enigma and i think he is the best Nihlatak runner out there, you don't even need natures peace and i have no problems surviving, just use CE and Nihlatak goes down really fast.

As for the drop rates, it was %-lly something like 1/12 runs at average, he will drop a key.|||With Enigma ofc you do him faster, but I just build some cheap Necro just for killing Nihlathak, and he do that better than any calss because of CE |||If you want a fast nih runner than make a 125% fcr bone necro. To make it easier put 1 point into dim vision to blind the poison vipers and all that. All you need to do is cast dim vision on enemies and spear nih to death. Yes I mean a bone spell necro.|||without enigma necro is impossible for nih runs when there's poison vipers.

and i would go for summoner(for poor) when you got some wealth you can go for bone necro.|||Quote:








without enigma necro is impossible for nih runs when there's poison vipers.




Rubbish. pure, unadulterated tommyrot and balderdash.

a necro is one of the best 'toons to use for Nihl runs for one simple reason: CROWD CONTROL CURSES!

clever use of Attract, Amp Damage, Confuse and Dim Vision along with a large area CE and a summonable "bomb squad" make a necro one of the ideal untwinked/low wealth Nihlathak runners. the only other build that can claim such awesome power is the Assassin.

read this: Nihlathak 1.0.1|||^Eh he's still rather "slow".

If I don't have enigma I usually find its way better to just run around pits and chaos runs then boss runs. I used to try Nith runs and the poison vipers make you move rather cautiously to be quick, because crowd control takes caution.

Enigma+CE is good tho

Still in the end....Hammerdin might still just be the best runner. When you have that much life, maxed resists/block, etc. there's really no need for caution anytime you run.|||Quote:








Rubbish. pure, unadulterated tommyrot and balderdash.

a necro is one of the best 'toons to use for Nihl runs for one simple reason: CROWD CONTROL CURSES!

clever use of Attract, Amp Damage, Confuse and Dim Vision along with a large area CE and a summonable "bomb squad" make a necro one of the ideal untwinked/low wealth Nihlathak runners. the only other build that can claim such awesome power is the Assassin.

read this: Nihlathak 1.0.1




Yeah but staying far away from corpses is the big thing.