Necromancer Diary

[WarBlade]

I have a level 34 necro in normal that I've been playing with a fellow barb and pally.  Unfortunately, I'm finding mages and skeletons less and less effective, and golems aren't too great as meat shields.

This situation continues throughout. The Golems appear to gradually drop in effective lifespan throughout the game forcing numerous recasts late in Hell level.

Aside from that, the Necromancers I've tried have been working well. An old 1.00 Summoner, built on that old concept of many minions and throw Iron Maiden in their direction, was wandering happily around Act 5 Hell until some snakes started lashing out with bone spears at an unfavourable angle. Since I'd already ripped up many other snakes including uniques, it was just one of those luck of the draw encounters for a retreat and rebuild result.

My 1.06 Poison Nova 'spectrum attack' Necro had no real problem wandering around the Flayer Jungle in Hell either. It was nice to see his Fire Golem actually dishing out some hurt now, with Lower Resist for assistance. Poison Explosion has decent boost too, if you can get that way up with a maxed Poison Nova.