Quote (xxg0dzxx @ Sat, Jan 10 2009, 06:45pm)

Intro:
For those of you that don't know me my name is David and I play in UsWest Non-Ladder. I have been playing PnB Necros since v.09 and quit before v.10 then years later I found my D2 cd-roms and started playing v.11 again. When I came back I noticed every character class was teleporting. This was very surprising for me because I was stuck on my .09 build which was a maxblock pnb necro that used the following:

.09 PnB Necro Build

Helm:
Shako
Armor:
Shaftstop
Shield:
Stormshield
Belt:
String of ears
Amulet:
Maras
Weapon:
Wizardspike
Gloves:
Trang gloves
Boots:
Waterwalks
Rings:
2xSojs
Grand Charms:
10x40life Gc's
Small Charms:
10x20life Res sc's

As you can see this build is no longer effective in v1.12. So what made "The Necromancer" evolve to a different build was "Enigma." So now my job was to work on the perfect pnb build using enigma and so i did. After 2-3yrs of playing D2 again. I decided to share my perfect build. I will keep it easy as possible because if your like me I like to get straight to the point and not read much. Going in depth and reading will NOT make you a good Pker. The Gear I will be using will be 100% Perfect because anything other than Perfect is worthless too me. 90% of being a good pker is called practise and skills developed through mass dueling. The other 10% is your gear. When you combine both, you seperate the BEST from rest.

GUIDE
1st. Lvl Necromancer to lvl 95

Stats:
Strength - 5-20 pts Enough to use Coa
Vitality -  Rest into Vita

Skills:
Teeth - 20
Bone Armor - 1
Corpse Explosion - 1
Bone Wall - 20
Bone Spear - 20
Bone Prison - 20
Bone Spirit - 20
Clay Golem - 1
Golem Mastery - 1
Amplify Damage - 1
Iron Maiden - 1



2nd. Breakpoints

FHR (Faster Hit Recovery)
5%
10%
16%
26%
39%
56%
86% Aiming for this
152%
377%

FCR (Faster Cast Rate)
9%
18%
30%
48%
75%
125% Aiming for this

3rd. Gear

This is your very Basic gear needed to create the best vita pnb necromancer build imo. look at my profile http://forums.d2jsp.org/user.php?i=292257 for upgrades and other usefull setups. I'm constantly adding more so take a look.
NvA Gear(Nec vs All Gear):
Helm:
399def/30res/15dr/2os Ber,Ber Coa( Crown Of Ages)
Armor:
15ed/15dur/775def Enigma (Bp,Mp or Ds)
Amulet:
30res Maras
Weapon:
15ed/40res Hoto Flail
6bs/6BO/4bc Cta(Call to Arms) Flail
Shield:
2x 15ed/15dur/35fcr/112mana/8sorb Spirit Monarch
Gloves:
Magefist
Belt:
120ed Arachs
Boots:
170ed/15str/15vita/70pr Sandtreks
Rings:
10Fcr/20str/30-40life/50-90mana Ring
Soj
Grand Charms:
9x Matching PnB 45Life Gc's
Small Charms:
10x Matching 20Life/5Res all Sc's
20stat/20res/10exp Annihulus
Large Charms:
20stat/20res Necro Torch

NvN Gear( Nec Vs Nec):
Switch to following gear when Nvning.
Helm:
3pnb/20fcr/2os Jah,Jah, (Circlet,Tiara,Coronet,Diadem etc.)
Amulet:
3pnb/100life Ammy
Weapon:
8spear/6spirit/xx WhiteWand
Grand Charms:
12%fhr PnB Gc

4th. Hotkeys

This is the most important thing out of everything. Good pkers never use F1-F9 hotkeys..
example of my hotkeys (use your own):
A - Teleport
S - Spear
D - Spirit
F - Clay Golem
Q - Amplify
W - Iron Maiden
E - Oak Sage
R -  Revive
F1 - Swap Weapons
F2 - Battle Command
F3 - Battle Orders
F4 -  Run/Walk

5th. Status

Status after Bo.
NvA:
Fcr: 125%
Fhr: 86%
Life: 3.5-3.6k 
Mana: 1-1.1k
Resist: 75 All
Damage Reduce: 39%
Frw: 65%
Spear Dmg: 5.2k

NvN:
Fcr: 125%
Fhr: 86%
Life: 3.7-3.8k
Mana: 1-1.1k
Spear Dmg: 6.5k

Note: Thier are alot of different builds used through out the realms but I find this to be the best base gear for a pnb necro imo. This build isn't for everyone. It takes hell of alot more skills to use a vita bone necro then any other character, since necros have the lowest dmg. Once you master your necro you will see that they can smash any class 1v1. I will also not talk about strategies do to the fact that reading strategies is useless. Thier is nothing like hands on experience. Repetition and practise is the key to becomming a successful Pker. Feel free to pm with any further questions. Thank you.