How to return from a long slumber.

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Angel' date='Jul 30 2006, 06:05 PM' post='114817']
Hi!

Just finished normal diff with my lvl 31 Necro. I maxed skeleton and I've put 6-7 points in mage and 6-7 points in mastery.

I discovered that this is quite a fun character to play and quite different from what I'm used to. I found that my skeletons need some serious beefing up. It took a while to finish of the last wave of Baal's minions.

I have no idea what I'm going to do against the Nightmare Act bosses. I *really* struggled with Duriel, Diablo and Baal. Skeletons are too weak and don't survive long enough to do any damage. I found I had to buy a bow and fire 600-800 arrows into Diablo before he fell. Took forever.

What do necros do against act bosses? Sure, when I get my gear up and runnning and my merc becomes impervious to physical harm (thinking primarily of dmg red%), he'll probably toe to toe with them. But what me? Is there anything I can do?

As for gear, most of what I have is crap. I'm using the Isenhart set (without the shield)

You're using Isenharts on a Necro:wacko:

That is certainly unusual! All I can say is that my Necros never had any problems. For dealing with Lister&Co: Hit them with Decrepify and when the first one is down spam CE. I usually hire an Act 2 Merc (Combat) for the prayer aura and switch him for an Act 2 Might Merc in Nightmare. As the Merc levels up his aura grows stronger and your Skellies do more damage. Always look if you can buy better wands, you can use a +3 all summoning skills wand at level 45.

Skellies and the right curse at the right time, plus CE, turn Necros into real killing machines, it's the reason that after a ladder reset half of all new chars are Necros.