Today, just before the squid arrived, I tried to post THIS:
Dang! I must have done 600 meph runs this day and the evening of the 23rd. I started at lvl 90 with 1.630.xxx.xxx exp and I am now at 1.671.xxx.xxx exp. Meph gives me about 50k exp per kill, means I have to do 20 runs for 1 mio exp. 20*41 = 820. Oh! And not a single sign of bonelike boots... However, I got plenty of other nice items and grail items. That's nice. Um, yeah.
So, I am about to start my necro for some variety besides meph running. I am just still concerned about not messing it up. There are still questions, lol. For example what's up with the weapon? I figured that it would be senseless to go for block, because with 1 point into bonearmor and marrowwalks (after spear is maxxed I could work on bonewall which would further increase armor) I could absorb hits... But blackbogs has a dex req of 88. Chances are low, but if I ever found a death's web, I would miss 126 life! And I don't think I am able to get 63 dex from equipment... To eliminate any problems I try to sum up everything now:
skills:
20 Poison Nova
20 Poison Explosion
20 Poison Dagger
20 Bonespear
7+ Bonewall
1 Bonearmor
1 clay golem
1 golem mastery
1 summon resist
1 every curse (10 altogether)
That would be complete at level 90 and if we get further, I will put my points into bonewall.
stats:
strength - requirements
dexterity - requirements? if I will find a better weapon, I am missing life... maxblock? bone armor should absorb hits...
vitality - every remaining point
energy - nothing? will I have enough mana with arachnid + harly?
equipment:
harly
maras
blackbogs
trangouls scales
trangouls wing
trangouls claws
arachnid mesh <--- i have no set troll belt
some rare rings
marrowwalk
switch:
white wand (+2 bonespear) or boneshade
homunculus
Hmm, the things that I worry about most atm are the stats. I said it, the dex requirement of blackbogs hurts... And I don't know if my mana will be enough...
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Because I couldn't post it, I had some time to think about it and I came up with this:
The only useful stat of blackbogs sharp is the +4 to poison nova. It also has +5 to dagger and +4 to explosion, but I won't use them. The rest of the stats aren't that good. Because of the high dex req I thought about another weapon and I think that +3 to poison nova won't be worse than +4 PLUS less life (because of dex). So the best thing I can come up with is a white wand (+3 to pnb skills), since no unique wand has +3 to pnb skills (except just that deaths web). I think it will be better!
About the energy: I get 2 mana per level and the bonus of harly/arachnid. I have no sojs so I could slap on some heavy mana rings! Guess that should be alright!
So, I will start in a few minutes! And I am quite positive about this: I have read a long venomancer thread in a german forum and they say that their chars pwn even in hell on p8 baalruns (with partly worse equipment than mine!!). That's so cool, but I won't believe anything until I have seen it!
I said I will start in a short time. corax, you are often here and you need to level your hammerdin... I dunno how far you are, but maybe we could play together. I have the next 2 weeks free, so that shouldn't be a problem!