Totemancer (Necromancer Totem)

[Dezerte]

How good is -enemy cold res, compared to spell damage? or spell focus?
Context: late nightmare/hell/early ubrs
Info would be used to gauge jewellery power
cheers

[fuppy]

How good is -enemy cold res, compared to spell damage? or spell focus?
Context: late nightmare/hell/early ubrs
Info would be used to gauge jewellery power
cheers

Pierce trumps spell damage and spell focus by a lot.

Pierce >>> spell focus >= spell damage

[Muilpeer]

Are there any tips to look for on for example shrinecrafted gloves? I'm trying to make some instead of the Kali gloves, but I find it hard to judge what are good stats. For example: my first attempt immediately gave +15 light dmg and -15 light res. But the rest of the stats suck.
I'm going to reroll now.

[Dezerte]

Pierce trumps spell damage and spell focus by a lot.

Pierce >>> spell focus >= spell damage

And +1 skills to x pierce? let's say; +2skills+10%cold sd VS 10%pierce

[fuppy]

Pierce trumps spell damage and spell focus by a lot.

Pierce >>> spell focus >= spell damage

And +1 skills to x pierce? let's say; +2skills+10%cold sd VS 10%pierce

I would still take pierce I think

Are there any tips to look for on for example shrinecrafted gloves? I'm trying to make some instead of the Kali gloves, but I find it hard to judge what are good stats. For example: my first attempt immediately gave +15 light dmg and -15 light res. But the rest of the stats suck.
I'm going to reroll now.

Try hitting spell focus, high pierce and some SD. Preferably with some stats and/or life, maybe MF.

[Muilpeer]

Pierce trumps spell damage and spell focus by a lot.

Pierce >>> spell focus >= spell damage

And +1 skills to x pierce? let's say; +2skills+10%cold sd VS 10%pierce

I would still take pierce I think

Are there any tips to look for on for example shrinecrafted gloves? I'm trying to make some instead of the Kali gloves, but I find it hard to judge what are good stats. For example: my first attempt immediately gave +15 light dmg and -15 light res. But the rest of the stats suck.
I'm going to reroll now.

Try hitting spell focus, high pierce and some SD. Preferably with some stats and/or life, maybe MF.

Thanks, I worked on it a bit, got gloves now with:
39% light spell dmg
-29% enemy light res
reanimate

And boots:
+1 necro skills
34% light spell dmg
-9% enemy light res

And some other stats. Can now farm Fauzt and Dunc easily. I die in fauzt every few minutes, and in Dunc I don't die anymore because mobs just melt. Fauzt is mainly an issue with Harpylisks, I think their projectiles penetrate my totems and hit me instead somehow.

[atolon]

Thanks, I worked on it a bit, got gloves now with:
39% light spell dmg
-29% enemy light res
reanimate

I have a question - how did you manage to create these ? I found sacred gloves, rolled -15 enemy light res on them, then used ornate to bless it, it resulted in only -18% lighting resistance. Am i missing something ?

[Muilpeer]

Thanks, I worked on it a bit, got gloves now with:
39% light spell dmg
-29% enemy light res
reanimate

I have a question - how did you manage to create these ? I found sacred gloves, rolled -15 enemy light res on them, then used ornate to bless it, it resulted in only -18% lighting resistance. Am i missing something ?

I rolled high numbers the first time, and higher numbers the 2nd time with the bless. Just got lucky I guess

[Imperius]

So, after more hours of farming i was able to find a Quov Tsin's Talisman, a Suicide Note and a Lamen of the Archbishop, are these good in this build? Which ones? Or should i use something else like crafted jewels with SF, SD, pierce and rare +3 skills amy (which i already have with MO cold SD and a little pierce).
Also why is lightning better than cold for this build?
One last thing, are the Teganze elemental runes worth it to put on the sockets for %pierce?

[eurekaaaa]

Has anyone had success beating Uldyssian with a totemancer? Been trying to do it and I'm having a very hard time.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated