General Summon Help

[badguts]

I'm just looking for some critique on my gear choice and answers to a few questions.

For my build i maxed skele mastery, summon skele, mages, corpse explode. 1 in golems, and a few curses i felt were needed. I have a few skills left over.

My gear choice is pretty much the same as everyones but i have a question on wep. Would it be overall more beneficial to go ahead and use a beast instead of an AoKL? You just lose out on SO many plus skills off it. Thats the main problem i am struggling with.

Rest of my gear would be pretty straightforward. Shako, maras, 2x sojs, homo, mp nigma, marrows, frostburn for all that mana, arach, cta switch.

Merc i was planning on using either andys or guillams helm, CoH or fort armor, and infinity polearm to make my mages tear through everyone.

So yea, main conflict is the beast vs aokl and also any help anyone can give towards things i should be aiming for.

Also, i tried upping my homo, but i'm non lad so i'm not sure if its lad only. If you CAN up it on non lad, maybe i got the formula wrong? (P diamond, tal, shael)

[sequoia]

A lot of people use AOKL to summon, then switch to Beast once they've summoned the army. You lose the extra number of summons, but the ones you've already got stay at the same level.

Also, there's not much point in upping your Homunculus anyway, since a Necro's defense is always going to be pitiful. It'll only add to your strength requirement.

[badguts]

A lot of people use AOKL to summon, then switch to Beast once they've summoned the army. You lose the extra number of summons, but the ones you've already got stay at the same level.

Also, there's not much point in upping your Homunculus anyway, since a Necro's defense is always going to be pitiful. It'll only add to your strength requirement.

I've heard of the summoning with aokl, but i am not a fan of the whole switching gear and whatnot. I like to have what i use on me, not running back to stash and what not :S.

The uppping really isn't a problem, i've got plenty of str to be able to use it without any hard points in it. I just wanted to up it because i have a P homo and it would add to my sexiness :) Thanks for the reply.

[williamchan]

A lot of people use AOKL to summon, then switch to Beast once they've summoned the army. You lose the extra number of summons, but the ones you've already got stay at the same level.

Also, there's not much point in upping your Homunculus anyway, since a Necro's defense is always going to be pitiful. It'll only add to your strength requirement.

You dont have to run back to the stash, just keep it in ur cube...

[sequoia]

Personally I would go with Beast, if you really don't want to switch weapons. Your minions are monstrous regardless of AOKL, and CE kills 90% of the time anyway.

[badguts]

Originally posted by williamchan
You dont have to run back to the stash, just keep it in ur cube...

I don't like holding my cube with, and i'm usually using my gcs anyway.

Also, thanks for the help sequoia. I think i'll stick with Aokl though just because it feels...right?...to me. It really doesn't matter once you remember corpse explosion like you were saying.

Last, was i trying to up my Homo with the wrong formula or is it not available on non lad?