Dr. Strangebuff - Summoner Nec

[HechtHeftig]

I got a question about honorifics: which items should I use as the base? just normal gloves/boots/belt/helm?

For honorifics I usually buy a sash/ boots/leather gloves from charsi and gheed at act 1. when you make those honorific you get a level requirement of 0, which means you can get 1 more mystic orb on it than on base items that you'd find somewhere.
5 mystic orbs make the item have a level requirement of 20 for Example, while most items you find in act1 will have a level requirement of 1 when you make them honorific, which means 5 mystic orbs applied grants your items a level requirement of 21.

Sockets aren't necessary in early game. That's because if you socket something it has to have a level requirement of 0. but that's impossible, so just go with T1 base items that you bought from chari or gheed.

The armor you get will take care of the defense that we need.

[Kevwar]

Alright thank you very much.

Also what do I socket in the mercs gear?

[marioace]

Felblood

Felblood
Amulet
Required Level: 10
Item Level: 1
Metal Solace: Also Regenerates Totem Life
+(1 to 2) to Necromancer Skill Levels
5% Life stolen per Hit
+4 to Life (Based on Character Level)
3% Reanimate as: Random Monster

or rare ammy +3 skills and 39% minion damage? I don't know if its worth losing those +2 minions. Haven't found one with Lightning Arena, let alone arena and +skills lol

[HechtHeftig]

Felblood

Felblood
Amulet
Required Level: 10
Item Level: 1
Metal Solace: Also Regenerates Totem Life
+(1 to 2) to Necromancer Skill Levels
5% Life stolen per Hit
+4 to Life (Based on Character Level)
3% Reanimate as: Random Monster

or rare ammy +3 skills and 39% minion damage? I don't know if its worth losing those +2 minions. Haven't found one with Lightning Arena, let alone arena and +skills lol

Once you have a santa compana (+20 nec minions) you won't need the +2 nec minions anymore. At this point +Skills are more important. Because that way your totems become stronger, buffing your whole party and more importantly: your merc as well. Even before you get that staff, in order to farm a ghal rune it's advices to have a goetia plate and a lightning arena amulet. That way it's easier to farm the ghal rune

[HechtHeftig]

Alright thank you very much.

Also what do I socket in the mercs gear?

Personally I put jah runes in the bow for more damage and in the rest of the gear for more defense (because of TA broadsides). farsight globes are also good for the teleport on struck to survive the broadsides and for -enemy resist.

I haven't tested the farsight globes yet though.

[PhucHung]

Does venomous spirit os work as OW? And can we use it to fight uber bosses that require OW like STARTLED WITCH, ULDYSSIAN,...?

[marioace]

Do you use Black mass at all? I didn't see it mentioned in the build.

[HechtHeftig]

Does venomous spirit os work as OW? And can we use it to fight uber bosses that require OW like STARTLED WITCH, ULDYSSIAN,...?

TBH: I don't know. I used it against Tor Bahlos in Yshari Sanctum. And it completely stopped his life regeneration. He was poison immune though, so my guess is: it's impossible that the damage just neglected the healing, especially since it'd be a real coincidence that your damage = his healing and I didn't see him losing or gaining life from venomous spirit at all.

So it must have some kind of means that stops all healing, but I'm not 100% sure, so don't take my words for granted. This still requires some testing.

It's important to note though that Tor Bahlos' healing only stopped for the duration of the poison damage (less than a second). So you'd need to constantly cast Venomous Spirit.

Do you use Black mass at all? I didn't see it mentioned in the build.

Well, most fights don't last long enough to make use of Black Mass. I can imagine that you'd need it for some of the harder ubers though. But up until now: no I didn't use it at all.

[PhucHung]

Does venomous spirit os work as OW? And can we use it to fight uber bosses that require OW like STARTLED WITCH, ULDYSSIAN,...?

TBH: I don't know. I used it against Tor Bahlos in Yshari Sanctum. And it completely stopped his life regeneration. He was poison immune though, so my guess is: it's impossible that the damage just neglected the healing, especially since it'd be a real coincidence that your damage = his healing and I didn't see him losing or gaining life from venomous spirit at all.

So it must have some kind of means that stops all healing, but I'm not 100% sure, so don't take my words for granted. This still requires some testing.

It's important to note though that Tor Bahlos' healing only stopped for the duration of the poison damage (less than a second). So you'd need to constantly cast Venomous Spirit.

If Venomous spirit was OW for caster, it would be a very big change for caster/summoner since we couldn't do most late ubers with caster builds @@

[marioace]

Would you use

Monsterball

Monsterball
Mystic Orb

Right-Click to Apply
+5 to Summon Shock Beast
+10% to Summoned Minion Life
+3% to Summoned Minion Damage
+2% to Summoned Minion Resistances
+10 Required Level

on goethia instead of minion life MO? Also, is Goethia end game unless you get laz 3 piece?

Thank you for the guide and for answering all the questions I've posted.