Monday, April 16, 2012

Pimp my Necro!

I'm playing a Poison/summon necro, who's doing quite well. I mostly use him for magic find. My current run is Pits->Andy->Meph->Diablo

Level 89

Skills:

All Curses, except confuse and attract.

20 Raise Skeleton, 3 Skele Mastery, 1 each Clay Golem, Golem Mastery, Summon Resist, Raise Mage

1 each Teeth, Corpse Explosion, maxed Poison Dagger, Explosion, and Nova.

2 Unspent skill points

Listed Nova damage: 7889-8163

Gear:

Shako w/ Um

Maras (26 res)

Enigma

45% Death's Web, w/ 5% Poison Facet

Homonculus w/ 4% Poison Facet

Trang's Gloves

29% Nagelring

Goldwrap (upped)

30% Nagelring

War travs (30% mf )

Weapons Switch (For Teleporting)

Wizardspike, Lidless Wall

Charms:

Torch (14 stat, 19 res)

Annihilus (12 stat, 13 res, 9 exp)

2 Poison and Bone GC

15 Res GC

35 Life LC

15 Life SC

3 MF SC's: 3,6,7%

Merc Gear:

Tal Rasha's Crest

Leviathan

Insight Colossus Voulge

Useful stats: 58% resist all, 75% resist cold. +14 All Skills, +3 Poison and Bone, +4 Curses. 274% Magic Find. 1050 Life, 440 Mana.

When I get a third skill point, I'm planning to put a point each into Bone Armor, Bone Wall, and Bone Prison. After that I'm not sure what to do. Are those skills ok with 1 hard point and +17 skills, or would I need more? If one is enough, I'll probably work up to a point in revive next, but I don't feel like I really need them.

What I'm really wondering is where to improve on my gear. I have a few decent runes and some tradeable items saved up. I don't know whether to improve my killing speed, survivability, or MF. If you know the approximate price of the items you suggest I appreciate that too, since I'm not much of a trader. Thanks for the advice!|||Not much else you can improve if you want to continue mfing. You only have 155 mf if I counted correctly, which is pretty low for a mfing character. I don't have much experience with pvm necro builds, but bone armor will help with survivability, especially with all your +skills. Otherwise I'd say beef up your summons.|||Also have a 35% Gheeds that I forgot to mention. I added everything up, and I'm pretty sure it comes to 274% MF. Should I still be looking to improve it? If so what would be the most cost-effective way? I could get more charms, or better war travelers. Or, I could get some more resists elsewhere and socket an Shako with a Topaz. But that seems expensive.|||Unfortunately, gearing up your character can be very expensive. I forgot to add in Enigma's magic find into my calculation too. 274 MF is good, I usually shoot for 350 on my magic find characters as long it doesn't cripple them though. Kill speed can be > magic find % sometimes. Upgrading your war travs shouldn't be too expensive, and if you need more resists pull the facet out of your Homunculus and stick an Um/Pdiamond in there. Many of these are little things you can do to improve, but it all comes down to what more you want out of your character.|||I prefer my blizz mf sorc wich can kill meph andy easily and got 550+ mf. Necro slower in my opinion.

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