What necro is best for MFing?

[RoXorKakaa]

What particular type of necro is best to build for the purpose of MFing most efficiently ?

[HegemonKhan]

a (max) ce (corpse explosion) necro with some form of first kill ability and protection so that u can use mf gear without dying.

[fledgeling]

To be honest - I would say that no form of necromancer is good for MF. In hell, when playing alone, necros arent efficient in killing groups of monsters quickly (as a hammerdin), nor in finding the bosses quickly (as a sorc).

If you want to searh for items by MFing in normal/nightmare, than perhaps a skeleton necromancer would be best. Note that this type of necromancer will be very, very slow in hell. In addition, in hell your main problem will be the lack of ability to kill the first few monsters quickly...

A bone necro is decent vs smaller groups of monsters, hypothetically you could try doing travincal runs (hell), but I think it would be slow and dangerous.
I never tried it with a bone necro, so I have no idea it it's viable - I dont think so, as I tried doing travincal runs with my poison necro, I would cast a golem behind them and never enter the elevated catwalk - poison would "fly throgh the barriers". This was very slow and even despite the fact that my necro has around 1200 life, he could still be brought down just to few health points if something went wrong...

To sum up.. make a sorc (to run diablo/mef), palladin (for diablo) or barb (for travincal).
My experience tells me that it is that they are the best to kill the bosses.. unless you plan to MF at lower difficulties.. in such a case some form of skellymancer (safe) or PERHAPS poison mancer (area control) would be best. If you will play in a team, then corpse explosion might get very handy, as HegemonKhan suggested.

[HegemonKhan]

actually if your talking about norm (i'm not sure about nightmare), a poison nova necro makes a good mf'er.

also, actually CE kills VERY fast in all difficulties. more slvl ce more radius more mass damage to monster crowds faster dead monsters.

this makes for a very good mf 'er as long as u can get that first kill (for CE and/or possible minions) and not die while using mf gear.

[zaxien]

ce/bone nec can rape some hell cows with full 300+mf gear on

it can go through hell cs with the same gear you just have to go a little slower and stay further back

mine has around 10 or so amp and 10 or so ce (before items) the rest of my skills went to the bone tree, spirit/wall/prison etc

I just throw up a wall or two to draw in some monsters, amp em, lay down spirits until one is dead, amp the late arrivals then ce. do this until there is nothing left. Only thing that gives me trouble are might or fana cows

[WarlockCC]

For those who wish to keep their bone nec 'pure' you could probably shop a +2 nec +3 amp +3 CE wand

[Vodage]

Though I wouldn't normally try to MF with a necro, I imagine any necro that can solo hell CS would be able to mf simply by waiting for d to come out, and equipping mf gear right before last hit. Decrep and clay golem would slow him enough that it doesn't matter ur resists are garbage. So umm-- any necro who can solo cs with exp gear and then switch to mf gear on diablo. Idk if you're trying to mf rares or uniques, though. Hell dia is for rares i think...

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