Poll of the Day > Here's why Diablo 2 is so fucking good.

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Just make a Hybrid skele/Bonespear Necro and you cant lose anywhere in the game
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EvilMegas posted...

Just make a Hybrid skele/Bonespear Necro and you cant lose anywhere in the game

I'm more of a Corpse Explosion guy. I tend to max it, unless I have great gear with loads of +skills. With Amplify Damage, it's powerful as fuck. And the blast radius when maxed...

What builds were more OP for PvE than hammerdin?
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luigi13579 posted...

EvilMegas posted...

Just make a Hybrid skele/Bonespear Necro and you cant lose anywhere in the game

I'm more of a Corpse Explosion guy. I tend to max it, unless I have great gear with loads of +skills. With Amplify Damage, it's powerful as fuck. And the blast radius when maxed...

I never did a pure corpse explosion focused necro, but I've done just about every other kind. My favorite Necro build...really, my favorite build out of the whole game....was my poison necro.
Now, most poison necros just spam poison nova, but that's mana intensive and not very strong, plus boring. No, I focused on poison dagger and later poison explosion! they do obscene damage, but can take like 20 seconds to deliver all of it.
Basically, I got a unique armor (forgot the name...it's purple...not a high level piece of gear, either) that gave 50% chance of making foes run away in fear w/ each hit, which most would find annoying. I used it, along w/ Prevent Monster Heal affix and bonus poison damage and resist lowering wherever I could get it, to basically just knife a monster once or twice w/ poison till he fled. Then knife the next one.
The area would eventually be clear, and I'd walk onward, finding corpses strewn all over the map for me. :)
No one I played with online ever seemed to no how to work in synergy w/ me, lol. I'd tell them, "let them flee, they're already dead!" and they wouldn't 'get it.'

BigOlePappy posted...

What builds were more OP for PvE than hammerdin?

Since the Infinity runeword was added, Light Sorcs, Trap Assassins and Javazons are arguably even more OP (for PvM anyway), at least offensively. Slap Infinity on your merc and the Conviction aura lowers enemies' resistances and even removes many (Lightning) immunities.

One of the more impressive sights in the game is seeing a Javazon wrecking Baal and his minions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOD8qItXPIw

Javazons are perhaps a bit more situational than Hammerdins, although Hammerdins do struggle in some areas, particularly those with tight spaces like The Maggot Lair.

streamofthesky posted...

I never did a pure corpse explosion focused necro, but I've done just about every other kind. My favorite Necro build...really, my favorite build out of the whole game....was my poison necro.

A CE Necro (CE + Summon, that is) is worth a try. If nothing else, it's a blast to play one (lol). Poison Necros are cool too.