05-13-2004, 09:24 AM
I may have been misunderstood, so let me clarify.
I rate Marrowwalks as "Intollerable" for this build for a practical reason--there just aren't enough charges on the darn things. In a typical battle I cast quite a lot of prisons, especially in outdoor areas with extra monsters deciding to come in from off screen after they see the first prison go up.
So the point I was trying to make is that for a bones-only necro, exploiting the Marrowwalk bug results in a less powerful character than just investing directly in bone prison.
I suppose that for a hybrid summoner/bone-spearer the Marrowwalk bug might look attractive (at least to those who don't see any ethical issues in exploiting a bug...) But that's a completly different build that wouldn't need to use the charges.
As for using Iron Maiden on the imprisoned foes....feel free to prove me wrong, but I suspect that would be awfully slow. I played a thorns paladin long ago--he killed slower than I wanted, and had a much higher reflected damage ratio than Iron Maiden. And back then there weren't any physical immunes.
Still, perhaps you could get a thorns merc and make a go of it. You'd need to user other means on ranged and elemental attackers. This is assuming, of course, that thorns affects bone prisons.
Cheers,
Jimbowe
I rate Marrowwalks as "Intollerable" for this build for a practical reason--there just aren't enough charges on the darn things. In a typical battle I cast quite a lot of prisons, especially in outdoor areas with extra monsters deciding to come in from off screen after they see the first prison go up.
So the point I was trying to make is that for a bones-only necro, exploiting the Marrowwalk bug results in a less powerful character than just investing directly in bone prison.
I suppose that for a hybrid summoner/bone-spearer the Marrowwalk bug might look attractive (at least to those who don't see any ethical issues in exploiting a bug...) But that's a completly different build that wouldn't need to use the charges.
As for using Iron Maiden on the imprisoned foes....feel free to prove me wrong, but I suspect that would be awfully slow. I played a thorns paladin long ago--he killed slower than I wanted, and had a much higher reflected damage ratio than Iron Maiden. And back then there weren't any physical immunes.
Still, perhaps you could get a thorns merc and make a go of it. You'd need to user other means on ranged and elemental attackers. This is assuming, of course, that thorns affects bone prisons.
Cheers,
Jimbowe