Salvage my Bone-Mancer

[urbanterrorist]

Salvage my Bone-Mancer

I currently came back to Diablo Lod after a two year hiatus. My first character was a bone necromancer who was I was most comfortable with. He's also my sole mf character but right now he's getting owned by Cold Enchanted rouges.

East Ladder SC
Imij Level 79
Helm- Low Shako (p topazed )
Armor- Skullder's
Shield- 2 skill Homunculus
Boots- Waterwalk
Ammy- 3PnB
Gloves- 38 Chancies
Rings- 2x 21 Nagels
Belt- Upped Goldwrap 38
Wand White
3PnB, 3 Bone Spirit, 2 Bone Spear

Switch
Milabregra's Orb/Empty Ali Baba's

Skill Allocations with bonuses
22 Teeth
26 Bone Spear
24 Bone Spirit
14 Bone Armor
18 Bone Wall
17 Bone Prison

Merc Act II Holy Freeze
Bonehew
Nat's Helm
Trang Armor

I know he's not completely salvageable so any advice would be appreciated.

 

[NumtyDoo]

Re: Salvage my Bone-Mancer

some revives might help to take some of the heat off of you.

 

[vrot]

Re: Salvage my Bone-Mancer

IMHO, I don't think bonemancers are strong enough with mf equipment. I suggest you put your mf stuff on a new skelliemancer and put on some fcr stuff

 

[NumtyDoo]

Re: Salvage my Bone-Mancer

I had a boner in 1.09, he did very well, but I used revives for meat sheilds.

I agree with vrot though, put that mf gear on a new fishy, he would be more effective at mf running.

 

[urbanterrorist]

Re: Salvage my Bone-Mancer

A Fishymancer sounds like a viable idea.
Would the mf gear be better suited for my Hammerdin in training? He's another story.

 

[HCKull]

Re: Salvage my Bone-Mancer

You have no curses or summons! OMG!

You need DV, clay golem and CE!

DV blinds the bad guys so they just stand still and dont attack.

Clay golem is low cost to cast and draws the bad guys fire.

CE is the most awesome skill in the game. It can wipe out hordes of bad guys.

Hopefully your +skills will boost these to a reasonable level.

 

[NumtyDoo]

Re: Salvage my Bone-Mancer

Of course he doesn't have summons, he is apparently a pure bone mancer. Usually the only summons they have are a 1 point golem and 1 point revives that are boosted by +skills. I believe he has CE, it is a pre-req for other bone skills.

 

[MrKaxe]

Salvage my Bone-Mancer

My HC Bonemancer makes liberal use of Decrepify (one point is more than enough...with all the pluses from gear its at a nice point) and if i'm desperate (not often) i'll throw a Bone Wall up between me and the hordes and lay the smackdown on them behind the safety of it!
I found Clay Golem to be a useful meatshield combined with a Prayer Merc (damn Spirit's mana cost, that's why I mostly use Teeth and I don't see the need for Holy Freeze when you have perfectly good Bone Walls and Decrepify at your disposal!) and the two of them can take the hits while you rain Hell on the baddies! If you feel like you need them, take some Revives as they can be very useful...this time around i'm trying to go without them but i've made allowances for them if I feel the need come Hell difficulty...

EDIT: Oh of course, gotta love liberal use of one-point Corpse Explosion adequately boosted by all the +skills and +PnB skills!