Effective Necro Combat Techniques

Humwawa · #1 08-12-2011, 04:50 PM

15-25 is perfect for charming in Unrest.

If you clear out enough of the fireplace area, you can fear kite there, too.

I've never thought to make a leveling guide. Here's what comes to mind.

1-10 - I pretend these levels don't exist. All a necro's greatest weaknesses are obvious at these levels; poor mana efficiency, weak direct damage, and none of the key spells to lessen them.

10-15(?) - Befallen. Maybe Kurns?

15 to 25-30 - Unrest. You start outside. You move in. You move up. Then you move down. I used charm burn as soon as I could. In essence, charm burning is doing one point of damage to a mob a charmed mob is killing, gauging how low you can get both, then killing them both. I've found charm to be more stable at lower levels than higher, but that may just be me.
Alternately, you can do 25-30 in Qeynos Hills, killing the Millers and the Surefall guards. This gives you a shot at Pyzjn, and a shiny GBS.

30-50. Guk. Guk, Guk, Guk. I love Guk. If Charm isn't your thing, this is where you learn to FD pull (or Lull), and dungeon fear kite. You start near Ass/Supp, and you work your way down.

50-54 - There's a ruin near Emperor Ganak, in Trak's Teeth, full of blue/light blue casters with extremely low hp. Go inside the hall to the right of Ganak, and fear kite them in there. If you have a Staff of Undead Legions, put Vamp Embrace up and melee them to death. The fear pathing is hilarious. It's like playing Pong - they bounce off the walls, careen into rocks, and if they path into others... why, you snare/fear them too. It's like juggling.... with corpses.

55-60 - You have two real choices, in my mind. You go to Howling Stones and fear kite / charm burn, or you go to CoM and do the same, slowly working your way to the third floor.

I suck at this.

Nazran · #2 08-12-2011, 05:00 PM

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15-25 is perfect for charming in Unrest.

If you clear out enough of the fireplace area, you can fear kite there, too.

Man that would make me nervous fear kiting there...

Humwawa · #3 08-12-2011, 05:15 PM

That's part of the fun! You test the waters, see how far a Spook will take a mob, and how close to other mobs, then you clear what you need to.

Once you have the length of a Spook cleared, any add is a minor inconvenience. Fear is powerful CC. All you have to do is pull the mob to the fear cast starting point. Then Snare/Fear. Then juggle them ad nauseam until they're dead.

My favorite spot is in Reclusive AM's room. You cheam clear it all out, then you clear out the outer room. Then... you fear!

knottyb0y · #4 08-13-2011, 03:30 PM

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30-50. Guk. Guk, Guk, Guk. I love Guk. If Charm isn't your thing, this is where you learn to FD pull (or Lull), and dungeon fear kite. You start near Ass/Supp, and you work your way down.

I can't wait to hunt in Guk with my necro. I often solo but my shaman buddy and I have plans to dominate dungeons together. I can't really think of a deadlier duo group than a Necro and a Shaman. Victory Over Time.