Solo Necro Summoner - Do Lower Resist have any use?

Hi

On most of Necro Summoner guides they recommend put 1 point on 5 Curses:

Amplify Damage

Decrepify

Dim Vision

Life Tap

Lower Resist

I understand the situations where you want to use each of the first four (OK)

About

Lower Resist, on group plays, I understand too that there are teams where it will add more damage to the team than

Amplify Damage (OK)

But if I only do solo plays, is there a situation where

Lower Resist will be better than

Amplify Damage?
(I can't figure it out...seems like a waste of points acquire

Lower Resist in this case)

For poison necro.

Lower Resist => cast poison to kill first monsters =>

Amplify Damage =>

Corpse Explosion for AOE

mockingbirdreal wrote: 2 years ago

For poison necro.

Lower Resist => cast poison to kill first monsters =>

Amplify Damage =>

Corpse Explosion for AOE

I'm thinking more on pure Necro Summoner (no

Poison Nova - like here https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/summoner-necromancer-guide )
So normally use

Amplify Damage (or

Decrepify versus annoying monsters) since the start, for Merc/Minions kill first monster faster.

Then no need to go till Lower Res. Stay in the needed 4 points to go to Decrep.

for a summoner, i go 1 pt amp damage, and nothing else........

krathkor wrote: 2 years ago

for a summoner, i go 1 pt amp damage, and nothing else........

I was like that

But now I use

Decrepify on Bosses and more rarely on some annoying/super fast monster.

And

Dim Vision is good on areas with many long range monsters (like sometimes spawn on Act 5 and Act 4)

Dec +

Clay Golem takes the danger out of every enemy pack (the slow is absurd)
Aside from that, amp damage. Works great with

Bone Break Charm.

Bone Break Sunders the immunity and amp then works for 100%

Against bosses, pure summoners are not easy to handle. Therefore most choose to add a little something when they have 20 Skel / 20 Skel Mast / 1 in others / 1 for 4 curses / 1

Bone Armor / 1

Teeth / 1+ CE (remember that every skill point just increases radius and you'll have most likely 20+ from gear, so going 20 may be overkill).

Most obvious path is poison, as it only needs 60 points to max out, + 3 for Lower Res and less investment that Bone, you can deal decent poison damage in addition to the summons.

Necrarch wrote: 2 years ago

Against bosses, pure summoners are not easy to handle. Therefore most choose to add a little something when they have 20 Skel / 20 Skel Mast / 1 in others / 1 for 4 curses / 1

Bone Armor / 1

Teeth / 1+ CE (remember that every skill point just increases radius and you'll have most likely 20+ from gear, so going 20 may be overkill).

Most obvious path is poison, as it only needs 60 points to max out, + 3 for Lower Res and less investment that Bone, you can deal decent poison damage in addition to the summons.

I like to have 20 points in

Corpse Explosion you kill things off-screen.

About bosses since I begin to "tele stomp" they are dying reasonably fast.
(didn't try Uber or DClone with this necro yet...)

I end up putting extra points in

Bone Prison (for

Bone Armor)

The one situation outside of group play that I could see using

Lower Resist as a summoner would be:
1. No

Bone Break
2. Vs Physical Immune that

Amplify Damage doesn't bring down well
3. That is also not Fire Immune
4. And near bodies that can be targeted by

Corpse Explosion.

This is a very niche situation, and the correct response is probably just to skip the enemy anyway. But technically speaking... you do get use out of it there.

I wouldn't do it though.