Hardcore Psn Nec

[Still-Xey-Lover]

Hello, i am a neighboring player from the hardcore forum not too far away from here. :p If i can find a death's web i am going to make a psn nec.

As far as his gear goes, i will most likely go with: facet'd deaths web, ptopaz shako, +pnb/+nec ammy, raven + dwarf or soj/bk, ptopaz skulders (this early in the season, CoH or Enigma are too expensive for me) or viper if i need res, trang belt/gloves/shield and war travs or treks for boots. If i need res i'll pdiamond my shield, Um roon my skulders or shako etc. I am trying to get some mf in there though, so i can make it worth my while when doing pits etc.

For charms i will scrap as many life charms and res charms i can, while leaving room for a gheeds and anni. Torches are way too expensive for me right now.

Since this is hardcore i don't have a second chance with my nec, meaning that a pack of nasty archers could finish me quickly. There are 4 ways i can avoid a pack of archers, extra fast lancers etc. are dim vision (over ridden by LR), a good bone armor, skeles or max block.

My question to you, is how can i balance killing power, life and MF to keep my nec sturdy. Max block and max summon skeles with rest in mastery is the best route i see, but i wanted to ask the people who play these necs the most. Thanks in advance and sorry but i do not have time to edit this right now, gtg cya later :D

[DeathSpawn]

i only play SC with my psnnec but here's what i think:
-the more meat shield u have the better
-your worst enemies are spear cats, act5 bow skellies with fire, souls, and these last 2 will be always immune to poison unless you're using dw,trang combo and lower res.
- since you're a psn nec in HC char i think you should go max block to avoid those nasty ranged attacks.
- fire golem because it attracts enemies to him, beware this can turn against you if you're always near golem.
- it wil be hard to have many mf because you won't reach max res with dw,trang combo,amu,anni,viper,shako. you'll defenitely need a torch for it. you're only mf will probably be shako with ptopaz & viper with Ptopaz & gheeds
-try to have good res without boots and equip treks and a couple of 5 fhr chars, it can save you're life (dont know the fhr bps atm)

[timevalue]

Xey-Lover,
I'd trust Death's Spawn's advice here because I took a good look at his poisonmancer on another thread and it's an awesome setup.
~timevalue

[Still-Xey-Lover]

Hmm do you reccomend using marrows instead of treks for the extra +2 to skele mastery? I got a +2/-49 dweb recently so i'm gonna try and make this guy now :D. Also, do you suggest holy freeze or might mercs? I was thinking about holy freeze but then i realized i could not use corpse explosion as much :(. So that leaves it to might and prayer, but i have never had a high level prayer merc so i'm not srue how effective they are.

[OsTo]

skellies 20
mastery 1

NM no problem
on hell, they die often but still ok.
max block for sure

[Still-Xey-Lover]

Humm, what if i went 10 skelly, 10 mastery, would i still have enough skellies to meat shield?