Poisonmancer kill speed

Heya. I recently respec'd my lvl 88 necromancer to be a poison/summon hybrid, and while he's fun to play, the poison damage from nova doesn't seem to be working faster enough once in Hell, and it takes me forever to kill bosses like Diablo when spamming poison nova and waiting for my skelies and merc to hit. It doesn't feel like I am killing things with poison, more like I am simply waiting for a corpse to drop in order to spam CE.



I have maxed poison dagger/explosion/nova with a total of +11 in that skill tree. I'm also wearing the Trang oul's set and am carrying a Death's web. According to the character screen, my nova does 5.5k dmg. And with my items, I have -65% enemy poison resistance.

However, I only put one point in LR, and with plus skills, it's at level 7, -51%. Is that maybe why it's taking me so long to kill things? Also, how high of a LR do I need in order to break resists? I can't seem to damage pus spitters in the River of flame.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!|||Only one point in Lower Resists is usually needed. It hits pretty steep diminishing returns early on.

Are you wearing full Trang's? You only need the belt, gloves, and shield to get the negative poison resist bonus.

As far as increasing you kill speed, getting some more +skill items will help. However, CE spam is almost always a necro's fastest way to kill.|||CE is slower than a high level poison nova(assuming you can juggle casting it between different monster packs).

However, against bosses amp works better than lower res(assuming skellies and merc are decent).

And poison nova is among the most powerful anti-group skills in the game when decked out so its just necessary to get more facets, skillers. +11 isnt a lot of skills either|||Get some serious CB% on your merc.


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Also, how high of a LR do I need in order to break resists




It depends on the monsters Poison resistance. A level 7 LR is at about -50%. Against monsters that are fully resistant - lower resist works at 1/5 efficiency. (fully resistant means that the monster has a PR exceeding 100). It would not make such a big difference to have a level 17LR, since you'd only get 61%-PRES.

The most obvious thing to do would be to get more skill+.

11+skills. I'll assume 5+skills from the Trang set, to poison. Then add 3+ from the wand, at least, which menas 8. Now you have a torch I think. which means 11. You could ofc have a 4+ wand and a 2+ amulet.

First off, get a 2+skill amulet or get a torch. Later comes 4 P&B skillers and an anni. Later comes BK's and sojs... that means an increase of 9-10 skills, throw in an CTA on switch an walla 1 more.... (I am aware that it is pretentious, but I just don't see any other way to get your damage going.)




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Are you wearing full Trang's? You only need the belt, gloves, and shield to get the negative poison resist bonus.




He's wearing full trang ouls as evident by the 65%-resistance.|||Quote:








He's wearing full trang ouls as evident by the 65%-resistance.




What do you mean? Trang's only gives -25% poison resistance. That plus a low roll Dweb would give -65%.|||Quote:








What do you mean? Trang's only gives -25% poison resistance. That plus a low roll Dweb would give -65%.




I mean what you wrote.|||I believe you would need a high lvl fire golem to take out the last of the monsters life. If dr clock said "Only one point in Lower Resists is usually needed", then im assuming that good fire golem is the way to go.|||Ahh, thanks for all the advice. I didn't realize how expensive the poisonmancer would be. I thought +11 was a decent amount. Should I focus on getting the more expensive +1 skill equipment like sojs and pnb charms, or instead socket my stuff and put poison facets in them? Which would increase my poison damage faster?

Also, since I maxed out on my synergies, I have skill points left over. What would be the best use of them? Is bone prison any good?|||Quote:








I believe you would need a high lvl fire golem to take out the last of the monsters life. If dr clock said "Only one point in Lower Resists is usually needed", then im assuming that good fire golem is the way to go.




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Ahh, thanks for all the advice. I didn't realize how expensive the poisonmancer would be. I thought +11 was a decent amount. Should I focus on getting the more expensive +1 skill equipment like sojs and pnb charms, or instead socket my stuff and put poison facets in them? Which would increase my poison damage faster?

Also, since I maxed out on my synergies, I have skill points left over. What would be the best use of them? Is bone prison any good?




I'd get the torch/anni; a 2+skill amulet if you haven't already aquired that. Later I'd get the 4PB charms. SoJs&bk's are generally duped -- if you aren't trading on the forums. I'd be careful aquiring those. I dunno about the jewels. Too tired to think about those.|||5k nova is pretty petty. 10k will get the job done and isn't hard to achieve. Around 8k is possible wearing trangs.