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A couple of ??? for a Summoner in Hell
OK, until recently I've been running sorcs (Meteorb, Bizzball and Pure Cold) but decided that even after 100 Meph runs I was getting bored. So I decided to start a Summoner (Fishymancer guide) so I can run through full areas instead of just boss runs. So far I'm level 74 and walking my way through Hell (Solo'ed A1 and in Maggot Lair atm). I have decent gear but not great:
Trang Armour
Trang Gloves
Leoric's Arm
+1 Necro circlet
+1 Necro ammy
+21, +23 MF rings
Goldwrap
+34 MF Boots
Sig Shield (thinking about switching to something else for resists since I have negative in all)
I have maxed Skel, SM, close to max CE, 1 pt in Mage, Revive, golems, GM, all curses, Bone Armour and 4 in Amp and DV.
For the most part the character is very solid and is doing much better in Hell than any of my sorcs. My one frustration is that I don't have a direct damage skill for bosses and uniques. In particular I hit a unique beetle in Maggot Lair that was healing himself faster than my skels could hit him (since only 1-2 could fit int he tunnel at a time). I ended up dying 4 times and couldn't get my corpses back (so I lost my +3 summon back-up wand). I tried luring him into a bigger room so more could attack, tried several different curses, no corpses were around for CE and I forgot that I have Fireball from Trang. I would even cast my CG on the opposite side of the beetle to pull away from my skels and slow him. And since the tunnel was so clogged my merc never got close enough to him or died if he was the only one there.
What would be your advice for me? Is there anything I can do that would help out my minions in a situation like this?
Also, I was wondering how effective adding a few more points int Bone Armour would be. I plan on finishing CE and maybe another couple of points into DV so increase radius. Would a few points into BA be worth it? Right now since I'm focused on +skills and MF if I get hit I almost always die. BA has been able to help some and I'm wondering if more points would be worth it.
And completely off topic, if you kill the Hell Cow King, can you still make cow games? In Normal and NM I'm always careful to stay away from the King but wasn't sure if that was needed for Hell.
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Darzog
OK, until recently I've been running sorcs (Meteorb, Bizzball and Pure Cold) but decided that even after 100 Meph runs I was getting bored. So I decided to start a Summoner (Fishymancer guide) so I can run through full areas instead of just boss runs. So far I'm level 74 and walking my way through Hell (Solo'ed A1 and in Maggot Lair atm). I have decent gear but not great:
Trang Armour
Trang Gloves
Leoric's Arm
+1 Necro circlet
+1 Necro ammy
+21, +23 MF rings
Goldwrap
+34 MF Boots
Sig Shield (thinking about switching to something else for resists since I have negative in all)
I have maxed Skel, SM, close to max CE, 1 pt in Mage, Revive, golems, GM, all curses, Bone Armour and 4 in Amp and DV.
For the most part the character is very solid and is doing much better in Hell than any of my sorcs. My one frustration is that I don't have a direct damage skill for bosses and uniques. In particular I hit a unique beetle in Maggot Lair that was healing himself faster than my skels could hit him (since only 1-2 could fit int he tunnel at a time). I ended up dying 4 times and couldn't get my corpses back (so I lost my +3 summon back-up wand). I tried luring him into a bigger room so more could attack, tried several different curses, no corpses were around for CE and I forgot that I have Fireball from Trang. I would even cast my CG on the opposite side of the beetle to pull away from my skels and slow him. And since the tunnel was so clogged my merc never got close enough to him or died if he was the only one there.
What would be your advice for me? Is there anything I can do that would help out my minions in a situation like this?
Also, I was wondering how effective adding a few more points int Bone Armour would be. I plan on finishing CE and maybe another couple of points into DV so increase radius. Would a few points into BA be worth it? Right now since I'm focused on +skills and MF if I get hit I almost always die. BA has been able to help some and I'm wondering if more points would be worth it.
And completely off topic, if you kill the Hell Cow King, can you still make cow games? In Normal and NM I'm always careful to stay away from the King but wasn't sure if that was needed for Hell.
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Darzog