Merc

Phix,

If change from swords to fencing...

Do I need parring?

How much dex should I have? "read somewhere that you don't need that much in dex if you have fencing because the weapons are faster then that of swords"

Phix

Any fighting skill you want really. Honestly I would find a weapon combo that you enjoy. Personally, for a necro I think a warfork works well. Disarm + bleed. It is really what style you would like. If you want to hit harder go with concussions or crushing blows. Your tactics wont be that high and your up front weapon damage wont be that much.

The idea behind the necro/warrior is that you are going for spell disrupts. If you choose to go with poisoning, a cleaver with bleed/poison is hot. Poison/fire are strong for necros so once you corpse them your poison will do more damage...bleed is a back up to poison for fizzling and heal disrupts. Strange + painspike is just another DoT that adds to the severity of thier situation.

With this character 50-100 dex is probably key. While you will be using your weapons frequently, you wont be only using your weapons. Strangle/pain spike/poison strike/specials all take a significant amount of mana. So you would be better off with more int then dex.

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eric13

umm..i play this temp..and love it...i went for high dex 140+ and an rbc so my lmc is at 40 and 8 mr which left me at 65 mana ...im human..its enough for combos..im not running around strangling everyone or casting revs. i mainly use the buff spells . i corpse everyone...its my way of saying hi. my favorite combo is strangle-bleed-dp-then use pain spike as a spell disrupter and watch'em squirm.

Ally

This is what I see necro dexxers do...

Strangle - Corpse Skin - EO - AI - Pain Spike/Poison Strike

I don't pvp, so I don't know much about the armour and stuff. But necros are pretty good in pvp.

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StoneCypher

Agreed. They [necromancers] are definitley one of the best. No real way around that corpse skin except stacking fire resist above 70. But that's why I like my archer.

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Anrymeel

pls explain para and trap boxes i dont understand ?????? what do the trap boxes do and where do u find them or does smith make em or carpenter?

Anrymeel

whats AI???

jfk

A trap box can be utilized to get out of a para (paralyze). Necromages are (now) famous for using Evil Omen followed by paralyze to para anyone, even a character with 120 resist. An EO/Para combo on a character with 120 Resist freezes them for 6 seconds, long enough that you will be crossfielded and massacred. You can use a trap box to release the para instantly. You basically make a dart trap with a box, and trip it when you are para'd. It can be used over and over again. There is a good description on how to do it here:

trap boxes

An AI is an Armor Ignore.

Chops

I am a bit of a newbie to pvp and I am thinking in making a necro archer, how good is this template ?

Abyss

Necro Archers are powerful if used correctly. You will need a crossbow with 60/40 damage spread between fire/poison to do the most damage. Finding this is hard due to it still has to be a good crossbow. Initially the combo is Corpse Skin/ Evil Omen/ Crushing Blow/ Mortal/ Pain Spike/ then finish with crossbow shots or another crushing throwing in a Strangle if needed. If they run too much you use Poison Strike and additional Pain Spikes to keep thier stam low.


Template would look something like this
120 Archery
120 Spirit Speak
105 Necro
120 Tactics
120 Anatomy
95 Healing
30 Focus kinda a dump skill. You can run 110 Necro/90 Healing with no problems. Or you can run straight 120's and dump this.

Stats are where it kinda gets tricky. You will want to use the Spirit of the Totem for the 20 Str and run. 80 STR 120 Dex 50 Int. Rest of your armor should have MR 2 and some Mana Increase if possible. HCI is very important you will need 45 as is DI you will need 100.