Introduction

Hi,

Welcome to my first Diablo pvp guide
It�s a boner/summomancer guide

2 months ago I created this char and I like to duel with it very much
I saw there is no guide for it yet so I made one

This necro will combine a very strong meat wall with good damage

This is a character for the rich bastards in Diablo because it needs some expensive rune words

Good points of this char:
- very strong (tanking anything isn't problem at all)
- good all-round duel char
- not everyone will expect that u can kill them, so u can expect lots of WTF?! reactions

weak points:
- it take some time before u are ready to duel
- it's not allowed in the most duel leagues because u are not allowed to create summons from corpses
- most people think its lame

gear:

I listed only the best gear because in my opinion this build isn't working well without it

Helm: shako (um)
Armor: enigma breast plate
u need tele with this char, and beast plate for the low str req
Belt: arachnid mesh
Weapon 1: beast rune word
the Fanaticism aura will give ur skeletons massive damage
shield: homunculus (um)
Gloves: to gloves
Boots: marrowwalk
need them for the marrow bug to increase ur bonesprit dam
Ring 1: stone of Jordan (absorb rings in stash)
for the +skill and mana
Ring 2: stone of Jordan (absorb rings in stash)
For the +skill and mana
Amulet: mara�s kaleidoscope
Skills, all stats and resist, cant be better
Switch: call to arms and lidless
This is very important, it will boost your and skeleton's life higher and it will also boost your mana

skills:

Raise skeleton: 20
1 of your main skills, max it together with skeleton mastery as first
Skeleton mastery: 20
1 of your main skills, max it together with raise skeleton as first
Bone sprit: 20
Your finish off skill, with this skill u are going to kill them in duel. Max it as 3rd
Bone wall: 20
Not a very good skills to use in duel but it�s a good synergy for bone sprit and bone armor. Max it as 4th
Bone armor: 1
To absorb some phys dam =), its also a pre req for bone wall
Amplify damage: 1
Use this skill vs casters, your skelets will give a huge dam bonus with it J
Iron maiden: 1
Use this skills vs melee chars, they will be dead in no time
Clay golem: 1
1 point to slow them down
Summon resist: 1
Also 1 point in this, it helps your skeletons survive longer vs elemental chars
All pre reqs: 1
Don�t waste more than 1 point on those
Rest of your points:
Put them into bonespear for a synergy for bonespirit
Total skillpoints: 89
So with the +12 skils from skill quests this char is playable on lvl 80 (if u wanna wear arachnid belt , otherwise its 77)

Stats:

Strength: Enough for ur gear, if u use enigma breast plate its almost base strength.
Don�t take more strength then ur equipe needs, its only a waste�
Dexterity: base, u don�t need max block because ur skeletons are your meat shield
Vita: rest, how more life the better
Mana: base, u got enough mana with dual sojs, if u got to little mana, just take some mana pots

Inventory

5* summoner skiller + fhr
try to reach frame 7 that is 56% fhr

5* summoner skiller + life
the more life the better

anni: ofc anni

small charms: small charms: fill up your inventory with 20/5 (life/res) or 20/17 (life/mana) small charms:)

merc

your merc is really important. Take a act2 might merc, this one will give might aura which will increase the dam of your skelets a lot

gear
I will make 2 kinds of gear for ur merc because this can varies from godly to good

weapon:
godly: eth doom warpike, the holy freeze aura ownz
good: bonehew or eth bonehew

armor:
godly: bramble, thorns aura is very good against melee chars
good: stone or shaft

helm:
godly: eth gaze
good: gaze or any other nice helm

Breakpoint tables

Faster hit recovery:

Necromancer
FHR Frames
0% 13
5% 12
10% 11
16% 10
26% 9
39% 8
56% 7
86% 6
152% 5
377% 4

Faster cast rate:

Necromancer
FCR Frames
0% 15
9% 14
18% 13
30% 12
48% 11
75% 10
125% 9

duel tips :

melee chars:
(barbs, smiters, ww assas, chargers, wolf druids, ect.. )
it's really funny to duel them. They are also the easiest chars to kill, just cast iron maiden on them and make sure to stay behind your skeletons so they can't hit you. Finish them off with Bone Spirit

Hammerdins: easy as well, just wait till they stand still to create a web of hammers, then jump on his ass, cast amplify dam and kill him with bonespear, u gonna lose some skelets but he, he is dead and u are alive

Trap assa�s: get enough FHR or u'll be stunned to death.... Don't try to tele to her immediately, wait for a good chance. Before u make a jump on her, cast Amp. Tele on her when she isn't protected by her traps. when u tele on her there is a big chance skeletons will kill her in one hit. If the don't, finish her off with Bone Spirit.

Bonenecro�s: this are also quite easy, first cast amp, and hold pressure on him.
Just tele to him everytime so he don�t got much time to shoot bonespears or something.
Don�t try to make a bonesprit fight of it. He is a boner, ur not u lose it when u try boner tactics

Elem druid: this is a hard one, use raven instead of a soj, otherwise u will be killed easy by hurricane.
Its better to hold distance and shoot bonespirits because elem druids are very strong and the hurricane stuns your skelets so they cant hit him."

Blizzard sorc: the most used tactic of a bliz sorc is to cast blizzard on themselves and wiat till u run into their blizzard. Don�t care about their blizzard, u got a big meat wall
Just tele on them and kill them QUICK, make sure after shes dead u leave ther blizzrd vast before u are dead

Foh pala�s: same like bone necro�s, cast amp, and try to tele on their ass everytime

Fb sorc: Make it "this is 1 of the most difficult chars: fireball has splash and very high damage, cast amp on her and circle around her with tele and avoid their fb�s, choose a good moment and approach her from behind so she has to move her mouse again to aim u. this will give u a little time to stun her with skeletons and finish her of with bonesprit
Never jump one fb sorc! W will be dead in a 2 or 3 fireballs because of the splash dam..."

Poison necro�s: also very hard: if ur skelets are hit with his poison they will be dead in a few sec, choose ur moment to tele on him very carefull

Other chars: the rest is easy , just cast amp, jump on them and finish them off with a few bonesprits

Notes:

Maybe u already knew it, but skelets are bugged. They cant be pierced by any skills so as long there is 1 skelet alive and stand at the same place like u, you are immortal

In pvm corpse explotion is very usefull to kill fast

Amplify dam will also increase the dam of corpse explotion


Final word

This was my first guide
I hope u like it and u going to build a necro like these because I have never seen a other boner/summo necro in a duel game and its still a very nice char to duel with ...

xerion

thade
23 Aug 2008, 01:18

actually you need the combat merc, but you also want runeword pride on that merc for a third aura of concentration, and it varies between 16-20 lvl concentration, at just lvl 16 thats 285% extra dmg... so he just forgot one thing really for insane dmg

moose
16 Jul 2008, 22:12

well... nice PvM guide, you'll be sorry if you face a hammerdin. my hammers does 10k damage each, and my sin's traps can pierce through all your bones with 9k lightning damage each. and I think you forgot the fact that most players can tele nowadays, not just you. you are better off sticking to PvM

VikesfanKevin
11 May 2008, 01:08

I don't get it. I made this char to the T and I tried it against my friends barb first and he just ww and my skillies died quick. Them he tried smiter. When I got Iron Maiden on him he died but the next time I teled on top of him and he hit merc and hit me I was dead in a couple seconds. I do lag real bad when I tele. I'm confused tho. It seems that the damage comes from the Skillies? or am I missing something. The only thing that hurt the barb were my spirts. From what I can see a normal boner would be way better than one of these. Do I use revives also? From what I can tell this guide makes this build sound WAY better than it is.

ooh
05 Apr 2008, 22:18

hammerdins are not as izi as it says, but damn hard, each hammer can pierce your whole army and your bones are not good enough to stop him

1 tip :
23 Mar 2008, 17:03

if you want to be ready for duel fast, dont take halls of pain wp and just enter the portal to nihlatacs temple ; there will be corpses of zombies from which you can simply summon skeletons. If you entered a game where isnt portal, go to cold plains. Though i d prefer making duel games myself coz you ll simply have army fast.

uhh
23 Jul 2007, 13:59

my fball sorc owns summons like crazy it cood b 2-7 summoners on me id own 1 by 1 wid out townin ill meteor on top of me n then ill fball like crazy umm wut else to say but OWNED go CRY.

bowa
23 Jul 2007, 13:54

if ur duelin a bowa zon tele around her arrows make sure not all of ur summons die cux if they do u r srewed but tele up to her quick n get rid of her spirit her ass n spear her hard after 2secs zon will cry bm cuz summonin in duels is bm.

Hello
27 May 2007, 23:19

nice guide,it worked out for me really well,
i just wanted to know wut is ur dmg?

me
03 May 2007, 01:43

nice guide

Boner
07 Feb 2007, 04:35

hum, whats ur damage after marow bug fixed?

rex
04 Feb 2007, 06:12

hi nice guide, just wondering if you have any tactics on dueling a bowzon....thanks

Aaron
11 Dec 2006, 01:49

This build is great and all but the Marrow walk bug/feature was fixed in 1.11.

FreAKz
16 Jul 2006, 13:17

realy nice guide

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