Bone Spear & Lower Resist?

[TheAlfheim]

Bone Spear & Lower Resist?

Hi All,

I'm building a bonemancer, with the emphasis being on bone spear and bone spirit.

I was wondering, is lower resist a good compliment to this build?
I know spear/spirit does magic damage, so does lower resist increase the damage there?

I only have points in attract and confuse, so it'd be a large outlay in skill points to get the curse. Is it worth it?

Cheers,
TheAlfheim

 

[Relive The Stupidty]

I asked the same question and the answer was...no it dosnt

 

[Monarch]

First off bone spear is magical damage and lower resist lowers elemental and posion resist not magic....

And i would put 1 point into lower resist if u want to be party friendly

-WalrusPK:yep:

 

[prion]

no don't bother. really LR costs you anywhere from 4-7 points you could do without.

 

[Tengu]

Considering the fact that a versatile bonemancer will already have 1 point in decrepify (a must) and, if he wishes to duel, in iron maiden, putting 1 point in lower resist only takes 2 points (life tap & the lr point), and is a good idea. It's a very party friendly skill, and you might find yourself using it a lot in baalruns etc..

An important factor is, of course, whether on not you use marrowwalks. If you do, feel free to put points in all the curses, but if you don't, you might not want to waste skill points in skills that don't help your damage in any way.

 

[TheAlfheim]

Considering the fact that a versatile bonemancer will already have 1 point in decrepify (a must) and, if he wishes to duel, in iron maiden, putting 1 point in lower resist only takes 2 points (life tap & the lr point), and is a good idea. It's a very party friendly skill, and you might find yourself using it a lot in baalruns etc..

An important factor is, of course, whether on not you use marrowwalks. If you do, feel free to put points in all the curses, but if you don't, you might not want to waste skill points in skills that don't help your damage in any way.

I know how party friendly LR can be. I use it frequently with my other necro. But this one, Ive skimped on the curses a lot. Just the two points - DV and Confuse.

I tend to use confuse a lot - it keeps them in tight bunches for the bone spear and CE, as well as forms crowd control.

I wont be PvP-ing this char at all. Purely PvM.

And I havent even looked into the marrowwalk bug (although Ive seen its name around alot)

Cheers :drink:
TheAlfheim!

 

[essojay]

In PvM decrepify isn't all that useful because it's hard to aim and it's probably better off simply to kill the monster quickly rather than cursing it first, but when you kill bosses, decrepify will be very useful.

Of course, if your merc has a Reaper's Toll, I guess you could do without putting a point in it.