Diablo 2 thread - Page 27

On July 08 2014 07:06 419 wrote:

max corpse explosion (it won't help on bosses but its invaluable for quickly killing stuff), then some points into summon resist / golem mastery imo

if you haven't put at least one point into the curses you definitely want to do that. Decrepify + clay golem incapacitates bosses pretty effectively

without the synergies I imagine bone spells will be pretty weak at this point

On July 08 2014 14:02 nakam wrote:

I won't put any more than 1 point into CE since things die instantly as it is with the current radius. I have Decrepify already and my Clay golem worked great on the NM bosses without more than 1 point along with my merc. Summon resist, however is interesting as it perhaps will let the skellies live longer on the bosses (have 1 now), but I think I read somewhere that it doesn't affect Revives?

The problem on NM was at least the dps. Baal took like 10 minutes and after the Revives expires the dps is so low. No problem tanking for that long though. Things could of course be way different in Hell.

On July 09 2014 01:20 -Dustin- wrote:

What curse are you using for bosses?

On July 09 2014 04:34 Tiglath-Pileser wrote:
What merc are you using? Act 2 merc with Might aura makes quite a difference on higher levels, skellies dps increases a lot.

On July 09 2014 05:57 greenelve wrote:
curses only 1 point, you get enough with +skills from items. amplifier gives the biggest damage boost, as your melee skels do physical damage. decriptify should be the one that slows and reduces all resis...its mostly good for slowing down for you as skel necro. corpse explosion 1 point, it only increases explosion range and important: mana costs. put 1 point each in clay golem and golem mastery and in natural resist of all summons. you can go skel mages with 20 points. they do some damage and poison damage negates monster healing.

for damage, you can use monster revive and get these gargantua like big monster (for example: last waypoint of act 2), they can hit with crushing blow i think, anyways, terrible terrible damage. skilling poisong or bone for attacking is not usefull, as you dont have enough points to do noticeable damage. for survivebility you can invest 1 point in bone armor.

your summons are mostly for regular monster and for bosses you need your merc. also your skels should become almost immortal...

try to craft your merc an insight RalTirTalSol weapon with a good workpiece like Colossus Voulge, which is the best for 2h crafts as it always gets 4sockets at act5 blacksmith - but requires lots of strenght. cryptic axe is good too, damage wise, but harder to have one with 4sockets. insight runeword is also good because of his aura, which regenerates your mana much faster.

best weapon for merc is the unique hone sundan, crushing blow, 3 sockets, and upgraded it has high damage...but to find it is the problem..

for yourself, get items with +skill like runeword spirit. TalThulOrtAmn if you havent anything good right now


long time ago i played d2 >.>

try to craft your merc an insight RalTirTalSol weapon with a good workpiece like Colossus Voulge, which is the best for 2h crafts as it always gets 4sockets at act5 blacksmith - but requires lots of strenght. cryptic axe is good too, damage wise, but harder to have one with 4sockets. insight runeword is also good because of his aura, which regenerates your mana much faster.

On July 09 2014 07:54 419 wrote:

CV has really really high strength requirements, you would need something around lvl 83~ (??) merc for it to be capable of wielding it

in other news, I just got a ber rune drop on the slash diablo ladder :V

On July 09 2014 07:11 greenelve wrote:
You wont do much damage with your 15-20 in poison skills. you need 20 for your main poison attack and 40 points for synergies. same with bone skills. not enough that you can kill bosses on hell. well, you can try it, you can reset your skill and stat points 3 times at Aria at camp in act 1 (finishing first quest in each difficulty).

can you tell exactly what your skillpoints and gear are? (gear of your necro and your merc)

also for statpoints, you dont really need to invest in mana, mostly strenght that you have enough to wear items and rest goes to life...you can spend some on mana, if you feel like, you dont have enough. but mostly it is not needed.


and dont worry, grey weapons will drop. ^^x

edit: i made a mistake with curses... the one that slows doesnt reduce natural resist like fire and ice, it reduces physical resist. anyways, the slowing one is important.

On July 09 2014 09:23 Bwenjarin Raffrack wrote:
Things to do with excess skill points are usually utility skills. The two that really break the game are dim vision and corpse explosion. Max dim vision will maximize your survivability to the point of absurdity. Corpse explosion is the skill that makes every boneheaded necro build Hell-viable. Of course, some people don't like to feel like every necromancer they make is, in the end, a corpse explosion necromancer so they try to limit it. If you want to feel like you're actively doing something, you could put 40 points into bone spear and spirit or poison dagger and nova. They won't be very effective, but it's something to do. Personally, I've never liked the mages, but you could go that route.

For you specifically, I would say level 63 is pretty low for Hell (untwinked I assume). You could do a few /players runs in Act 5 NM. You may have maxed your skeletons, but it will bring up the level of your merc's Might aura so damage will still rise slowly. Obviously, get more +skills where possible. Shop for an item with teleport charges. For bosses specifically, there's a few things extra you should do. I would revive blunderbores/urdars for their crushing blow. Get your merc a Kelpie Snare or Hone Sundan and Guillaume's Face. Summon a cold damage skeletal mage with your single skill point in it. Spam decrepify on the boss until you see your clay golem hit it, then switch to amplify damage. Lastly, just be patient.

On July 10 2014 02:08 greenelve wrote:
Ok, lets go.

Skills:
Looks fine so far. But for some reason you are missing clay golem and golem masterie, both 1 point. Clay golem will survive everything and you can cast a new one whenever you like. Clay golem is best because when he hits, he slows enemies. Really good against bosses. Iron maiden is kidna useless, monsters have way too much life for the damage they do. With iron maiden it will take forever to kill. Also you can max mage skels, i read a bit about it and yes, they are good /not so bad. And as you asking for damage, max the mages.
Revive doesnt need more points, even 1 would/could be enough. but its not a must, if you want or if you dont want.

Amplifier damage is one of the best curses you have. it increases physical damage by 100% afair and it break phyiscal immunity - if a monster is immune do a damage type, the reduce works with 1/5 only. but physical immune has an resistance of 117% at max i think (or lower, but you can break it and monsters will lose their phys. immunity, there are still high resistent though).

On July 10 2014 02:08 greenelve wrote:
Gear:
Lore War Hat is the runeword Lore Ort-Sol? that is fine so far. Better hats have +2 skills and are the optimum you can get.
For weapon i would suggest you spirit, it has +2 all skills. you can also build it as shield...but i think i remember non-paladin-shield are high-str-req. you should read something up yourself, if you can afford the str-req. :/

I dont know...if you have 2 Um runes, you can go for bone runeword Sol Um Um.

Merc:
items that the merc is wearing ignores durability. so the best merc-item is an etheric one, as it has a 50% bonus (damage at weapons and rest is armor). also you can use this with a little trick. if you give an item sockets by your horadrim cube, the 50% bonus get doubled (kinda). not sure if it works with other horadrim cube recepts too.

important: to kill bosses, the merc does the main damage. you are there to enjoy, the skels for blocking, mostly, and the clay golem to slow.

On July 10 2014 02:08 greenelve wrote:
And i suggest you to do Baal (or Mephisto) until lvl 70-75 (shoud reach it quite fast). Besides the lvl up, you will find items that will help you on hell. Also you can use the /playersX command. this makes the game think, you are playing with other people. x = 1-8, for the amount of people. 8 people in a game makes 2 things:
-monster gives more xp
-the no-drop is reduced. after a kill, diablo calculates your drop. players8 reduces the chance, that no item will drop. the no-drop reduce happens at 3/5/8 players afair.

On July 10 2014 03:25 greenelve wrote:
Arrgh, right, you play online. Look for trade games and join them for farming. Just ignore that you fill up one spot and abuse the other players idling for your no-drop chance. >.>

And D2 is lots of farming... also Skel Necro is "easy" to play through the game, just the start is a bit rough, when you dont have items and skels (im looking at you, Diablo at normal)