SummonNecro Guide

||STATS||
Strength: None or as little as possible
Dexterity: None
Vitality: As much as possible
Energy: 50-100 (High level Summons have a really high summoning cost [50 more or less]... I'm using 100)

||SKILLS||
Raise Skeleton - 20
Skeleton Mastery - 20
Raise Skeleton Mage - 20
Clay Golem - 5
Blood Golem - 1
Iron Golem - 1
Fire Golem - 4
Golem Mastery - 5
Summon Resist - 3
Revive - 1

Amplify Damage - 1
Iron Maiden - 1
Life Tap - 1
Lower Resist - 1
Dim Vision - 1
Confuse - 1
Attract - 1
Weaken - 1
Terror - 1
Decrepify - 1

Poison Dagger - 0
Poison Explosion - 0
Poison Nova - 0
Teeth - 1
Corpse Explosion - 8
Bone Spear - 0
Bone Spirit - 0
Bone Armor - 1
Bone Wall - 1
Bone Prison - 0

Well, of course you will have a lot of skill points sparing around... So I’ve thought about having all curses (funny), Corpse Explosion (useful on full games) and Golems (Fire Golem to help you to kill monsters, Clay to slow down bosses)…
This build was made with exactly 101 skill points (level90 character)…
By the way, remember to use MARROW GLITCH, so you can have a better Bone Armor!

||ITEMS||
NOTE – I’ll state here items that you should use if u want to have your Summon Skills as high as you can (I currently have level50 Raise Skeleton, level49 Raise Skeleton Mage, level52 Skeleton Mastery… It OWNs)… Try to socket Um runes or All Resists Jewels everywhere until you have max resists…
You shouldn’t have any FCR nor FHR… The Skeletons shall kill everyone…

Helm – Golemlord’s Circlet (+3 to Summon Skills) or Shako

Armor – Enigma

Belt – Arachnid’s Mesh

Glove – Magefist (20 FCR, +1 to Fire Golem, +1 to Corpse Explosion)

Boot – Marrowalk (+2 to Skeleton Mastery, Marrow GLITCH)

Amulet – Golemlord’s Amulet (+3 to Summon Skills) or Mara’s Kaleidoscope or Storm Circlet

Rings – SoJ/SoJ or SoJ/BK or BK/BK

Weapon – Arm of King Leoric (+5 to Raise Skeleton, +4 to Raise Skeleton Mage, +5 to Skeleton Mastery, +2 to the other Summon Skills) or Beast (Fanaticism aura)

Shield – Boneflame (+3 to Necromancer skills + 20-30 base All Resists) or Homunculus or Darkforce

SWITCH – CTA and Lidless or any +1 All Skills shield

Inventory
10 Graverobbers Grand Charms (lifers if possible)
Annihilus
Set of 9 Small Charms with life/mana/resists

||HIRELING||
You must choose between:
Act2 Nightmare Offensive (Might aura)
Act2 Nightmare Combat (Thorns aura)

I strongly recommend you to use the one with Might; it raises your Skeletons damage by something near 70%...

Hireling’s items
Helm – Andariel’s Visage or Gaze (Eth if possible)
Armor – Eth Stone or Eth Enigma (+70 to Str raises greatly his damage)
Weapon – Eth Doom or Eth Bonehew or Death’s Cleaver

That’s it guys, this kind of Necromancer almost never dies dueling…
You’ll have problems only with Ele Druids and FB Sorcs…

Any problems, post here... See You...

id rather max revive..

how do mages give you +1 fire golem and +1 corpse explosion. Also could u put a guide on how to duel against diff chars? Do u just tele directly onto any type of char?

corpse explosion is a fire skill???? damn, didnt know that

Yup guys...
Corpse Explosion and Fire (duh) Golem are FIRE skills...
So just use Magefist and you´ll have +1 onto those skills...

mrpink: I woundn´t... I´ve had a lvl94 SummonNecro with maxed Revive...
I mean, you don´t really need revives, just in case of some Souls...
Anyway, my revive was lvl47... I COULDN´T summon 47 monsters... By the 30th, the first was already dying... So I remade it... Now I have lvl1 Revive and I can summon like 27-28... Good enought...

yeah would love an additional section on how to duel in general and against the various characters. Its it a drag to re-gather your army everytime u die in a duel?

Dueling Strategies:

Barbarian:
Just teleport directly onto them... No mercy… He’ll die in 2 seconds…
For BadMannering, just cast Iron Maiden…

Amazon:
Just laugh a lot… They can’t even aim you… Just teleport onto them and it’s done!

Sorceress:
Light &Cold& Non-FireBaller – due to their high damage/freezing attack, just teleport as fast as you can and you’ll prolly kill her

FireBaller – Due to some splash damage they do when they hit you, they’re pretty difficult to beat… I don’t know if it’s true, but some guys said that if you summon your Fire Golem (BadMannering but…) the splash damage will be absorbed by it…

Assassin:
Trapper – They’re pretty difficult to kill coz they keep running to all directions…
But you’ll have some time till all your skeletons are gone, so try to teleport quickly

Non-Trapper – As always, just teleport onto her

Necromancer:
Piece of cake (lol), just teleport onto him

Paladin:
Hammerdin – Due to his high damage, you’ll have to kill him quickly, but it’s OK

Non-Hammerdin – Just teleport directly onto them... No mercy… He’ll die in 2 seconds…
For BadMannering, just cast Iron Maiden…

Druid:
Non-Windy – Just teleport onto him

Windy – Here’s the problem… Dunno how, but their Hurricane just isn’t absorbed by your skelys… You’ll only kill one of these if you keep teleporting around him, out of Hurricane’s radius, waiting till your Mages kill him… Pretty difficult…

sounds fun, i think ill make one soon. Maybe ill add a point into poison nova just to lag baal runs

Do you think beast fana is is better than the leoric +skills?

i use leoric wand most of time...
beast just for some nice duelz....

i also forgot to ask you, what golem do u use in duels? clay to slow them down? or iron to give the skeles a nice bonus? (fire against fb sorc duh)

i have one its fucking sweet. 8 in poison explosion with none in bone spells? sounds like PvM to me...zzzz

1 in CE is all you need, throw extra points into spirit till it hits 1k, might as well spirit em while u are on top of em + spirit stuns

omg i dont do that...
coz... if u die, cya beast...
and i use my nec to duel, so SOMETIMES he dies... so no way, better to keep beast on inv...

If im all PvP, I dont need CE, so what do I do with the 8 pts or so? Revive? curses??

if u wanna PvP only, u can:
take off CE pts and add onto revive & curses (not useful)
OR....
1 pt only on CE
1 pt only on fire golem

on curses, just put 1 pt onto amp, IM, decrepify, so ull save 5 pts here

so ull have like 15 pts left... then add onto bone spirit or spear...
crappy dmg (of course), but ull knock the guy back, so then, teleport

i think more points should go into revive..stronger summons?

but it is alot cooler having like an army of monsters and venom lords then puny skeletons

im escnl, id like ot duel oyur summoneri have never foguht 1

are they as effetive in pvp as they pwn pvm? and does mana burn work?

Problem is how do you kill the first monsters to make skellies outta them. A quill rat in hell will pwn you before you can kill them if you don't have some type of attack

kool build.. i wanan make one ^^

if i get a might aura A2 merc...will that stack with fana from beast?

yes

i disagree with that..

Whats your merc look like?

i got a question.. how the hell do u kill a monster to start even summoning with?

I always use an Ethereal Edge iron Golem..

And merc kills first few monsters DUH.

pretty nice guide 7/10 i never knew about the fire skillz

nice guide

i have nvr made a summon necro cuz i always thought it would suck at pvp. and its prolly anoying to kill monsters then to revive them and then u can fight. i might try to make one if i have time. thx for the good guide