My very first Necro ;\

[HarbingersOfSkulls]

well you pretty much just summed up my dream build with my next necro il try it for sure.

That's how I made mine...glad I could help.

Also, because I was going to make Bramble, I put enough into Dex for max block with Trang's head(I like to do meph, D, and Baal runs alot) and found it to help alot.

Others might not like block...I found it to safe my life more than once with it. Once Bramble was made, I also used a shako(with poison facet in it) and had much more damage with Bramble and shako than with complete Trang's.

HoS

[Baboon]

This was my first build when the ladder started

Some tips:

Max raise skeleton, but not mastery. put points in when needed (like 13 or so). One point in clay, mages, revivies, golem mastery and summon resist.

Get decrepify and lower resist

dont raise str to 106 (base) because trang's shield gives 25 str.

Dont put much points in energy since skeletons are cheap and you have to wait 2 secs before recasting poison nova because of its duration. So you don't need that much mana.

Get poison damage as high as possible since you need that to kill in hell. Use either trang's shield and gloves to increase damage or use bramble and death's web (and trang gloves).

You can do hell pindle runs with this build, when you enter the portal raise skeletons and revive some, blow up the rest with poison explosion (cheaper than ce). Then kill the remaining bastards. I got some unique charms there, if you get the poisonous one that's nice to socket your stuff with.

[BleedBlack]

I got some unique charms there, if you get the poisonous one that's nice to socket your stuff with.

You mean jewels right?

Anyway, theres a lot of good advice here, but like stated before...a big part of what makes this game fun is the ability to conform a cookiecutter build to your preferences and style of play. Thats what its all about after all...

[Baboon]

You mean jewels right?

Uh yeah

[Baboon]

That's how I made mine...glad I could help.

Also, because I was going to make Bramble, I put enough into Dex for max block with Trang's head(I like to do meph, D, and Baal runs alot) and found it to help alot.

Others might not like block...I found it to safe my life more than once with it. Once Bramble was made, I also used a shako(with poison facet in it) and had much more damage with Bramble and shako than with complete Trang's.

HoS

A friend of mine retired this week and gave me his dream set-up: bramble, death web, 2 sojs, mara etc. He used a Homunculous instead of a Trang. Don't you think that's a better option than Trangs Wing? Of maybe you don't have it, ignore my comment then

[drunkoncheese]

Wow. The Necro forum is so active and helpful =)

I wanted to have Skellies as a helper for leveling + some mediocre tanks. Then I wanted to have Poison Nova as a killer, with some type of explosion (CE,PE) as support killer.

Seems like I'm leaning towards the following:
Max Poison Nova
Max Poison Explosion
Max Poison Dagger
Max RS
~ 10 or so Mastery (as many as i can spare)
1 in Prerequisites/Useful curses

Does this look like it'd be an effective PvM build? I'd probably go with Act2 HF Merc like many suggested.

Btw, anyone want to get together and play sometime? If you're starting a new char sometime, give me a ring @ *drunkoncheese

[Liessa Wyrmbane]

Wow. The Necro forum is so active and helpful =)

I wanted to have Skellies as a helper for leveling + some mediocre tanks. Then I wanted to have Poison Nova as a killer, with some type of explosion (CE,PE) as support killer.

Seems like I'm leaning towards the following:
Max Poison Nova
Max Poison Explosion
Max Poison Dagger
Max RS
~ 10 or so Mastery (as many as i can spare)
1 in Prerequisites/Useful curses

Does this look like it'd be an effective PvM build? I'd probably go with Act2 HF Merc like many suggested.

Btw, anyone want to get together and play sometime? If you're starting a new char sometime, give me a ring @ *drunkoncheese

That's exactly my build too

I went with Might merc instead of HF merc, but they are both good choices.

Yes, it's a very effective and fun PvM build.

[Baboon]

Just one point in revive, there are always situations when you need em. Like everything is poison immune (i hate durance)

[HarbingersOfSkulls]

A friend of mine retired this week and gave me his dream set-up: bramble, death web, 2 sojs, mara etc. He used a Homunculous instead of a Trang. Don't you think that's a better option than Trangs Wing? Of maybe you don't have it, ignore my comment then

I use Trang's wing, belt, and claw(for the -poison effect it does) and use Homo on my Bonemancer.

Congrats on getting your setup.

:drink:

HoS

[HarbingersOfSkulls]

Wow. The Necro forum is so active and helpful =)

I wanted to have Skellies as a helper for leveling + some mediocre tanks. Then I wanted to have Poison Nova as a killer, with some type of explosion (CE,PE) as support killer.

Seems like I'm leaning towards the following:
Max Poison Nova
Max Poison Explosion
Max Poison Dagger
Max RS
~ 10 or so Mastery (as many as i can spare)
1 in Prerequisites/Useful curses

Does this look like it'd be an effective PvM build? I'd probably go with Act2 HF Merc like many suggested.

Btw, anyone want to get together and play sometime? If you're starting a new char sometime, give me a ring @ *drunkoncheese

Are you on West Ladder?

HoS