Reduces fire, cold lightning and poison resist.Lower Resist, a lvl 30 Necromancer Curse.Can lower a monster's resist by a maximum of 150%.Reduces fire, cold and lightning resist.Conviction, a lvl 30 Paladin Offensive Aura.
Some others cover their mana issues with potions and items that grant mana points.Monster Immunities can only be broken by four skills in the game ( Cold Mastery can lower cold resist but cannot break cold immunity): Vitality: Place the majority of your points in your Life pool.Įnergy: Some players spend about 100-150 points so they can comfortably spam their spells. Strength: Spend some points so you can equip your best items.ĭexterity: Invest a few points if your equipment requires Dexterity points Mara’s Kaleidoscope: 2+ To all skills and bonus to Resistances.Stone of Jordan: For the mana bonus and +skills.Any Rare boots that boost your running speed and your resistances.Trang-Oul’s Claws: For the +2 to curses and +25% to poison damage.Homunculus(It’s Unique Hierophant Trophy): It’s recommended to use the Act 5 Quest (Larzukin NPC) in order to add a socket and insert an Um Rune for higher Resistances or a Rainbow Poison Facet for higher poison damage.Blackbog’s Sharp: It’s a decent choice if you can’t obtain a Death’s Web.Death’s Web: Socket it with a Rainbow Facet (Poison) for -50% to enemy poison resistances.Revive: unlock it if you need additional minions to assist you.įurthermore, spend a point on each spell from the Curses skill tree.Clay Golem: It’s the perfect companion of the Novamancer.Invest some points in the Summoning Spells tree in order to unlock the following skills: Additional points to the curse will not affect a lot your damage output.Īlso, from the Poison and Bone Spells skill tree, choose to max out either Corpse Explosion or Bone Wall and Bone Prison to enchant your Bone Armor. Level up Lower Resist until you reach level 16 using +skills items.Invest 20 points into Poison Dagger as it provides synergy to Poison Nova and Poison Explosion.Your primary skills that you should max out are the following: In single player mode, this option can often overcome your own damage output. At the same time, use Poison Nova to prevent the Boss from regenerating his life. Cast Life Tap on the Boss so your hireling can leech his life. Using your Mercenary: Equip your mercenary with items that boost the Crushing Blow effect and the attack speed.Then cast Poison Explosion as it deals more damage and it costs less mana to cast than Poison Nova. In the case you have items with a lot of +skills effects: try to cast Bone Prison a few times on the Boss in order to trap it near some corpses.Then cast Lower Resist and followed by Poison Nova or Poison Explosion if it’s possible. Regardless of your equipment: Send your minions to catch the Boss’ attention.Two of them depend on the type of gear you have though: Regarding the bosses, you have 3 methods to kill them. A strong mercenary can really help you deal with immunities too. In addition, it deals 50% Fire and 50% Physical damage. Thus, it’s probably better to use Corpse Explosion because it deals damage equal to 70-120% of corpse life regardless of its level. Although the enemies wouldn’t be 100% Immune anymore, they will still have a strong poison resistance (in Hell mode). For dealing with Poison Immune enemies, cast Lower Resist on them in order remove their immunity.Once you’ve killed several enemies, you can cast Revive or Poison Explosion/Corpse Explosion to their bodies.This way you can cast Lower Resist and Poison Nova without being distracted by monsters. Before you enter into the battlefield, send your Golem to stand between you and your enemies.However, it’s highly recommended to use the Clay Golem for its ability to expand its life pool beyond 10,000 Health Points and for slowing enemies. When you’re in town, summon a Golem of your choice.Your Golem protects its master and distracts the enemies, so you can unleash your massive poison damage. This type of Necromancer utilizes his summoning powers as well. The Diablo 2 Novamancer is a Necromancer build that has the ability to take down large groups of monsters using a combination of Poison Nova and Lower Resist.