Nec - What now?

[samkds]

Here's a quick summary. Level 52 almost 53 nec. 90% of my playtime is laid back solo camps.

Equipment is decent (seems I could pull it off naked anyways). I have a pre-nerf cos and jboots.

What do I need to save up for? What's the necro's equivalent of Torpor in expenses? Should I twink another character? ? ??? ????

Thanks!

[thebutthat]

Thurg/skyshrine legs are nice to have for the clicky pet haste. Outside of that, items that elevate the class are obtained via raiding. Soulwell staff, hate book, epic. Elder beads are pretty damn nice too. So I guess that would be worth saving for.

Edit - Zheart is nice as well.

[icedwards]

Start saving up for a Zlandicar Heart. Most everything else is just padding stats on a class that can solo naked.

Feel free to roll an alt, but I wouldn't sink any serious plat into one until you hit 60 on your main. Plat comes much easier at higher levels and alts are a bottomless pit that causes wealth to evaporate.

[samkds]

Any fun things to expect 53+? Cool camps/xp spots? Been in Felwithe for the easy plats but could use a change from time to time.

[icedwards]

Time to acquaint yourself with charm killing undead - Lguk, top floors of CoM, or HS.

[Legidias]

BW giants is easy solo camp. You can probably clear most if not all camp in time to med and respawn

[commongood]

Seems zheart and slime blood cost about the same. Epic is about 10 times more useful when doing solo/duo/group content. Zheart is almost exclusively useful on raids and then only marginally so. It means you can stand up in Demi Lich with shm/dru regen and exactly not lose hp. W/o heart you will lose 4 hp per tick.

Aside from raid min/max’ing and prestige I wouldn’t recommend spending money on Zheart for a necro. It’s much more important for a chanter that has no means of healing and who will be taking hits on occasion while soloing.

Elder beads are nice, but not a must. Get much better if you get VP staff.

[commongood]

Sorry that was an aside on Zheart. In terms of other stuff, like others have mentioned, it's mainly no drop raid items. VP-staff is incredibly good, epic is great, book from PoHate is amazing. Even bracer from Velketor is nice but none of those (save epic I guess) can be purchased.

An item I haven't seen mentioned is Manna Robe. This is mostly for raiding and will "just" be great and not amazing without VP-staff but I'd recommend it if you plan on raiding. I would recommend it over Zheart for the above mentioned reasons.

Aside from that I guess there's always random nice EC-tunnel items to get like Hiero Cloak, Orb of the Infinite Void etc to bolster hp/mana.

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[Izmael]

Farm HS and buy beads before they are 500k+

[Teppler]

In Howling Stones you need to start in basement before you go to north and if you're not familiar with charming you gotta learn now. I think you can maybe start soloing in north once you get to 55 or so. You're even on the lower end for basement.