Curse points

[Mors]

How many points are recommended for a good duration in hell for the following:


Attract
Decrepify


I ask because of the hell difficulty 1/3 duration, which is still in effect right?

[basictrainer]

I put 2 in amp and have like +5 to curses and I'm doing fine. I don't use decrep and only put 1 point into it. so I'd say a total of 7 is fine...

[Myrakh-2]

I currently don't have Attract (probably going to put one of my collected spare points there, though...) so I don't know how well it will work, but all my other curses (including decrepify) just have 1 point. +skills riases everything to 7.

Decrepify doesn't really need a long duration --- since it's almost an "act boss only" skill there isn't much else to do. I just cast a few firefalls, refresh decrep, cast some more firewalls, refresh decrep...

This is a Skelemancer. Other bulds might have other needs.

[Wambat]

Hell duration is actually 1/4 normal, and normal is a little less than what is listed anyway. You do need major investment in AI skills for them to have a useful duration in hell.

I use DV the most, and usually max that skill if I am going to max any curse, but Attract is very useful, and, if you want to use it, you will need at least 12 solid skill points along with +skills, 20 is better.

For Confusion it will benefit from skill investment, but it is still useful even without it (unlike DV and Attract). The same goes for Decrepify: You only want to use Decrepify against certain monsters (bosses or fanatic uniques) and, in these situations, you will generally be at leisure to sit back and recast the curse every four seconds or so. For these two, one skill point is enough.

You really wont have a great need of your curses; at least, not strong curses; until you get to hell, so use your time in NM to build up whatever AI curse you choose to max. The one other curse that is worth maxing (aside from DV and Attract) is IM. This skill is used PvP or against some specific heavy hitting monsters like Lister, but you need to max it to make it more effective than using some other curse.

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