Summoner/bone spear

[Hatake]

Hi again, quick question.

I'm level 63 now, normal summoner, been saving skill points (three of them, hehe) since I'm not sure where I want to put them. My CE is 15 base, and it seems to have enough range as far as I'm concerned. I've pretty much spent points where I want them to be elsewhere.

I'd like to be a bit more use to my skeletal army as they're threatening to strike if I don't contribute to the team, so I'm thinking of putting my points into bone spear from now on (and then into synergies). I'm not expecting this to be an uber skill, but if I max it with added synergies, will it be at all useful in hell difficulty? It'll just be for extra damage support, not for pwnage purposes.

Thanks in advance.

[nNemethon]

Although a fair idea and some dmg can be derived, it will not really be all that immense in Hell (although others will probably disagree ;)). I've had huge success with maxed skels, skel mast, and rest into the poisons, like p nova, p expl and p dagger. (and is great for those truly unbreakable phys immunes.) Basic curse tree and 1 in lower res makes for a fairly scary unit.

Cheers

[Hatake]

Hmm, I was kind of leaning towards putting some in poison nova. Is that really useful on its own? I'm not ready to hop into melee yet (at least I don't think I am, maybe it's possible), but exploding waves of deadly poison from my necro does sound appealing. Will it do well with only like 30 ish points in it and synergies?

[nNemethon]

A fully syn'd and set up nova caster is one, if not THE fastest mob clearers in the game, albiet expensive. On the cheap you can still hugely assist your skels with it.

Run/tele up to a mob, cast lower res on them, 1 or 2 novas, amp them, let the minions hack and then CE the rest. It makes for a devastating scene of pretty green and red colours all over. :P

For 30 skills with some syns, you can still do a goodly (not godly) amount of damage and wearing trang gloves, shield and a third trang piece (most go for the belt) helps heaps. This increases your poison dmg, reduces thier resists (coupled with lower res). If you want to go all out, check the summon/poison hybrid guides in the guides section. Actually, go there now - run, don't walk! :P It will give you a good idea on the prowess of this build and how you can mould yours to thier suggestions.

So why are you still reading? :D Go, GO NOW! lol cheers n gl.

nNem


*edit - why do my fingers hate me so?

[Hatake]

Hmm, I might end up building a new necro and aim a little more towards poison than CE, I think maybe I've spent too many points in there at this point (having a basic summoner is good for outfitting my new guys though).

I really appreciate the help, cheers mate

*runs off to turn everyone green* :laugh:

[nNemethon]

Don't get me wrong tho, a maxed CE summoner is a real decimator, partic in pvp if they follow you into a crowd! :P

But CE is still an awesome 1 point wonder and ties beautifully in a poisummoner.

[tominoz]

Lol i maxed out bone spear, and skeleton... it has great power, use some basic curses to finish it :D