Barial
27-04-2005, 16:42
I'd like to share my experience in creating my first necro, I guess to begin with I should admit that although I've played for years I have always shunned this character class thinking them to be weak and not much fun.
About two weeks ago whilst playing with friends, who, like me, were all *sorcs are the best* type thinkers, I announced I fancied trying something different and would build a necro of some sort. That was the beginning, some laughs and a very sceptical start.
I set about reading all the threads and guides here (thank you to everybody that's written and posted them they've been a great help) and decided on a Bone/summon hybrid, planned my skills, stats and equipment and I was ready to start.
So I twinked some gear on, bought a basic wand with +skelly and within a few minutes had 3 skellies (the building of my army), it was great and I found myself cheering at the screen each time my guys chased down a monster and battered it muahaha. The enjoyment started to build but so did the sceptism, would they die horribly in Hell?
To stop the story getting too long I'll skip the middle apart from to say the enjoyment carried on growing and the sceptism dropped a little, we pick things again at lvl 75 doing NM baal runs, I decided it was time to try hell so I killed baal and was ready to go.
Now we usually rush hell so I msged my friends who all said they were 1/2 way to levelling and didn't want to help right now as mostly we die at some point, faced with this I borrowed an enigma and decided to try and face it myself. Here's how it went:
Act 1 - easy, had to check was this hell?
Act 2 - easy again, was this really hell? did I click nm by accident?
Act 3 - Travincal? no problem! Mephisto? pah!
Act 4
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*Shudder* my long time nemesis, the area of the game that's claimed so many of my bodies, visions of diablo's flame and lightening reducing my skellies to a pile of ash tearing through my mind.
But I gave it a try, made my way through the sanctuary opening each of the seals surprisingly easily (accept for one moment when I think the skellies and merc must have been Iron Maidened because I lost around 7 of the 12 of them).
There I stood last seal ready to open and soon I would be face to face with Big D, burning in his flames, but starting to wonder maybe just maybe my army could survive his wrath.
*CLICK*
the seal was open, a dash to the middle. Ready. Waiting.
There he is, I amped him, teleported my army on top of him and fired off a couple of bone spirits, and then WHAT? NO? HOW? he was dead, no not just dead that doesn't do it justice, he got murdered, battered, wiped the floor with - no joke it lasted about 5 seconds. WOW. The dance I made around the room may not have been the prettiest thing to watch but I was impressed; really impressed!!! Big D - ha ha more like little girl.
Act 5
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Feeling pretty cocky and confident now, passed through everything like a breeze, lvl 77 and ready for the ancients, now a week before we were rushing a friend and 2 sorcs spent around 10 mins dancing around the ancients trying to kill them without being hit, a slow and painful job.
Could I solo hell ancients? lvl 77? by now I was pretty confident, so setup some bone walls, boxed them in and pressed the button, around a minute later and with the loss of just one skelly they were dead. Victorious! You better watch out Baal I'm coming for you.
Off to the throne of destruction, baals minions didn't present a challenge, one after another they fell, bring me more baal and you'll find more bodies.
Hoping to repeat the 5 second whipping I'd given Diablo I entered the Worldstone chamber and skipped over to Baal - Hello, Baal, have you met my boney friends? muahahaha. I bet he was quivering. Although he did take longer to kill, he presented no problems and soon I was crowned Patriarch. :thumbsup:
I'd just soloed hell, not just soloed it but breezed through it, never in danger of dying, not even close, just one merc death, half a dozen skellies and only a few rejuv potions used.
Conclusion
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I think back to that other class I used to play, what was the name again, oh yeah sorcs and smile, ha ha.
I'm Level 87 now and *sigh* I've noticed a drawback with the build, my friends are so impressed with my necro they all want one, so each night this week I've been pestered for rushes and to help them with hellforge rushes so they can get some runes to make an enigma. Not a bad drawback I guess? :lol:
Discussions between us of the ladder reset have been ongoing and a couple of weeks ago it was all meteorb this, blizzard that, enchantress maybe - last night I had to smile as things changed to bonemancer this, bone/hybrid that, or what about a poisonmancer, he he he
So thank you to all the members and contributors to the forum of my new fave class :clap: :clap:
About two weeks ago whilst playing with friends, who, like me, were all *sorcs are the best* type thinkers, I announced I fancied trying something different and would build a necro of some sort. That was the beginning, some laughs and a very sceptical start.
I set about reading all the threads and guides here (thank you to everybody that's written and posted them they've been a great help) and decided on a Bone/summon hybrid, planned my skills, stats and equipment and I was ready to start.
So I twinked some gear on, bought a basic wand with +skelly and within a few minutes had 3 skellies (the building of my army), it was great and I found myself cheering at the screen each time my guys chased down a monster and battered it muahaha. The enjoyment started to build but so did the sceptism, would they die horribly in Hell?
To stop the story getting too long I'll skip the middle apart from to say the enjoyment carried on growing and the sceptism dropped a little, we pick things again at lvl 75 doing NM baal runs, I decided it was time to try hell so I killed baal and was ready to go.
Now we usually rush hell so I msged my friends who all said they were 1/2 way to levelling and didn't want to help right now as mostly we die at some point, faced with this I borrowed an enigma and decided to try and face it myself. Here's how it went:
Act 1 - easy, had to check was this hell?
Act 2 - easy again, was this really hell? did I click nm by accident?
Act 3 - Travincal? no problem! Mephisto? pah!
Act 4
-----
*Shudder* my long time nemesis, the area of the game that's claimed so many of my bodies, visions of diablo's flame and lightening reducing my skellies to a pile of ash tearing through my mind.
But I gave it a try, made my way through the sanctuary opening each of the seals surprisingly easily (accept for one moment when I think the skellies and merc must have been Iron Maidened because I lost around 7 of the 12 of them).
There I stood last seal ready to open and soon I would be face to face with Big D, burning in his flames, but starting to wonder maybe just maybe my army could survive his wrath.
*CLICK*
the seal was open, a dash to the middle. Ready. Waiting.
There he is, I amped him, teleported my army on top of him and fired off a couple of bone spirits, and then WHAT? NO? HOW? he was dead, no not just dead that doesn't do it justice, he got murdered, battered, wiped the floor with - no joke it lasted about 5 seconds. WOW. The dance I made around the room may not have been the prettiest thing to watch but I was impressed; really impressed!!! Big D - ha ha more like little girl.
Act 5
-----
Feeling pretty cocky and confident now, passed through everything like a breeze, lvl 77 and ready for the ancients, now a week before we were rushing a friend and 2 sorcs spent around 10 mins dancing around the ancients trying to kill them without being hit, a slow and painful job.
Could I solo hell ancients? lvl 77? by now I was pretty confident, so setup some bone walls, boxed them in and pressed the button, around a minute later and with the loss of just one skelly they were dead. Victorious! You better watch out Baal I'm coming for you.
Off to the throne of destruction, baals minions didn't present a challenge, one after another they fell, bring me more baal and you'll find more bodies.
Hoping to repeat the 5 second whipping I'd given Diablo I entered the Worldstone chamber and skipped over to Baal - Hello, Baal, have you met my boney friends? muahahaha. I bet he was quivering. Although he did take longer to kill, he presented no problems and soon I was crowned Patriarch. :thumbsup:
I'd just soloed hell, not just soloed it but breezed through it, never in danger of dying, not even close, just one merc death, half a dozen skellies and only a few rejuv potions used.
Conclusion
----------
I think back to that other class I used to play, what was the name again, oh yeah sorcs and smile, ha ha.
I'm Level 87 now and *sigh* I've noticed a drawback with the build, my friends are so impressed with my necro they all want one, so each night this week I've been pestered for rushes and to help them with hellforge rushes so they can get some runes to make an enigma. Not a bad drawback I guess? :lol:
Discussions between us of the ladder reset have been ongoing and a couple of weeks ago it was all meteorb this, blizzard that, enchantress maybe - last night I had to smile as things changed to bonemancer this, bone/hybrid that, or what about a poisonmancer, he he he
So thank you to all the members and contributors to the forum of my new fave class :clap: :clap: