My Fire Necro

I found an ethereal Vipermagi and thought I have to do something with it. And the only use case I could imagine was an act 3 merc. So I created a Necro for him.
Vipermagi, Flickering Flame, Hexfire and Lidless Wall gives level 35 Enchant. Every Skeleton gets the buf.

The Necro uses Naj's Ancient Vestige. The full set gives +3 to all and +2 to fire skills, nice resistence and the most important: Teleport. This is crucial for a summoning Necro. I added Mara, SOJ, Nagel, Arach, Frostburn and Marrowwalk. I maxed both masteries and Fire Golem, put one point in every curse and two points in armor and Corpse Explosion, five points in Revive and the rest in skeletons.

With this setup the Necro cruises pretty casual though P1 Terror zones. I use in most cases Lower Resist. A sunder charm is not necessary which means Lower Resist is not nerfed. Monsters which are both physical and fire immune require Amplify Damage.

Skin of the Vipermagi
The Stone of Jordan
Mara's Kaleidoscope
Nagelring
Arachnid Mesh

Bone Armor

where do you get lv 35 Enchant?

I am not sure about it but assumed theres a Fireball/Meele build for Necro. Hand of Justice and Dragon Armor and Shield Flickering Flame Helmet Trang-Oul's Gloves and Belt.
Maximum Fire Golem. Do use Todesfaelle Flamme for Enchant. Think about Passion for Zeal. Or Hand of Justice Hydra Bow. Spam Fire Balls and Arrows. Important is the Holy Fire Aura with the Fire Golem together with ! Lower Resist ! Should burn.

Edit: Forgot to mention. An Act 2 Mercenary with Infinity is working for this build.

Szeduxen wrote: 11 months ago

Edit: Forgot to mention. An Act 2 Mercenary with Infinity is working for this build.

a2, then no Enchant...fb build...

Is a whole different build. Chose Act 3 Merc for Summoning Skeletons.

The build is theory I will test it later on.

Now this is something special, I like this. I love necro as is but now you just gave me a reason to play it more.

Szeduxen wrote: 11 months ago

I am not sure about it but assumed theres a Fireball/Meele build for Necro. Hand of Justice and Dragon Armor and Shield Flickering Flame Helmet Trang-Oul's Gloves and Belt.
Maximum Fire Golem. Do use Todesfaelle Flamme for Enchant. Think about Passion for Zeal. Or Hand of Justice Hydra Bow. Spam Fire Balls and Arrows. Important is the Holy Fire Aura with the Fire Golem together with ! Lower Resist ! Should burn.

Edit: Forgot to mention. An Act 2 Mercenary with Infinity is working for this build.

lvl18 unsynergized Fireball does 172-197 dmg. Assuming you wear a soj, anni, mara, Flickering Flame, and use Battle Command to increase it to lvl26, it is still only 293-326 dmg (so 586-652 against mobs with -100 fire res).

lvl44 unsynergized Holy Fire (hoj 1 handed weapon and 2 dragons) does 124-147 pulse dmg (double it for mobs with -100 fire res) and gives 741-882 fire dmg to your attacks (double it for mobs with -100 fire res)

compare this to any semi decent fire sorc (~30 times higher Fireball dmg) or paladin (6.2 times higher aura dmg + a useful melee attack + lvl25 Conviction on all the time) and you will see why fb/ Holy Fire necro is not a thing.

I'll show my results after rushing a Necro.
I know Fireball is a bit Off-Meta. I thought of Magefist etc.

Nice to see another interesting niche build! Good job, he looks very cool