Marrow boots STILL good and Skelly/Bone hybrid STILL strong build for PVM/PVP!

[compubuy]

SummonTree

20 SM
20 RS
1 CG, GM, SR, RSM, BG, IG, Revive

Poison Bone Tree

1 Teeth
20 BSpear
20 BWall
15 Bone
1 CE, BA,

Curse Tree

1 Amp, IM, Weak, Terror, Decrep.

Strong Skeletons, Strong Revives, decent Mages for back-up.
Bone Spear easily can get to 3K plus damage (500 plus PVP)
BA can absorb 850 plus damage.
1 Mana point spammable BP.

Marrow boots STILL a good choice for stats, plus 2 SM, etc.

[Pherdnut]

I think you would need a pretty insane amount of +skills to get the bonespear on that build to 3K.

Marrows aren't bad for skellimancers but when you have SM maxed and a lot of +skills already, I don't think they're going to make a huge difference. The stat enhancers are nice though.

[compubuy]

True, you'd need the best equipment to get that high of a bone spear, but actually we could get it even closer to 4k with the right equip.

Actually however, instead of putting hard points leading to Revive and Decrepify, we could use a white wand that spawns with plus to revive, decrep, and bone spear.

This would save us 6 skill points which could then max Bone Prison and 1 extra point into teeth (or bone spirit).

A level 54 Bone Spear is possible which would give almost 4K damage:

Plus 3 circlet, plus 3 ammy, white plus 8, enigma plus 2, darkforce plus 3, sojs plus 2, arach blet plus 1, 10 charms, 1 anni, CTA plus 1.

Personally I think a better (ladder) set-up would be plus 2/20 FCR circlet, Crafted necro ammy Plus 2/10 FCR, White, Enigma, 35 FCR Sprit, Trang gloves, 2X Soj, Arachnid belt, 10 charms, 1 anni, 1 CTA, 20 into skill.

This set-up would give us a level 51 Bone Spear for 3,620 Damage (about 600 PVP) with 125 FCR. Had the marrow bug not been fixed, this damage would be 4457 (about 740 PVP). About a 140/spear PVP damage difference: Not that big of a deal IMO.

For dueling, Summons of course could be gotten beforehand using AOKL/10 Summon charms/Skill Shrine afterwhich White and PB charms are placed: Not that big of an equipment swap. (Or maybe just swap nothing!).

For comfortable PVM 4 summon/4 PB with cube/books is probably best, leaving us a level 45 Bone Spear (just over 3K damage).

[bladesyz]

This set-up would give us a level 51 Bone Spear for 3,620 Damage (about 600 PVP) with 125 FCR. Had the marrow bug not been fixed, this damage would be 4457 (about 740 PVP). About a 140/spear PVP damage difference: Not that big of a deal IMO.

Not true at all. Had marrowalks be working, you wouldn't need 20 pts in bone prison, which gives you 20 pts in bone spirit, boosting your dmg by A LOT.

Further, I don't think you can get level 51. I thought all skills were effectively capped at 40?

[compubuy]

Good point, I forgot about the extra skills being able to go into another synergy. I did some extra checking and at level 51 the extra synergy would boost bone spear to 5615, pvp damage of around 935.

So unbugged the necro does about 50% less pvp bone spear damage. But being legit and able to spam a 1 mana bone prison must count for something.

Skills aren't capped at 40.

[BGrifter]

Yay, another set of War Travellers for me to trade for. :/ Was nice having at least ONE class that didn't wear War Travs at 80+.