Berighzebaar’s 1.10 Necromancer Guide

PvP – Bonemancer

What is a Bonemancer?

Bonemancer is a type of necromancer that mostly uses skills from “Bone & Poison Skills” tab’s middle column. It means that you mostly use Bone Spirit, Bone Spear, Teeth as fatality skills. The other skills you will use are Bone Armor, Bone Wall, Bone Prison*, Weaken, Decrepify and Clay Golem.

What path will we choose for Bonemancer?

There are two paths:

First path; you will put dexterity points until you max your block (max block is 75%), and then put points in vitality.

Second path; you will put all remaining points in vitality, leaving the dexterity minimum. It is called “Vitamancer “ also. This is the path which I will explain.

Why “Vitamancer”?

Because necromancers have some advantages that allows you saving your points to be put in dexterity. First you have “Bone Armor” which absorbs about 1k physical damage, second more life means more chance to survive, and third you will mostly challange with the ranged attackers (mostly elemental damage dealers). The only disadvantage of being Vitamancer is you will be more vulnerable to guidedzons with high poison dmg and open wounds.

Some knowledge about necromancers:

Synergies:

Teeth +15% dmg from Bone Spear/lvl +15% dmg from Bone Spirit/lvl +15% dmg from Bone Wall/lvl +15% dmg from Bone Prison/lvl	Bone Spear +7% dmg from Teeth/lvl +7% dmg from Bone Spirit/lvl +7% dmg from Bone Wall/lvl +7% dmg from Bone Prison/lvl
Bone Spirit +6% dmg from Teeth/lvl +6% dmg from Bone Spear/lvl +6% dmg from Bone Wall/lvl +6% dmg from Bone Prison/lvl	Bone Armor +15 dmg absorbed from Bone Wall/lvl +15 dmg absorbed from Bone Prison/lvl
Bone Wall +10% life from Bone Armor/lvl +10% life from Bone Prison/lvl	Bone Prison +10% life from Bone Armor/lvl +10% life from Bone Wall/lvl

Bone Wall’s life increases at Nightmare and Hell

Bone Prison’s life increases at Nightmare and Hell

Golems’ life increase at Nightmare and Hell

Starting Attributes: Each Character Level

Strength: 15 Life +1,5

Dexterity: 25 Mana +2

Vitality: 15 (+2 life, +1 stamina) Stamina +1

Energy: 25 (+2 mana)

Chance to Block:

Total Block = [(Blocking * (Dex - 15)) / (Clvl * 2)]

Blocking: Shield’s Block

Dex: Your dexterity

Clvl: Your level

Note: When running your total block chance decreases to 1/3 of your total block chance.

Faster Block Rate:

Faster Block Rate (frame)	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3
Necromancer	0	6	13	20	32	52	86	174	600

*25 frames = 1 second

Faster Block Rate means how much time it will take between two block.

Faster Cast Rate:

Frames	15	14	13	12	11	10	9
FCR%	0	9	18	30	48	75	125

Faster Cast Rate meanse how much time it will take between two spells.

Faster Hit Recovery:

Frames	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4
FHR%	0	5	10	16	26	39	56	86	152	377

If some event takes 1/12 of your life a hit recovery animation will occur, this table explains how much time this animation will take.

Marrowwalk Bug:

Shortly, if you have no points invested in Bone Prison and you wear Marrowwalk you will get a synergy bonus as you invested 33 points in Bone Prison. This is called charged item synergy bug also.

Trang-Oul Set Bug:

There are two bugs that occur when you transform into vampire;

1) No casting animation, and your cast rate is always base

2) No block animation, but you can block normally

Invisible Bone Spirit (IBS):

A bone spirit lasts for 6 seconds. If your bone spirit goes out of your view in the minimap the it’s a an invisible bone spirit

Note: If you didn’t click on an enemy, a bone spirit starts to track after the point you clicked on.

Stat Point Distrubution

Strength: Enough to equip you gear. If you will follow this guide 76 is enough (with an at least +18 stats annihilus for darkforce spawn)

Dexterity: Base as much as possible. If you will follow this guide 36 is enough (with an +20 stats annihilus fo wizardspike)

Vitality: Rest of your points here

Energy: No need to spend any points here. You will have sufficent mana and mana reg to replenish it

Skill Points Distribution

You can look at battle.net’s website for detailed skill explanations.

Necromancer - Summoning Skills

Necromancer - Curses

Necromancer – Bone and Poison Skills

Curses 1 Amplify Damage 1 Terror 1 Weaken 1 Decrepify *1 Iron Maiden

Bone and Poison Skills 20 Teeth 1 Corpse Explosion 20 Bone Spear 20 Bone Spirit 20 Bone Armor 20 Bone Wall **33 Bone Prison

Summoning Skills 1 Clay Golem 1 Golem Mastery 1 Summon Resist

*It may be necessary to put a point in Iron Maiden just in case(optional)

**For Marrowwalk users you will get level 33 synergy bonus.

**DON’T PUT ANY POINTS IN BONE PRISON

This skill point distribution is for a level 98 Bone Necro

Leveling Plan:

Level 1-16 Do some tristram and sewers runs

Level 16-20 Clean the Canyon of the Magi

Level 20-24 Normal Cow Level

Level 25 3 Barbarians quest

Level 25-40 Normal Baal Runs

Level 40-60(70) Nightmare Baal Runs

Level 60(70)-99 Hell Baal Runs

Skill Point Distrubution Plan:

There’s no plan, just put your last points to Bone Armor.

Don’t forget to put points into 1 point skills when you reached that level

Marrowwalk users: DON’T PUT ANY POINTS IN BONE PRISON

Other Users: Leave Bone Armor with 1 point, put 20 points in the Bone Prison.

Items to be Weared/Wielded:

Note: In this section I will give you the items that would shape your ultimate build.

Helm:

Rare Circlet with +2 necro skills/20% fcr/run-walk/sockets/+all res/+stats (shael/jah)

Harlequin Crest Shako (jah/um/shael)

Armor:

Enigma (Jah+Ith+Ber) Runeword forged on Breast Plate

Skin of the Vipermagi Serpentskin Armor (socket with um)

Shaftstop Mesh Armor (jah/shael)

Shield:

Homunuculus Hierophant Trophy (jah/um)

Darkforce Spawn Bloodlord Skull (jah/um)

Stormshield Monarch (an –15% requirements jewel with another affix)

*II- Splendor (Eth+Lum) Runeword forged on a Bloodlord Skull with +3 spear/spirit/golem

Weapon:

Heart of the Oak (Ko+Vex+Pul+Thul) Runeword forged on a Flail

Wizardspike Boneknife (fhr jewel/res jewel)

*II- Call to Arms (Amn+Ral+Mal+Ist+Ohm) Runeword forged on a Crystal Sword (+6 BO)

Amulet:

Caster Amulet with +2 necro skills/20% fcr/+all res/+stats/+life/+mana

Rare Amulet with +2 necro skills/20% fcr/+all res/+stats/+life/+mana

**Mara’s Kaleidoscope

***Ring:

Stone of Jordan

Raven Frost

Wisp Projector

Dwarf Star

Bul-Kathos’ Wedding Band

Belt:

Arachnid Mesh Spiderweb Sash

Gloves:

Trang-Oul’s Claws Heavy Bracers

Bloodfist Heavy Gloves

Boots:

Marrowwalks Boneweave Boots

*These items are for the second weapon slot

**Use it only if you cannot find an amulet with some of those modes

***Carry two of them each.

Note: Try Nokozan Relic amulet with two Dwarf Stars against a fire sorc.

Some Useful Links:

Soulleschild’s Bone Necro Guide for 1.10: Here’s the guide of the best bone necro player on battle.net, though a bit old. That’s why i wrote this guide, otherwise I would just give link to that page;)

Rpgforums Necromancer Section: You can share your ideas about necromancer builds, ask questions, achieve other people’s builds and do whatever you want to do...

Arreat Summit: A must link, Battle.net’s official website.

Diabloturk: This site is for Turkish Diablo players. You can find lots of documents for Diablo translated in Turkish, guides included. It’s a forum originally.

Oynasana.com Diablo Forums: This site is in Turkish forum also. It’s Diablo section is divided into 3 parts: General Discussion(All things about Diablo), Marketplace(the trade part on open), and Strategies(guides, informations, etc.)

Diablokolik.net: Another Turkish Diablo forum. But what makes it special is, they have a newly built duel league.

Future Updates:

*Will add PvP strategy section

*Will maintain stats section more proper

*Will add blockmancer option

*Will add more links

*Will add more items, especially “poor man’s setup”

Thanks to:

Soullesschild; for his knowledge about necromancers

SoajanII; for courage to make me write this build, though that courage was in a diffrent way

Other diabloturk players; for helping me to try this build

and of course myself :)

Contact:

You may contact me by using diabloturk forums, sometimes rpgforums’s necromancer section. And my e-mail address is zpaydrmen@hotmail.com

Conclusion:

In my opinion in 1.10 bone necros have highest possibility to beat any other build, with a bit capability and luck. I didn’t write a pvp strategy section yet, but you’ll see yourself that you will begin to create your strategies against other builds/players, so have nice bloody duels.

Note to people who ask “Why didn’t you write this guide in Turkish?”: To practice my English:) of course not but I wanted to write in English, so learn English.