help on summoning necro

[H3LLNoWay]

i have just started build a necro. i was wondering should i max mage and revive. i want to be pure summon btw. though i m not sure whether it is good.

PLZ I NEED HElP This is my first necro....

[Rapta111]

There's one in the stickies i think.

[Fuji]

Well IMO summoning necros r only good for blocking not attacking. Especially in hell. But thats just me. Yea max skel mastery skel mage skel and revive. mile:

[H3LLNoWay]

Thx 4 the reply

yah i know that this build is not great at attacking but i like the feeling of being a huge patch on the map:p

[66xerox66]

yeah same for me . summon necro are good in duel when u got tons of summon and u duel with them.

[Fuji]

orb pwns on skels tho unless they got summon resist and hammerdins pwn skel necros. just thought id get that off my chest. I heard Blizz is thinkin of makin D3!

[Rob]

i'd go skellie/revive/10pts amp/10 pts IM/10 mastery/rest revive

i don't build summon necros and never have, but I know the curse makes or breaks a summon necro

[Rapta111]

Iron maiden is shit with this new patch. Here's the best build so far that I have experimented with:

Points in this order:
5 into skele
1 into amplify damage
Max Skeleton
1 point into lower resist and all other curses leading up to it
Max Skeleton Mage
5 in Summon Resist
1 in Bone Prison with 1 in the prereq's
Max Summon Mastery
5 in revive
Max Skeleton Mage
Rest into revive

So in the end you should have:

20 Skeleton
20 Skeletal Mage
20 Summon Mastery
20 Summon Resist
1 in Lower Resist
1 in Bone Prison
1 in all prerequisites

Your main 1 point wonder spells are the curses, Bone prison, Iron Golem and Corpse Explosion. Remember that Corpse Explosion does half fire and half physical damage, so it does not really matter if you use Amplify Damage or Lower Resist when corpse exploding.

Gear (poor-ish):

Full Trang's
Arm of king Leoric
1 Buhamat's ring
1 Fast cast ring
Silkweaves
Any rare/magical +3 to summoning amulet, or a +2 to necro skills amulet
Homunculus
Wizardspike

Gear (rich):

Enigma
Arachnid's Mesh
Arm of King Leoric (Scintillating Jewel Of Truth/Hope, gives +15% all res, and choice of 7% FHR or 20 to life)
Shako (um)
Mara's
3 to Necro Boneflame or Perf Darkforce Spawn (Shael/Um, Shael If you need Block, Um if resist)
Silkweaves
Frostburns
2x soj's
Doom/CtA (doom if you want aura and don't have merc, otherwise CtA)
Lidless


One of the questions which arose often was: Why don't I use the marrow bug? Simple. It's useless! Being able to actually USE bone prison is much better than just putting on 100 damage to teeth and bone spear, or add 50 absorb to bone armor. Bone prison is a very useful skill when used properly, especially with a summoner Necromancer.

[Deartian-Forth]

Eh, summoning necros aren't my forte but this is what i'd do in my opinion:

20 Skeleton Mastery
20 Skeleton
20 Summon resist
10+ Revive
1 Skeleton Mage
3+ Amplify Damage

I'd just put one point in mage, and max out your melee skeletons. Besides, if you have massive skill gear you'll get your mages without wasting precious points from summon resist or mastery.

[Shailer]

first off dont use mages they suck balls they die mad quick and there dmg is not enough max

20 skele mastery
20 skele warrior
10-15 summon res
1 in fire golem
1 in golem mastery
add to amp and then max CE


Use enigma, and beast adn darkforce
and on merc get a might merc and use doom and bramble ownage/.

[Fuji]

Rapta u should send that to muder for the char guides forum. hell put it up

I like it mile:

[Rapta111]

first off dont use mages they suck balls they die mad quick and there dmg is not enough max

Obviously, from that naive statement, it's easy to know that you have no idea whatsoever on how to play mage-using Summoner. Mages allow you to kill physical immunes which your skeletons can't kill. If you have good mages, you will be able to damage the enemy before your skeletons even get to them, therefore allowing them to slow/whatever the monsters down. It also allows you to kill basically ANY monster.

And fuji, I don't think my guide is THAT much well explained for it to be posted up.

[pod_lunatic]

Well here is what i did...
i maxed skeleton, mage, skeleton mastery.
for golem i put 1 in iron golem and max golem mastery.
Then i put 1 in amp damage.
and i put 1 in teeth just so i can do something lol

[Rapta111]

...you maxed golem mastery...