Diablo II: Lord of Destruction:

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Diablo II: Lord of Destruction:
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Necromancer Guide
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Author: Hezda
E-Mail: [email protected]
ICQ: 10328685
Date: 22/11/01
Version: 1.02

Syatem requirement for Lord of Destruction:
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PII 266MHz
64MB RAM for single-player
128MB RAM for multi-player
2MB VRAM dirext X compatible video card for software graphics
8MB VRAM 3D accelerator for enhanced graphics feature
Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and MAC
Required 28.8Kbps modem for multi-player
Required full version of Diablo II to run

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History:
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v1.00 (8/11/01): - First version of the guide

v1.01 (23/11/01): -Finish Act V walkthrough
-Corrected some mistakes
-Changed recommended strenght to 80-100

v1.02 (15/04/02): -Minor update
-corrected some mistakes
-Yay, just got myself a PS2! I'm going to make a walkthrough for
Fatal Frame but you won't see it soon because I haven't got the
game yet.
-Sorry for those that mail me, I told you guys that I won't
update my guide anymore but I've changed my mind. I'll update
it again when patch v1.10 release. Hopefully there will be
major changes for the underpowered Necromancer.

Table of content:
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1. Introduction
2. Overview of Necromancer
3. Necromancer's skills
4. Act V walkthrough
5. Credits

Content:

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1. Introduction:
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Welcome to world of Diablo. Where you have to fight off the evil minions in
the world of Diablo to save mankind from destruction. Only you can save
mankind
from their doom.

Diablo II, one of the best selling games of year 2000. It also received a
lot of
titles such as Game of the Year, RPG of the Year and so on. The expansion
was realeased
in June 2001, which bring this game into another dimension. Previous Diablo
II players
will definitely see the differences between the expansion pack and the
classic Diablo 2.
A lot of skills are changed and two new classes are introduced. The assasin
and druid.

But this guide is just solely for the necromancer. Other than that, Blizzard
North
also added a ton of items such as charm which gives permanent effect when
you put it
in your inventory and a ton of new unique items for every exceptional items
as well
as newly added, elite items. Elite items are even more superior than
exceptional but they
are harder to find. There are several elite unique but they are extremely
rare. Consider
yourself lucky when you get one.

Other than that, there are also class specific items which only certain
characters
can use them. For example like claws, only assasin can equips the claw. They
is also
one unique class specific items for each character and most of them are very
powerful
worth a ton of SOJs.

There's also a ton of new features such as Runewords and crafted items but I
won't go
into detail with them.

One of the most dissapointed changes are that Necromancer been nerfed so
badly that
made this class extremely difficult to survive in Hell difficulty.
Eventhough his skills
have been improved tremendously but still seem very weak compare to other
spell caster such
as the overpowered Sorceress. But with right skills and right equipment, you
can actually
finish Hell difficulty without much problems.

Before that, Necromancer is one of the strongest character classes. Thanks
to his
almighty Corpse Explosion, he can easily annihilate all the enemies within
second.
But Blizzard has nerfed CE into a useless skill and it is only good for
dealings with
physical immune monsters.

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2. Overview of the Necromancer:
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Important note!
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I don't play on Battle.net but I do play D2 over TCP/IP with my friends. We
seldom
duel so my dueling skill sucks so don't ask me for dueling tips because
I don't have any.

You may not agree what I reccomend you to do here. Please bear in mind that
this is only my opinion and you do not need to follow it strictly. Most of
the characters in D2 are highly customizeable so you are not require to
follow it
precisely in order to finish the game and you can built a Necro that suit
your
taste better.

Playing as a Necromancer is completely different from playing other
character classes.
I know every characters are different but none of them is totaly unique
compares
to Necromancer. Bear in mind that Necromancer is a spell caster. Mana is the
most
important thing for him.

Ideal stat points for Necromancer:
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Strenght: 80-100 (your choice)

Because Necromancer isn't a fighter, strenght is not important for
Necromancer but
you need decent strenght so that you can wear better armor.

Dexterity: 30

Never put any point into dexterity! If You want to build a meleemancer than
all I
can say is good luck. Meleemancer will have a tough time when playing Hell
difficulty
and you will find that most of your hits will miss the enemy. That's because
when you put
point into dexterity when playing as a Necromancer then you will find out
that it doesn't
add as much Attack Rating to the necro when compares to other characters
such as
Barbarian and Paladin.

Vitality: As much as possible or somewhere around 100 (your choice)

Vitality is very important for Necromancer due to his low defense. More
points into
vitality means that more life so you can sustain more damages.

Energy: As much as possible

Dump every remaining point into energy. Preferably 3 points for every level
up so
that you will not run out of mana very easily. Your main attack spell should
be Bone
Spirits and it consumes 35+ mana for each hit when maxed so you really need
a lot of mana.

Reccomended Skil Points Distribution:
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Max Bone Spirits
Max Golem Masteries
Max Fire Golem or Iron Golem (your choice)
10 points for Revive
5 points for skeleton masteries
1 point for Blood Golem
5 points for Iron Maiden
5 points for Lower Resist
1 point for other curses
10 points for Poison Nova (If you want)
1 point for other skills

the rest is up to you.

All these skills should be enough to help you to survive through Hell
difficulty. But please
bear in mind that Necromancer can't kill as fast as other characters so you
have to be
patient. A lot of players gove up playing as Necromancer is because they
don't like
to sit back and watch their Golem doing all the job while the Necromancer
just sit back
doing nothing besides casting curse.

Other than that, make full use of all the curses. Lower Resist works
wonderfully combine
with Bone Spirits, Poison Nova and Fire Golem. All these skills deal
elemental damage
while Blood Golem combine Iron Maiden can breeze you through Normal and
Nightmare
diffivulty where there are almost completely no Physical Immune monsters.

Try all the skills and find the one that suits your taste.

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3. Necromancer's skills
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Important note:
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Again, you may not agree what I say here so please don't tell me that what
what skill is good and that that skill is bad and not worth x skill points.
You can follow your own way of playing and choose the skill that suit your
character the most.

1. Poison and Bone skill tree
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A lot of people considered this tree to be extremely useless. But without
this tree, the Necromancer will have tough time to survive in Hell. I admit
that the poison skills really suck but some of the Bone skill is good. Like
Bone Spirit. That is the best attack spell that a Necromancer can have.

Teeth
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Description: Hehehehe... you might think this spell is a joke when you see
the maximum damage it does. But remember, when you maxed this
spell,
21 teeth x 23 dmg = 483 dmg. It's even higer than Bone Spirit.
BUT,
only if you can let all the teeth hit the same enemy and you
MUST be in extremely close range. This is extremely dangerous
for
Necromancer. So, this spell is not really worth the skill
point.

Rank: D

[Level] [Damage] [Mana]

lvl 1 2 teeth 3
2-4

Lvl 2 3 teeth 3.5
3-5

Lvl 3 4 teeth 4
4-6

Lvl 4 5 teeth 4.5
5-7

Lvl 5 6 teeth 5
6-8

Lvl 6 7 teeth 5.5
7-9

Lvl 7 8 Teeth 6
8-10

Lvl 8 9 teeth 6.5
9-11

Lvl 9 10 teeth 7
10-12

Lvl 10 11 teeth 7.5
11-13

Lvl 11 12 Teeth 8
12-14

Lvl 12 13 teeth 8.5
13-15

Lvl 13 14 teeth 9
14-16

Lvl 14 15 teeth 9.5
15-17

Lvl 15 16 Teeth 10
16-18

Lvl 16 17 teeth 10.5
17-19

Lvl 17 18 teeth 11
18-20

Lvl 18 19 teeth 11.5
19-21

Lvl 19 20 teeth 12
20-22

Lvl 20 21 teeth 12
21-23

Bone Armor
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Description: Quite useful but not necessery. With horde of your minions as
tanks,
the enemy will have a tough time approaching you. Other than
that, it
dissapear very quickly and require you to cast it very often.
Only good in
PvP battle.

Rank: C+

Lvl 1 Absorbs 20 damage
Mana: 11

Lvl 2 Absorbs 30 damage
Mana: 12

Lvl 3 Absorbs 40 damage
Mana: 13

Lvl 4 Absorbs 50 damage
Mana: 14

Lvl 5 Absorbs 60 damage
Mana: 15

Lvl 6 Absorbs 70 damage
Mana: 16

Lvl 7 Absorbs 80 damage
Mana: 17

Lvl 8 Absorbs 90 damage
Mana: 18

Lvl 9 Absorbs 100 damage
Mana: 19

Lvl 10 Absorbs 110 damage
Mana: 20

Lvl 11 Absorbs 120 damage
Mana: 21

Lvl 12 Absorbs 130 damage
Mana: 22

Lvl 13 Absorbs 140 damage
Mana: 23

Lvl 14 Absorbs 150 damage
Mana: 24

Lvl 15 Absorbs 160 damage
Mana: 25

Lvl 16 Absorbs 170 damage
Mana: 26

Lvl 17 Absorbs 180 damage
Mana: 27

Lvl 18 Absorbs 190 damage
Mana: 28

Lvl 19 Absorbs 200 damage
Mana: 29

Lvl 20 Absorbs 210 damage
Mana: 30

Poison Dagger
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Description: WHAT? You say you want to built a daggermancer and wish to
chanlenge
the Ancients solo in Hell? Good luck is all I can say. In order
to
be successful in using dagger and you wish to hit the enemy in
Hell,
you need a TON of +AR items. I'm not kidding, or else you will
see
that every 15 hits only 2 or 3 hits will hit the enemies in
Hell.
Other than that, it's even harder to find a high damage dagger
except a few unique exceptional one.

Rank: D+

(Over 2 seconds)
Lvl 1 Damage: 7-15
Attack: +15%
Mana: 3

Lvl 2 Damage: 10-19
Attack: +25%
Mana: 3.2

Lvl 3 Damage: 14-23
Attack: +35%
Mana: 3.5

Lvl 4 Damage: 18-27
Attack: 45%
Mana: 3.7

Lvl 5 Damage: 22-31
Attack: 55%
Mana: 4

Lvl 6 Damage: 26-35
Attack: 65%
Mana: 4.2

Lvl 7 Damage:
Attack: 75%
Mana: 4.5

Lvl 8 Damage: 34-42
Attack: 85%
Mana: 4.7

Lvl 9 Damage: 40-48
Attack: 95%
Mana: 5

Lvl 10 Damage: 46-54
Attack: 105%
Mana: 5.2

Lvl 11 Damage: 51-60
Attack: 115%
Mana: 5.5

Lvl 12 Damage: 57-66
Attack: 125%
Mana: 5.7

Lvl 13 Damage: 63-73
Attack: 135%
Mana: 6

Lvl 14 Damage: 69-78
Attack:145%
Mana: 6.2

Lvl 15 Damage: 75-83
Attack: 155%
Mana: 6.5

Lvl 16 Damage: 81-89
Attack: 165%
Mana: 6.7

Lvl 17 Damage: 89-97
Attack: 175%
Mana: 7

Lvl 18 Damage: 96-105
Attack: 185%
Mana: 7.2

Lvl 19 Damage: 104-113
Attack: 195%
Mana: 7.5

Lvl 20 Damagw: 112-121
Attack: 205%
Mana: 7.7

Coprse Explosion
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Description: For those who hasn't play Classic Diablo II, it is very hard
for them
to imagine how powerful this spell once was before. Before LOD
came out
and a few patches before, Corpse Explosion was considered as
one of
the most powerful spell in Diablo II. It can clear the whole
area of
enemy within a few minutes. But Blizzard nerfed this skill so
badly
that made this skill extremely useless in 3 or more players
game. *Sigh*...
Blizzard, return CE to its former glory... This spell is still
useful against Physical Immune monsters.

Rank: B+

Lvl 1 Damage: 60-100% of Corpse's life
Radius: 2.6
Mana: 15

Lvl 2 Radius: 3
Mana: 16

Lvl 3 Radius: 3.3
Mana: 17

Lvl 4 Radius: 3.6
Mana: 18

Lvl 5 Radius: 4
Mana: 19

Lvl 6 Radius: 4.3
Mana: 20

Lvl 7 Radius: 4.6
Mana: 21

Lvl 8 Radius: 5
Mana: 22

Lvl 9 Radius: 5.3
Mana: 23

Lvl 10 Radius: 5.6
Mana: 24

Lvl 11 Radius: 6
Mana: 25

Lvl 12 Radius: 6.3
Mana: 26

Lvl 13 Radius: 6.6
Mana: 27

Lvl 14 Radius: 7
Mana: 28

Lvl 15 Radius: 7.3
Mana: 29

Lvl 16 Radius: 7.6
Mana: 30

Lvl 17 Radius: 8
Mana: 31

Lvl 18 Radius: 8.3
Mana: 32

Lvl 19 Radius: 8.6
Mana: 33

Lvl 20 Radius: 9
Mana: 34

Bone Wall
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Description: Useless is all I can say. It is only useful against the
Ancients and
certain unique bosses. The Bone Wall's life is too low so you
need
cast A LOT of them in order to block the enemy. It will stay
useless
most of them time. Forgot to mention, in Nightmare and Hell
diffulty,
the bone wall life increases but as well as the monsters attacking
power.

Rank: C+

Duration: 48 seconds
Mana: 17

Lvl 1 Life: 19

Lvl 2 Life: 23

Lvl 3 Life: 33

Lvl 4 Life: 38

Lvl 5 Life: 38

Lvl 6 Life: 42

Lvl 7 Life: 47

Lvl 8 Life: 52

Lvl 9 Life: 57

Lvl 10 Life: 61

Lvl 11 Life: 66

Lvl 12 Life: 71

Lvl 13 Life: 76

Lvl 14 Life: 80

Lvl 15 Life: 85

Lvl 16 Life: 90

Lvl 17 Life: 95

Lvl 18 Life: 99

Lvl 19 Life: 104

Lvl 20 Life: 109

Poison Explosion
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Description: Useless... see the damage it does...

Rank: F-

Mana: 8
Over 2 seconds

Lvl 1 Damage: 25-50

Lvl 2 Damage: 31-56

Lvl 3 Damage: 37-62

Lvl 4 Damage: 43-68

Lvl 5 Damage: 50-75

Lvl 6 Damage: 56-81

Lvl 7 Damage: 62-87

Lvl 8 Damage: 68-93

Lvl 9 Damage: 81-106

Lvl 10 Damage: 93-118

Lvl 11 Damage: 106-131

Lvl 12 Damage: 118-143

Lvl 13 Damage: 131-156

Lvl 14 Damage: 146-168

Lvl 15 Damage: 156-181

Lvl 16 Damage: 168-193

Lvl 17 Damage: 187-212

Lvl 18 Damage: 206-231

Lvl 19 Damage: 225-250

Lvl 20 Damage: 243-268

Bone Spear
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Description: Quite usefull before you can get Bone Spirit. After you passed
level
30, it is history... them good thing about this spell is that
it can
pierces thorugh the enemy and hit multiple targets.

Rank: C

Lvl 1 Damage: 16-24
Mana: 7

Lvl 2 Damage: 24-32
Mana: 7.2

Lvl 3 Damage: 32-40
Mana: 7.5

Lvl 4 Damage: 40-48
Mana: 7.7

Lvl 5 Damage: 48-56
Mana: 8

Lvl 6 Damage: 56-64
Mana: 8.2

Lvl 7 Damage: 64-72
Mana: 8.5

Lvl 8 Damage: 72-80
Mana: 8.7

Lvl 9 Damage: 80-88
Mana: 9

Lvl 10 Damage: 88-96
Mana: 9.2

Lvl 11 Damage: 96-104
Mana: 9.5

Lvl 12 Damage: 104-112
Mana: 9.7

Lvl 13 Damage: 112-120
Mana: 10

Lvl 14 Damage: 120-128
Mana: 10.2

Lvl 15 Damage: 128-136
Mana: 10.5

Lvl 16 Damage: 136-144
Mana: 11

Lvl 17 Damage: 144-152
Mana: 11.2

Lvl 18 Damage: 152-160
Mana: 11.5

Lvl 19 Damage: 160-168
Mana: 12

Lvl 20 Damage: 168-176
Mana: 12.2

Bone Prison
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Description: One of the most useless spell. Bone wall is better so stick
with
that.

Rank: F-

Duration: 48 seconds

Lvl 1 Life: 19
Mana: 27

Lvl 2 Life: 23
Mana: 26

Lvl 3 Life: 28
Mana: 25

Lvl 4 Life: 33
Mana: 24

Lvl 5 Life: 38
Mana: 23

Lvl 6 Life: 42
Mana: 22

Lvl 7 Life: 47
Mana: 21

Lvl 8 Life: 52
Mana: 20

Lvl 9 Life: 57
Mana: 19

Lvl 10 Life: 61
Mana: 18

Lvl 11 Life: 66
Mana: 17

Lvl 12 Life: 71
Mana: 16

Lvl 13 Life: 76
Mana: 15

Lvl 14 Life: 80
Mana: 14

Lvl 15 Life: 85
Mana: 13

Lvl 16 Life: 90
Mana: 12

Lvl 17 Life: 95
Mana: 11

Lvl 18 Life: 99
Mana: 10

Lvl 19 Life: 104
Mana: 9

Lvl 20 Life: 109
Mana: 8

Poison Nova
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Description: Before v1.09 came out, Poison Nova is a extremely powerful
spell because
poison damage can be stacked. But Blizzard nerfed it again and
it become
a weak spell again. But, combine with Lower Resist, it can
still deals
a great amount of damage. Remember though, when an enemy is hit
by
poison nova and you recast another one, the previous will be
overwrite
by the new one so you have to wait another 2 seconds.

Rank: B+

Mana: 25
Over 2 seconds

Lvl 1 Damage: 43-78

Lvl 2 Damage: 56-90

Lvl 3 Damage: 68-103

Lvl 4 Damage: 81-115

Lvl 5 Damage: 93-128

Lvl 6 Damage: 106-140

Lvl 7 Damage: 118-153

Lvl 8 Damage: 131-165

Lvl 9 Damage: 146-181

Lvl 10 Damage: 162-196

Lvl 11 Damage: 178-212

Lvl 12 Damage: 193-228

Lvl 13 Damage: 209-243

Lvl 14 Damage: 225-259

Lvl 15 Damage: 240-275

Lvl 16 Damage: 256-290

Lvl 17 Damage: 281-315

Lvl 18 Damage: 306-340

Lvl 19 Damage: 331-365

Lvl 20 Damage: 356-390

Bone Spirit
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Decription: Ah... the Necromancer's life saver. No Necromancer can survive
without
this spell. It does OK damage and it is the best attack spell
that
Necromancer has. Never compare it with sorceress's spell. You
need to
max this skill definitely. The only drawback is that it consumes
lot of
mana.

Rank: A+

Lvl 1 Damage: 20-30
Mana: 12

Lvl 2 Damage: 36-46
Mana: 12

Lvl 3 Damage: 52-62
Mana: 13

Lvl 4 Damage: 68-78
Mana: 13

Lvl 5 Damage: 84-94
Mana: 14

Lvl 6 Damage: 100-110
Mana: 14

Lvl 7 Damage: 116-126
Mana: 15

Lvl 8 Damage: 132-142
Mana: 15

Lvl 9 Damage: 149-159
Mana: 16

Lvl 10 Damage: 166-176
Mana: 16

Lvl 11 Damage: 183-193
Mana: 17

Lvl 12 Damage: 200-210
Mana: 17

Lvl 13 Damage: 217-227
Mana: 18

Lvl 14 Damage: 234-244
Mana: 18

Lvl 15 Damage: 251-261
Mana: 19

Lvl 16 Damage: 268-278
Mana: 19

Lvl 17 Damage: 286-296
Mana: 20

Lvl 18 Damage: 304-314
Mana: 20

Lvl 19 Damage: 322-332
Mana: 21

Lvl 20 Damage: 340-350
Mana: 21

2. Summoning Skills tree
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Overall this is a good skill tree. Some of them are really great like the
Fire
Golem and Revive. It really helps the Necromancer A LOT in Hell.

Skeleton Mastery
----------------

Description: You must put at least 10 points into this skill if you wish to
use Revive. Many people thought this skill only affect
skeletons
but it also affect your revive monsters. Overall this is a
great
skill. I wish the +damage can be higher... :(

Rank: A-

Improved missile damage level 2 onwards

Lvl 1 Skels: Life +7
Skels: Dmg +2
Mons: Life +7%
Mons: Dmg +2%

Lvl 2 Skels: Life +14
Skels: Dmg +4
Mons: Life +14%
Mons: Dmg +4%

Lvl 3 Skels: Life +21
Skels: Dmg +6
Mons: Life +21%
Mons: Dmg +6%

Lvl 4 Skels: Life +28
Skels: Dmg +8
Mons: Life +28%
Mons: Dmg: +8%

Lvl 5 Skels: Life +35
Skels: Dmg +10
Mons: Life +35%
Mons: Dmg +10%

Lvl 6 Skels: Life +42
Skels: Dmg +12
Mons: Life +42%
Mons: Dmg +12%

Lvl 7 Skels: Life +49
Skels: Dmg +14
Mons: Life +49%
Mons: Dmg +14%

Lvl 8 Skels: Life +56
Skels: Dmg +16
Mons: Life +56%
Mons: Dmg +16%

Lvl 9 Skels: Life +63
Skels: Dmg +18
Mons: Life +63%
Mons: Dmg +18%

Lvl 10 Skels: Life +70
Skels: Dmg +20
Mons: Life +70%
Mons: Dmg +20%

Lvl 11 Skels: Life +77
Skels: Dmg +22
Mons: Life +77%
Mons: Dmg +22%

Lvl 12 Skels: Life +84
Skels: Dmg +24
Mons: Life +84%
Mons: Dmg +24%

Lvl 13 Skels: Life +91
Skels: Dmg +26
Mons: Life +91%
Mons: Dmg +26

Lvl 14 Skels: Life +98
Skels: Dmg +28
Mons: Life +98%
Mons: Dmg +28%

Lvl 15 Skels: Life +105
Skels: Dmg +30
Mons: Life +105%
Mons: Dmg +30%

Lvl 16 Skels: Life +112
Skels: Dmg +32
Mons: Life +112%
Mons: Dmg +32%

Lvl 17 Skels: Life +119
Skels: Dmg +34
Mons: Life +119%
Mons: Dmg +34%

Lvl 18 Skels: Life +126
Skels: Dmg +36
Mons: Life +126%
Mons: Dmg +36%

Lvl 19 Skels: Life +133
Skels: Dmg +38
Mons: Life +133%
Mons: Dmg +38%

Lvl 20 Skels: Life +140
Skels: Dmg +40
Mons: Life +140%
Mons: Dmg +40%

Raise Skeleton
--------------

Description: You think watching 20 of your skeletons fighting your enemy is
fun?
Not when you see your skeletons die in few hits from your
enemy.
20 of them can be great tanks for you, but, how many times can
get 20 corpses? You need to kill enemy to gain corpses but in
Hell,
don't think the skels will kill more than 20 enemies for you
before
they crumble.

Rank: C

Life: 21 (Normal)
30 (Nightmare)
42 (Hell)
Damage: 1-2

Lvl 1 1 skel total
Mana: 6

Lvl 2 2 skels total
Mana: 7

Lvl 3 3 skels total
Mana: 8

Lvl 4 4 skels total
Mana: 9

Lvl 5 5 skels total
Mana: 10

Lvl 6 6 skels total
Mana: 11

Lvl 7 7 skels total
Mana: 12

Lvl 8 8 skels total
Mana: 13

Lvl 9 9 skels total
Mana: 14

Lvl 10 10 skels total
Mana: 15

Lvl 11 11 skels total
Mana: 16

Lvl 12 12 skels total
Mana: 17

Lvl 13 13 skels total
Mana: 18

Lvl 14 14 skels total
Mana: 19

Lvl 15 15 skels total
Mana: 20

Lvl 16 16 skels total
Mana: 21

Lvl 17 17 skels total
Mana: 22

Lvl 18 18 skels total
Mana: 23

Lvl 19 19 skels total
Mana: 24

Lvl 20 20 skels total
Mana: 25

Clay Golem
----------

Description: Better than the skely of course. They have the higest life
among
all the other golems. With max Golem mastery and max clay
Golem,
they can have 10k life. But the damage they do... ah... don't
forget! They can heal themselve... oooo... good... but, how
fast can they heal themselve when Diablo cast the Lightning of
death?

Rank: D

Defense: 20
Self Healing

Normal Nighmare Hell

Lvl 1 Life: 100 Life: 175 Life: 275
Damage: 2-5 Damage: 2-6 Damage: 3-7
Mana: 15 Mana: 15 Mana: 15

Lvl 2 Life: 135 Life: 236 Life: 371
Damage: 2-6 Damage: 2-8 Damage: 4-9
Mana: 18 Mana: 18 Mana: 18

Lvl 3 Life: 170 Life: 297 Life: 467
Damage: 3-8 Damage: 3-10 Damage: 5-11
Mana: 21 Mana: 21 Mana: 21

Lvl 4 Life: 205 Life: 358 Life: 563
Damage: 4-10 Damage: 4-12 Damage: 6-14
Mana: 24 Mana: 24 Mana: 24

Lvl 5 Life: 240 Life: 420 Life: 660
Damage: 4-12 Damage: 4-14 Damage: 7-16
Mana: 27 Mana: 27 Mana: 27

Lvl 6 Life: 275 Life: 481 Life: 756
Damage: 5-13 Damage: 5-16 Damage: 8-19
Mana: 30 Mana: 30 Mana: 30

Lvl 7 Life: 310 Life: 542 Life: 852
Damage: 6-15 Damage: 6-18 Damage: 9-21
Mana: 33 Mana: 33 Mana: 33

Lvl 8 Life: 345 Life: 603 Life: 948
Damage: 6-17 Damage: 6-20 Damage: 10-27
Mana: 36 Mana: 36 Mana: 36

Lvl 9 Life: 380 Life: 665 Life: 1045
Damage: 7-19 Damage: 7-22 Damage: 11-26
Mana: 39 Mana: 39 Mana: 39

Lvl 10 Life: 415 Life: 726 Life: 1145
Damage: 8-20 Damage: 8-24 Damage: 12-29
Mana: 42 Mana: 42 Mana: 42

Lvl 11 Life: 450 Life: 787 Life: 1237
Damage: 9-22 Damage: 9-27 Damage: 13-31
Mana: 45 Mana: 45 Mana: 45

Lvl 12 Life: 485 Life: 848 Life: 1333
Damage: 9-24 Damage: 9-29 Life: 14-33
Mana: 48 Mana: 48 Mana: 48

Lvl 13 Life: 520 Life: 910 Life: 1430
Damage: 10-26 Damage: 10-31 Damage: 15-36
Mana: 51 Mana: 51 Mana: 51

Lvl 14 Life: 555 Life: 971 Life: 1526
Damage: 11-27 Damage: 11-33 Damage: 16-38
Mana: 54 Mana: 54 Mana: 54

Lvl 15 Life: 590 Life: 1032 Life: 1622
Damage: 11-29 Damage: 11-35 Damage: 17-41
Mana: 57 Mana: 57 Mana: 57

Lvl 16 Life: 625 Life: 1093 Life: 1718
Damage: 12-31 Damage: 12-37 Damage: 18-43
Mana: 60 Mana: 60 Mana: 60

Lvl 17 Life: 660 Life: 1155 Life: 1815
Damage: 13-33 Damage: 13-39 Damage: 19-46
Mana: 63 Mana: 63 Mana: 63

Lvl 18 Life: 695 Life: 1216 Life: 1911
Damage: 13-34 Damage: 13-41 Damage: 20-48
Mana: 66 Mana: 66 Mana: 66

Lvl 19 Life: 730 Life: 1277 Life: 2007
Damage: 14-36 Damage: 14-43 Damage: 21-51
Mana: 69 Mana: 69 Mana: 69

Lvl 20 Life: 765 Life: 2007(?) Life: 2103
Damage: 15-38 Damage: 15-45 Damage: 22-53
Mana: 70 Mana: 70 Mana: 70

Golem Mastery
-------------

Desription: This is a MUST max skill! You can totally ignore this skill if
only
1) You are a "powerful" daggermancer which hardly hit anything
or
2) You are a zoomancer which have 20 skely and skely mages
fighting
along side with you... <:D
This skill not only add a ton of life to your Golem and it makes
your
run like wind... well, not that fast. :) It's a great skill
indeed.

Rank: A

Lvl 1 Life: +20%
Walk/Run Speed: +6%

Lvl 2 Life: +40%
Walk/Run Speed: +10%

Lvl 3 Life: +60%
Walk/Run Speed: 14%

Lvl 4 Life: +80%
Walk/run Speed: +17%

Lvl 5 Life: +100%
Walk/Run Speed: +20%

Lvl 6 Life: +120%
Walk/Run Speed: +22%

Lvl 7 Life: +140%
Walk/Run Speed: +23%

Lvl 8 Life: +160%
Walk/Run Speed: +24%

Lvl 9 Life: +180%
Walk/Run Speed: +26%

Lvl 10 Life: +200%
Walk/Run Speed: +27%

Lvl 11 Life: +220%
Walk/Run Speed: +28%

Lvl 12 Life: +240%
Walk/Run Speed: +29%

Lvl 13 Life: +260%
Walk/Run Speed: +30%

Lvl 14 Life: +280%
Walk/Run Speed: +30%

Lvl 15 Life: +300%
Walk/Run Speed: +31%

Lvl 16 Life: +320%
Walk/Run Speed: +32%

Lvl 17 Life: +340%
Walk/Run Speed: +32%

Lvl 18 Life: +360%
Walk/Run Speed: +32%

Lvl 19 Life: +380%
Walk/Run Speed: +33%

Lvl 20 Life: +380%
Walk/Run Speed: +33%

Raise Skeletal Mage
-------------------

Description: Slightly better than melee skely. They can be quite powerful
if the enemy is under the curse of Lower Resist. You need LOT
of them to kill enemy fast. But how many time you will find
a lot of corpses to raise them?

Rank: B-

Life: 61

Lvl 1 1 skel mage
Mana: 8

Lvl 2 2 skel mages
Mana: 9

Lvl 3 3 skel mages
Mana: 10

Lvl 4 4 skel mages
Mana: 11

Lvl 5 5 skel mages
Mana: 12

Lvl 6 6 skel mages
Mana: 13

Lvl 7 7 skel mages
Mana: 14

Lvl 8 8 skel mages
Mana: 15

Lvl 9 9 skel mages
Mana: 16

Lvl 10 10 skel mages
Mana: 17

Lvl 11 11 skel mages
Mana: 18

Lvl 12 12 skel mages
Mana: 19

Lvl 13 13 skel mages
Mana: 20

Lvl 14 14 skel mages
Mana: 21

Lvl 15 15 skel mages
Mana: 22

Lvl 16 16 skel mages
Mana: 23

Lvl 17 17 skel mages
Mana: 24

Lvl 18 18 skel mages
Mana: 25

Lvl 19 19 skel mages
Mana: 26

Lvl 20 20 skel mages
Mana: 27

Blood Golem
-----------

Description: Mmmm... what a tasty... ahem... I mean good looking Golem. It
looks like this Golem is made by a pile of red mud. :D
The Iron Maiden + Blood Golem combo still works. I use this
combo most of the time. But its useless decreases drastically
in Hell difficulty. But still, quite usefull most of them time.
One point into Blood Golem should be more than enough.

Rank: B+

Defense: 90
Life: 201 (Normal)
388 (Nightmare)
636 (Hell)

Normal Nightmare Hell

Lvl 1 To Life: 86% To Life: 86% To
Life: 86%
Dmg: 6-16 Dmg: 9-23 Dmg:
10-27
Mana: 25 Mana: 25 Mana:
25

Lvl 2 To Life: 95% To Life: 95% To
Life: 95%
Dmg: 18-21 Dmg: 13-31 Dmg:
13-36
Mana: 29 Mana: 29 Mana:
29

Lvl 3 To Life: 102% To Life: 102% To
Life: 102%
Dmg: 10-27 Dmg: 15-39 Dmg:
17-45
Mana: 33 Mana: 33 Mana:
33

Lvl 4 To Life: 108% To Life: 108% To
Life: 108%
Dmg: 12-32 Dmg: 18-47 Dmg:
20-55
Mana: 37 Mana: 37 Mana:
37

Lvl 5 To Life: 112% To Life: 112% To
Life: 112%
Dmg: 14-38 Dmg: 21-55 Dmg:
24-64
Mana: 41 Mana: 41 Mana:
41

Lvl 6 To life: 116% To Life: 116% To
Life: 116%
Dmg: 16-44 Dmg: 24-63 Dmg:
27-74
Mana: 45 Mana: 45 Mana:
45

Lvl 7 To Life: 119% To Life: 119% To
Life: 119%
Dmg: 18-49 Dmg: 27-71 Dmg:
31-83
Mana: 49 Mana: 49 Mana:
49

Lvl 8 To Life: 121% To Life: 121% To
life: 121%
Dmg: 20-55 Dmg: 31-79 Dmg:
34-93
Mana: 53 Mana: 53 Mana:
53

Lvl 9 To Life: 124% To lIfe: 124% To
Life: 124%
Dmg: 22-60 Dmg: 34-87 Dmg:
38-102
Mana: 57 Mana: 57 Mana:
57

Lvl 10 To Life: 126% To Life: 126% To
Life: 126%
Dmg: 24-66 Dmg: 37-95 Dmg:
41-112
Mana: 61 Mana: 61 Mana:
61

Lvl 11 To Life: 128% To Life: 128% To
Life: 128%
Dmg: 27-72 Dmg: 40-103 Dmg:
45-121
Mana: 65 Mana: 65 Mana:
65

Lvl 12 To Life: 129% To Life: 129% To
Life: 129%
Dmg: 29-77 Dmg: 43-111 Dmg:
48-130
Mana: 69 Mana: 69 Mana:
69

Lvl 13 To Life: 131% To Life: 131% To
Life: 131%
Dmg: 31-83 Dmg: 46-119 Dmg:
52-140
Mana: 73 Mana: 73 Mana:
73

Lvl 14 To Life: 132% To Life: 132% To
Life: 132%
Dmg: 33-88 Dmg: 49-127 Dmg:
55-149
Mana: 77 Mana: 77 Mana:
77

Lvl 15 To Life: 133% To Life: 133% To
Life: 133%
Dmg: 35-94 Dmg: 53-135 Dmg:
59-159
Mana: 81 Mana: 81 Mana:
81

Lvl 16 To Life: 135% To Life: 135% To
Life: 135%
Dmg: 37-100 Dmg: 56-143 Dmg:
62-168
Mana: 85 Mana: 85 Mana:
85

Lvl 17 To Life: 136% To Life: 136% To
Life: 136%
Dmg: 39-105 Dmg: 59-151 Dmg:
66-178
Mana: 89 Mana: 89 Mana:
89

Lvl 18 To Life: 137% To Life: 137% To
Life: 137%
Dmg: 41-111 Dmg: 62-159 Dmg:
69-187
Mana: 93 Mana: 93 Mana:
93

Lvl 19 To Life: 138% To Life: 138% To
Life: 138%
Dmg: 43-116 Dmg: 65-167 Dmg:
68-175
Mana: 97 Mana: 97 Mana:
97

Lvl 20 To Life: 138% To Life: 138% To Lif:
138%
Dmg: 45-122 Dmg: 68-175 Dmg:
76-206
Mana: 101 Mana: 101 Mana:
101

Summon Resist
-------------

Description: Nah... useless. Your golem will have tons of life with max
golem mastery. One point should be enough.

Rank: B

Lvl 1 Resist All: 28%

Lvl 2 Resist All: 34%

Lvl 3 Resist All: 39%

Lvl 4 Resist All: 44%

Lvl 5 Resist All: 47%

Lvl 6 Resist All: 50%

Lvl 7 Resist All: 52%

Lvl 8 Resist All: 54%

Lvl 9 Resist All: 56%

Lvl 10 Resist All: 57%

Lvl 11 Resist All: 59%

Lvl 12 Resist All: 60%

Lvl 13 Resist All: 61%

Lvl 14 Resist All: 62%

Lvl 15 Resist All: 62%

Lvl 16 Resist All: 64%

Lvl 17 Resist All: 64%

Lvl 18 Resist All: 65%

Lvl 19 Resist All: 65%

Lvl 20 Resist All: 66%

Iron Golem
----------

Description: Consider as one of the best Golem. But you need to sacrifice a
really
great item to creat one. Iron Golem will inherit the property
of
the item that you use to creat it. BUT, do you willing to
sacrifice
the Grandfather to creat a powerful Iron Golem? Once it dies,
that it.
The item will lost and it cannot be revived anymore. Good or
not good
is up to you.

Rank: C (In my opinion)

Dmg: 7-19 (Normal)
11-30 (Nightmare)
12-33 (Hell)

Life: 306 (Normal)
595 (Nightmare)
980 (Hell)

Mana: 35
Defense: 111 +Item

Lvl 1 Thorns: 0%

Lvl 2 Thorns: 150%

Lvl 3 Thorns: 165%

Lvl 4 Thorns: 180%

Lvl 5 Thorns: 195%

Lvl 6 Thorns: 210%

Lvl 7 Thorns: 225%

Lvl 8 Thorns: 240%

Lvl 9 Thorns: 255%

Lvl 10 Thorns: 270%

Lvl 11 Thorns: 285%

Lvl 12 Thorns: 300%

Lvl 13 Thorns: 315%

Lvl 14 Thorns: 330%

Lvl 15 Thorns: 345%

Lvl 16 Thorns: 360%

Lvl 17 Thorns: 375%

Lvl 18 Thorns: 390%

Lvl 19 Thorns: 405%

Lvl 20 Thorns: 420%

Fire Golem
----------

Description: A pretty powerful looking Golem. But actually, the damage it
does is quite high when you maxed it. Combine with Lower Resist
it deal LOT of damage. But since the damage it does is fire
damage, so when dealing with fire immune monsters you have to
use other Golem.

Rank: A

Defense: 160

Normal Nightmare Hell

Lvl 1 Abs: 36% Abs: 36% Abs: 36%
FDmg: 20-54 FDmg: 30-78 FDmg:
36-94
Mana: 50 Mana: 50 Mana: 50

Lvl 2 Abs: 45% Abs: 45% Abs: 45%
Fdmg: 23-63 Fdmg: 35-91 Fdmg:
42-110
Mana: 60 Mana: 60 Mana: 60

Lvl 3 Abs: 52% Abs: 52% Abs: 52%
Fdmg: 27-72 Fdmg: 40-105 Fdmg:
48-126
Mana: 70 Mana: 70 Mana: 70

Lvl 4 Abs: 58% Abs: 58% Abs: 58%
Fdmg: 30-82 Fdmg: 45-118 Fdmg:
54-143
Mana: 80 Mana: 80 Mana: 80

Lvl 5 Abs: 62% Abs: 62% Abs: 62%
Fdmg: 34-91 Fdmg: 51-132 Fdmg:
61-159
Mana: 90 Mana: 90 Mana: 90

Lvl 6 Abs: 66% Abs: 66% Abs: 66%
Fdmg: 37-101 Fdmg: 56-146 Fdmg:
67-176
Mana: 100 Mana: 100 Mana:
100

Lvl 7 Abs: 69% Abs: 69% Abs: 69%
Fdmg: 41-140 Fdmg: 61-159 Fdmg:
73-192
Mana: 110 Mana: 110 Mana:
110

Lvl 8 Abs: 71% Abs: 71% Abs: 71%
Fdmg: 44-120 Fdmg: 66-173 Fdmg:
80-209
Mana: 120 Mana: 120 Mana:
120

Lvl 9 Abs: 74% Abs: 74% Abs: 74%
Fdmg: 48-129 Fdmg: 72-187 Fdmg:
86-225
Mana: 130 Mana: 130 Mana:
130

Lvl 10 Abs: 76% Abs: 76% Abs: 76%
Fdmg: 51-139 Fdmg: 77-200 Fdmg:
92-242
Mana: 140 Mana: 140 Mana:
140

Lvl 11 Abs: 78% Abs: 78% Abs: 78%
Fdmg: 55-148 Fdmg: 82-214 Fdmg:
99-258
Mana: 150 Mana: 150 Mana:
150

Lvl 12 Abs: 79% Abs: 79% Abs: 79%
Fdmg: 58-157 Fdmg: 87-228 Fdmg:
105-274
Mana: 160 Mana: 160 Mana:
160

Lvl 13 Abs: 81% Abs: 81% Abs: 81%
Fdmg: 62-167 Fdmg: 93-241 Fdmg:
111-291
Mana: 170 Mana: 170 Mana:
170

Lvl 14 Abs: 82% Abs: 82% Abs: 82%
Fdmg: 65-176 Fdmg: 98-255 Fdmg:
117-307
Mana: 180 Mana: 180 Mana:
180

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Fdmg: 69-186 Fdmg: 103-269 Fdmg:
124-324
Mana: 190 Mana: 190 Mana:
190

Lvl 16 Abs: 85% Abs: 85% Abs: 85%
Fdmg: 72-195 Fdmg: 108-282 Fdmg:
130-340
Mana: 200 Mana: 200 Mana:
200

Lvl 17 Abs: 85% Abs: 85% Abs: 85%
Fdmg: 76-205 Fdmg: 114-296 Fdmg:
136-357
Mana: 210 Mana: 210 Mana:
210

Lvl 18 Abs: 86% Abs: 86% Abs: 86%
Fdmg: 79-214 Fdmg: 119-310 Fdmg:
143-373
Mana: 220 Mana: 220 Mana:
220

Lvl 19 Abs: 87% Abs: 87% Abs: 87%
Fdmg: 83-224 Fdmg: 124-323 Fdmg:
149-390
Mana: 230 Mana: 230 Mana:
230

Lvl 20 Abs: 88% Abs: 88% Abs: 88%
Fdmg: 86-233 Fdmg: 129-337 Fdmg:
155-406
Mana: 240 Mana: 240 Mana:
240

Revive
------

Description: A really great skill. But you need at least 10 points into it
to
make it usefull. One revive doesn't make any different.
10 points should be more than enough. Some monsters can't
be revived though.

Rank: A+

Duration: 180 seconds
Mana: 45
Life: 200%

Lvl 1 1 monster

Lvl 2 2 monsters

Lvl 3 3 monsters

Lvl 4 4 monsters

Lvl 5 5 monsters

Lvl 6 6 monsters

Lvl 7 7 monsters

Lvl 8 8 monsters

Lvl 9 9 monsters

Lvl 10 10 monsters

Lvl 11 11 monsters

Lvl 12 12 monsters

Lvl 13 13 monsters

Lvl 14 14 monsters

Lvl 15 15 monsters

Lvl 16 16 monsters

Lvl 17 17 monsters

Lvl 18 18 monsters

Lvl 19 19 monsters

Lvl 20 20 monsters

3. Curses tree
--------------

One of the most important skills tree for the Necromancer. It really helps
you and your minions a lot. Other than that, in large multiplayer games,
Necromancer's curse can be extremely useful just like the Pally's aura.
Most of the curses can be extremely useful with just one skill point
they don't need a lot of mana to cast. Adding skill point to most of the
curses just only increase their radius and duration so it's not worth it.
Except a few like Lower Resist and Iron Maiden. You need to invest some
points
for these skills but not more than five points for each of them.

Amplify Damage
--------------

Descrition: This skill works wonderfully when you party with melee
characters.
Espeacially in Hell difficulty, the enemy will receive double
damage when the enemy is under this curse. Useless when you play
alone.

Rank: B (single)
A (multi)

Damage reflect back to monsters +100%
Mana: 4

Lvl 1 Radius: 2
Duration: 8 seconds

Lvl 2 Radius: 2.6
Duration : 11 seconds

Lvl 3 radius: 3.3
Duration: 14 seconds

Lvl 4 Radius: 4
Duration: 17 seconds

Lvl 5 Radius: 4.6
Duration: 20 seconds

Lvl 6 Radius: 5
Duration: 23 seconds

Lvl 7 Radius: 6
Duration: 26 seconds

Lvl 8 Radius: 6.6
Duration: 29 seconds

Lvl 9 Radius: 7.3
Duration: 32 seconds

Lvl 10 Radius: 8
Duration: 35 seconds

Lvl 11 Radius: 8.6
Duration: 38 seconds

Lvl 12 Radius: 9.3
Duration: 41 seconds

Lvl 13 Radius: 10
Duration: 44 seconds

Lvl 14 Radius: 10.6
Duration: 47 seconds

Lvl 15 Radius: 11.3
Duration: 50 seconds

Lvl 16 Radius: 12
Duration: 53 seconds

Lvl 17 Radius: 12.6
Duration: 56

Lvl 18 Radius: 13.3
Duration: 59 seconds

Lvl 19 Radius: 14
Duration: 62 seconds

Lvl 20 Radius: 14.6
Duration: 65 seconds

Dim Vision
----------

Description: Huh... you think you can blind the enemy forever? This curse
is only useful against range attacker but not unique range
attacker. So, it is useless.

Rank: D

Mana: 9

Lvl 1 Radius: 2.6
Dur: 7 secs

Lvl 2 Radius: 3.3
Dur: 9 secs

Lvl 3 Radius: 4
Dur: 11 secs

Lvl 4 Radius: 4.6
Dur: 13 secs

Lvl 5 Radius: 5.3
Dur: 15 secs

Lvl 6 Radius: 6
Dur: 17 secs

Lvl 7 Radius: 6.6
Dur: 19 secs

Lvl 8 Radius: 7.3
Dur: 21 secs

Lvl 9 Radius: 8
Dur: 23 seconds

Lvl 10 Radius: 8.6
Dur: 25 secs

Lvl 11 Radius: 9.3
Dur: 27 secs

Lvl 12 Radius: 10
Dur: 29 secs

Lvl 13 Radius: 10.6
Dur: 31 secs

Lvl 14 Radius: 11.3
Dur: 33 secs

Lvl 15 Radius: 12
Dur: 35 secs

Lvl 16 Radius: 12.6
Dur: 37 secs

Lvl 17 Radius: 13.3
Dur: 39 secs

Lvl 18 Radius: 14
Dur: 41 secs

Lvl 19 Radius: 14.6
Dur: 43 secs

Lvl 20 Radius: 15.3
Dur: 45 secs

Weaken
------

Description: Useless. The damage that this curse decreases doesn't helps
anything.
Use other curses instead.

Rank: C-

Target's damage: -33%
Mana: 4

Lvl 1 Radius: 6
Dur: 14 secs

Lvl 2 Radius: 6.6
Dur: 16.4 secs

Lvl 3 Radius: 7.3
Dur: 18.8 secs

Lvl 4 Radius: 8
Dur: 21.2 secs

Lvl 5 Radius: 8.6
Dur: 23.6 secs

Lvl 6 Radius: 9.3
Dur: 26 secs

Lvl 7 Radius: 10
Dur: 28.4 secs

Lvl 8 Radius: 10.6
Dur: 30.8 secs

Lvl 9 Radius: 11.3
Dur: 33.2 secs

Lvl 10 Radius: 12
Dur: 35.6

Lvl 11 Radius: 12.6
Dur: 38 secs

Lvl 12 Radius: 13.3
Dur: 40.4 secs

Lvl 13 Radius: 14
Dur: 42.8 secs

Lvl 14 Radius: 14.6
Dur: 45.2 secs

Lvl 15 Radius: 15.3
Dur: 47.6 secs

Lvl 16 Radius: 16
Dur: 50 secs

Lvl 17 Radius: 16.6
Dur: 52.4 secs

Lvl 18 Radius: 17.3
Dur: 54.8 secs

Lvl 19 Radius: 18
Dur: 57.2 secs

Lvl 20 Radius: 18.6
Dur: 59.6 secs

Iron Maiden
-----------

Description: One of the best curses. The damage that it reflects balck is
quite
high. But since the Hell enemies have 50% global phusical
resistance,
its usefulness decreases a lot. But I use it most of the time.
:)

Rank: B+

Radius: 4.6
Mana: 5

Lvl 1 200% Dmg return
Dur: 12 secs

Lvl 2 225%
Dur: 14.4 secs

Lvl 3 250%
Dur: 16.8 secs

Lvl 4 275%
Dur: 19.2 secs

Lvl 5 300%
Dur: 21.6 secs

Lvl 6 325%
Dur: 24 secs

Lvl 7 350%
Dur: 26.4 secs

LVl 8 375%
Dur: 28.8 secs

Lvl 9 400%
Dur: 31.2 secs

Lvl 10 425%
Dur: 33.6 secs

Lvl 11 450%
Dur: 36 secs

Lvl 12 475%
Dur: 38.4 secs

Lvl 13 500%
Dur: 40.8 secs

Lvl 14 525%
Dur: 43.2 secs

Lvl 15 550%
Dur: 45.6 secs

Lvl 16 575%
Dur: 48 secs

Lvl 17 600%
Dur: 50.4 secs

Lvl 18 625%
Dur: 52.8 secs

LVl 19 650%
Dur: 55.2 secs

Lvl 20 675%
Dur: 57.6 secs

Terror
------

Description: This can can be your life saver when you are been swarmed by
enemies. It can makes the enemies flee in terror. Again, how
many time will you be swarmed by enemies? But put at least
1 points into it and assign a hot key for this curse so you
can save yourself in case you have to surround by enemies.

Rank: B-

Radius: 2.6
Mana: 7

Lvl 1 Dur: 8 secs

Lvl 2 Dur: 9 secs

Lvl 3 Dur: 10 secs

Lvl 4 Dur: 11 secs

Lvl 5 Dur: 12 secs

Lvl 6 Dur: 13 secs

Lvl 7 Dur: 14 secs

Lvl 8 Dur: 15 secs

Lvl 9 Dur: 16 secs

Lvl 10 Dur: 17 secs

Lvl 11 Dur: 18 secs

Lvl 12 Dur: 19 secs

Lvl 13 Dur: 20 secs

Lvl 14 Dur: 21 secs

Lvl 15 Dur: 22 secs

Lvl 16 Dur: 23 secs

Lvl 17 Dur: 24 secs

Lvl 18 Dur: 25 secs

Lvl 19 Dur: 26 secs

Lvl 20 Dur: 27 secs

Confuse
-------

Description: Although the description in the game says that it will make
the enemy fight among themselves but, all I see is they walk
around and doing nothing. It is extremely rare they will attack
their comrades. So, it's useless.

Rank: D

Mana: 13

Lvl 1 Radius: 4
Dur: 10 secs

Lvl 2 Radius: 4.6
Dur: 12 secs

Lvl 3 Radius: 5.3
Dur: 14 secs

Lvl 4 Radius: 6
Dur: 16 secs

Lvl 5 Radius: 6.6
Dur: 18 secs

Lvl 6 Radius: 7.3
Dur: 20 secs

Lvl 7 Radius: 8
Dur: 22 secs

Lvl 8 Radius: 8.6
Dur: 24 secs

Lvl 9 Radius: 9.3
Dur: 26 secs

Lvl 10 Radius: 10
Dur: 28 secs

Lvl 11 Radius: 10.6
Dur: 30 secs

Lvl 12 Radius: 11.3
Dur: 32 secs

Lvl 13 Radius: 12
Dur: 34 secs

Lvl 14 Radius: 12.6
Dur: 36 secs

Lvl 15 Radius: 13.3
Dur: 38 secs

Lvl 16 Radius: 14
Dur: 40 secs

Lvl 17 Radius: 14.6
Dur: 42 secs

Lvl 18 Radius: 15.3
Dur: 44 secs

Lvl 19 Radius: 16
Dur: 46 secs

Lvl 20 Radius: 16.6
Dur: 48 secs

Life Tap
--------

Description: This can helps your comrades and your mercs when they almost
die. See a comrade almost die, cast the curse and you will see
that his life increase extremely fast. Other than that, it can
also save your merc A LOT. One point should be enough.

Rank: B+

Mana: 9
Heals: 50% of attack damage

Lvl 1 Radius: 2.6
Dur: 16 secs

Lvl 2 Radius: 3.3
Dur: 18.4 secs

Lvl 3 Radius: 4
Dur: 20.8 secs

Lvl 4 Radius: 4.6
Dur: 23.2 secs

Lvl 5 Radius: 5.3
Dur: 25.6 secs

Lvl 6 Radius: 6
Dur: 28 secs

Lvl 7 Radius: 6.6
Dur: 30.4 secs

Lvl 8 Radius: 7.3
Dur: 32.8 secs

Lvl 9 Radius: 8
Dur: 35.2 secs

Lvl 10 Radius: 8.6
Dur: 37.6 secs

Lvl 11 Radius: 9.3
Dur: 40 secs

Lvl 12 Radius: 10
Dur: 42.4 secs

Lvl 13 Radius: 10.6
Dur: 44.8 secs

Lvl 14 Radius: 11.3
Dur: 47.2 secs

Lvl 15 Radius: 12
Dur: 49.6 secs

Lvl 16 Radius: 12.6
Dur: 52 secs

Lvl 17 Radius: 13.3
Dur: 54.4 secs

Lvl 18 Radius: 14
Dur: 56.8 secs

Lvl 19 Radius: 14.6
Dur: 59.2 secs

Lvl 20 Radius: 15.3
Dur: 61.6 secs

Attract
-------

Description: Useless... it can't affect unique monsters so its usefulness
is questionable. But you use cast it on a normal monster and
watch his own friends chop him into minced meat.

Rank: C-

Radius: 6
Mana: 17

Lvl 1 Dur: 12 secs

Lvl 2 Dur: 15.6 secs

Lvl 3 Dur: 19.2 secs

Lvl 4 Dur: 22.8 secs

Lvl 5 Dur: 26.4 secs

Lvl 6 Dur: 30 secs

Lvl 7 Dur: 33.6 secs

Lvl 8 Dur: 37.2 secs

Lvl 9 Dur: 40.8 secs

Lvl 10 Dur: 44.4 secs

Lvl 11 Dur: 48 secs

Lvl 12 Dur: 51.6 secs

Lvl 13 Dur: 55.2 secs

Lvl 14 Dur: 58.8 secs

Lvl 15 Dur: 62.4 secs

Lvl 16 Dur: 66 secs

Lvl 17 Dur: 69.6 secs

Lvl 18 Dur: 73.2 secs

Lvl 19 Dur: 76.8 secs

Lvl 20 Dur: 80.4 secs

Decrepify
---------

Description: It weakens and slows down the enemy. Not very usefull in my
opinion.
But it can be a great curse in PvP battle. But I personally
against
PK so... in v1.08, it can also remove the physical immune
property
from a P.I. monster but it has been removed in v1.09. Too
bad...

Rank: C+

Mana: 11
Radius: 4

Lvl 1 Dur: 4 secs

Lvl 2 Dur: 4.6 secs

Lvl 3 Dur: 5.2 secs

Lvl 4 Dur: 5.8 secs

Lvl 5 Dur: 6.4 secs

Lvl 6 Dur: 7 secs

Lvl 7 Dur: 7.6 secs

Lvl 8 Dur: 8.2 secs

Lvl 9 Dur: 8.8 secs

Lvl 10 Dur: 9.4 secs

Lvl 11 Dur: 10 secs

Lvl 12 Dur: 10.6 secs

Lvl 13 Dur: 11.2 secs

Lvl 14 Dur: 11.8 secs

Lvl 15 Dur: 12.4 secs

Lvl 16 Dur: 13 secs

Lvl 17 Dur: 13.6 secs

Lvl 18 Dur: 14.2 secs

Lvl 19 Dur: 14.8 secs

Lvl 20 Dur: 15.4 secs

Lower Resist
------------

Description: Ahh... this is a very good curse. Socerress will like it a lot.
I don't know wether it can makes the enemy resistances drop to
negative or not but I know that your Fire Golem, Bone Spirit
will
do a lot more damage than usual. 5 points into it should be
more
than enough.

Rank: A

Mana: 22

Lvl 1 Radius: 4.6
Dur: 20 secs
RA: -31%

Lvl 2 Radius: 5.3
Dur: 22 secs
RA: -37%

Lvl 3 Radius: 6
Dur: 24 secs
RA: -41%

Lvl 4 Radius: 6.6
Dur: 26 secs
RA: -44%

Lvl 5 Radius: 7.3
Dur: 28 secs
RA: -47%

Lvl 6 Radius: 8
Dur: 30 secs
RA: -49%

Lvl 7 Radius: 8.6
Dur: 32 secs
RA: -51%

Lvl 8 Radius: 9.3
Dur: 34 secs
RA: -52%

Lvl 9 Radius: 10
Dur: 36 secs
RA: -54%

Lvl 10 Radius: 10.6
Dur: 38 secs
RA: -55%

Lvl 11 Radius: 11.3
Dur: 40 secs
RA: -56%

Lvl 12 Radius: 12
Dur: 42 secs
RA: -57%

Lvl 13 Radius: 12.6
Dur: 44 secs
RA: -58%

Lvl 14 Radius: 13.3
Dur: 46 secs
RA: -59%

Lvl 15 Radius: 14
Dur: 48 secs
RA: -60%

Lvl 16 Radius: 14.6
Dur: 50 secs
RA: -61%

Lvl 17 Radius: 15.3
Dur: 52 secs
RA: -61%

Lvl 18 Radius: 16
Dur: 54 secs
RA: -61%

Lvl 19 Radius: 16.6
Dur: 56 secs
RA: -62%

Lvl 20 Radius: 17.3
Dur: 58 secs
RA: -62%

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5. Act V walkthrough:
=====================

This walkthrough is based on the Hell difficulty, so you may not feel very
hard
as I have said in this walkthrough if you are playing Normal and Nightmare
difficulty.
Never ignore my advise, for you will be destroyed by the minions of
destruction.

Quest 1: Kill Shenk the Overseer
--------------------------------

A Necromancer will never have any problem while trying to finish this quest
in
Normal and Nightmare. Iron Maiden+Blood Golem combo works wonderfully and
you
can gain a great amount of experience points. But in Hell, the death maulers
are
immune to physical so the IM+BG combo can't works very well here.

You need to cast Bone Spirit or Fire Golem to deal with the Maulers. All in
all,
this is a pretty easy mission for any characters even for the Necromancer.
Watch
out for the self-destruct berserkers in Hell though, they can most probably
kill
the Necromancer in one explosion.

As Shenk himself, he's doesn't post any threat to the Necromancer once all
his
minions have been killed. Just revive a few minions and summon a Golem and
lastly
cast Iron Maiden or my favirote, Amplify Damage. He should be down very fast
if
you have a lot of revive monsters. The reward is great though, Larzuk will
put
a socket into a item for you. Save it for better items.

Quest 2: Rescue the barbarians
------------------------------

Arggg... the most annoying area for the Necromancer is the those areas that
populated with Demon Imps. Not only their fire ball is extremely deadly if
your
resistances is negative. Don't think your Bone Spirit can hunts them down
easily,
these imps not only shooting Fire Ball, they also teleport around like
crazy.
Fortunately, they are pretty weak. Two to three Bone Spirits can take them
down
already. If only you have slvl 24 or higher Bone Spirit.

Your first priority is to get a positive resistance against fire. Equiping
the
Unique Hellmouth Gaunlet and the Draft Star can save your butt a lot. If
only
you are lucky to find those thing. My paladin got both of those in Act IV
Hell
together so Big D can't even hurt my pally with his LOD and fire spell.
Hehehe...

But my Necromancer isn't that lucky to get those items so he had a tough
time in
that area. Besides the demon imps, the big monsters that the imps can ride
on are
also very dangerous espeacialy the unique one. Try to revive some of them to
be tanks for you. Never revive the demon imps though, they are useless
because the imps are immune to fire which mean they both can't harm each
other.
The big monsters are very slow though, so they are not very useful. Fire
Golem
should be your fisrt choice here. But you need to rely on your Bone Spirit
to kill off the imps.

What makes this area hard is the lack of revive choices. My advise is rush
to
the center of the map and rescue the prisoner as soon as possible and move
on
to the next area. The reward for this quest isn't very attractive though.
You will be given three runes as your reward. They are Ort, Ral, Tal. Find a
good socket shield and put those rune in this order which is Ral, Ort, Tal
to make a RuneWord called Ancient's Pledge. The god thing about this
RuneWord
is it adds plus to all resistances. Other than that, it's crap.

Quest 3: Resque Anya
--------------------

Another pretty easy mission. You need to save Anya in the Frozen River(?).
She's been trapped somewhere inside the ice cave. Most of the enemy in this
area aren't very dangerous except the blood lords. You need to watch out for
those minatour like creature. You will meet them during your way to the
frozen river.

They will use Frenzy once they hit you and this will increase their attack
and speed
tremendously. With two or three of them, your Golem won't last very long.
The unique one is espeacially dangerous. Even the Barbarian with 2k life die
very easily when confronting the unique blood lord if they are not careful.

When you get to the frozen river, it's will be much safer because there are
no Blood Lord around in that area. Once you find Anya, talk to her. Go back
to town and get the potion from Mala. Use it on Anya to melt the ice.

The reward for this quest can be extremely good or bad depending on your
luck. Mala
will give you a scroll which you give to +10 to all resistances permanently.
Which is extremely good. But for Anya's reward, she will give you a rare
Necromancer's shield. The mods are random. If you are lucky, you might get
a +2 to all Necromancer skill shield. I never have this kind of luck though.
But my friend's barby got a +2 before it is possible to get one.

Quest 4: Kill Nilathak
----------------------

This quest IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for the hardcore character. I will tell
you
why later. When you enter the red portal that Anya opened, there'e a unique
skely called Pindleskin. He's a mlvl 93 and that means he can drops almost
any unique items in the game except the Constricting Ring. But his unique
drop rate sucks so badly, he only a normal unqiue and not super unique.
People
claimed that they got all kind of goodies from him from doing pindle run
this include Windforce and all sort of Elite Unique ans Set.

Remember though, once you hit the waypoint and kill Nilathak. The red portal
will close so you have to run up from the waypoint which is much much
slower.
You need to sacrifice one, either kill Nilathak or don't hit the waypoint.
It's up to you. Nilathak is consider as Super Unique I think, and he can
drop all the unique and set items dur to his high mlvl. But to his poor
drop rate, it's very hard to get a unique from him he's very dangerous to
kill or do Nilathak run.

Now, back to the story. Nilathak simply is the single most deadliest monster
. ahem... enemy that you will be facing throughout the whole game. His
Coprse Explosion can easily kill you in just one tiny blow! The blow radius
is very large. Even a Barby with 2 to 3k life will die in one or two hits
from his almighty CE. Awww.... how I wish the Necromancer's CE can rival
Nilathak's CE.

My advise is, blow ALL the corpses before Nilathak does! Never leave a
single
corpse laying on the ground. Nilathak's life is very low so few hits from
the Necro's bone spirit can already take him down. Beware, he can spawn more
monsters if all his minions are dead. Lure them out of Nilathak's sight
and kill them.

Your quest reward... well... kinda... %#@@$#... Anya will personalize an
item for you. It will add your character's name infront of the item's name.
For example if you personalize the cracked sash (which I never recommend),
it will be xxx's cracked sash. Nice huh? It will not change the item's
attribute though.

Quest 5: Challenge the three Ancients
-------------------------------------

This is by far the thoughest quest you ever play. You need to challenge all
there Ancients by yourself or you can finish this quest with other players
which I reccommend you to do so. But a Necromancer should have no problem to
finish this quest alone.

Go to the Bloody Foothill and revive 10+ Death Maulers which are immune to
physical and summon your strongest Golem. Make haste to the Arreat Summit
due
to the time limit of your revive monsters. Open a TP first before you enter.
Once you are at the Arreat Summit, quickly read the book to awaken the
Ancients.
Although they are powerful, but their life actually are quite low. Three of
them
using diferent skills. All of them are Barbarian's skills which are
Whirlwind (deadly),
Axe throwing (also quite deadly) and Leap Attack (deadly too).

Due to Necromancer's low defense. They can crush him within second. Right
now they
should be busying dealing with your minions. Cast Amplify Damage or Iron
Maiden
to assist you minions. You should cast Bone Spirit from behind. They should
be
down very fast. Ha... even the Barbarian has a tough time against them. :D

Quest 6: Kill Baal
------------------

Before you confronting Baal, he will summon 5 ground of monsters to fight
you.
From Act 1 monsters to Act 4. The last group of monsters are Baal personal's
minions which you never see thoughout the whole game. They are deadly and
they
are fast. They can also stun you once you get hit by them.

But IM+BG combo can easily take care of this problem. Beware, never get
swarm by
them. Or else you will have a tough time retrieving your corpse. Once you
kill
them. Baal will run away. Open a TP first before you go in. Baal is very
very very
tough for Necromancer.

By the time you reach here, there are no corpse around for you to revive and
your Golem will die very fast from Baal's attack. His tantacles are very
annoying.
They can kill Necromancer very easily. My tactic is... dying. :D

All I do is cast as many Bone Spirits to him before he kills me. After my
Necro
die, go back through the TP you opened. Shoot as many BS you can and he
kills you.
Go back, open yet another TP. Go in, shoot BS and he kills you again. Go
back
and yada yada yada, repeat the whole process until he dies. Of course you
can
a party member to assist you but if you play Single and alone, use this
tactics.
Remember, only use this tactic right after you level up.

Hoola... you finish the game and watch the stupid ending. But it's cool
though.

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6. Credits:
===========

-Thanks God for Every things!

-Thanks to Blizzard North for bringing us this wonderful and addictive
game to us. It really ruins my social life.

-Thanks to GameFaqs for posting my guide.

-Thanks to myself for putting a hard work in this guide

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