So I’ll share some things I’ve done, because I’ve had similar problems as you. It’s always been my favorite class and going without the mages is never really something I wanted to do. I personally have always enjoys mages on a summoner necro. This is the hard-cap, not the amount you can summon at 99 without a whole lot of skill boost. Oh, and the hard-cap on number of skeletons and skeleton mages you can summon in D2R is 35 of each.

If you play single player you can infinitely reset your skills (with the help of a command), may be worth a test. The trick with revive is to keep in mind that the revive retains the AI of the foe it was when it was killed, allowing the player to select the appropriate style. and wouldn’t recommend pumping tons of points into that one. I notice that I’ll never really bust out more than 7-10 revives. the foes attack the bones and kill themselves with reflected damage. The fire golem with it’s screen-wide attack at high level is fun to mine chipped gems on normal, but in hell you’ll find too many fire immune.Ĭan also use Bone prison and Iron maiden.

Gotta get it to a decent level to get a nice range on it. You’ll want to use corpse explosion for sure as the damage uses the health of the corpse - that scales to the difficulty you’re playing in. Lighting ones are good for fire immune stuff. Poison mages are to stop foes from healing or regaining, and it doesn’t stack, it refreshes… super low damageįire is higher damage but more things are immune to it and they save the corpses for more minions.Ĭold ones can shatter your corpses but slow bosses well. So most just summon a bunch and roll with them and are underwhelmed by the performance lol It doesn’t help that the skeletons like to run around when you’re trying to unsummon them. you would unsummon all the poison ones in favor of fire ones for damage, or you can use cold ones for slowing. But this takes extra effort and most people will find the skeletons go poof before they even get a good crew going.īasically the mages spawn with random elements. You’re “supposed to” cull your skeleton mages with the ‘un-summon’ skill you get by default, selecting magic elements appropriate for the combat. I feel like folks don’t really use the mages to their full potential.

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