Summon vs Pure Bone

[Ryko]

I'm about to start playing diablo 2 again and i figured since i've never really made an online necromancer i thought i would finally make one.

I don't have any items so based on that which one you would make a Summon necro or a pure Bone?

[pmk]

I'm going pure bone, and in the post below you I mentioned that I was having some troubles with just pure bone (I'm unfunded too) so I would recommend you making a summoner just to be able to MF effectively.

Though, I'd wait for a second opinion, I'm clearly a little confused too :)

[ChronosHammer]

When I first played throught the single player campaign, I played a summoner and now that I am starting my new batch of characters on bnet, I've been using pure bone, and I have to say that pure bone is much more difficult. You lose the meat shields of having many skellies/revives and where I could destroy an 8 person game equivalent in sp (/players 8 command makes it so that the game is like that), I have trouble with 3-4 person games on bnet.

The killing power seems to be diminished, but then again I'm only level 30 right now and my synergies are nowhere near maxed. I too am incredibly poor and have no badass gear, but once I get past level 50 I'm going to create a good mf character so I can get some decent +skills gear.

To answer you original question (forgive the rambling), I'm finding that bone is more fun as I actually get to kill stuff instead of "watching" my minions do my work for me, but that summon builds like the fishymancer seem to be a little easier to get through the game with and have a decent mf while doing so.

[MarShenk]

pvm: summoner
pvp: pure bone

[Jackson]

If you're just restarting the game, I would go with a summoner, since I doubt you will get much out of PvP as a starter..

[FrankWest]

Just getting back into the game? IMO there's no character (not just necromancer, but ANY class) more handy than the summoner. That'd be my suggestion to anyone for their starting character. It can be done absolutely fine without any great gear whatsoever, and it can be used for any PvM purpose under the sun. Boss killing, pit/cow runs, MF runs, whatever you want to do with him. And he doesn't need 'godly' equipment, either. You can live off the land and be perfectly successful doing so.

The bone necro? Just about the complete opposite. Its strengths are in great equipment, high FCRs, tons of + skills - and even then, PvM, it's not particularly outstanding. Summonmancer all the way! :thumbsup:

[MeltedIce]

Definitely summoner. I actually started out on a pure bone, which was a mistake. He was pretty weak because he didn't have all the optimal equipment, which is why I started a summoner. Summoners are definitely WAY more easy to play and like someone else said, you have at least 10 meatshields all the time. Summoners are great for beginners.

[Skelious]

Summ all the way, it will finance the rest of your chars.

[OnlyHope]

for Pub BM, i prefer Summoner all the way. Pure Bone will get demolished by FC zons. OF course you can still kick *** with a Pure Bone, but it's a lot more difficult when you have 7 players attacking u at once, my summoner 90% of the time clears duel games, except for the odd fireball sorc, and druid

[JinSama]

lol i started off as a bone nerco and it financed my summoner
juss my opinion, it is really hard to play as one when beginning but it still pretty easy to kill things with bone spear