07-30-2005, 01:21 PM
Most good pnova necromancers get 5-7K damage after about a month or so of playing, assuming u start one at the beginning of the next ladder. You can get much much higher, I have read, but that requires many p/b gc's and one or more super high runes.
A partial Trang set can bequeth to u the ability to use fireball and firewall, and these can be used to kill poison immunes, without having to get some sort of bone spirit. This assumes there arent any corpses around to blow up! It's easy to trade or find some trangs, so dont worry.
And u are right BaajKiil, a good pnova necro can be quite versatile and powerful. With a gumby golem and a good merc and some minions he should be safe. I never used the dim vision curse since I was strong enough not to have to use it, but that is a good curse to help ur party near stairs and other crazy fast bad aura mobs now and then. I used to use a low lvl fire golem, but decided the gumby golem was better. You will want lower resist to get to about -50% resists on the monsters, this will kill monsters (many of whom have some pois res) quite a bit faster.
My pnova necro was constantly reviving, tossing LR curse on newly arriving monsters, blowing up stuff, recasting gumby, and tossing out pnova's about once every 1.5-2 sec. This costs alot of mana! Early on its a big pain, u will need lots of mana pots or +mana items/charms.
A partial Trang set can bequeth to u the ability to use fireball and firewall, and these can be used to kill poison immunes, without having to get some sort of bone spirit. This assumes there arent any corpses around to blow up! It's easy to trade or find some trangs, so dont worry.
And u are right BaajKiil, a good pnova necro can be quite versatile and powerful. With a gumby golem and a good merc and some minions he should be safe. I never used the dim vision curse since I was strong enough not to have to use it, but that is a good curse to help ur party near stairs and other crazy fast bad aura mobs now and then. I used to use a low lvl fire golem, but decided the gumby golem was better. You will want lower resist to get to about -50% resists on the monsters, this will kill monsters (many of whom have some pois res) quite a bit faster.
My pnova necro was constantly reviving, tossing LR curse on newly arriving monsters, blowing up stuff, recasting gumby, and tossing out pnova's about once every 1.5-2 sec. This costs alot of mana! Early on its a big pain, u will need lots of mana pots or +mana items/charms.