Need help with Necromancer

[Brista]

I have been looking for wands with +raise skeleton skills but seems to never find any, however, I see tons of wands with +raise skeleton mages. Anyone else experienced this?

Yes

What is happening is that you are too high level. Fill a level 1 character up with money and shop with that one

At high level you will only see level 12 to level 30 skills

Now the problem with the lowest two wand types is that they can't get two sockets so runewords are not possible

If you want a Bone Wand with level 1 skills this can be done

You need to shop Drognan (spawn the map where he is next to the exit - Lut Gholein has two maps) with a character around level 13 I think. Bone wand has level 18 from weapons.txt and shopping sets ivl to clvl +5. I just tested this with a level 15 character and he sees level 1 skills at Drognan. Note that this would take a very long time to find precisely what you want so a character at the lowest level where the bone wand type appears will be best to improve your chances of level 1 skills as opposed to higher level skills. Bone wands would get 2 sockets at Larzuk, some bone wands will have 2 sockets already. (This is so complicated and obscure and time-consuming to do that I have never heard of anyone actually doing it but a +3 Raise Skeleton + 7 Mastery White is theoretically possible)

If your level 13 can't afford the wand after 5 hours of shopping all is not lost. If you can get someone else to come into the game and wait in Act 2 looking at the vendor while you get go and your rich high level character, or just get someone rich to come in and buy it for you. Solo I don't think you could leave and come back with a level 70 and not re-set the vendor, perhaps some of the other players have a cunning idea

End game wand choices for a Necromancer who wants great skeletons are between:
Magic (blue) +3 summons wand with something else useful like Decrepify
Rare +2 Nec skills wand with useful mods and skills
White +3 Raise Skeleton +3 Skeleton Mastery Bone Wand (the Rune word give +4 Skeleton Mastery)
Uniques like Arm of King Leoric, Carin Shard

Lastly, I will give the simple answer which is to shop for a +1 summons wand once they start to appear, a +2 later on and finally a +3. Perhaps someone could confirm what level you need to be to see those affixes