Bow/Skelton Necro Build :Help:

[theum]

Hey there I'm thinking of making a bow-necro on HC; here is my following build tell me if its good:

5AMP
15bone armor
20CE
20skeltons
20mastery
20skelton res (for hell magic find)

As far as items go, I have no clue what is good or bad. For this build I would like a good bow or a balista crossbow decent enough for hell. FYI I'm using this character for MF'ing & rushing only.
Thanks

[bogie]

Hey there I'm thinking of making a bow-necro on HC; here is my following build tell me if its good:

5AMP
15bone armor
20CE
20skeltons
20mastery
20skelton res (for hell magic find)

As far as items go, I have no clue what is good or bad. For this build I would like a good bow or a balista crossbow decent enough for hell. FYI I'm using this character for MF'ing & rushing only.
Thanks

20 Skeleton Res? Is that skele resist? Only 5 points MAX in summon resist, its just not worth lit. As for bone armor, bone wall and boneprison give better bonuses to bone armor than hardpoints themselves, so go 1 bonearmor 14 bonewall.

I would imagine a build along the lines on,

20 Raise Skeleton
20 Skeleton Mastery
20 CE
Bone Armor Synergyies / Curses / Rest of Summons

That should be basics. As for rushing and mfing >.<, I hope your ready for some slow mfing, a bowamancer is barely above unequiped zon when it comes to rushing capabilities...

[theum]

awesome sounds great. :brainiac:
I agree necros are bad at killing things, but once those skeltons destroy one or two units; monsters will drop left and right with CE. Thanks for the solid build and for the info on the bone armor. :grin:

what would be an idle gear setup if I take this guy in hell cows solo? I'm trying to MF with this guy.

[JubalBane]

I tried a bow summoner myself last year. Get ready for some long battles where you shoot, then run away, rinse and repeat. I found that either my skeletons killed the beasts before I shot more than 2 arrows or I had to run away because the creatures where to close and killing me.

If I were you I would focus on building a Summoner that switched in a bow when their army was assembled.

I ended up playing as if I was a pure summoner anyway so I didn't see the need for a bow.
Jubalbane

[NumtyDoo]

Skellies will be doing so much damage that your bow damage will not even be noticeable. With just a few plus skills, might merc, and amp, your skellies will be doing over 1k damage each, and you will have at least 12 of them. You will probably be so busy spamming curses and CE that you will not have much time to shoot the bow anyway.