Bone/Poison Necromancer Survivability

[Solacium]

Will a Poison-mancer or a Bone-mancer be an effective charecter (absent max Raise skelleton & Skelleton mastery) if you have no high quality items other than what you find in the game? The skill calculator seems to produce at maximum around 1-2k dammage, and same for bone armour absorbtion

(ie: new charecter to realms, no stash of items to trade up for, not big on begging for items.)

Thanks,
~Solacium

[Mad Mantis]

Will a Poison-mancer or a Bone-mancer be an effective charecter (absent max Raise skelleton & Skelleton mastery) if you have no high quality items other than what you find in the game?

The Poisonmancer struggles more than a Bonemancer without items. The characters can be played, but they will be significantly harder than with good items. The killing can be a bit slow going.

[elmek]

If you wanna go as poisonmancer, you'll not be able to max RS and SM. Just focus on RS and put only one point in SM as you must max pnova and its synergies to do good damage in hell. Furthermore as MM said, you NEED good items to be effective (read -enemy poison resist in gear).

[NecnecNecro]

Dunno about poisen, but Boner:

I've made ~10 boners already, and effectively run around naked until level 70 and can put on the nigma etc.

So just using items i find in games, the necro can survive in Hell Baal runs and Hell Chaos runs, his damage (without gc's and gear) is pretty crap so if you want to solo it'll be tedious.

So can he survive: yes, is it easy/efficent: no

[elmek]

Dunno about poisen, but Boner:
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So can he survive: yes, is it easy/efficent: no

Let me put it this this way:
For poison necro (with end equip)
can survive: yes, can kill mases: yes, is easy: yes :thumbsup: