Your thoughts on skel mages?

[I)euzious]

I would like to know some thoughts on skel mages and there effectives throughout(i think i spelled that wrong) the entire game and whether they r useful or not overall. Thx.

[HarbingersOfSkulls]

I would like to know some thoughts on skel mages and there effectives throughout(i think i spelled that wrong) the entire game and whether they r useful or not overall. Thx.

Depends on the build really...I made a commando and Like my Mages enough to get them out after Skeletons are taken care of. I find that Mages are useful...though die easier than the Skeletons.

But are mainly used as support for the Skeletons...and are really useful against the black souls in hell in those times where it seems that Dim Vision don't feel like workiing for me.

For builds like Commando,OverLord, and a Lagamancer...Mages are useful. For the Hybrid builds,they won't... and Skeletons are the best option for those builds.

HoS

[Mad Mantis]

For builds like Commando,OverLord, and a Lagamancer...Mages are useful. For the Hybrid builds,they won't... and Skeletons are the best option for those builds.

Couldn't have said it better HoS.

I would like to add the LoM to the builds that find Mages useful.

[HarbingersOfSkulls]

Couldn't have said it better HoS.

I would like to add the LoM to the builds that find Mages useful.

Have not done a LoM build since 1.04...so it was kinda forgotten by me.

HoS

[GenXCub]

skeleton mages, aka moving bone armor...

[gvandale]

skeleton mages, aka moving bone armor...
that's about all their good for ihmo.

i don't like them, id actually say their AI is worse then regular skels

love,
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[Mad Mantis]

Still beats that of the Revives by a landslide.

[gvandale]

beats the AI of a piece of turd too!

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[HarbingersOfSkulls]

beats the AI of a piece of turd too!

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That's not saying alot there.

HoS

[gvandale]

yes it does.

it says that the ai of mages beats a turd, which beats a revive.

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[Havoc One]

I only wip out the Mages when doing Baal runs. Mostly to have extra bodies to absorb lightning from those pesky Gloams in the Worldstone Keep... Other than that I find they usually just get in the way of my skellies.

[StormriderXIII]

I only wip out the Mages when doing Baal runs. Mostly to have extra bodies to absorb lightning from those pesky Gloams in the Worldstone Keep... Other than that I find they usually just get in the way of my skellies.
Gloams scare except when they're shooting at others in the WSK, then they make me laugh. If you have 8+ mages and 8+ skels, that takes a lot of heat off of you.

[Necrochild313]

I usually 1 pt mages with +skills, I find that the cold and poison are most useful for their secondary effects.

Cold = slow monsters, a definite up
Poison = prevents monster heal (skellymage poison has an insanely long duration), great versus bosses and (especially) diablo clone. If Peacrusher didn't have his summoner in the game when he, I, and TheKbob took on diablo clone we wouldn't have been able to scratch him.

I say invest 1 point and with +skills you'll get 3-6 skelly mages on average, I unsummon the fire and lightning ones.

[gvandale]

I unsummon the fire and lightning ones.

What about the ones that shoot turds? Those are the best! :winner:

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[MindFlayer]

Necrochild beat me to it but I completely agree. The cold mages are awesome against bosses and uniques. Cold mage + decrep means no lightning blast from bi D. I soloed Diablo and Baal without any of my skeles dying. The poison does prevent heal and helps against that darn stone skin uniques.

The only annoying thing about cold mages is when you are running through areas, they freeze and shatter corpses. Not very helpful when you need those precious corpses for CE.

[Necrochild313]

The only annoying thing about cold mages is when you are running through areas, they freeze and shatter corpses. Not very helpful when you need those precious corpses for CE.

Point taken, but in my experience the benefit outweighs the price, because not as many corpses shatter as many are led to believe