Theorycrafting a terrible Necro build

I want to build a

Poison Dagger Necro. Since I don't have access to the game in next few weeks, I will open this here post for us to try to make it work.

I am somehow obsessed with builds that are a bit off. Previously I made and Infinity for my summoner's merc, so I can make more damage with Firewall from Trang Ouls. And I was very happy with it until a

Herald 5 one shot me and that was the end for that character.

I guess I want to make a viable

Poison Dagger build, because one of my very first playthrough attempts way back decades ago was exactly this. I think this was even pre-LOD. It was horrible, by act3 normal I couldn't kill anything and i was dieing all the time.

So, this build will be kind of my

Redemption arc. Here it goes:

• Main premise of the build: using
  Poison Dagger to deliver ling term Venom damage.

• Due to Venom being the main damage, I do not level the synergies of
  Poison Dagger (because why would you use this, if you also have
  Poison Nova to max synergy?) this frees up 40 skill points for maxing
  Bone Armor and synergies, some points in
  Lower Resist and some points in
  Skeleton Mastery, so I can at least have a few revives to kill the act bosses

• Goal: complete Hell in Hardcore. This build would not be able to do anything else anyway

• Must have items: Treachery, 3-item Trang Oul for the +poison damage - poison res

• weapon variants: Malice, for cheap open wounds and target armor.
  Gull
  Dagger, for mf, Wizzardspike, for defensive stats.
  The Jade Tan Do, for cannot be frozen and poison immunity. The Blackbog Sharp for +5 skill points. Wind and Plague, if i want to go completely insane with this

• Corpse Explosion, prefer not to use, becausewhy should the game be easy, when it can be hard.

• This build will be a hit and run, when you poke monsters once and run away from them, while waiting then to die. I estimated level 15 Venom with the double +25% dmg from the gloves would deliver 11k over 10 seconds. This should one shot most of the small monsters, but A4/A5 demons will be a problem.

• Anything else: open for suggestions.

No one commenting, I guess the build is too terrible to draw interest

As you said, it's terrible.
Without attack ratting, you won't even hit your target.
You will need to stuff you as a melee char or you will die H24.

IIRC I asked about this as well, either in this forum or somewhere else but the answers are always same: Terrible build, don't do it. Even with huge AR boost possibilities,

Rabies Druid suck, imagine how massive this one sucks.

I used

Poison Dagger to level my SSF poisonmancer to lvl 30. It was painful already at end of normal.
I'm pretty certain it won't be any fun at all to go through hell with it, even with optimal gear.

I did this at some point. It's not just that it sucks power-wise, even worse: it's so incredibly boring to play.

Do not recommend.

I admire your persistence in making the trang's fire spells feel satisfying. As a kid, I wished so badly that

Fireball did more than tickle anything in hell.

If you can make that work, i have no doubt you can make a

Dagger build work. The idea i would introduce is to take advantage of the attack rating boost from

Poison Dagger to make crushing blow give value. Use a strength

Dagger and keep an effective tank wall of undead to soak attention. Rather than "poke and run," go for standing on the frontline and persistently stabbing until the thing dies.

Just my two cents. Good luck!

Just for the Principle of trying weird stuff, I wish you the best of luck !

It is very terrible because it's a single target requires-to-hit build and therefore needs an Infinity (+

Blessed Aim) merc to survive in order for you to have a good hitting chance. At least poison javelineer can clear in an AoE and doesn't need to hit for the poison clouds to apply poison.

Just posted this as a reply to

Poison Javelin build. What makes a difference is Treachery or the more inconvenient but stronger Dragon. I will let you google it for yourself, why this thing works and how.
No Venom Envenomed