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darnocpdx
21-08-2004, 20:19
well legend has it that there has been a naked necro running around. That'e s right boys and girls Im gunna make a naked mancer...no gear what-so-ever (well i might keep a belt, but hey even with a belt your junk will still be hanging out,and trying to figure out what belt to use too). Thinkin deaths for the cannot be frozen.

And just to up the antie a little Im gunna take it as a nearly pure mojo mancer (with some P&B) as well, with no summons and/or merc. And like always for me a HC character, though I wont play him in many public games (too easy a PK target), other than mabey to get past the act bosses.

MY build will looking something like this
Stats: every odd level 3 points stamina, 2 mana. Every even level 2 stamina, 3 mana.

Skills:

posion and bone:

Bone Armor-3
Bone Wall- 10
Bone Prision- none
Teeth-4
Corpse explosion- 10
Bone spear- 10
Bone Spirit- none
Posion dagger-1
Posion Explosion- 15
Posion Nova-none
Total points: 56

Curses:

Amp- 5
Dim Vision- 15
Confuse- 10
Attract 10
weaken-1
Terror- 1
Decrept- 1
Lower resist- 1
Iron madien- 1
Life tap- 1

Total 46

Now for gear- well though it appears naked your secret weapon is that invisible backpack. Fill it with (in order of importance) +resists, +hp, +running speed charms,+skill charms. That's about it.

How to play first spell is Teeth use it, it's better than you think. Then get bone armor and then Amp (1 point here till you get the rest of your abiblities up). till level 6 alternate points between BA and teeth till level 6 (gives you a BA of 3 teeth of 3 and amp of 1 if you've done the cave.)

At level 6 start adding points back and forth between Dim vision, Corpse Explsion and Teeth. At level 12 (probably won't have taken Andy yet, saving her for level 18) I should look something like BA 3, Teeth 4, Dimvision 2, CE 2, Amp 1, Weaken 1). Continue alternating between Dim and Corpse explosion, no more Teeth, and continue leveling up till 18. so Now you should look like: Amp 1, weaken 1, Dim 5, CE 5, Teeth 4, BA 3. At 18 start get Bone spear and take Andy. From 19- 24 boost bonespear and Bone wall put one in confuse. Now your looking at 1 amp, 1 weak, 1 confuse, bone spear 3, Bone wall 3 (assumeing I took radmaent other wise 2 here) and CE 5, teeth 4, BA 3. Now 24-30 Boost Ill start getting alittle more random in points tyring to keep CE, Bone spear, Bone wall fairly even and adding a couple to confuse and getting attract asap as well. The other curses I'll get 1 in decerpt and save any IM, LT and LR as I start to near nightmare. After level 30 I will then add one to PD and start building posion explosion (though I might go nova instead, PE has got a higher damage rate which would be handy since I wont have many synergies.) And l'll try like hell to max (or at least get it to 15) dimvision as quickly as possible.

All in all I don't expect to be able to solo any ofthe bossees, andy perhaps or I could load up on mana potions and take an hour with bone walls IM and Durry, meph, Diablio, and Baal. but I think I could easily make it through NM solo with this build. Hell probably not unless I get some godly resist charms.

basic strat will be to use confuse and attrack to gather the baddies and try to get the first kill. Then Amp and CE or LR and PE. I'll use dimvision to protect myself and move into position to work my magik. For the most part Ill be trying to stay in enclosed areas where I can focus my magics better. For champions and the such I plan on leading them into a pac of dimed beasties and then castin confuse on the whole lot em, and use BW as a barrier alot since BS wont hit it anymore.

Anyway I'm up for suggestions and comments. Or even other naked build types. Though really it's preaty much this or summoners of some type.

gjcraig
21-08-2004, 20:39
Wow good luck looks like you really want to test yourself . I just hope after playing 2 months and putting in so much hard work that you don't meet death by lag spike . :thumbsup:

darnocpdx
21-08-2004, 22:25
lol actually im gunna have to do it SC (unless i can get a SC rush)...My account is too full and what I thought was an unused mule in fact had a bunch of forgotten misc. gear. oh well, perhaps I wont have to put those points in BA. likewise I could play in public more.

Mostly I think a build like this is a great exercise for all. You can't help but to improve your skills as a nec of another build if you play a build like this.

prion
21-08-2004, 23:32
why 4 teeth, you'll get better damage if you put those in spear?

Fremen°
21-08-2004, 23:58
why 4 teeth, you'll get better damage if you put those in spear?

he says:

"How to play first spell is Teeth use it, it's better than you think. Then get bone armor and then Amp (1 point here till you get the rest of your abiblities up). till level 6 alternate points between BA and teeth till level 6 (gives you a BA of 3 teeth of 3 and amp of 1 if you've done the cave.)"

gjcraig
22-08-2004, 00:26
No don't use BA those swirling bones will get in the way of people seeing your manhood . lol

EuroJamie
22-08-2004, 02:02
No don't use BA those swirling bones will get in the way of people seeing your manhood . lol

Maybe that's the plan - like the necromantic equivalent of a fig leaf :wink2:

OddEvil
22-08-2004, 03:38
Wow, never though of a naked necro before. I've seen nearly naked barbs before, and a sorc could probably strip after lvl 70 or so, :lol: but a necro??? Have fun, and if you can do this, I'd hate to see how deadly you are dressed!!

darnocpdx
22-08-2004, 12:49
Got him to 20 today. I skipped BA except for one and build teeth upto about 10 works great in conjuntion with confuse.

It was easier than I thought it would be. Though the punchin the zombies in the den was rough at level 3 (would run outta mana fast on the teeth.)

Ash Housewares
23-08-2004, 14:05
keep us posted, sounds like fun

I also want to ask, since necros are ridiculous now, is a naked necro possible for pvp? atleast naked in the sense that he will appear that way, so he could wear boots/belt/circlet/gloves/ammy/rings and more if a str charm helped him equip armor etc.

should I give this some more thought?

darnocpdx
28-08-2004, 19:40
keep us posted, sounds like fun

I also want to ask, since necros are ridiculous now, is a naked necro possible for pvp? atleast naked in the sense that he will appear that way, so he could wear boots/belt/circlet/gloves/ammy/rings and more if a str charm helped him equip armor etc.

should I give this some more thought?

We'll yes I believe you could wear those that you mentioned. However mine is wearing nodda. I qiut playing it when I got rush through SC norm and made a second mule account perhaps I'll restsrt hiim soon.

Though really wasn't that much of a change after the cave. not needing points in str and dex I was able to get my mana up preaty qiuck o at about level 12 I wasn't even really needing to drink too much either. Also putting those points in teeth made for a nice level one spear at level 12.

How I would probably build him again would look like this- At level 30.

1 BA
9 Teeth
1 CE
10 SW
10 BSpear
1 Bone spirit

1 Amp
1 dim
1 confuse

particularly nasty was Amp/confuse and teeth, and after this little experiment confuse is quickly becomeing my fav. AI curse. It works wonders aganst champs. particuairly with amp, cast amp then confuse. Those not affected by the AI curse would get confuse overwritten and the chaps would get plummeled by them with (the champs) Amp on. Then a few rounds of teeth damaging all of them and you got a nice big bloody mess there. Also the champs will also fight the confused so really they fall prey to it, but they don't get the swirlies over there head (which I think makes it better than attract).

I think I might start experimenting with confuse and ond other curses. Could be interesting to see if LT, IM (perhaps without minion penility) works on them. And I just started a new toon last night that I plan on going heavy confuse to experiment on.