12-02-2003, 04:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2003, 04:12 PM by D2Player69.)
Just wanted to suggest getting an item with teleport charges for your Necromancer once you're at a level and in a place where you can use and shop for one. I usually start shopping at lvl 24 and find the staff I want in Act 2 at Drognan's within 5 minutes. Staves are easiest, fairly inexpensive if you can find one without any Sorc skill bonuses, and easily left on your weapon switch.
Against powerful individual monsters, refresh your Bone Armor and teleport right into its face. Then take a small step back. It might swing at you once, but the entire horde of skeletons, mages, revives, golem, and merc will all be on top of the critter, essentially immobilizing it and allowing you to use curses or some other skill with a fair degree of safety. This is how I took down Diablo at lvl 29 with 20 points invested in Raise Skeleton and lost only one skeleton doing it, even though I had invested only one point in Skeleton Mastery by that time (had a wand I shopped with an extra +2 to Skeleton Mastery, though).
It goes without saying that this will also let you keep your army from dissolving when they get stuck on corners or you're traversing long distances or twisty corridors.
John H
Against powerful individual monsters, refresh your Bone Armor and teleport right into its face. Then take a small step back. It might swing at you once, but the entire horde of skeletons, mages, revives, golem, and merc will all be on top of the critter, essentially immobilizing it and allowing you to use curses or some other skill with a fair degree of safety. This is how I took down Diablo at lvl 29 with 20 points invested in Raise Skeleton and lost only one skeleton doing it, even though I had invested only one point in Skeleton Mastery by that time (had a wand I shopped with an extra +2 to Skeleton Mastery, though).
It goes without saying that this will also let you keep your army from dissolving when they get stuck on corners or you're traversing long distances or twisty corridors.
John H