Being the ultimate summoner? A few questions for the wise.

[Arsh]

Hello all, long time reader, I sometimes post on Useast trading but never have here, been playing necromancers since the pre 1.04 days...

Anyway, I have decided to build the most unstoppable PvM/mf necromancer known to man. He is lvl 75 currently... and here are the items I think I am going to use, as well as the skills I have currently..

Shako, ptopazed
Enigma, mageplate
+2 summons ammy, some resists... (any suggestions) too poor for Maras
AoKL wand
Homunculus
Marrowalks
unsure of what gloves to use, (any suggestions)
unsure of what rings to use, (any suggestions) too poor for SOJ
Arachnid Mesh belt @ lvl 80
11/15 torch
38% mf gheeds
also, looking to perhaps purchase a couple of summoning charms once I gain some wealth, as well as a few 7%smfcs, and some 5% resist all scs.

Act 2 Might Merc:
currently using Obedience eth thresher, going to make Pride runeword if I can get cham, sur, Lo and a 4os eth polearm
planning to make a fortitude once i get Lo rune, and 4os eth armor
andys visage or crown of thieves

it is worth noting that I scrapped both my previous chars to obtain wealth to get items like arach and enigma/torch etc for this guy, so he's my only char at the moment.

What suggestions do you guys have in terms of items, and whatnot? And if you have any items that could be useful to me on USEAST ladder, lemme know if I can trade

The major questions I have though, are about skills. Currently I have the following:
20 mastery
20 skeles
1 into all other summons, 1 into amp, 1 into decrepify as well as its 2 prereqs, 1 into CE, and 1 into teeth (prereq)

I am thinking of maxing mages and CE, would that be recommended or a bad idea, I know some think mages are very weak, but I figure at high enough (35+) levels, they will be quite useful? and maxing CE is it worth putting all those points for just extra radius?
I do not wish to do anything with poison or bone skills, just pure summons, unless all highly recommend it.

Please leave me any criticism of my build or suggestions, especially if you can answer my questions about what to look for on items or what to max out now... I'm thinking I should find some resists on items...

I plan on mf-ing Pits, WSK, Chaos, Ancient Tunnels, Meph, Pindle, Shenk and Eldritch, Nihlathak, Countess basically everything... lol

Thanks all who respond :thumbsup:

[Evrae Altana]

and maxing CE is it worth putting all those points for just extra radius? Yes. Corpse Explosion is one of the best crowd clearing skills in the game.

[Adeathaday]

i dun think you shud max CE unless you plannin to use insight for merc. Or unless u dun plan to mass CE. it takes up too much mana at high lvls. lvl 10 CE is quite useful i think. mages are one of the options. i would personally vouch for them. try using trang glove. they are quite good for a summoner.

[Muzzy Roberto]

You might wants to invest into some more curses. Just an idea.

But yeah, max Corpse Explosion. That's a no-brainer.

I wouldn't bother with mages. But do get revives. just 1 point will suffice, and let +to skill do the rest. You can't argue raising lighting immune gloams in an area with lighting attacking gloams.

Get the trang gloves... those are all I can think of right now. Or some chance guards, or similiar MF gloves.

A nagel ring would be a good poor MF ring too. MF again.

[garion]

1 pt clay golem
1 pt revives
1 pt summon res
1 pt golem mastery

try to grab an edge runeword...this helped me out greatly in the beggining when i didn't have great gear yet....you'll need an act 1 merc to wield the bow though...

[Evah]

omfg.
your signature kills me.
lol rofl lmao

[High Priest]

If this guy is for mf then you will need some more mf gear, here is how the skills/stats/gear should go:

Skills:

summon tree
20sm
20rs
20smage
1cg
1gm
1sr

P&B tree
20 ce
1 teeth

curses
1 in all (mainly to hlp others you really only use decrep,amp,dim,lt and im for pvp)

Stats:
30str and the rest in life, defence dosen't hlp necros so just mak ea BP nigma.

gear
chance glove
2 nag ring
war traveler boots
nig
shako(ist) or Ptopaz
for your ammy +2necro is better or you could just get a +3 summon with mf or res as second mod.
goldwarp belt

this gear should get you some pretty good mf%, really all you need for good skellies is lvl 30-35 SM and lvl 30-35 RS.

Hope this helps



:thumbsup:

[Arsh]

thanks for the advice guys, ive so far maxed ce and mages, and im thinking I should invest 1 into every curse now... maybe. Also, I realized that teleporting with 14 mages is sick, they shoot at once, and pretty much everything dies instantly... just cant wait til lvl 83, when my merc can wear andys, and then have enough str to equip his pride, makin my skeles do like 3x more damage!!!

[Evrae Altana]

to equip his pride, makin my skeles do like 3x more damage!!!Careful. ED is additive, not multiplicative. Your skellies will get a nice damage boost, but nowhere near 3 times their current damage.

[Arsh]

what do you mean additive not multiplicative... say for example, the aura does 300% enhanced damage, and my skele does 500 damage... wouldnt it simply be 500 base + 300% of 500 which 1500 = 2k
or have I been misguided all these years of playin d2 lol... i feel stupid now.