Thinking about taking the dive...

[pakman]

Well, I started playing yesterday and am happy to report that Lord_Ungar happily pranced his way through Act I without dying once. Too bad it's a SC char and dying doesn't really matter until you get to Nightmare, but I am still proud that my first time through again I kept death at bay. I cleared every area of every map and the whole trip with a 2 hour break took about 5 hours. I always find A1 to be a bit tedious seeing as I like A2 and A5 the best, or at least I used to. Andariel was taken out with a combination of IM/Clay Golem Bombs and AD/CE when I could stop and actually hit her.

Lord_Ungar is a CE, AD, IM necro so far, and I really haven't noticed anything different with the saving of skill points for this build. It seems that this build still requires the saving of points and synergies won't do much for it. I have one question, though. Has anyone tried what I have deemed a "fatal attraction" version of this build? Instead of using IM or AD to get your first corpse, use Attract, then when he's dead, cast AD, then CE? Would this be a viable option if IM starts to not work? I haven't decided yet if I want to get Lower Resist.

I found out that the "players 8" command no longer works, and I was only lvl16 when I made it into A2. I also seem to be finding a lot more rare items, and I'll have to look through FAQ/errata to see how drops were changed. Not that any of the rares I found were any good, I just seem to be finding more than I remember, but it's been a while.

I traded in my A1 merc for an A2 defensive merc because I need tanks to keep baddies away from me. the Defense will help my merc and my golem stay alive that extra little time to get that first corpse. I am starting to be able to cast CE a little more now that I am getting higher in levels, but I forgot how much mana it consumes just at lvl1. So far my skill loadout looks like this:

AD - 1
IM - 1

Clay Golem - 1
Golem Mastery - 1

Teeth - 1
CE - 1

I've pretty much been saving everything for when I hit lvl30 since that's what I'm used to doing. If this is not the way to play this build, just let me know...I am seriously considering doing the "fatal attraction" variant to see how it works.