Is There Such A Thing As A 2-hand Wielding Necro? - Topic

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Nov 1 2025 03:09pm

Quote (gel87 @ 31 Oct 2025 15:19)
There is one with 50% chance to cast bonespears as synergize.
There is one with 3 all necro skills.

It should be tematical correct to aid with corpse explotion, summons and thorns and amp.

A melee / throwing necro is actually a very easy char to play true normal and nightmare on, even on P8.
Amp + throwing jav or knife early, with a skeleton or two carries far and is way more effective than running around as a barb/pala/assa/ama/sorc early...

The key is edge at level 19 for thorns, and inner sight merc fix ar issues as well.
Later its Faith + bramble + inner sight which fixes it in a better way.

Grim's burning dead, sorry-

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Dec 2 2025 08:28am

Quote (SinsOfTheSun @ 1 Nov 2025 11:53)

Shift into bear for better attack frames
with brand for 100% ctc lvl 18 bone spears
Or with oath for 30% ctc lvl 20 bone spirit

Brand is much better, 100>30, aoe dmg > single target dmg

You need to put 20 points in all synergies of the skill you are using on ctc.

There is no good “reaper scythe” necro build sadly.

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Dec 2 2025 08:32am

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This

Read my answer to him. So no "this".

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Dec 2 2025 09:42am

Guillaume helm
Bone armor
Gore riders
Loh
Highlord
Strings
Whatever scyte you like the best, i sugges the one with 50% ctc bone spears

Faith
Bramble
Whatever helm merc

This is the best reaper necro temathic correct i can come up with.

Max spear synergies, clay golem, a few skeletons and such.

Other scytes:
Eth botd (poison nova) + andariel helm(poison nova)

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Dec 2 2025 12:13pm

Quote (Taurean @ 2 Dec 2025 09:32)

Read my answer to him. So no "this".

Nah, burning my eyes with a yellow text block.

I've done a lot of testing of weird/specialty builds.

Melee class already so nerfed compared to most casters, so it's hard to go melee class in 2 LoD, for D2r there areore options

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Dec 2 2025 12:56pm

Quote (Jokerndevil @ 2 Dec 2025 19:13)
Nah, burning my eyes with a yellow text block.

I've done a lot of testing of weird/specialty builds.

Melee class already so nerfed compared to most casters, so it's hard to go melee class in 2 LoD, for D2r there areore options

I wonder how many more strange and weird profiles i've never seen before in here are going to make a one-time appearance just to harass me. Happens every time there is something weird going on. Lol. Must be someone with an exceptional level of hate behind all of them.

I like to think that there is always a possibility. Anything CAN work. You take the best runeword, uniques, sets and rares and build the melee necro properly, guaranteed it can wreak proper havoc in hell mode. Maybe will struggle against strong boss mobs, but that's the case with ANY build.

I've written this countless time over the years... if you play recklessly in hardcore with any build, you will die sooner or later. Maybe later, with certain cockie builds, but you will stille get ko'd by the right circumstance and boss pack. Just the way it is. They can deal thousands and thousands of hit points in damage within 1 second if you land right square into the pack.

Everything is possible. I'll find out in a few months into the new ladder ^^ Will make thread in pvm section just for fun. Hope you do the same. I like to follow people's progress.

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Dec 12 2025 04:45am

To keep tema with reapers merc i checked some on arreat summit:
- The unicue aint very good, best wepon there is the Eth Reapers... Kinda waste since you want to amp most of the time.
- Rares, well would be costly to have a good one... And nothing that helps, 30 zeal chargers forexample would be drained instantly, and cannot rep if eth.
- So runewords are best:
Botd (ctc nova, can be good as filler damage, can also add andariel face for more, but guillaume more fun)
Oath (ctc spear)
Obidience (fire damage boost, if corpse explotion)
Infinity (easier hit chance, cb, frw, good damage and negative FR for corpse explotion)

Brand can only be made in missle wepon, and does not fit narrative og Reaper Necro.

However, have you seen long sword on necro? They look great! Looks like a real deathnight.

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