d2james88's Poison Necromancer Guide

[Elysian_Rsa]

DISCLAIMER** This guide is from before the Reset here on the Forum. It is was one of the Guides from the Guide Contest. All Credit goes to D2james88 and not I for this Guide.

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1. Overview
2. Skill Distribution
---A. Poison and Bone
---B. Curses
---C. Summoning
3. Stat Distribution
4. Equipment
---A. Worn Items
---B. Carried Items
5. Basic Strategy
---A. General play
---B.PVP

1. Overview
This guide will cover all the important aspects of making the perfect Poison Necromancer. Exact skill and stat distribution will be covered and explained in depth. Also Basic strategy over general play and dueling will be covered.

2. Skill Distribution
(A) First and foremost the majority of your skills will be spent in the Poison and Bone tab of the skill tree which will be a total of 70, so begin by putting one skill into teeth and corpse explosion. Then begin to max out Poison Dagger, Poison Explosion, and Poison Nova. Because Poison Nova is your primary attack skill it is crucial to max out these three skills. After that put five points into Bone Armor (This is not totally important one will suffice if you would like to spend four into some other skill but one is required as it is a prerequisite for Bone Wall.) Then place one into Bone Wall and Bone Prison, Which will make things a lot easier because you will be able to trap monsters.

(B) Then move onto the Curses Tab of the skill three were a total of 16 skills will be spent. This section is simple place one point into each of Lower Resist prerequisites which are Amplify Damage, Weaken, Iron Maiden, Terror, Life Tap and Decrepify. Then put ten skill points into Lower Resist. DO NOT MAX LOWER RESIST, because after ten points and equipment it will be -64% to all resist but with twenty it will only be -66% so only place more into Lower Resist if you want it to last for more than one minute or have more than about a fifteen yard distance.

© Finally move onto the Summon tab of the skill tree which is another simple section. Place one skill into each Summon Resist, Clay Golem, Blood Golem and Iron Golem. Then place ten points into Fire Golem and Golem Mastery. This should make a pretty Strong Golem with about 6k life.

3. Stat Distribution
Stat Distribution is pretty simple all you should have to do is put about fifty stat points into you strength which should be enough to equip everything with a Hellfire Torch and Annihilous. Fifty points should also be placed into dexterity because with your charms you will have more than seventy five, this will give you maximum block percentage. All other points should be spent into your life for obvious reasons. No stat points need to be placed into your energy because with equipment you should have about 1k mana which will be plenty with your mana regeneration.

4. Equipment
A) Now we begin the equipment section of this guide, this section may be modified to better suite your taste but I will explain a very effective combination of gear which should also be fairly affordable to most casual players. First we will start with armor. Make an Enigma in a Mage Plate it will have approximately 1k defense or you could use a Dusk Shroud that will have about 1.2k defense but will be harder to find. Next get a Shako for a helmet because it gives two to all skills and major health and mana bonuses and you can socket it with and Um rune to add 20 to all resist. For rings you should acquire two Stone of Jordan rings and a 3 to Poison and Bone skills amulet or a Mara’s kaleidoscope if you can get your hands on one. For a weapon you should make a HOTO in a flail, because it is 3 to all skills 40 to all resist and has faster cast rate. Get a Homunculus for a shield and socket it with a perfect diamond for resistance. I recommend this shield because it is 2 to all skills 2 to Curses 40 to all resist (Without Diamond), in second weapon slot put a Call to Arms made in a flail and a Spirit made in a monarch. For a belt I recommend a String of Ears or an Arachnids Mesh. Gloves and boots are not very important so I will leave this choice up to you.

(B) The main items you will carry will be an Annihilous small charm, and a Hellfire Torch large charm. If you want to improve your damage you can also carry up to nine fungal grand charms.

5. Basic Strategy
(A) Basic game play with your new Poison Necromancer is pretty straight forward you just cast Lower Resist on any enemy then run by them and cast Poison Nova on them to kill them. Poison Necromancers are very capable of surviving on their own in hell even in act five most enemies should be fairly easily taken out, the only enemies that might pose as a threat is are venom lords because they have an immunity to poison which will be resolved once you cast Lower Resist on them but they still have a pretty high poison resist so cast Bone prison on them if necessary.

(B) I will not go in depth on this section because I believe half the fun of dueling is creating your own strategies and coming up with new ways to win. First of this build will handle almost any melee character with ease except a Paladin because they generally have very high resistance even with Lower Resist used on them, so accept these duels with caution, just start by running outside with Lower Resist as your skill and with Poison Nova and Teleport set as your only hotkeys then cast Lower Resist on them. The cool this is that you can still cast it on them even if there in town. After you cast Lower Resist cast your Fire Golem because poison cannot kill a player it will simply instantly reduce their heath to one. Hotkey over to Poison Nova and hit them with it when you begin to duel, your Fire Golem should instantly kill them if not cast Poison Nova again and they will die. Most caster duels should still be relatively simple after you get the hang of hot keying between Poison Nova and Teleport. Just teleport near them and cast Nova and teleport out of range of their attacks. The only real treat from a caster will be a sorceress because it will be a teleport and cast duel, whoever gets the first hit will most likely win.

[Elysian_Rsa]

Originally Posted by Taurean

What is all these joke guides spamming across the forums o_O ???

Help Omnicide with bringing back some guides that were ripped from this site before the reset on this forum. Talk to Omnicide if you need to confirm this.

[Taurean]

I'm sorry, i'll delete my post

[Elysian_Rsa]

Np Taurean ye were only doing your job

[ArmyPiper]

Is this the best guide for a NEcro?

[Omnicide]

Read them and decide for yourself?

[dainbramage]

its the best gide 4 nerco i mad a poicen nerco useing tihs gide and killd sum n00b hdins in this gaem cald "LL Doolz"

But I lost 2 a nub bm trapsin hu kept spaming mb and wof but my staked auradin killd taht bm nub

[Omnicide]

Originally Posted by dainbramage

its the best gide 4 nerco i mad a poicen nerco useing tihs gide and killd sum n00b hdins in this gaem cald "LL Doolz"

But I lost 2 a nub bm trapsin hu kept spaming mb and wof but my staked auradin killd taht bm nub

osht ur rly gud
sorb dunt kownt cuz bm tho

[Heka]

Why 5 points to bone armor because when u take bone wall or bone prison they make bone armor stronger than the skill itself

[Taurean]

There's no need to even critizise this guide, it belongs in the trashbin!