Jabber's next build

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He made the IK Sorc I thought up, so now he can make this one too. It
seems like his sort of build.

Behold, I give you the enchantomancer! ; )

Full Trangs set give a necromancer Fire Mastery, which as everyone
knows, boosts fire damage on weapons. So, the Necro enchants using a
demon limb most likely, then switches to a different weapon. As the
full set includes a shield, it means he's going to have to melee. So
he'll want a weapon that also starts off with a lot of fire damage,
though a weapon with lesser fire damage but better other mods might be
the better idea. Maybe give a passion phase blade a go and become an
Enchantomazealer? ; )
Not being able to use a bow with explosive arrows/bolts is a pity as
that's a good way to increase your damage.
So, lots of of +skills to beef up his fire mastery, passion weapon for
zeal and maybe see if you can't fit a decent amount of crushing blow in
as well.
Hmm, you'd probably go a fully synergised bone armor, though that would
just about make him a bonemancer, though you could still not play him
as such except for dealing with fire immunes.
That gives me a thought though. Corpse explosion does fire damage.
Would the fire mastery from Full trangs increase it?
Oh yeah, max or put enough points in lower resist so that it's most
effective. Isn't there something about monsters not being able to go
below -100% resist? I think I recall something along those lines for a
sorcs cold mastery which made it pointless to get it over a certain
level.

Anyway, maybe lower resist, corpse explosion, and some other curses
like attract as crowd control, possibly a big bone wall for additional
crowd control? Make him less a boner.

Getting tempted to try this out myself off-ladder as I could probably
come up with most of the equipment I'd want. Have got full trangs, and
I recall seeing a demon limb while looking through mules for stuff to
give away. Don't have a passion phaseblade but that's not a ladder
only runeword I don't think, and I do have 4 socket phaseblades and
probably all the required runes already.

I'd have to experiment, but it doesn't look like firemastery buffs up
enchant charges. At least, my fireball sorc using a demon's limb to
enchant a newbie only gave them around 100-200 fire damage. Enough for
normal cows in a full game just, but I would have expected more if the
firemastery was doing anything useful. Still, with the fire mastery on
the necro, it could still get to an okay total.

Might have trouble in hell, but it's sounding fun so far. : )

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Ashen Shugar