Poll: Necro minions

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For a Summoner, which would be more fun:

a) more minions, but weaker
b) fewer, but stronger minions
c) keep it as is

(For mod play, so lag isn't as important.)
--
Zamboni

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Raise Skeleton also increases their abilities.
1 point in summon resist is a necessity, usually + to slkills takes care
of the rest.
PeeVee_Hermann wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2005 12:46:33 -0700, "Zamboni" <thezambonis@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>For a Summoner, which would be more fun:
>>
>>a) more minions, but weaker
>>b) fewer, but stronger minions
>>c) keep it as is
>>
>>(For mod play, so lag isn't as important.)
>
>
> i've wondered this myself, but, besides maxing skeleton mastery, i
> cant figure out how to make minions stronger. Even with it max'd,
> seems to me you still need a metric buttload of them or yer toast.
>
> But I'm still learning.
>
>
>

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On 26 Apr 2005 12:46:33 -0700, "Zamboni" <thezambonis@gmail.com>
wrote:

>For a Summoner, which would be more fun:
>
>a) more minions, but weaker
>b) fewer, but stronger minions
>c) keep it as is

More... that's why summoning necro was so much fun... for me, anyway.
Sometimes though they're just plain TOO weak, especially in say the
maggot hole, but that's part of the game... to be challenged in
different ways.

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"short" <shorts@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Zamboni" <thezambonis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1114544793.141643.44240@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> For a Summoner, which would be more fun:
>>
>> a) more minions, but weaker
>> b) fewer, but stronger minions
>> c) keep it as is
>>
>> (For mod play, so lag isn't as important.)
>> --
>> Zamboni
>>
>
> I say fewer but stronger, or leave the Skeletons as they are but improve
> the
> others. Give revives a 10 minute timer, boost their damage a tiny bit,
> and
> make golems more like the Grizzly. The golems never did do enough damage,
> imo.
>
> short
>
>
The Revive timer is one of my main peeves. I'm looking at trading the life
bonus for an increased timer - when was the last time you saw a Revive
killed in combat? The Eastern Sun mod made Revive a level-1 skill with a
16-second timer; more points increased the timer to a maximum well past the
standard 3 minutes. Could be a possibility to dump skellies entirely and go
with a mob of Revives.

For the Golems, I've toyed with the Aura Beast concept, where each "Golem"
gains an aura it can lend to the skellies (sort of a gigantic demonic
Paladin). Adding a Vengeance skill to Golem Mastery would also provide a
subtle boost that would really add some punch at high levels. I do think a
fully-synergized Golem should work as well as any other end-game skill -
imagine a Defiant Clay Golem using Vengeance with knockback. (Plus I've
added the new animations make him twice the size as before.)

I should have the beta up in a few days for necros to play in. Just need to
try and shrink the download a bit.
--
Zamboni

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"Zamboni" <zamboni@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "short" <shorts@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> news:426eb2b1$1_2@127.0.0.1...
> >
> > "Zamboni" <thezambonis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1114544793.141643.44240@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >> For a Summoner, which would be more fun:
> >>
> >> a) more minions, but weaker
> >> b) fewer, but stronger minions
> >> c) keep it as is
> >>
> >> (For mod play, so lag isn't as important.)
> >> --
> >> Zamboni
> >>
> >
> > I say fewer but stronger, or leave the Skeletons as they are but improve
> > the
> > others. Give revives a 10 minute timer, boost their damage a tiny bit,
> > and
> > make golems more like the Grizzly. The golems never did do enough
damage,
> > imo.
> >
> > short
> >
> >
> The Revive timer is one of my main peeves. I'm looking at trading the life
> bonus for an increased timer - when was the last time you saw a Revive
> killed in combat? The Eastern Sun mod made Revive a level-1 skill with a
> 16-second timer; more points increased the timer to a maximum well past
the
> standard 3 minutes. Could be a possibility to dump skellies entirely and
go
> with a mob of Revives.
>
Oooh, that would be fun. If you could take the timer off intirely, that
would be cool
20 Revives of your choosing, forever. w00000t!

> For the Golems, I've toyed with the Aura Beast concept, where each "Golem"
> gains an aura it can lend to the skellies (sort of a gigantic demonic
> Paladin). Adding a Vengeance skill to Golem Mastery would also provide a
> subtle boost that would really add some punch at high levels. I do think a
> fully-synergized Golem should work as well as any other end-game skill -
> imagine a Defiant Clay Golem using Vengeance with knockback. (Plus I've
> added the new animations make him twice the size as before.)
>
I say boost the HF aura of the Fire Golem by say......4billion percent, and
let it carry over to summonses. I think Defiance is a good Clay Golem aura
too.

> I should have the beta up in a few days for necros to play in. Just need
to
> try and shrink the download a bit.
> --
>
Cool!!

Since you're uberfying the Necro, I'll definitely download it.


short



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