Your_Mom's (Thats me!) Melee Necro Guide

Poison Dagger Necromancer PvP Melee Guide

Explanation:
I love to make new builds people haven’t tried, like my bow sorc I made when the widowmaker came out. I also made a ww/bow assn, she was ok, owned sorcs like she got paid to do it. I do not have Diablo II anymore, I haven’t played since last summer but I have been around since .08 and know my way around which is why I haven’t been able to test this build myself, otherwise I would first and then post the guide if it was worth building. I’ve wanted to build this for a long time now, thinking it could honestly do some serious ownage and be quite original. However after making this guide I am going to be quite honest with you, unless you have a lot of funds to get the expensive charms and want a build virtually no one else has on BNet to try out, then I URGE YOU TO BUILD THIS, otherwise I wouldn’t waste the time and money for something that may turn out to be crap.

This build is a pure melee build, like a zealot or a concentration barb. Thus it has its obvious flaws, it’s meant to only duel those builds, however, if you were to put on a wiz spike, spirit and a shako this would turn into a pure poison nova necro. Which is nice since if this build does fail, you can change it by just re-equipping it. In theory what I would hope this build to accomplish against the cookie cutter conc barbs and zealots: massive AR plus massive DPS (dmg per second) will allow you to 2-3 hit KO bitches.

Table of Contents:
1………….Break Point Goals
2………….Stats Allocation
3………….Skill Allocation
4………….Recommended Gear
5………….Charms
6………….Calculations (AR and Life)
7………….Current Stats
8………….After thoughts
9………….Basic Strategies

1) Breakpoint Goals:
Necromancer

FHR Frames
0% 13
5% 12
10% 11
16% 10
26% 9
39% 8
56% 7
86% 6
152% 5

FBR Frames
0% 11
6% 10
13% 9
20% 8
32% 7
52% 6
86% 5


Weapon Speed Calc:
58% - 11 fps – 2.2 attacks per second
99% - 10 fps – 2.5 attacks per second

Damage Reduction: 50%


2) Stats Allocation:
Strength: None, total with equip should be 186
Dexterity: 206 to get max block at level 85 with SS
• 25 from Shadow Dancers
• 10 from Gloves (hopefully at least)
• 25 to start with
• Must put in 146 points for setup 2
• Setup 2: 20 from Raven Frost
• Must put in 126 points
Vita: Rest, start with 15
• At level 85 will be around 294
• Plus 40 from Dungos
• Plus 40 from Anni and Torch
Energy: None

3) Skill Points Allocation:
• 20 Poison Dagger
• 20 Poison Explosion
• 20 Poison Nova
• 20 Bone Wall
• 1 into Bone Armor, and other pre-req’s
• 1 into Lower Resist and its pre-req’s
• Rest into Bone prison or Lower Resist

4) Equipment:

Shield:
• Stormshield w/ Shael

Weapon:
• Fury Fanged Knife: Very Fast Attack Speed 13-57 dmg
+209% Enhanced Damage
40% Increased Attack Speed
Prevent Monster Heal
66% Chance Of Open Wounds
33% Deadly Strike
Ignore Target's Defense
-25% Target Defense
20% Bonus To Attack Rating
6% Life Stolen Per Hit
+5 To Frenzy (Barbarian Only

Armor:
• Enigma MP 55 strength req 410-524 def

Helm:
• Andariels Helm socketed:
• Setup 1: with Cham (cannot be frozen)
• Setup 2: with Shael (20% FHR)


Gloves:
• Anything with 20ias + 10dex (optionally but recommended) and + 13 or more to strength, also crushing blow and life is a nice addition but not required

Belt:
• Verdungo’s
Amulet:
• Angelic

Ring 1:
• Angelic

Ring 2 setup 1:
• Angelic

Ring 2 setup 2:
• Raven Frost

Boots:
• Shadow Dancers

Switch:
• CTA
• Spirit Shield

Stash (optional):
• Shako
• Wiz Spike/Hoto
• Trang gloves
• Arach
• 2x Soj
• You will hit 125fcr with wiz and spirit
• +2 skill ammy

5) Charms:

Small Charms Setup 1:
• Anni w/ 20 to stats
• 23x 3/20/5% FHR
• 13x 3/20/20 to life
Small Charms Setup 2:
• Anni w/ 20 to stats
• 19x 3/20/5% FHR
• 17x 3/20/20 to life

Large Charms:
• Torch w/ 20 to stats

6) Calculations:

Calculated Life at level 85 with setup 1:
• 289 + 40 (Dungos) + 40 (Annie + Torch) = 369 * 2 = 738 life
• 738 + 20 (Angelic) + 75 (Angelic) + 260 (SC’s) = 1,093 + 5% = 1,147 Life
• With 6bo CTA, Spirit, Enigma, Andy’s Helm = level 12 BO 68% = 1,926 Life

Calculated AR at level 85 with setup 1:
• 1020 (Angelic) x2 + 720 (SC’s) = 2760
• 20% (Fury) + 570% (Psn Dagger) = 590%
• 25,840 AR

Calculated Life at level 85 with setup 2:
• 309 + 40 + 40 = 389 * 2 = 778
• 778 + 20 + 75 + 340 = 1213 + 5% = 1,273 Life
• With BO = 2,139

Calculated AR at level 85 with setup 2:
• 1020 + 250 (Raven) + 720 = 1990
• 20% + 570% = 590%
• 20,527 AR

Calculated Defense at level 85
• 458 (SS) + 1036 (Enigma) + 144 (SD) + 158 (Dungos) + 387 (Andy’s Helm) = 2183 Def

Setup 1 vs. Setup 2:
Setup 1 has 5,313 more AR
Setup 2 has 213 more life

7) Current stats:
FHR: 30% (Shadow D) + 10% (Dungos) + 115% (SC’s) = 155%
Or Setup2:
FHR: 30% (Shadow D) + 20% (Andy’s Helm) + 10% (Dungos) + 95% (SC’s) = 155%
FBR: 55% (SS w/Shael)
IAS: 40% (Fury) + 20% (Andys Helm) = 60%
DR: 35% (SS) + 15% (Dungos) + 8% (Enigma) = 58%
Bone Armor: 715 damage absorb
Poison Dagger: 14,212-14,883 over 12.8 seconds, Attack: +570%
Lower Resist: -54%

8) Thoughts:
…I’d go with the increased AR (Setup 1)…you want to only hit them twice, 1 to inflict the poison and 1 to kill them (theoretically). Your lack of defense, life, IAS, only gives you a slight chance to inflict the damage you need to deal. Also your DR, Block, and Bone armor only gives you a small window of opportunity to inflict the damage before they destroy you…remember you are a huge underdog, however you also have them at a disadvantage…you got (hopefully) more AR and massive damage per second. The majority of zealots and conc barbs usually roll up with 15-18k AR…you have 25k. The one major flaw of this build that could prove to be its downfall…is a total lack of defense.

9) Basic Strategies:

Melee only duels:
• Cast lower resistance and duel away
• If they get to one health and run away, bone prison followed by poison nova or just poison nova…be a man finish the duel, I say.
• If your getting BM’d by smite or ww, something not pure melee…poison nova will own these melee builds…not to mention iron maiden and bone wall/prison. Also decrep can really piss people off. Don’t forget you are a very dangerous BM person, you can make people cry if you want but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you are being BM’d first. Have caster gear in stash just in case things get ugly 

Non-Melee duels:
• Go to stash re-equip  Poison nova time!

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