You can also use Iron Maiden (preferably from a wand/head) to get the bosses to kill themselves on your Clay Golem if you want to do it underleveled and they kill your whole army, but that goes a lot smoother when you supplement the damage with bone skills like they do in speed runs.Īs soon as you engage Diablo or Baal, resummon your Clay Golem in melee range on the opposite side of the boss from your army, and resummon it as soon as it dies.

Over-leveling a bit before taking them on makes it a lot easier, and don't neglect Summon Resist.ĭecrepify and Clay Golem slow are really helpful, but you may want to look for a wand or necro head to grant you Decrepify instead of investing the points, at least until you have your skeletons and mastery maxed out. Usually Diablo on normal is the hardest thing in the game unless you grind a bit beforehand and it just gets easier from there.

The toughest things you will run into on a self-found summoner are the act bosses starting with Duriel. I'll do one more of the latter, giving me lvl 51, then start nightmare. I've reached lvl 50 now and have killed baal at ~42 or something, then did 4-players baal runs for XP, then progressing to 8-player baal runs. I might use my quest reskilling rewards to check out max skel mages rather than make another SP necro and skill back if I want to. I think I'll go CE radius for this one as I find skel mages underwhelming and in future HC games it seems the most sensible to use bone armor, so in NM I'll be popping corpses it seems. Invest in bone armor, wall and prison (1 hard point in armor, then boost synergies) Invest up to 10 hard points in CE for larger radius and making it a general kill skill I knew most of the rest alrady and by now I've looked up how to spend my points after max skels and skel mastery - turns out you have a lot of options! Since it's universally advised only to spend 1 point in skel mages, revive and summon resist and golems are just terribly costly with 5 skill synergies, you apparently can: I did the CE thing and it's good to have again.

Diablo 2 summon necro build 1.14