Hey all, finally got my pnova necro kitted out with DWeb, Enigma and all that jazz. Been tinkering with the build a bit, and had a couple questions for the experts:

-Max block or Vit? So far, I've tried both and max block feels nice, but I'm not sure if it's worth it at the expense of life

-CE or Skeles? I had skeles at first, but the radius of max CE is pretty insane. Probably won't translate well to P8 runs, so I'm wondering if it's worth going back to skeletons

-Spirit or Homunc? I hit 75FCR with a circlet and ammy/ring, so I figure homunc was the better bet, but using spirit would open up a ring slot for another SoJ at the expense of resists.


If anyones done any crunching, or had a think about it I'd love to hear thoughts!

Nice I built a pretty tasty novamancer for Chaos and Pit runs a couple ladders back, one of my fav chars.

I'd always go vit. Necro block frames are pretty slow, you can get locked in animation, not to mention it doesn't help you vs ranged/elemental attacks, whereas a bigger health pool does.

Out of those two I'd say CE. If you're looking for meatshields, I prefer using Revive. It's a one-point wonder, tankier than skeletons, and now you've got Enigma they'll tele with you, so no need to worry about them getting stuck/disappearing.

You can go Trang trio (belt, gloves, "shield") for the extra -EPR, as a third option. Resists and FCR suffer of course. I remedied this by having a 35FCR Spirit on switch (along with CtA) and using that for fast tele. Whilst in-situ I found high FCR not needed as spamming Poison Nova doesn't really do anything, a couple of casts is sufficient. And as always, you can cover resists with charms.

Out of those two though, yeah Spirit is unfortunately the better option. You could then free up both ring slots for dual SoJ or SoJ + BK (assuming you're using a +3 P&B 20FCR circlet, sounds like it).

Hope this was helpful, have fun!

This post was edited by Mukhalif on Nov 3 2021 06:28pm