poisonmaster help!

Infinet_battles

Diabloii.Net Member
poisonmaster help!

yea..sup..
umm.. as u can see im asking for poison mastery help..

i know to put:
20 - poison dagger
20 - poison explosion
20 - poison nova..
(im guessing)
1 - lower speed one \__ this is later on
1 - clay golem _/

i just need help on wha to put on
str
dex
vit
i know now to put any in energy.
and if u could give out some pointers on gear also..
thanx alot for ur help when commenting.. :) :thanks:
 

GrimJackGutShankz

Diabloii.Net Member
Strength-enough for gear
Dex-either enough for max block...or leave it alone
Vit-rest

I went max block on mine when I had it.

GrimJack
 

FrozenSolid

Diabloii.Net Member
What about lower res :scratch:
Ive never made a psnmancer so I dont really know if lower res helps with psn dmg...
 

Mad Mantis

D2/3 Necromancer & Witch Doctor Moderator
Infinet_battles said:
umm.. as u can see im asking for poison mastery help..
Welcome Newcomer to The Darkness. Grab a brew :drink: and feel free to raise some corpses.

Read the PvP Poisonmancer guide in the [ Essential Necromancer Information ] thread. That guide also does well in PvM.




FrozenSolid said:
What about lower res :scratch:
Ive never made a psnmancer so I dont really know if lower res helps with psn dmg...
LR is the only skill we have that can break an elemental immunity. So in that sense alone it is vital.
At about level 7 (easily reachable with +skills) it also lowers enemy resistance by about 50%. This drastically speeds up your normal killing and killing versus creatures with high resists.
 

FrozenSolid

Diabloii.Net Member
Ok, but what if I play skellie/psnmancer? Should I still invest one pt in LR?
Id have to "waste" 5 pts to get there. Or maybe its just easier to use it on switch wand.
And also, should I still use +3 summon amu or switch to seraphs hymn?
(only amu with 2 skills I have atm :p)
 

Slavian

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at least one point in LR is a must, wether be it from a wand or not. u'll be using it alot, because your dmg will suck without it.

- Ruler
 

Mad Mantis

D2/3 Necromancer & Witch Doctor Moderator
FrozenSolid said:
And also, should I still use +3 summon amu or switch to seraphs hymn?
(only amu with 2 skills I have atm :p)
If you have maxed RS and SM, then definitely go for the +3 summon. If you maxed all the Poison synergies go with the +2.
 

Myrakh-2

Diabloii.Net Member
FrozenSolid said:
Ok, but what if I play skellie/psnmancer? Should I still invest one pt in LR?
All my pure Skelemancers have LR, to help them with PI/stoneskin, possessed PIs and other stuff where physical immunity can't be removed, or physical resist remains obscenely high. I use it a lot in Maggots Lair, when I fill the corridors with firewalls...

As a poison hybrid, you'd most definitely want LR --- you are spending 60 skillpoints into a tree, and want to forfeit a means to skyrocket the damage?

If the points you need to get to LR are a problem, you might want to run some numbers --- maybe it's more efficient to just spend 55 points in the poison branch...

Also, note that you have written "poisonmaster" in the title, hinting that you see poison as your main attack.

Concerning the amulet: If I were to made such a hybrid, I would probably try the +2 all first (but I would use my one and only Maras that I've stashed away somewhere... or see if I have a +2 necro stashed somewhere).
 

FrozenSolid

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Actually i didnt start this thread, just leeching off it :rolleyes:
Anyway Im planning to use my skellies as main killing machines and nova to help out so its 20 raise, 20 mastery, 20 psn exp, 20 psn nova.
So I dont know if I really want to place 1 pt in LR since Ill basically amp everything thats moving.
 

Kyo

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there a good couple of guides in the sticky for Poison Hybrids. Try readnig there to give you more insight. :thumbsup:
 

FrozenSolid

Diabloii.Net Member
Kyo said:
there a good couple of guides in the sticky for Poison Hybrids. Try readnig there to give you more insight. :thumbsup:
Both guides refers to maxing the 3 psn skills and only maxing RS and not SM.
Im building one with maxed RS, SM, PE and PN.
The dmg wont be 10k but around 3k, most killing will be done by skellies and CE, nova is mostly for fun and to shorten killing time.
Has anyone tried this "build"?
 

Mad Mantis

D2/3 Necromancer & Witch Doctor Moderator
FrozenSolid said:
Has anyone tried this "build"?
A few people have commented on using a similar build. Most of us use this build if we want a hybrid, but do not have the good gear required to make it work "properly".
 

Kyo

Diabloii.Net Member
FrozenSolid said:
Both guides refers to maxing the 3 psn skills and only maxing RS and not SM.
Im building one with maxed RS, SM, PE and PN.
The dmg wont be 10k but around 3k, most killing will be done by skellies and CE, nova is mostly for fun and to shorten killing time.
Has anyone tried this "build"?
At the end of the day the whole thing is a "guide" - ie it a rough template that can normally give you insight on which way or direction to go. However just because it doesn't mentioning SM being maxed does that stop us from using our own brain/iniative? :rant:

Yes for the record i have used a poison hybrid build and maxed all 3 poison and max RS and near maxed SM. With the amount of +skill, i have bumped the slvl for this quite a bit and beaten the game relatively easy.

Like most necro build "godly" gear isn't absolutely vital.
 

Necrochild313

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FrozenSolid said:
Both guides refers to maxing the 3 psn skills and only maxing RS and not SM.
Im building one with maxed RS, SM, PE and PN.
The dmg wont be 10k but around 3k, most killing will be done by skellies and CE, nova is mostly for fun and to shorten killing time.
Has anyone tried this "build"?
Yes, I have.

It isn't as effective as maxing your other poison synergy I've found.

But it's the best option if you do not have a deaths web.

If you have one max the third synergy.
 

FrozenSolid

Diabloii.Net Member
Necrochild313 said:
Yes, I have.

It isn't as effective as maxing your other poison synergy I've found.

But it's the best option if you do not have a deaths web.

If you have one max the third synergy.
Ok, then that build must be godly :rolleyes:
The reason Im making a hybrid is because i have a skelliemancer and he had like 20+ skill pts unused at lvl 80+ and I could solo baal with ease.
So I decided to rebuild him into a psn hybrid, when I say that I mean dumping the rest of the pts in the psn tree :p
However at lvl 99 the 3 psn skills, RS and SM can both be maxed :thumbsup:
 

FrozenSolid

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Tried it, the skellies works great as always but the psn nova dmg just doesnt cut it. Oh well, rebuild, now a psnmancer with skellies as 2nd killing skills and a pure skelliemancer with good old CE maxed ;)
 
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