Xbow Necromancer

nendren wrote:Moasseman, what are your thoughts on going summoner early on and then transitioning to xbow? It's taking me a while to kill things but I just started. I'm currently finishing up Act 1 normal. I'm completely new to Median so I might be doing something wrong.

Summoner is super fast and effective currently so if you fancy, can easily use those to blast through norm & NM. I personally (again) tried totemancer but gave up due to how garbage they still are and changed to xbow around lvl 60~

All Uber skills seem to be useless.
Summons are just meatshield
Damage nerfed a lot because dark pack does not give damage to xbow, it gives defence which is still low.

Am i missing something?

deathspawn666 wrote:All Uber skills seem to be useless.
Summons are just meatshield
Damage nerfed a lot because dark pack does not give damage to xbow, it gives defence which is still low.

Am i missing something?

Rathma's Chosen gives Deadly strike + attack/cast speed.

Death pact does give damage.

Damage wasn't nerfed any meaningful amounts (about 14% total damage nerf on Widowmaker)

Coming along nicely, 114 right now.
Just got Nihlathak's Bombard, also using Vith Belt and at 120 I'll be able to use my Erawan Armor.
Question about Creepy Shrine crafting a Helmet...
What am I looking for statwise on that.
I have no clue.

How would you go about skilling the necro this patch with the new skill(s)?

I'm at 117 and have maxed (or almost maxed, some are n-1/n) Rathma's chosen, dragonfire oil, famine, embalming, widowmaker, death ward. rest of the points went in death pact (14/21).

Kind regards
Paladin

you can go to the multiplayer>ladder section on top and you can see the skill tree of the top people but it has not been updated so ignore skill names when you hover over just go by the location of the skills they put in

It's not only skill names that are wrong, skill locations are also wrong. The whole skill planner is mess.

I've updated early and midgame sections for the new patch. Endgame will be coming a bit later when I myself reach that kinda gear and can make proper decisions instead of guesswork.

Can any TSW Xbow user provide some examples of what doors/level transitions you cannot use with Widowmaker on LMB?

Can you also check the same spot on single player?

suchbalance wrote:Can any TSW Xbow user provide some examples of what doors/level transitions you cannot use with Widowmaker on LMB?

Can you also check the same spot on single player?

Subterranean corridor entrance (from Church of Dien-ap-sten side) and Arreat summit entrance are 2 I've noticed at least. Don't have any sp chars to test with tho.

Also the entrance to WSK from Arreat summit (or opening the iron gating, not sure which)