I'm curious though, you guys are kind of talking as if Poison / summon necs are some how good mannered. In my opinion, this is a pubby BM character only. On my realm, they are banned in team duels, and nobody one on ones good manners with them either. As a pubby char, they are quite good. Remember there are 7 other people in the game. If someone really wanted to negate poison they could of course. But then, all the other characters in the game will have a field day with you. In my experience (alot
) about 1% of the characters you will encounter actually carry the necessary gear in chest to actually negate a -120% poison necro to the point where d web is useless. And as I said, i'm a west player. That means Wiz gloves aswell as mass high end dupes, and people still don't have 120% maxed poison res. Most of the time, even if they chug antidotes before duel, with dweb they are still below maxed in hell. Even vs barbs that use wiz gloves and buff with treachery, it still takes them below 75% in hell.
This is the ONLY reason why poison necs are effective in BM hell games. Of course if you take a poison nec into nightmare and stack him, he can't hurt you, that's not the point. MANY characters can be stacked / absorbed to the point of being useless. Trappers, any sorc, foh pally's, even WW sins. Any character that rely's on elemental damage can be made totally and completely useless by anyone if they really wanted to.
The point is, a -120% poison resist necro in hell, is very rarely negated or stacked. Nearly everyone is ready to negate fire/cold/light. But few people even bother with poison gear because there are so few out there. In like a year, i've seen maybe 5 poison necs. It's not worth having the gear in chest for most people. That's what makes them good.
IMO, a poison nec without D web, would be like a cold sorc without Fathom, or an FOH'er without a 25/25 foh stick, or a barb without grief, etc etc... D web was MADE for poison necs