A Very Edge 'y Summoner

So running my alt as a summonmancer and was struggling with act bosses (specifically

Duriel on normal). Got past him after a few deaths (and many rejuve potions and the

Sacrifice of several dozen clay golemns). Got to lvl 25 and realized that allowed me to run the Edge

Edge Bow (Edge rune word on an

Edge Bow) I had made for my main, (a WW money maker barb). Well, apparently a lvl 15

Thorns aura works really well on a summonmancer, I mean I can't wield any best in slot weapons with it, but having 8 skelly's, 1 (lvl 1)

Clay Golem, and a

Prayer act 2 merc. I managed to kill

Mephisto in 2 hits (both his), after cursing him... if I am right he was taking ~16x his own damage on each swing and my skeletons couldn't defend so the

Thorns proc'd.

just thought I would share the fun

Gheed hates this one trick!

At least, that's all I've been using Edge for -- it's a nice cheap runeword, cool that you were able to use the

Thorns! I've also got a Harmony on swap for quickness.

Bow Necro, who'da thunk it?

Thats why I made it in the first place... but then I was like, "

Thorns does physical damage", "

Iron Maiden does physical damage", "

Amplify Damage doubles (sorta) physical damage"... but I can't curse the same target with both

Iron Maiden and

Amplify Damage. but I can have

Thorns aura and

Amplify Damage.

Not to mention this is mostly just a stop gap till I can spam

Corpse Explosion...

Yes you can also try act 2 merc

Thorns with

Amplify Damage. Helps kill

Mephisto fast but there are better options later. I only like this option for killing bosses, so not worth it regularly.

Later on I prefer

Holy Freeze instead of

Thorns, even for a

Corpse Explosion build.

CatCat wrote: 4 years ago

Later on I prefer

Holy Freeze instead of

Thorns, even for a

Corpse Explosion build.

For summons, Might is right!

well, this did basically nothing for Diablo... so I am going to have to re-think my build a bit...

so

Decrepify is still better than

Thorns for all the bosses, and

Corpse Explosion better than

Thorns for crowds... but hey,

Thorns was pretty fun.

this is pretty well know.

Thorns and

Iron Maiden are great for normal.

Yeah, and you have to make it through normal some how.

mgorman42 wrote: 4 years ago

so

Decrepify is still better than

Thorns for all the bosses, and

Corpse Explosion better than

Thorns for crowds... but hey,

Thorns was pretty fun.

Thanks to the Bow you can have both. Or did you mean

Iron Maiden instead of

Thorns?

Darq wrote: 4 years ago

mgorman42 wrote: 4 years ago

so

Decrepify is still better than

Thorns for all the bosses, and

Corpse Explosion better than

Thorns for crowds... but hey,

Thorns was pretty fun.

Thanks to the Bow you can have both. Or did you mean

Iron Maiden instead of

Thorns?

well, to make better use of

Corpse Explosion and

Decrepify, I switched back to a

Wand/shield with skill boosts. but I was also running

Amplify Damage, because

Thorns damage is physical. I probably could still use the bow, but it isn't as necessary