12-31-2003, 11:11 AM
OK, here is a quick start for a summoner necro.
--Run to Cold Plains waypoint, get it and quit game.
--WP to Cold Plains, head back to Flavi and attract a fallen to her, make a skeleton. Stay away from zombies and make new skeletons from the quill rats and fallens as required. You can get almost to clvl 3 in the Blood Moor with a full clear. Put earned skill points into RS until is is slvl 3, then add to SM and keep RS=SM+2 from then on. Collect gold and items and watch for a wand with +3 RS, +3 SM and Amp Damage. Check all heads for similar skills.
Make 2 chipped topaz headgear and 3 chipped topaz armor, sacrifice many chickens to bring favor into your drops. Get the clay golem, get the basic curses and whichever AI curse you prefer. You'll need at least 60 str for awhile, then it's vitality only...maybe a few points into energy. You don't really need Bone Armor, but since you will have excess skill points, you might be tempted. But you can get more out the summoning tree by maxing golem mastery (while keeping clay at 1 to minimize mana cost) or maybe getting a zillion revives.
It's pretty much, curse and wait for skeletons to finish. You need retreating skills and patience.
Loss of curses would just slow me down, but no stop me. The bone armor is immaterial. Trying to nerf it by saying skeletons only just increases the time required to take down a boss pack, the skeletons are the killers, everything else just makes them time efficient. Once you get a merc, you always have a first kill source that is fast, otherwise you cast a lot of golems to get that first corpse. Even in Hell in big player games, once I get 3 skeletons, I will get the rest.
If you take the skeletons away, but leave everything else as proposed, then it is difficult to impossible.
--Run to Cold Plains waypoint, get it and quit game.
--WP to Cold Plains, head back to Flavi and attract a fallen to her, make a skeleton. Stay away from zombies and make new skeletons from the quill rats and fallens as required. You can get almost to clvl 3 in the Blood Moor with a full clear. Put earned skill points into RS until is is slvl 3, then add to SM and keep RS=SM+2 from then on. Collect gold and items and watch for a wand with +3 RS, +3 SM and Amp Damage. Check all heads for similar skills.
Make 2 chipped topaz headgear and 3 chipped topaz armor, sacrifice many chickens to bring favor into your drops. Get the clay golem, get the basic curses and whichever AI curse you prefer. You'll need at least 60 str for awhile, then it's vitality only...maybe a few points into energy. You don't really need Bone Armor, but since you will have excess skill points, you might be tempted. But you can get more out the summoning tree by maxing golem mastery (while keeping clay at 1 to minimize mana cost) or maybe getting a zillion revives.
It's pretty much, curse and wait for skeletons to finish. You need retreating skills and patience.
Loss of curses would just slow me down, but no stop me. The bone armor is immaterial. Trying to nerf it by saying skeletons only just increases the time required to take down a boss pack, the skeletons are the killers, everything else just makes them time efficient. Once you get a merc, you always have a first kill source that is fast, otherwise you cast a lot of golems to get that first corpse. Even in Hell in big player games, once I get 3 skeletons, I will get the rest.
If you take the skeletons away, but leave everything else as proposed, then it is difficult to impossible.