War Chieftan Necromancer

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Imagine a necro who does not sit idly by cursing occasionally while his minons do all the work but one who is right up on the front lines swinging away!

Take your standard summoner necro and give him a BEAST runeword weapon. All of his troops would get fanat making up for the lost skills and he would add a grizzly to his menagerie.

And since you got this big stick why not beat on a few people with it?

One aspect of this build I'm not sure about is this: Do skeleton mages shoot faster when affected by fanat? If so then it makes sense to put skills in mages, if not 1 is enough. Anyone know the answer to that one?

Skills
20 skeleton
20 skel mastery
1 bone armor
20 bone wall
20 bone prison
1 amp
1 decrep + prereqs
1 dim vision
1 clay golem
1 golem mastery
1 summon resist
1 revive

if mages are affected by fanat then replace bone wall with 20 skeleton mages

Gear
Weapon: Beast Cadeceus(or other elite but I think for necro cadeceus is best) -- Build depends on it
Shield: Homonculus -- only necro shield with decent block
Armor:

• Ideal -- Chains of honor or Enigma
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• Realistic -- Guardian Angel or Trangs Armor
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• Thrift Store -- Twitch<>
  [st]Gloves: Anything with resists
  Ring 1: Wisp -- Add a HoW to the mix for ever more damage
  Ring 2: Raven -- A must for any melee char
  Amulet:
  • Ideal -- Crafted safty amulet: +2 necro skills, 10% block, prismatic, life/mana or Highlords
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  • Realistic -- +3 summon amulet
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  • Thrift Store -- +1 necro and resists<>
    [st]Boots: Marrow or Gore or anything with run and resists
    Helm: Shako or Andy ideally, anything will do focus on resists and skills
    Belt: Mavina for run and mana leech or any belt with resists and life
    Switch: Demon limb socketed with hel to enchant yourself and your merc
    
    Merc:
    Might Merc with Doom or Crecent Moon pointy stick -- Bramble armor if you can afford it
    
    
    Stats:
    Str - around 100
    Dex - between 130 and 170 at 99 depending on if you wear GA or not
    Vit - Rest
    Mana - Base, you will be leeching or just slurp potions to keep up the curse output
    
    Geared up I would imagine this build to be a true wrecking crew which overcomes some of the annoyances of a traditional summoner build. With max synergies bone armor is 600+ points of physical immunity.
    
    The only probs I can forsee is building up enough resists to max in hell leaving yourself vulnerable to bosses and black souls. Well that and the build depends on a lot of really expensive gear. This might be another one of those to edit up and single player just to see it in action.