New to Necros

[Unsane237]

Hey everyone,

I am thinking of doing my first ladder Necro. I want to do something pretty original (although I know it has been done before), but I was thinking of building a poison necro. My question is can anyone give an idea of what gear I should use? Also if I decide to go pure poison will I do ok in Hell or should I max out bone spirit or spear?

Thanks in advance.

[Necrochild313]

poison necros are a bit item dependant, so that might hurt if your just starting out in ladder...

I wouldn't do boneskills with poison, they'll be quite weak, the fireskills granted by trang set (esp the firewall) is all you'd need for a good source of secondary damage, the firewall is granted by wearing only 3 pieces of the set :).

[Unsane237]

This won't be my first ladder character. I have a lvl 77 zon right now and I have been saving things for a poison necro like skin of vipermagi and such. I am not rich by any means on ladder but I think that I can manage to get some godlies, or near godlies.

[Ryski the Summoner]

Warning : Never underestimate the power of sygernies.

for e.g, Bone Spririt

Bone Spirit Receives Bonuses From:
Teeth: +6% Magic Damage per Level
Bone Wall: +6% Magic Damage per Level
Bone Spear: +6% Magic Damage per Level
Bone Prison: +6% Magic Damage per Level

There you are, all the bone skills compliment each other... i guess you already know this...

Poison Nova

Poison Nova Receives Bonuses From:
Poison Dagger: +10% Poison Damage per Level
Poison Explosion: +10% Poison Damage per Level

Poison Nova
emits an expanding ring of concentrated poison

Current Skill Level: 20
Poison Damage: 1781-1953
over 2 seconds
Mana Cost: 20

That is with sygernies...

Bone Spirit
releases a spirit of the restless undead that
tracks its target or finds one of its own

Current Skill Level: 20
Magic Damage: 1564-1697
Mana Cost: 21.5

Use them 2 stats at level 20 with maxed sygernies to plan your necromancer...

[Necrochild313]

if you go hybrid I should suggest skeletons as well but that's too overdone now I suppose :hanky:

Perhaps use the marrowalk bug to help your boneskills out a bit?

[Unsane237]

Anyone have any suggestions about the weapon I should use. I was thinking of using death's web (if i can get my hands on one) and having blackbog's on a switch. Do you have any other suggestions as far as gear (in case I can't get trangs)?

[Necrochild313]

Vipermagi is decent for a poison build as a cheap option, perhaps peasant crown, even tarnhelm or wormskull. I'd say anything that has decent +skills would be a good choice.

[Unsane237]

So far I have set aside a wormskull, vipermagi (+31), string of ears, and working on getting a blackbogs today. I think that will be a good start. I have quite a few other things scattered through some of my mules that I can use to trade for bigger and better as my necro grows. My zon does pretty well in hell so far and I have been doing pit runs so hopefully I'll find some good stuff on my own.