Necro build advice

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I doubt it because the mages don't do enuf dmg
RJ wrote:
> Thinking of maxing bone wall and mages. No skelly warriors. All
> ranged attack. Will this be viable for long? Idea is to hold back the
> melee attacks with the wall. Advice please.
>

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You are mistaken. The skeleton warriors ARE the bone wall. These guys
can take hit after hit after hit without dying. Seriously, at level 20
with mastery, 1 skeleton warrior can tank tons of guys in Hell. Having
10 of those dudes in the front lines is better than bone wall because
they do damage, and the enemies focus on them too, plus you are not
wasting skill points by putting 20 into mage and 20 into mastery - you
can put into warrior and get mastery benefits too.
I don't think mages do enough damage on their own anyway. The cold
ones are nice for freeze, the poison are nice for preventing monster
heal, but they don't really do high damage, and they die in 1 hit in
Hell. Warriors don't.

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RJ wrote:
> Thinking of maxing bone wall and mages. No skelly warriors. All
> ranged attack. Will this be viable for long? Idea is to hold back the
> melee attacks with the wall. Advice please.
>

Your ability to gain experience will suffer. You don't get experience
from enemies that die after hitting a bone wall/prison.

Mutabilis

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"RJ" <rjjensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thinking of maxing bone wall and mages. No skelly warriors. All
> ranged attack. Will this be viable for long? Idea is to hold back the
> melee attacks with the wall. Advice please.
>

I do not think the mage would be good enough. The mages may get stuck in
narrow area while in open places they will choose their own target. Ten
mages on one target could be good but ten mages on four would not. You can
still create a pure Boner or a hybrid. You imprison the monsters with BWall
or BPrison then you kill some with BSpirit and finish the group with CE.
Attract is good to concentrate a pack of monsters and to save some points in
CE. I max CE in the previous ladder but I will not this time.

Keep in mind that the spirit type of monsters will pass through you BWall or
BPrison so I would put one point in all the summoning tree to get a golem
and some revives. It is not hard for a new Necro to get +6 to all skill so
you would get 7 revives, some so so Skels as a meat shield. The revives
would still be very good and the golem too.

VD

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On 16 Aug 2005, "RJ" wrote:

>> Thanks for all of the replies. I'm always looking for different ways
>> of building. Other than skellies and mages and revives etc. what
>> unusual builds are there for necros? They seem sort of one dimensional.

You might want to try the Whack-a-mancer!

Max bone armor and synergies, because that armor is your shield.
You might use poison via a dagger, if you want to max the poison
skills... but count your skill points.

Max bone spear because it's a synergy to bone wall, which is your
crowd-control spell.

A point in each curse, because they're all useful. Especially
confusion.

But your main killing is you and your sword/axe/mace/dagger/bow, your
golem, and your merc.

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