meleemancer (no bone)
I'm planning on start playing a melee necromancer, here's more or less what I have in mind for the build... it's gonna be a zealot necro using a passion pb... the equipment is gonna be quite modest, I cannot afford an enigma (not even a fortitude for my paladin yet), so I'm already expecting to have a hard time playing this char...
Equipment:
Weapon - Passion phase blade
Shield - Stormshield 470 dfs (socketed with +15ias/+x ed jewel or shael)
Helm - Andy's (+2 to zeal and life leech)
Armor - Duress (best I can afford, 15% crushing blow is helpful)
Boots - Gores (crushing blow)
Belt - I still don't have but I'm gonna need Arachnid Mesh for the +1 to zeal
Amulet and rings - Angelics (AR)
Gloves - I don't have anything appropriate, I'll be using Trang's or Venom Grip until I get something better (Draculs maybe?) Laying of Hands (IAS, extra dmg to demons)
plus a bunch of +res, life, skill and ar charms (and if someone has a low necro torch to trade for a 10-17 zon torch I could use that too), plus a 11-10 ntorch
Skills:
Well, I'm planning not to use bone armor, it's already a pain to have to recast it everytime your summoner gets hit, now imagine if you're zealing the monsters instead of keeping a distance from them behind your minions... and since I'm not using bone armor I don't need other bone skills for sinergies and I'll not use them at all, not a fan of bone wall or bone prison...
Max golem mastery and +1 golem for a decent tank and I will spend some points on skeles and revives, I have a couple of +1 summoning skills gc that might be helpful... summoning is not gonna be the focus, but I don't hope to survive without it and without bone armor and bone wall.
Points on all main curses, decrep, life tap, dim vision, amplify and so on...
Other than that I'm going with corpse explosion and maybe poison nova too, the poison dmg can be a good help to kill the monsters with zeal...
I would like to hear any opinions, suggestions and thoughts about it, most melee necros seem to resort heavily on bone armor and bone skills, I don't know if anybody has tried to survive without them and if it is possible at all...
Well, thank you in advance
I'm planning on start playing a melee necromancer, here's more or less what I have in mind for the build... it's gonna be a zealot necro using a passion pb... the equipment is gonna be quite modest, I cannot afford an enigma (not even a fortitude for my paladin yet), so I'm already expecting to have a hard time playing this char...
Equipment:
Weapon - Passion phase blade
Shield - Stormshield 470 dfs (socketed with +15ias/+x ed jewel or shael)
Helm - Andy's (+2 to zeal and life leech)
Armor - Duress (best I can afford, 15% crushing blow is helpful)
Boots - Gores (crushing blow)
Belt - I still don't have but I'm gonna need Arachnid Mesh for the +1 to zeal
Amulet and rings - Angelics (AR)
Gloves - I don't have anything appropriate, I'll be using Trang's or Venom Grip until I get something better (Draculs maybe?) Laying of Hands (IAS, extra dmg to demons)
plus a bunch of +res, life, skill and ar charms (and if someone has a low necro torch to trade for a 10-17 zon torch I could use that too), plus a 11-10 ntorch
Skills:
Well, I'm planning not to use bone armor, it's already a pain to have to recast it everytime your summoner gets hit, now imagine if you're zealing the monsters instead of keeping a distance from them behind your minions... and since I'm not using bone armor I don't need other bone skills for sinergies and I'll not use them at all, not a fan of bone wall or bone prison...
Max golem mastery and +1 golem for a decent tank and I will spend some points on skeles and revives, I have a couple of +1 summoning skills gc that might be helpful... summoning is not gonna be the focus, but I don't hope to survive without it and without bone armor and bone wall.
Points on all main curses, decrep, life tap, dim vision, amplify and so on...
Other than that I'm going with corpse explosion and maybe poison nova too, the poison dmg can be a good help to kill the monsters with zeal...
I would like to hear any opinions, suggestions and thoughts about it, most melee necros seem to resort heavily on bone armor and bone skills, I don't know if anybody has tried to survive without them and if it is possible at all...
Well, thank you in advance
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