How far will I get?

[Hymn]

I'm going to try to see how far an HC naked necromancer can get, without using any BONE based skills. This includes the Bone tree, and the skeleton based summons. That leaves Curses, Golems, Corpse Explosion, Poison Nova, and Revives.

If anyone else wants to set out with me, ill gladly 2-4 player it.

[rickcarson]

I'm going to try to see how far an HC naked necromancer can get, without using any BONE based skills. This includes the Bone tree, and the skeleton based summons. That leaves Curses, Golems, Corpse Explosion, Poison Nova, and Revives.

If anyone else wants to set out with me, ill gladly 2-4 player it.

So you're planning on punching your way to level 6, and then having your Golem get the kills from there?

What about a merc?

Confusion + Poison Explosion is funny.

If you have two necros, one should do the curses, and the other do the poison.

Iron Maiden + Golem is pretty good against melee, but you have to persist with it, you need to pump up Iron Maiden to decent levels. And you need to figure out how to deal with ranged and casters.

[Arkardo]

Well, how far you will get depends on your playing skills, because there are people who have solo'd Hell naked with a Summoner. I think you can forget about Diablo Clone and the Uber levels, though. :smiley:

[Mad Mantis]

Didn't MongoJerry finish the game with a Mojomancer? IIRC he did a whole article on it.

[blindandstoopid]

hey man, i'd love to do it with you, ive been reading SD's post and will probably copy his character, originality ftl

PM me or catch me in game on *blindandstoopid

[rickcarson]

Didn't MongoJerry finish the game with a Mojomancer? IIRC he did a whole article on it.

He did have a character that soloed Hell as a 'Pacifist'

What he would do is use Dim Vision and Terror to herd monsters, then one of the bone spells to lock them down.

Monsters which require kills (e.g. act bosses and others which you have to kill to get quests) he dispatched with Bone Spirit.

I don't remember what his worst area was, I think it was something unusual which spawns a particularly nasty combination (possibly with lots of things that can pass through Bone Walls/Prisons? So that the bosses (which of course cannot be DVed or Terrored) would be able to come after him). Might have been something like the rescuing Anya quest. But there was an area where his test character died something like 14 times trying to do it.

Also Hell Ancients was quite nasty if I remember correctly, though I might be thinking of another of his efforts.

And some areas he spent a huge amount of time on, 4 hours or so. (Other areas were really fast, because he didn't have to kill anything, just walk right past them all.

From memory the name was something like 'Maldar the Magnificent'.

He may also have done it as a Mojomancer, but the Pacifist was definitely multi-disciplinarian, and would hence not qualify as a strict Mojomancer.

[Mad Mantis]

From memory the name was something like 'Maldar the Magnificent'.

Correct! Maldar, the Magnificent, a.k.a. Maldar, the Pacifist Hero. (http://www.diabloii.net/columnists/a-maldar1.shtml)