Originally posted by: gamepad
Bah, D2 isn't fun unless it's on hardcore mode.
Aren't all the characters on battle.net hacked anyways?
Originally posted by: kabob983
Large amounts of thanks to Zenoth, only problem is now on my sorc I'm at the awkward level where I'm too high to join a "new characters" game and too low to do alot of damage by myself, so thanks alot!!
I'm with you Mega...I appreciate the "skill" it takes to make a Hardcore character but I promise I'd be one of the guys who would die after getting a good item or hitting a decent level. I'll stick with SC.
OK, so I've been rambling on about the damage that a skeleton can do, right? Well, here's the rundown of just how much damage you can expect from your skeletons.
FIRST, we'll show what kind of damage they'll do when you and your mercenary are both naked.
Level 20 skeleton and mastery= 124-127 damage
Level 17 might (just for the sake of a number)= +200%
So triple your damage to 372-381
Now, add on amplify damage to get your final damage of 744-762
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Meh, with 8 skeletons, that's pretty lame, am I right? So, let's up the volume! Using the optimum equipment I suggested, you'll have +14 to all skills. Assuming you have perfect equipment, you'll also be using a hellfire torch (+3 necro skills), an annihilus (+1 to all skills), and 8 +1 to summoning grand charms.
Which means that with marrowalks, you'll have level 46 raise skeleton and level 48 skeleton mastery.
Raw damage per skeleton (and you have 17)- 830-834.
Using a mercenary with level 20 might- 230%
Perfect pride weapon gives level 20 concentration- 345%
Total bonus? 575%, which means you get another 4700 damage.
Total damage? 5500. Add on amplify damage, and that's 10,000 PER SKELETON, and you have 17!
If you plugged fanatacism in as well, you'd have 670% extra damage, which means you get an additional 2,000 damage per skeleton. >_> at 10,000 damage per skeleton, added with corpse explosion, do you see why it's beating a dead horse? I mean, come on! 170,000 damage per swing is QUITE enough, I think.
Originally posted by: Chronoshock
10k per skelly * 17 skeletons. I got back into D2 last year for a while (played singleplayer) and made a fishymancer (the generic skelly summoner build mentioned in the post) and its very effective even without good equip. I don't even have a Pride weap which is a significant chunk of damage, but I can still solo hell baal. Give it a try, it's a fun build that scales well from start to end game
Originally posted by: kabob983
Ugh...I got a few items from Zenoth the other day for my sorc that I was going to transfer to the necro project. So I made a game and did a few quests, quit, switched to the sorc, rejoined, dropped the items, quit...and got the "battle net cannot be reached" error. So yeah, lost the items...stupid battle.net.
Originally posted by: kabob983
Can't play during the day, only at night.
What time are you usually on?? Mayhaps I'll find an excuse to *cough cough* be sick from work sometime in the next few days, or I could just see ya Saturday ^^
Originally posted by: AllGamer
LOL
reading all you playing that old ancient relic game, it sure makes me want to play it all over again..... but... but... i musssttt... resist...
"Resistance is futile, you'll be assimilated"