(Repost) Draft of my 1.11 PvP Summon/Bone Hybrid Necro Guide der=0

[AceAZA]

(Repost) Draft of my 1.11 PvP Summon/Bone Hybrid Necro Guide

Hi all, I posted this in the PvP forum and I am now posting it here to get more feedback. Thanks in advance for your comments.
-Ace

PvP Summon/Bone Hybrid Necromancer Guide
For 1.11 Patch

With the end of the Marrowalk Bug this build fell out of favor, and since then there has been no new guide to explain how this build works on 1.11. So, I decided to create my own. Some of you may know me as Ace from other forum posts, or from my b.net account name PhiKap07. I have been playing D2 on and off for 3 years, and the Necromancer has always been a favorite of mine. I hope you find this guide helpful.

Contents:
I. What is a Summon/Bone Hybrid Necro
II. Why You Should Try This Build
III. Stat Point Allocation
IV. Skill Point Allocation
V. Items/Gear Selection

I. What is a Summon/Bone Hybrid Necro

This Necromancer utilizes the protection and attack capabilities of Skeletons and other summons as well as Bone skills in order to subdue opponents in duels. With this build you will be able to achieve a summoned army rivaling the power of a pure Summoner, and still be able to deal enough magical damage from bone skills to take out most PvP chars. You will primarily summon skeletons and Bone Spirit will be your primary attack.

II. Why You Should Try This Build

The reason this build is effective is that it allows you to kill opponents from afar using un-resistible damage while your army takes all of the beating and acts as a meatshield between you and your enemy. Also, this build would work perfectly in PvM as well, if you wished to use this necro for both.

III. Stat Point Allocation

This is quite simple, it is the same as most PvP Necro’s as well as most other PvP chars in general:

Strength: Enough for Gear (can be as little as zero if you have anni+torch)
Dexterity: Enough for Max Block (75%)
Vitality: All remaining Stat Points (big surprise)
Energy: None (Your gear should give you plenty of mana)



IV. Skill Point Allocation

This is the most important part of this build, since even a naked summon/bone necro can be effective if skills are allocated properly. This build is not really complete until Level 99 and needs to be at about Level 90 to truly reach its potential. Bone Wall should be your last maxed skill, make sure proper points are placed into all other skills before maxing it.

Poison and Bone Tree

20 Bone Spirit – Your main Attack Skill
20 Bone Wall – Synergy to both Spirit and Armor (Maxed Last)
1 Teeth – Prereq to Spirit but can be useful for stunning opponents
1 Bone Armor – Extra protection from Melee Chars
1 Corpse Explosion – Prereq for Spirit
Bone Prison 1-X (All remaining points after all other skill points have been placed)

Curse Tree

1 Amplify Damage – Makes Summons do more damage to your opponents
1 Decrepify – Reduces Opponents damage, speed, and physical resistances by 50%
1 Terror – Prereq for Decrep
1 Weaken – Prereq for Decrep

Summon Tree

20 Raise Skeleton
20 Skeleton Mastery – Synergy to Raise Skeleton, makes them tanks
1 Clay Golem – Use this Golem if you want to slow your opponents
1 Blood Golem
1 Iron Golem
1 Fire Golem – Use this Golem if you want to deal some elemental damage
1 Golem Mastery
1 Summon Resist

V. Items/Gear Selection

If you are serious about PvP than getting good gear is very important, since the +skills will allow you to significantly increase your Bone Spirit Damage, your Bone Armor protection, and the overall survivability of your skeletons. If you are just a casual public dueler and you do PvM, than cheaper gear can be used.

Helm:
Best--
~Shako – Um’d (for more caster protection) or Ber’d (for more melee protection)
~Rare 2 Socket +2 Necro Skill Circlet with 20FCR and resist mods. Consider Shaels for FHR or Ums for resists.
Cheap--
~Peasant Crown War Hat

Armor:
Best--
~Enigma (JahIthBer) Runeword – Teleport will allow you to stay alive longer as well as fire sprit from different locations to confuse your opponent. Also, your skeles will travel with you and form a barrier around you when you tele.
Good--
~CoH (DolUmBerIst) Runeword – Impressive resist and str mods and +2 skill.
~Guardian Angel – If you choose to go the anti-caster route and socket other items with Ums or pdiamonds, than this armor will work well for you.
Cheap--
~Vipermagi - +1 Skills, 30% faster cast, +20-35 all resists are its useful mods.
~Que-Hagans - +1 Skills, 20% faster cast, 20% faster hit recovery, +15 to energy are its useful mods.

Weapons:
Best--
~36-40 Resist HOTO (KoVexPulThul) - +3 Skills, FCR, Dex, and Max Mana.
~Boneshade Wand - +2 To Necromancer Skill Levels, +1-2 To Bone Spirit, +2-3 To Bone Spear, +2-3 To Bone Wall, +4-5 To Bone Armor, +4-5 To Teeth, +25% FCR.
Good--
~White Wand (DolIo)
~Wizardspike - 2-198 To Mana, 50% FCR, Regenerate Mana 15%, Max Mana 15%, Resistances +75, Indestructible.?
Cheap--
Suicide Branch - +50% Damage To Undead, +1 To All Skills, 50% Faster Cast Rate, Increase Maximum Mana 10%, All Resistances +10, +40 To Life, Attacker Takes Damage of 25.
Switch--
~CTA for BO

Gloves:
Best--
Trang-Ouls – Curses, FCR
Good--
~Magefists – FCR, Mana Regen
~Frostburns – Max Mana

Belts:
Best--
~Arachnid Mesh
Good--
~TGods
~Verdungos
Cheap--
~Nightsmoke
~Gloom’s Mesh

Shields:
Best--
Spirit Monarch – If you need FCR
Homunculus – If you need resists, +curse skills
Good--
Stormshield – DR, Str, ad Def are its best mods
Boneflame – FRW, decent resists and +skills
Cheap--
Lidless - +1 skill, Mana bonuses, FCR

Boots:
Best--
~Rares – FRW, Resists, Str/Dex are the mods you are looking for
Good--
~Waterwalks – Str, Life, and Dex are its useful mods
~Sandstorms – FHR, Str, and Vita are its best mods
~Marrowalk - +1-2 Skele Mastery is its best mods
Cheap--
~Aldurs – Good for Life, FRW, and Fire Resist

Rings:
Best--
~SOJ - +skill and Mana
~BK - +skill and Life
Good--
~Rare with FCR and Resists
~Ravenfrost - Dex, Cold sorb, and Cannot be Frozen
Cheap--
~Manald Heal – Mana

Amulets:
Best--
~Crafted – Looking for +2 Skill, resists, FCR, Str, Dex, etc. (must be lvl 89 to craft)
~Rare – Looking for basically same mods as Crafted
Good--
~Mara’s - +2 Skill, 20-30 resist, +5 to stats
Cheap--
~Cat’s Eye
~Eye of Etlich

Charms:
~5-6 Summon GCs with FHR/Life
~3-4 Bone/Poison GCs with FHR/Life
~Necro Torch LC
~Annhulius SC
~SCs – Life/Mana/FHR/Resists (depends on what you need)

Things to Aim for at completion of this build:
3k Life minimum with BO
400-500 Teeth Damage
2.8k Bone Spirit Damage
75 Resist in all Categories
86% FHR Breakpoint (6 Frames)
125% FCR Breakpoint (9 Frames)
75% Chance to Block (Max Block)

 

[naskali]

Nice guide:thumbsup:

But why not using more points to p&b skills? I think that u could max bone spear, bone spirit, bone wall and bone prison.That's just 80 skills, 27 remainin(because of bone armor, teeth and CE). So after that you could put 9 pts into summoning skills(exept fire golem) and 1 pts to curses(or 4 for decrep). After that you would have 17 free pnts to teeth(14 if decrep)This means that your goal would be lvl 99.

Why? Well, because you get so much +skills from your eq so you could have +15 revives. And revives are better tanks that skeletons. And you could solo ubers(maybe)

 

[AceAZA]

this is a summoner first, boner second type build, so emphasis is placed on summons more than bone skills. Also, I structured this guide so that you would not need to get to level 99 to complete it. Also, I find revives to be a pain in PvP, you have to go to specific realms of the game to find good monsters to revive before every duel which is an unecessary waste of time. However, if you want to put a point into revives, who am I to stop you?
This guide is not made for ubers, its a PvP guide.

With a good army of skeles, you should be able to avoid chars long enough to hit them a couple times with spirit which is all it takes to kill most chars. The whole point of this build is that you don't need bone spear because your skeles will distract your enemies allowing slower-moving spirits to kill them.

 

[naskali]

Ah that explains a lot:wink3: