Hey all,
I hired a team of monkey scientists to realize which is the best team to use.
Unfortunately they failed, because, you know, they are monkeys, BUT they found what is the worst combo of characters.
The result of the research was quite incredible: Necros and Keepers are a bad combo in pretty much all the games.
They gave me some visual proofs:
Poor necro, mine solo's all using blizzard. Staple bro.
Was about to walk in this thread disappointed. But I've enjoyed it a bit too much. Well played sir, well played.
As noted in another thread, be careful not to freeze enemies when Walking Bomb is active as it delays the detonation effect until the freeze duration expires. I see several Necromancers handicap their Walking Bomb by overusing skills that freeze enemies. Likewise, Virulence can shut down Walking Bomb so be very careful on how your build your Necromancer.
ElectricJoke, wrong thread. But since we're off-topic, I actually think necro may be the most powerful class in the game and synergizes with most types of groups almost as well as a keeper.
To those who missed, OP wasn't serious.
@ ElectricFeel - You use walking bomb by being the first guy to strike right after your warrior/tank person receives aggro. You need to immediately shoot walking bomb at a mob in the center of the pack and always detonate it straight away. The description of the virulent skill is wrong you don't need to kill patient 0 you will infect all mobs in a large area around the initial target with an instant 600% weapon damage and then apply the entire disease to all of them. They will all be DoTted and blow up for more aoe damage. If you don't feel this is doing enough damage I'd say your staff sucks or you are playing routine where you are being KS'd by other classes.
After you detonate WB immediately drop a blizzard on them before they can get up and start shooting. Or even better if there's a lot of archers you infected aswell move around the corner and watch them bunch up for free on their way to you. I often just WB the room before anyone else aggros anything and do this if I get the chance.
Hardly any games where I don't top out on the list when I play my necro unless there's other good instant AoE dps taking the last hits on routine or on occasion threatening. Do note I have a ability ring for WB so it ticks for 283% per sec and bombs detonate for 683% and a pretty slick staff. My necro's weapon is good too. My WB runs for 3516% weapon damage per mob over the course of 10 seconds and the final explosion hits others. Animations are nice fast, blizzard can be up for 9 out of the 10 seconds WB runs adding 1350% weapon damage to a nice large area. The initial explosion greatly benefits from unsullied victim and if something dies your power of the dead will kick in. Hastened demise gives you more damage from passives other mages generally lack. Should you be wanting more damage you can wait for them all to funnel up peek back around the corner and frost step through all of them. These are the only 3 skills I use on my Necro and it's a fine class.
I have played 3 necros to 20 and promoted them, I tried to like it, it was the class I unlocked first because I usually like the Necro class in any game. ElectricFeel1492 feel free to invite me to group and I will take any of the other mage classes and out perform the Necro, it is OK but it is the weakest in the mage category. I don't dispute it can provide some good CC and can be fun to play but what does the Necro do that is better than the Keepers Barrier? Speaking of the keeper, chain lighting does direct damge, just as much as Corpse explosion and has a much bigger range, keeper also heals the whole party if he becomes incapacitated , I haven't even mentioned stasis field or force cage yet, is Necro better than a Keeper? I say hands down no. How about elementalist? Again has barrier, does hands down more damge per skill than Necro and Meteor AoE will clear a group in seconds that would take a Necro a lot of prep work and time. Which brings us to Arcane Warrior, I am not even going to waste my time explaining why Arcane Warrior is better than a Necro because everyone in the game ( except apparently you) would agree with me here. So you say Necro is the strongest in the game, I say its not even the strongest in its own class.ElectricJoke, wrong thread. But since we're off-topic, I actually think necro may be the most powerful class in the game and synergizes with most types of groups almost as well as a keeper.
Played my necro together with Penguin's AW on perilous today. What I noticed regarding PotA/WB synergy is that the initial walking bomb detonation throws enemies away from the infected target. This delays the enemies on the way to the center of PotA and can mess up the AW's fade cloak timing. If you detonate it when they are at the center, they will be thrown outwards and the decloaking blast misses some of them. If you detonate it after the decloaking blast however, it will kill all of them (those were the cleanest combos we pulled off).
So the two options are either detonating before PotA or after the decloaking blast. In case of the former, your AW has to be aware and time his fade cloak appropriately.
On-topic. The secret is the 2nd staff auto attack, the one which raises the bottom of the staff. That is the hit that will break the pot.
To those who missed, OP wasn't serious.
@ ElectricFeel - You use walking bomb by being the first guy to strike right after your warrior/tank person receives aggro. You need to immediately shoot walking bomb at a mob in the center of the pack and always detonate it straight away. The description of the virulent skill is wrong you don't need to kill patient 0 you will infect all mobs in a large area around the initial target with an instant 600% weapon damage and then apply the entire disease to all of them. They will all be DoTted and blow up for more aoe damage. If you don't feel this is doing enough damage I'd say your staff sucks or you are playing routine where you are being KS'd by other classes.
After you detonate WB immediately drop a blizzard on them before they can get up and start shooting. Or even better if there's a lot of archers you infected aswell move around the corner and watch them bunch up for free on their way to you. I often just WB the room before anyone else aggros anything and do this if I get the chance.
Hardly any games where I don't top out on the list when I play my necro unless there's other good instant AoE dps taking the last hits on routine or on occasion threatening. Do note I have a ability ring for WB so it ticks for 283% per sec and bombs detonate for 683% and a pretty slick staff. My necro's weapon is good too. My WB runs for 3516% weapon damage per mob over the course of 10 seconds and the final explosion hits others. Animations are nice fast, blizzard can be up for 9 out of the 10 seconds WB runs adding 1350% weapon damage to a nice large area. The initial explosion greatly benefits from unsullied victim and if something dies your power of the dead will kick in. Hastened demise gives you more damage from passives other mages generally lack. Should you be wanting more damage you can wait for them all to funnel up peek back around the corner and frost step through all of them. These are the only 3 skills I use on my Necro and it's a fine class.
On-topic. The secret is the 2nd staff auto attack, the one which raises the bottom of the staff. That is the hit that will break the pot.
One of the best kept secrets to playing a caster.
OMG don't you people click the link before giving any comment?
pots are too fearsome and dangerous for any ranged player
Lol at noobs that can't necro... I can get to wave 4 alone, and if I had a better staff I could solo threatening. Necro can do more than enough damage, just over a longer period of time, during which you must juggle all attackers and DoT everything.
I didn't click the link my bad lol. I have used walking bomb and it is an OK skill, however even using it the way you suggest ( which is the way I would most people use it anyways) you are only going to get to the melee mobs that are attracted to the tanks taunt. The archers and mages will still be outside of the range of your explosions, if you wait for ideal conditions where the maximum amount of mobs are on top of the tank then sure you can get some kills, I don't dispute that, what I argue is that any other mage class could do it faster and cover more area. Corpse explosion is a smaller radius, back-end loaded version of chain lightning. And if like you suggest I have a decent staff the trash mobs are instantly killed, the only mobs that usually will survive is the larger melee mobs and the flying mages. I have played every class and they all have their uses but every archtype (Warrior,Mage,Rogue) will have its strongest and weakest, after playing all of them (the Necro 3 times) I say from my experience Necro is the weakest in the Mage group for overall what it brings to the table. I only play threatening and perilous on characters 8+ and I have never saw one played in a group where everyone was a good player that impressed me.
You absoloutely %100 do not know what you are talking about. You just horrify anything that even tries to shoot an arrow at you. You suck, it's not the class. I'll use my X-One's DVR to string together clips of my soloing threatening and attach a build guide, you're all doing the "detonate dead" build totally wrong.
Like playing an assassin, you must be alert and responsive. That said, you can get very sloppy since half your attacks are massive AOES.
Loooooool. That was awesome. Well played OP. That'll teach you to spec into blizzard.
Oh, people really need to learn to click links.
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