Poison Nova + Infinity

[Daking]

How effective is a poison necro with a merc w/ infinity? Can a poison necro kill monsters well from act1-5? How does poison nova work does it bring monsters to 1 hp then you can poison nova again and they die??? can some one explain how it works as well as if infinity works well w/ poison necro.

thx,
daking

[Silent_killers]

Not sure how well it works, but I do know that poison will kill monsters. However, it will not kill players.

[Daking]

can some one explain in greater detail how effective infinity + poison nova is?

[The-Grim-Reaper]

not effective at all. conviction only lowers elemental resistance, not poison.

[Daking]

are you sure confused: That kinda sucks i want to be lazy and just poison nova stuff w/o casting lower resist :p

[FraterPerdurabo]

Use Bramble, Death's Web and Trang's Gloves. A perfect combination for a Nova Necro. I have a level 79 necro, with Poison Nova and its synergies maxed, it is quite good. Haven't done PvP with it though...
And some advice, don't use Trang's set, it really is ineffective. If You can afford it, get Bramble and Death's web, amazing combo. I also heard that Bramble won't work if it's on Your merc, so don't try that.

[The-Grim-Reaper]

enigma>bramble for psn necro. +2skills/tele/~70str>25-50%psndmg

[baconbuddy]

Poison nova doesn't stop at 1HP. It can kill mosters altogheter if they havn't the resistances.

p.s. yeah enigma is best for necro

[StuntMonkey46]

Infinity would be useful because lower resist on lowers the first resistance, so if they have 2 then that usually doesnt mean poison is gotten rid of.

Example: there are those poison vipers with immune to light ( first one) then immune to poison (second), infinity would get rid of the immune to light which means that lower resist would get rid of the immune to poison.

If you just used lower resist they would still be immune to poison.

[The-Grim-Reaper]

Infinity would be useful because lower resist on lowers the first resistance, so if they have 2 then that usually doesnt mean poison is gotten rid of.

Example: there are those poison vipers with immune to light ( first one) then immune to poison (second), infinity would get rid of the immune to light which means that lower resist would get rid of the immune to poison.

If you just used lower resist they would still be immune to poison.

no, conviction doesnt work with poison. so it wouldnt help at all.

[StuntMonkey46]

I never said conviction worked with poison, what I said is that if a monster has 2 resists and the first one is not poison, and the second is infinity is useful.

I will say again lower resist only gets rid of the first resist from experience therefore if you did it on a monster with stats like the above, the monster would be immune to poison still, however with infinity, infinity would get rid of the first one (since its either fire, cold or light immune) and then lower resist would get rid of the poison.

INFINITY IS A GOOD IDEA!

[ArcaneSupremacy]

Conviction breaks immunities by lowering the elemental resistances at 1/5 effectiveness. Poison is not elemental. Conviction has no effect on immunity to poison.

Lower resist, even on its own, can break immunities. Against immunes it only functions at 1/5 effectiveness. For example, your lower resist is -60%, and a poison immune monster has 110 resistance. Lower resist will lower the target's poison resistance by 60%/5% = 12%. The monster will then have 98% resistance to poison, losing the immunity. Conviction, having nothing to do with poison at all, will not make a difference.

[A|fzZz]

Just stick with low res.

[FraterPerdurabo]

http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx...163465&P=1

Read the part on how Conviction, Lower Resists and immunity breaking works.

[Exorcise]

poison nova can kill monsters in one nova if its strong enough, although in PvP you have to cast twice because the first one is going to only lower your foe's life to 1, and another one for the kill. just get a holy freeze mercencary or fire golem to finish the person.