Re: Conqueror Jolt, the Elemental Necro, HC vanilla untwinked single-pass
I found the Glacial Trail WP right away, in a very convenient spot. So I decided to put that area on hold and go straight for Nihlathak. We attempted the Zombie Garden at p3. They nearly managed to overrun us! After a few frantic teleports, I was set up in a nice corner and we held them off.
The SoJ gave me access to an additional full-time mage, as long as I kept all my other +skill gear the same. However, I decided to go a different route. Through 90% of the Halls, I equipped Gull Dagger. I could summon the extra mage, swap weapons, and still keep the mage, for a while at least. Every now and then the game would "recalculate" my +skills, which caused the extra mage(s) to spontaneously shatter. Sometimes it was triggered by a teleport, or a town trip. It's been that way forever with Jolt, I'm used to it.
Halls of Anguish: Flayers, Horror Mages, PI Berserkers. <----
Very
chaotic, but not too dangerous. I appreciated all those flayer super-packs. They dropped tons of loot.
Halls of Pain: Flayers, Goats, and Heirophants/Zealots.
Again, lots of loot. The zealots were a pain, I was tempted to place my extra skillpoint in Dim Vision. Instead, I went with old-fashioned "teleport away and lead them out of healing range" method. The narrow hallways kept them from retreating.
Halls of Vaught: After a stairtrap of poison arachs and cold archers, we had no trouble with this area. Defilers and torment worms provided extra corpses. I tele-bombed Nihlathak. He and Jolt had a little
face-to-face time. We stayed in that position until he died.
Back on the Glacial Trail, we faced Bone Warriors, Frozen Creepers, and Claw Vipers. Bonesaw Breaker was Extra Strong +
Cursed. Jolt kept his distance; that's a bona fide one-hit kill Charge. Evil urns contained
vipers.
Drifter Cavern was a blast. First, a stairtrap of regular invaders. Slowly we crept around the corner. Cursed LE Invaders rushed at at the first bridge, backed up by Frenzytaurs. Ouch! Our bridge bottleneck made it tolerable, that is, until Champion frenzytaurs rushed our
flank! After witnessing several mages/skellies insta-shattered, I teleported back towards the entrance. There was very little room to hide. Every monster, except one, followed us. Luckily the Invader boss stayed behind (it was wandering around acting weird like Invaders do sometimes). Free from the Curse, the clay golem could tank well enough with a few recasts. Each recast moved the mob a bit, costing a mage or two, but we prevailed. There were three more champion packs of frenzytaurs. Each one we were able to bottleneck somewhat, either by terrain or by weaker monster pack crowding. The fire golem survived them, with a little Decrep.
Jolt celebrated with a gambling spree. His gambling career has been unusual. Initially he had saved up ~8 million gold to get his Golemlord's ammy/circlet. Lately I've been saving again. At level 84, I suppose I have a slim shot at some godly circlets/jewelry. I gambled a few more million, scoring several +3 tab items, but nothing spectacular. My latest finds:
Tal Rahsa's Swirling Crystal (from a poppable)
near-perfect Fool's/Cruel
war javs
Golemlord's Circlet (Jolt's 2nd)
Master's Circlet of the Lamprey (7)
interesting rare
teleport circlet
Shadow Crown of the Mammoth (38)
Terrene Amulet of the Whale (97)
Chromatic (27) Amulet of Nirvana (28)
Coral (28) Ring of Telekinesis
ethereal 3-socket Loricated Mail
10th Cathan's Seal (this one gambled)
[highlight]Conqueror Jolt, Lord of Mages/Fire Golem necro, level 84, Act 5 Hell, Frozen Tundra[/highlight]
You're right though, tele-bombing can be really effective for this build. 
