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Diablo 3 - Necromancer Pack - June 27th - $14.99
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super-famicom
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In the beta, I ran Skeletons, Skelly Mages, and Golem (later swapped him out because he was too slow). I used Devour (Devouring Aura rune) to auto pickup nearby corpses to gain Essence). Then just spam Mages, focus fire Skeletons on elites, and occasionally use Siphon Blood to get my Essence back up. I used Reaper Wraps, so I picked the passive that gives a 20% chance for a corpse to give me a health globe, so I can get more Essence and spam Mages.
This is roughly the build I used to run Torment 4 rifts: https://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/necromancer#WcdhTU!XdZa!baZZYb
You can use Revive as well for a Zookeeper build, but it's reliant on corpses (slow at the beginning) and the revives' AI kinda sucked.
My biggest problem with D3 is that in order to have any challenge, you need to play through the entire game once at a difficulty that presents zero challenge.
They tried to fix this by unlocking higher difficulties from the beginning, but this doesn't work because the quality of loot scales up if you start at a higher difficulty... effectively making it actually even easier to play than if you just played at the already braindead-easy normal difficulties.
Has this changed in the past 4 months? I just get completely bored by midway through the third act and just can't press on.
They tried to fix this by unlocking higher difficulties from the beginning, but this doesn't work because the quality of loot scales up if you start at a higher difficulty... effectively making it actually even easier to play than if you just played at the already braindead-easy normal difficulties.
Has this changed in the past 4 months? I just get completely bored by midway through the third act and just can't press on.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
hahah that is cute. try master with a clean char no paragon crap and gems gl with that
Can you start the game at master, or is it unlocked only after playing through all the acts once at another difficulty?
jchap
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Master even with no paragon and no items is very easy. I did a fresh hardcore start like this to try the Necro and it was pathetically easy.
super-famicom
Member
I just go into Adventure Mode on Hard with new characters and ran Halls of Agony (Act 1, the zone where the Butcher is), because enemy density is super high there. I'd play Story up to Skeleton King to get Leoric's Crown, then socket my best ruby into there, but I wouldn't play the entire thing when Adventure Mode exists.
Basically, following this guide can get you to 70 in a day or two: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...ipexFr-zZlriuMA-4FC6Lapbkc/edit#gid=699801965
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
maybe i did one higher then cause elite's where sponges took me ages to kill em
had to kite like crazy
yeah if you want to level fast just take leoric's crown and stick a big fat red gem in it. 78% experience boost
bender
What time is it?
I started my Necromancer play through on Torment VI.
GodParticle
Member
Yeah, well, they should have done that with everything. Including the soundtrack
They just need to remaster D2 already heh
Yes, but can you select the difficulty without having taken another character through all the acts once?
super-famicom
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I believe you only get up to hard, once you hit 60, I think it opens up to Torment 1 then the rest upon completing all acts or hitting 70. Don't quote me, since I completed the story mode years ago, so I may be wrong.
Bought the game last week and started my first playthrough. After Act 1 I felt it was too easy on Normal and it let me bump it up to Hard.
My only real complaint is that there's no season going on right now. With my 400 or so paragon I've been playing T1 difficulty which seems about right with mostly terrible gear. It takes a while to kill things and I have the occasional death but I find the gameplay more enjoyable when I'm not too overpowered.
I haven't tried the rifts yet but I am having fun with the campaign. I've been skipping all the old dialog so I can just get to the necro lines.
Edit- After the WD took so many of the old Nero skills I never thought Blizzrad would be able to make the class work while keeping some of the feel of the original character, but they seem to have done a good job.
LumpOfCole
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I haven't played in years and I really enjoy the Necromancer. I love my skeletons and golem army.
Yeah I wish this dropped the same time as a new season, but for I'm just walking the story as practice/to get a feel for the char, and to hear the dialogue. Once the league starts I'll hit the ground running with adventure mode.
A season character starts in a vacuum as essentially a fresh account. No vendor upgrades, no prestige levels, no powers stored in the cube, no stash upgrades, and you can't send them gear from your other non-season characters on the account.
There's an XP bonus so leveling goes a little more quickly.
There are also season rewards for completing certain goals with the season account (for example: run a level 30 greater rift solo). The goals are in tiers of increasing difficulty, and if you complete three of the tiers you're rewarded with a full set of set gear for a class of your choice. They pick a specific set gear for each class each season. (for example: for season 10 the barbarian set gear was The Legacy of Raekor).
At the end of the season, all of your season characters get rolled back into your main account, along with cube recipes, and prestige XP. All the gear in your season stash ends up in your mailbox, and you have 30 days to pick it up.
Basically, characters are divided into normal characters and 'seasonal' characters. A seasonal character cannot interact with a normal characters. So when you create your first seasonal character, you're basically starting from scratch all over again - no story progress, no gold, no items, no crafter levels or recipes.
During the season, you have certain milestones you're challenged with achieving with seasonal characters. There are also usually new seasonal-only items that can only drop for seasonal characters.
When a season ends, all your seasonal characters become normal characters, you get the rewards you've earned for your seasonal progress based on those milestones I mentioned, and you need to create completely new fresh seasonal characters to do the new season.
maniac-kun
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What is their reason to change the gameplay so mutch compared to Diablo 2? I had more fun with the D2 necro so far When people wanted to play the necro again. I dont think they had this in their mind. The barbarian played like the original class but the necro is so different.
When people wanted to play the necro again. I dont think they had this in their mind. The barbarian played like the original class but the necro is so different.
Subpar Spatula
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What is their reason to change the gameplay so mutch compared to Diablo 2? I had more fun with the D2 necro so far
The soup effect: too many things going on at once causing confusion.
NullPointer
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Running skeleton hordes with curses and poisons feels a bit too close to my Witch Doctor.
I just got it and it's stupid ridiculous
That armor design is insane. I also really like the Blood golem looking set.
HF2014
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Ahh cmon. christ , its only 20$. Diablo 3 have given you how many free updates, new zones, sets, things to do? I think its one if the most generous title receiving free updates for half a decade, only had to pay once 50$ for the expansion. Its the price of one month of WoW, and the class will give you hundreds and hundreds of hours of game time. I seriously tough it would be like 30 cnd, at 20$ i was freakin impress. Man spamming corpse explosions never felt so good, stop conplaining and go buy it! Its worth it!
HF2014
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Agree. Its amazing! Bought it for PS4, always felt the gameplay was made for consoles.
Crusader was a hit and miss and yet they didn't fixed the sound issue when doing the hammer build.
Yeah i enjoy it also more than a crusader for sure.
For other folks having trouble accessing the DLC necromancer in-game on the PS4 (content not available error) try restoring licenses (PlayStation network settings) and restarting the system.
In my case, however, the problem is that Amazon USA stupidly shippped me a European version of the Ultimate Evil Edition and the DLC is region locked.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
thanks man !
SoldierIce64
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So I bought the Necromancer thanks to the impressions I saw here, I'm really having fun with him so far. The Crusader is my favorite class but this one might overtake it. Now I just need my friends to get back into Diablo III.
Freezasaurus
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I've yet to play a Crusader, but I'll probably do that in the season after next.
Fallout-NL
Member
Yeah, I hope they're still on that. Would pay good money for a remaster.
xxRONN1Nxx
Member
I've not played this game in about 18 months. Wow this class is so fun. Love just commanding my little minion army then blowing up corpses so satisfying.
Looks like some of the top ones are outdated PTR ones that no longer work, so check the comments there. Here's another list:
https://www.icy-veins.com/d3/necromancer-builds
Arguably build-dependent. Some builds will want more special abilities from legendaries, others will do just fine with something cubed and from one weapon and need more damage output.
For leveling, just use whatever has most damage at the moment.
Separately, pretty sure. I think the accounts may be linked but they're still separate things.
Stocked blood shards and use Kanai's Cube to upgrade rares to Legendaries and Sets.
Ricerocket
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Paragon levels, Cube crafting/changing sets, unlocked cube effects that are powerful without necro ones by themselves allows for higher GR for higher blood shards, etc.
It's why I can't be bothered to try Necro now when you have all that without seasons.
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