06-16-2003, 01:48 PM
I had a melee nec once, but I didn't have patience to go beyond A5 normal. (Single player, 8-ppl mode, untwinked.) He had blessed aim merc, but the merc killed a lot more than the nec, so if you wanna feel like a real melee nec, dump the merc.
Attack rating is a problem, but the nec's VERY SLOW swing is much more annoying. But it's not too hard to fix them with some diamonds and ias jewels.
As for skills, I think max decrepify and bone armor are good choices. Then a couple pts in crowd-control curses like confuse, attract and terror and you shd be fine. I also decided to go with 20 bone spirit because of phys immunes, but mainly because of act bosses and hell ancients. Those guys are pretty scary to melee with :)
Attack rating is a problem, but the nec's VERY SLOW swing is much more annoying. But it's not too hard to fix them with some diamonds and ias jewels.
As for skills, I think max decrepify and bone armor are good choices. Then a couple pts in crowd-control curses like confuse, attract and terror and you shd be fine. I also decided to go with 20 bone spirit because of phys immunes, but mainly because of act bosses and hell ancients. Those guys are pretty scary to melee with :)