Melee Necro stuck at Terror Nihlitak's temple

How about getting a merc? Sol bow ranger anyone?

Melkor wrote:For gear make erawan (nih rw) in highest sacred armor type that you find, belt will be truce (vith rw), featherclaw (tu chain gloves), helm - best option at this stage is Witchunters hood (cap from assassin elemental set) for boots - creepy shrine craft with Whirlpool oskill. Amulet - rare with ctc Banish +skills and +Hp, rings - rare with +1skill and ctc Unseelie curse - all moed with -enemy fire/poison resist.
Keep Chthon - best weapon for desrtoying high density areas
For jewels - 1 indestructible in scythe, armor and belt - rest ber crafted (+hp, res, attack speed, fhr, %strength, max damage and attack rating are the properties to aim for)
Also dont bother with terror nihlathak - complete the black road challenge and get the easy charms in destruction (respec to totemnecro if you experience difficulty - there is a guide on the old forum - move back to melee afterwards). Next you can start farming K3kba & Tran Athulua (getting the trophy there is a must). Once you have around 200+ stat signets eaten try Duncraig, with 350+ stat sigs try Fauztinville , Bremmtown and Vizjun.
Good luck

Isn't Visegrip better than Featherclaw? I got that one at the moment

It all depends on your attack rating - if you have around 20 k (which is a decent base when starting on destruction) then visegrip or a creepy craft with stormblast is better.

Also, is it possible to reset levels without quitting? Farming Gris is tedious by doing save and exit or any generally good place to farm Set items?

Are you playing on TSW?
If you are add me Furystrikesx and i can help ya out with some advice on gear. I would suggest stuff but id need to see item stats to be sure.
ill be on around 7:30 CST to 2am CST usually.

Use AoD on shamans, while ignoring the critters if you can, far less fairyrings (or use RIP mod but that also stops you getting reanims)

100-150k def is enough for most basic areas. Ia prefer

Jitan's Kamon

Jitan's Kamon
Splint Mail (4)
Defense: (184 - 208) to (370 - 418)
Required Level: 6
Required Strength: 30
Item Level: 19
2% Chance to cast level 1 Guard Tower on Kill
Adds 2-4 Fire Damage
Adds 2-4 Lightning Damage
Adds 2-4 Cold Damage
+(24 to 40)% Enhanced Defense
Physical Resist 2%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (592 - 656) to (1106 - 1225)
Required Level: 23
Required Strength: 60
Item Level: 36
4% Chance to cast level 1 Guard Tower on Kill
Adds (4 to 8)-(8 to 15) Fire Damage
Adds (4 to 8)-(8 to 15) Lightning Damage
Adds (4 to 8)-(8 to 15) Cold Damage
+(58 to 75)% Enhanced Defense
Physical Resist 3%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (1466 - 1596) to (2663 - 2898)
Required Level: 41
Required Strength: 210
Item Level: 51
6% Chance to cast level 1 Guard Tower on Kill
Adds (16 to 30)-(31 to 45) Fire Damage
Adds (16 to 30)-(31 to 45) Lightning Damage
Adds (16 to 30)-(31 to 45) Cold Damage
+(92 to 109)% Enhanced Defense
Physical Resist 4%
Socketed (5)
Defense: (2175 - 2352) to (3925 - 4244)
Required Level: 49
Required Strength: 420
Item Level: 85
8% Chance to cast level 1 Guard Tower on Kill
Adds (31 to 60)-(81 to 120) Fire Damage
Adds (31 to 60)-(81 to 120) Lightning Damage
Adds (31 to 60)-(81 to 120) Cold Damage
+(109 to 126)% Enhanced Defense
Physical Resist 5%
Socketed (6)

,

Lily

circlet,

Kali

Kali
Gloves
'LumKo'
Runeword Level: 48
15% Chance to cast level 13 Seal of Fire on Kill
+2 to All Skills
+15% to Summoned Minion Resistances
-214 Defense
5% to Strength
Maximum Fire Resist +4%
Fire Resist +25%

gloves,

Chthon

Chthon
Necromancer Scythes
'UmSurMal'
Runeword Level: 75
13% Chance to cast level 10 Crucify on Kill
25% Chance to cast level 3 Tremor on Kill
50% Attack Speed
+(50 to 70) to Maximum Damage
+(250 to 400) to Attack Rating
+(101 to 125)% Enhanced Damage
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
Weapon Physical Damage +75%
3% to All Attributes
Regenerate Mana +15%
Elemental Resists +10%
+(80 to 100) Life after each Kill

scythe+ double MO,

Deadfall

Deadfall
Heavy Belt (4)
Defense: (135 - 159) to (178 - 210)
Required Level: 7
Required Strength: 36
Item Level: 19
2% Chance to cast level 2 Shower of Rocks on Kill
1% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(24 to 46)% Enhanced Defense
+(16 to 25) to Strength
Lightning Resist +(11 to 15)%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (485 - 551) to (616 - 700)
Required Level: 24
Required Strength: 62
Item Level: 36
2% Chance to cast level 4 Shower of Rocks on Kill
2% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(69 to 92)% Enhanced Defense
+(36 to 45) to Strength
Lightning Resist +(21 to 25)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (1270 - 1400) to (1595 - 1758)
Required Level: 41
Required Strength: 218
Item Level: 51
2% Chance to cast level 8 Shower of Rocks on Kill
3% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(115 to 137)% Enhanced Defense
+(56 to 65) to Strength
Lightning Resist +(31 to 35)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (1918 - 2095) to (2403 - 2626)
Required Level: 50
Required Strength: 436
Item Level: 85
2% Chance to cast level 12 Shower of Rocks on Kill
4% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(138 to 160)% Enhanced Defense
+(66 to 75) to Strength
Lightning Resist +(36 to 40)%
Socketed (2)

and some random honorific (req lvl 1 for more MO space) or crafted boots (having Whirlpool oskill on them is a great idea). MO bppts with anything u need to cover resists, maybe defence, wepen with ED, Maybe max damage, LAEK (MO wepen AFTER creating runeword to prevent overflow req lvl cap and save this scythe for late creating

Tzeentch

Tzeentch
Necromancer Scythes
'TahaTahaQor'
Runeword Level: 100
4% Chance to cast level 27 Punisher Barrage on Kill
20% Chance to cast level 40 Punisher Bolt on Striking
Adds 63-125 Damage
(17 to 21)% Mana stolen per Hit
-(10 to 15)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(126 to 154)% Enhanced Damage
5% Deadly Strike
Hit Causes Monster to Flee +5%

runeword that requires lvl 100 while Sur rw is lvl 61). If you will need more defence- first of all change belt to

Truce

Truce
Belts
'Jah'
Runeword Level: 80
5% Combat Speeds
Stun Attack
Slows Attacker by 5%
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Physical Resist 10%

for more dmg red and def.
PS: Also make a good geared merc from act 3 (Bloodmage can heal you instantly, Necrolyte can debuff enemies with Miasma, both have good skills for killing tough enemies - Pyroblast or Hailstorm). Act 2 Fighter mage can be useful too for his Chronofield and Glacial nova. Other mercs are useless for melee-necro IMO.
And here's kind of skillplan:
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PS: U can miss 1-pointers till talon's hold. But there's some target slow

And Angel is not much worth skill because hits rarely and every time u need to run away from target to jump on it again. I used it only in tactical purposes to perform shortcuts on some areas or fly over packs of monsters if i don't want to deal with them

0 points in graveyard ? Begone.

In my exp. graveyard is almost useless... but if u want it- 1 point and nothing more! :denied:

PS: For example paladin's Symphony of Destruction works so much better even at 1 point

Graveyard shines when it comes to destroying Crystal Ball in CoV and totems in K3KBA, for example, which makes a melee necro a decent CoV trophy farmer, imo.