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Diane wrote:
> sidekick <sidekick39spam_bust@adelphia.net> wrote in
> news:seedncLAdoKmsIvfRVn-og@adelphia.com:
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>>Diane wrote:
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>>>sidekick <sidekick39spam_bust@adelphia.net> wrote in
>>>news:mcWdnXptKdqDuovfRVn-jg@adelphia.com:
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>>>>>Well here is a prime example of the fact that you understand this
>>>>>game much better than I do. You've equipped your necro so much
>>>>>better than I've equipped mine, and you've used your skill points to
>>>>>a much better advantage. I've been socking points into the
>>>>>masteries while I guess I should have been putting more into
>>>>>skellies and golem instead. A short while ago I discovered that we
>>>>>should find a golem we like and stick with it rather than switching
>>>>>around and using up skill points in each one, so I've stuck to the
>>>>>blood golem which seems to feed me life. But, I do have a point in
>>>>>iron and fire golems and I can probably switch to fire at some point
>>>>>if that will give me an advantage. I've never crafted anything and
>>>>>that's something that I seriously need to look at so I can get
>>>>>better equipment. I have such a cache of pgems and higher end runes
>>>>>and I'm not doing a thing with them. I'm still confused about the
>>>>>terminology here, i.e., rares, uniques. I just call things as I see
>>>>>them, i.e., yellow items, gold items and blue items. But, I don't
>>>>>know which is the rare and which is the unique. I've got a good
>>>>>collection of yellow and gold items in my stash and I'm always
>>>>>waiting for things that should help a necro, but so far I'm sticking
>>>>>with gold items.
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyway, you'll do great against the big D with what you've got.
>>>>>You'll even do well in Harragath. I think I'm gonna have to start
>>>>>doing something about my guy or else I won't be making it through NM
>>>>>let alone Hell. Maybe this is why I've NEVER gotten a char to the
>>>>>Hell level, huh?
>>>>>
>>>>>Diane
>>>>
>>>>Diane
>>>> What do you think about using mages instead of skellys. Seems to
>>>> me
>>>>they would do more damage than a normal skelly.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>It's true. They do seem to do more immediate damage than the
>>>skelly's. However, they don't appear to have the same staying power.
>>> Time and again my mages get killed while I still have all my
>>>skellies fighting the fight. Mages, like skellies, can be
>>>resurrected easily, however, they need to be resurrected more
>>>frequently. It's another one that you have to put points into if you
>>>really want them to be strong. At least that's been my experience.
>>>I use them if I need to build up more of an army, however I'm
>>>thinking it would be better to have more skellies than to bother with
>>>the mages.
>>>
>>>Diane
>>
>>I have not done a necro in a long time. However reading your posts
>>about how much you are enjoying yours in the CE mod is making me start
>>to re-think about making one. I have always prefered a sorc to any of
>>the other types of char.
>>
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>
> I've never tried a sorc. I'm finding that, as a relatively "newbie"
> player, I'm gaining levels and getting through Normal very well with the
> necro b/c I have an army. I've played as a Barb, but the melee is
> really hard and quite frankly, CE is started at /players 13, so if I had
> to take a barb in there and try to go it alone, I'd be dead more than
> alive. The crowd of monsters is just overwhelming. Mostly I stand back
> and shoot out my Bone Spear and let the skellies and golem do all the
> dirty work. In melee fighting, I have a tendency to get right in the
> middle of things and that's not where you should be b/c being surrounded
> only gets you killed. As it is, on a few occasions I've allowed my
> necro to get right into the middle of a bunch of Unseens, and I almost
> ate the dirt as they say. It's those times when I call for my skellies
> to "get the hell over here and get me outta this mess." And they do
> respond, lol.
>
> Diane
YIKES!!!! I just met Damien! In the swampy pit. He must be another
one of those you need to wait until you have beaten baal to tangle with.
He handed me my butt on a stick several times before I decided it was
not worth it!
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