Poison Necro in Players 8 Hell: Uh oh.

[Siluro]

I'm saying that it's what I've heard - people are reporting killing everything with a couple of CEs even in hell.

I haven't personally verified it, so take it as heresay. :P

CE does kill everything in 1-2 casts, except fire immune or stone skin boss packs (inc. minions).

I've recently been mucking around with a lvl 99 necro, using almost identical gear as Ignatz, and a similar skill layout (although a different playing style). I can't recall, but only assume he has modest life, resists and defence. However, his survivability is almost unmatched, since he is rarely the target of a monster's attention. Revives form the front line, and liberal casting of Attract (usually the moment I spot a distant monster) keeps things under control. With his 30-40k (or so) Poison Nova, recruiting revives has never been easier :P. Progress is predominantly made using LR and PN, though if they're is a corpse available amoungst a large pack, CE and Amp will hapily take care of things. Attract, I might add, seems to act like a beacon for monsters, drawing them in from 2 or 3 screens away once cast. So that's useful and dangerous at the same time.

He can run an 8 player Hell Baal run with ease; the only sore points were the poison immune Balrog group in the Throne Room, and 8p Baal (takes quite a while to whittle him down!). I ended up having to park the Balrogs because my revives couldn't hurt them enough to battle regen, and of course, even with LR they are immune to poison nova. I tried several times, before resorting to parking them, to go and fetch some new revives (eg. skelly archers from the Frigid Highlands, moon lords or claw vipers from CrysPass or Glacial), but to no avail. Lister's posse was vicious, but I was safe as long as I had something between me and them (go clay golem!), though they have a huge life pool (oh, and can't attract/revive them).

So he's quite a powerful char in his own right, albeit in ubergodlyomg gear. Now, when I paired up with my brother using a pally (god-like aswell :P), it gets worse. We cleared the Cow lvl alarmingly quick, thanks to Amp/CE and the pally for corpse creation and rounding. Literally one or two CEs, and bam, anything between 10 and 100 cows drop dead. Sickening.