
Why? Because unlike some other characters you start right away allocating your skills and they are effective throughout the entire game.

Also, if you are new to D2 a necromancer is right for you. I have had many variations of the necromancer summoner that were effective but this is my favorite so far. You will also find that summoner builds can have a tendancy to have a lot of points left over which is another luxury. Lets begin by getting the skills out of the way.Īs far as skills go, the necromancer has ,by far, the most versatile set of skills. Therefore, in the gear section, I will speak in more general terms since I play around with gear A LOT and never really fit one template. It's a great amount of fun playing around with gear to see what you can get away with. I encourage everyone new/experienced to try a summon necro to play around with it. Other classes like the Hammerdin need extremely good gear to be effective. One of the greatest qualities of a summoner is it's adaptability for new players and using an incredible amount of MF gear simply because a summoner doesn't need great gear. Contrary to popular belief the Summoner necromancer is actually a very good PvM character for MF in single player and multi player games. That is what I plan to do for SC until NM.Ĭharacter should be able to make it to act 3 NM easily given fire weakness of act 1 and 2 bosses and then it is just farm time to grab the gear you want.Well, I decided to make this guide because I noticed some deficiencies in the summoner guides here. Give him stealth for fast Cast Rate and never look back. I also plan to grab act 3 merc with cold spells / use frost nova for control /kiting. Could easily throw points into cold for frozen orb and find a +frozen orb stave to make leaf out of to get the best of both worlds. Go back to drogan after hitting level 30 to search for a new leaf staff with hydra or different +items. Leaf will carry you to act 4 easily with all that fire goodness.

You could even wait to act 2 drogan to find a really good staff and go nuts with it just refreshing it until you picked up some good +abilities you wanted. Farm countess early for Leaf and Stealth rune word with a +2-3 in Fireball or other skills you want. Honestly, if you are a "new player" to the game and not sure what to start out with for SC.
