Best Main Weapon "fishy"

[PoNyBoYnInJaGrL]

Best Main weapon besides Arm of king leoric? im currently using Call to Arms as switch, fishy necro

i absoloutly hate the bonewall proc'd by the arm of king leoric its almost as bad as being melee with knockback

[Anthraquinone]

Beast is a nice weapon for a summen necro. Switch to it after having summoned your army with some prebuff equipment.

-AnQ

[Greyeagle]

If you want to keep your CTA switch, then I'd say use hoto as your main.

Othewise, as suggested use the arm to summon and use one of the popular combat mains. (beast,wiz,etc.)

[liquid_mage]

I use Hoto/Homo as my main setup, mostly for enigma. And I have AoKL/3skill Boneflame for summoning stronger minions.

I'm still hoping to find a +3 summon necro shield with some +RS/SM.

[cynicalcat1]

yea, i summon with aokl then switch over to hoto.keep cta on switch for more life and kick butt.

[SirBeetle]

I went aokl + spirit monarch. This way I got a ton of skills and kept a high fcr. The stats of aokl are just soo nice.

[shijo]

Beast will do the most for your skeletons/merc, put it in a double axe.

Hoto is the best for +skills outside of the AoKL and is the best for resists outside of a wizardspike. Great FCR, and since it combines +skills, fcr and resists, it's the best thing out there, esp. if you want to teleport. Depends on your style of play really.

If I do a WSK run, I kill everything, so I use Chains of Honor + Beast, rather than enigma/hoto.

At that point I only used AoKL to summon my initial army/clay golem. If I have to resummon one or two skeletons before I start a new game, It won't kill me to do it with my beast or something else equipped. If I have to resummon 10 skeletons, then I'll just switch it back out. I never use it primary after I get my Beast though.

[mephiztophelez]

my skellynec loves his Lem/Lem Blade of Ali Baba.

[handofnaz]

I'm rockin' the mega-ghetto circuit in SP, so I'm using Spirit (the sword. Hah!) and a rare +2 nec, +19 all resistance head. I'd go with Hoto and Homun for pretty much any situation, ideally. The resists, FCR and other mods are perfect.

Just waiting for an Ist and a Gul to cube that Vex. And really, are Homunculi so rare? I've found 4 Shakos and multiple copies of every level 42 class-specific unique there is but HoZ and I still don't have one :(

/end rant-jack

[SirBeetle]

Beast will do the most for your skeletons/merc, put it in a double axe.

Hoto is the best for +skills outside of the AoKL and is the best for resists outside of a wizardspike. Great FCR, and since it combines +skills, fcr and resists, it's the best thing out there, esp. if you want to teleport. Depends on your style of play really.

If I do a WSK run, I kill everything, so I use Chains of Honor + Beast, rather than enigma/hoto.

At that point I only used AoKL to summon my initial army/clay golem. If I have to resummon one or two skeletons before I start a new game, It won't kill me to do it with my beast or something else equipped. If I have to resummon 10 skeletons, then I'll just switch it back out. I never use it primary after I get my Beast though.


I just kept aokl as my main cause I'm too lazy to be constantly switching. It really depends on what you're trying to do with your necro though.

For mf, you could just go with hoto/homunc or spirit.
For keys, wizzy and homunc
for pvp aokl switch into beast (lots of annoying prebuff :/)

[i am war]

if you are a mf necro a good gear set up i use is:

head-shako/ptopaz
body-enigma
weapon-hoto
sheild-spirit -for fcr over homo
switch- cta and spirit
gloves-trangs for fcr and cold resi
boots- good/perf war travs
rings- 10% fcr with resi and other good mods
amulet- 2+necro skills/13all res

also merc (might) equipment is as follows:
head-andys/40%ed jewell with other good mods
body-stone runeword in eth balrog skin- cheap runes but still extremely effective
weapon- insight colossus, thinking about an insight golem and maybe giving merc infinty for more damage.

i go with with build because its got good fcr, nice amount of +skills while still holding a decent amount of mf and still having survivability.. theres my 2 cents :p

[shijo]

For MF about all I swap out are my marrowwalk, frostburn, arachnid mesh (chancie's, goldwrap, wartravs), um'd shako for a topaz'd shako and maybe a good MF ring/ammy. Anything else and I start to see a drop in my killing speed.

I -hate- the way a flail/crystal sword looks and so I don't ever use a hoto on my necro. I use a cta only because I almost never have to look at it. It's bad enough that I have to use one on a hammerdin. That's just a personal preference though. It's a great item.

[handofnaz]

I -hate- the way a flail/crystal sword looks and so I don't ever use a hoto on my necro. I use a cta only because I almost never have to look at it. It's bad enough that I have to use one on a hammerdin. That's just a personal preference though. It's a great item.

Really? I love the looks of both, especially crystal swords. Strange that I've been playing necs for years and only recently realised how much I dislike the way wands look on them.

[Wizdomm]

I don't even both pre-buffing on my summoners any more. I just use a Beast Zerker as main weapon with CTA on switch.

Fantacism (from Beast) + Might (Act2 Off Merc) + Conviction (from Infinity) + Battle Orders (CTA) = invincible minions that rape everything in the game.

[shijo]

I pre-buff because aokl jacks up their melee damage by about 150-200 points of damage or so.

And I'm not sure what it is about 'em, I just don't like it. Wands are tolerable. I like the axe look personally.

[ISawYouTry]

I don't have a "main" one that i use, however i usually use beast. I have aokl for prebuffing, my switch is 9/10 times CtA, i also have a lawbringer in my stash for chaos runs. (: