Do +skills on an ormus even work...?

Yeah I imagined as much. Thought it could be cool xD

on mercs, yes
class-specific skills will work if you already have the skill

and unless I'm mistaken, merc synergies work like shadow synergies; based off 'soft' skill points, and thus affected by +skills.
So that merc will actually do some pretty beastly damage. Enough to shave 600 hp off a 75% resist char in a duel

still sux tho, cuz merc has 60% chance to cast charged bolt, 30% chance of lightning, 10% chance of melee attack

This post was edited by deathwinger on Aug 9 2009 04:14pm

Instead of finishing people off with a melee weapon why not just namelock them with a firewall when they're at 1 hp?

because then you wouldn't be melee any more.
You can't claim to be GM by most rules, but you can certainly claim to be a melee necro. If you start casting fire walls, your opponents WILL use it as an excuse to say you aren't melee (and they'd be right)


So even if things like poison, slow, and bone armor are frowned upon, they're certainly 'melee'

I know this is a melee vs. melee character, but what would you do verse non- melee'rs? Like casters for example.
I feel like if you switched out Blackbogs and used Fleshripper + Highlords or maybe Cats Eye, you could get some more speed/ damage.

against casters use poison nova O_O

you can drain most hammerdins to 1 hp in a single nova. Trang's gives you some pretty sweet nova damage with this setup; 16500 over 4 seconds with a fair chunk of -resists
swap out for deaths web if you really want, and sojs/maras. I didn't even bother, tho

gz nec.

x_x dur, lol, I didn't even think of nova.

>.<

i used corpse explosion + amp on zombies, too
fire mastery from trangs boosts the fire half of CE and amp boots the physical