VLLD Sacrifice Necromancer w/ Summoner switch GUIDE

This is the hardest hitting and one of the most unique vlld builds. Necros have always been my favorite class, and melee necros have always interested me once I made a viable HLD daggermancer. When I discovered this build I had to try it and it quickly became one of my favorite chars to play. This char amazes and befuddles most, and is a hilarious PKr.

Stats:
Str = 60 (Sig gloves and belt combo add 10 str to equip sig boots and -30req'd Ancient Armor)
Dex = enough for max block
Vita = Rest
Energy = none

Skills:
Max Bone Armor
Max Clay Golem
Rest into Amplify Damage

Cheap Setup:
Helm: 3os Superior Crown Filled with 9max jewels
Armor: 4os Superior Ancient Armor with max jewels (u need -30req from 2 jewels to give you 70 str)
Gloves: 15def sigs
Belt: 11def sigs
Boots: 15def sigs
Shield: Fhr, 30/20 Block 2os shield (bone, gothic sheilds are best)
Weapon: War Scepter of Sacrifice (lvl 10 or 11) 2os - Lvl 11 can be shopped from hell ormus/malah/drognan with a lvl 94+ char (these can also have prefixes like edmg, ar, and more)
Buff Shield: 3 Bone armor (golem and amp is nice adds)
Buff Wand: 3 Bone armor (golem and amp is nice adds)
Charms: Aim for 15life Large charms. Have a few fhr charms for fast hitters like jab, smite and ts sins
Rings: 75ar Nagel's or rare with High ar/stats/rep (DR, MDR, 1Max are bonus)
Amulet: Rare with ar/stats/rep (1Max DR, damage to mana all bonuses)

Perfect Gear: (Very expensive)
Hat: 15ed% 3os Crown with max/ar jewels Or 80+def/2os/eth/rep Crown with max/ar jewels
Armor: 15ed% Ancient Armor with min/max/ar jewels (2x of these need -15 req to get it down to 70str) Or 30+ed%/2os/Eth/Rep Ancient Armor
Gloves: 15def sigs
Belt: 11def sigs
Boots: 15def sigs
Shield: 17fhr, 30/20 block, 2os, Dr or Life Bone Sheild
Weapon: War Scepter of Sacrifice (lvl 11) 2os - Lvl 11 can be shopped from hell ormus/malah/drognan with a lvl 94+ char (these can also have prefixes like edmg, ar, and more)
Buff Sheild: 3 Bone Armor 3 Clay Golem + Amp dmg
Buff Wand: 3 Bone Armor 3 Clay Golem + Amp dmg
Charms: Aim for 15life/12ar Charms here. You won't need any with mana as your main attack comes from charges. Have 2-3 FHR GCS with 30-42ar vrs fast hitting chars
Rings: 2x 75+ar/2str/2dex/5rep (DR and 1Max bonuses)
Amulet: 5str/5dex/5rep (DR, 1Max, dmg to mana bonuses)

Summoner Switch
Max Bone Armor
Max Skele Mastery
1 Clay Golem
1 Amp Dmg
Rest into Raise Skeletons
Buff Shield: 2-3 Bone Armor, Raise 2-3 Skeletons, + Skeleton Mastery (golem and amp dmg welcomed)
Buff Wand: 2-3 Bone Armor, Raise 2-3 Skeletons, + Skeleton Mastery (golem and amp dmg welcomed)

You will need to summon these and keep your buff side out, enter the moor and cast amp, let your skeles do some dmg until a few die, then switch back to sac side and start smackin.
**Youll need to learn how many skele's you lose when you switch over to sac side (if u have raise 6 skeles from buff and switch to sac, you will lose 6 skeles. therefore start with buff side out and stand back since you will be very vunerable)
*summons rape sacrifice based chars unless they smart and use normal attack

Summary/Strategy:
I Personally prefer the standard melee version, I find it annoying to keep summoning things (also adds exp so you have to make hell games to die and lose exp more)
You'll need alot of Gold for repairs so be sure to always have 1 million+ in stash

Cast bone armor and golem with buff side, march into moor, say go, wait for their 'go' cast amp, switch to sac side and start smacking.
If you have any Damage to mana you may be lucky enough to recast a second golem although its not nessessary
This char is a slow attacker, so make sure you get as much defense as possible because u will also have low life, although bonearmor protects you for a while

Unofficial Rules
Some say recasting bone armor is bm, some say clay golem is BM
I've found people will allow one or the other but never both
Personally i believe if you recast bone armor, you are too overpowered and can almost be invinsible
Clay Golem can be avoided, and slows the duel down to a necros pace since you will have low ias.
Most do not have a problem with golem, and most have a problem with recasting armor.
However in pubs feel free to recast both and never die!

Remember: Pots are always bm.

This post was edited by bjcummings on Feb 18 2011 04:32pm

i think it is lvl 96 to get lvl 11 sac sir

You need ilvl 99 for lvl 11 sac
shopping is +5 char lvl

ok i shop 1 this ladder at lvl 96

so is one of the goals of this necromancer to get the highest defense possible?

because if you drop that objective and get a gothic plate with 3x -15 req and put 2x -15 req in your weapon, 2x -15 req in your crown (or use a mask with no -req) you can give yourself and extra 40 life from stat saving, compared to 100 defense.

i guess, but finding that many req jools will be insanely hard
youlld also be able to get more dmg/melee mods if u have less req

and having alot of defense if very important imo, i mostly went with 70str build becuz its cheaper, and you can get more damage

not worth the lower def and lower dmg for 40 life but good point

I'm not 100% about clvl to shop a lvl 11sac, i just offered 30fg per unsocketed in HLD trading and had 20 different people searching and i got 2 in 15 minutes..

I was told that day I needed at least lvl 94, but im not 100% at all.

Steve69 had one of these on West two seasons ago.

e/ And lol'd @ strat section for a vlld. Click, hold, vlld.

many well placed keystrokes nonetheless.

This post was edited by GTL on Feb 18 2011 09:41pm

I have a vlld Nec myself and agree, it is a very fun and good build

You could note, the downside of such a nec is he requires alot of ar to be viable

We have alot def palas on eu, hitting them can be a pain even with good eq / inventory

I tried alot different builds with my char, and my favorite atm is a Min Dmg Build with Bloods / Hsarus / -60req ancient armor / 3s Mask
I achieve ~ 410-411 dmg, doubled with amp ofc, 550life and ~ 1400ar.
It lacks 1 frame attack speed ofc compared to your build, but i know i need only ~ 4 hits to win and mostly get them.

Good guide, and cool char ;P

sac necro is one the better builds for min dmg in agree. AR needs to be emphasized on this build very much. good work bj.

its lvl 94 he is right