Thinking about taking the dive...

[Fragbait]

I put one point into it on my way to BSpirit, and I have enough +skills to get the BSpear level to 7, and I have to say, when coupled with LR, it's great when you line yourself up with a group of baddies that are pounding your golem and let loose with BSpear, you get quite a few bodies to start the chain reaction.

Hi,

If by LR you mean Lower Resist, then let me quote from the Arreat Summit:

Lower Resist [...] lowers Poison, Fire, Lightning, and Cold Resistances. It does not lower Physical Resistance.

So, I'm pretty sure that LR doesn't help your bone spells do more damage, since they are entirely magical. That's not too bad since there are only a few monsters that do greatly resist magical attacks (especially greater mummies).

But it's kind of a shame that the one damage source the necro himself really can dish out isn't enhanced by his curses: LR only lowers the elemental resists, AD only lowers physical resistance. Ah well. I guess it's balanced in that 'magical damage' (like magical resistance) is the least common damage (resistance) in the game. I mean, the dispersion is like

~80% of all monsters do mostly physical damage
~10% do fire damage
~6% do lightning damage
~3% do cold damage
~1% (if actually) do magical damage.

, or what?


Greetings, Fragbait