PvM 1.13 ExplosionMancer guide

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decrep is great for vs duriel (one of the hardest monsters for the level you face him) i agree, but you can shop a wand with +decrep from Drognan. get a map with him (Drognan) next to the exit to make it easier. alternately you can probably get an ume's lament easily enough in trade for a few pgems if you're on realms.
 
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Thanks crawlingdeadman. One last silly question, I presume the reason I cannot find a decrypt wand is because I am not at lvl24 yet? So once I get the lvl24 or higher, the chances of one appearing should be much higher?
 
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Just out of interest, is it worth putting a point into Poison Explosion (OK, one in PD and one in PE)? With all the +skills, would you get a reasonable amount of damage against Magic Immunes? Or if you have the corpse already, are you better leaving those two additional points in something else (one of those ones mentioned)?

From what I understand, say level 10 PE would do 301-462/5.6 damage at normal level and scale up significantly in nightmare/hell (and with Trang-Oul's). Not too bad as a "third way" (after CE and BS) for such a small investment? Or pointless?
 
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no, nope, nadda. you ask this question because you've never used PE, right? it might actually be beneficial for you to put a point in it to see for yourself just how utterly crap it is. you're much, much, much better off using that same corpse for CE.
 
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Thx for the guide mouseman. I made a SP Guardian following your build. He was awesome. Very strong and safe. Here is the Guardian thread.
Guardian BoneColdKiller Thx again. Laters.
 
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Having a great time with the build so far! (A3 Normal)

Things really pick up once you're able to buy decent mana pots, and I imagine this guy will play smooth as butter with insight.

I've been shopping for good bone wands, and it's a terribly slow process. Settled for a +3 bone spear white wand for now; not sure if I'll bother trying to shop something more optimal.
 
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I will add to the several others.. great guide.

Right now I'm leveling up as a summoner just because it's so easy to walk through an area on normal and just watch the pets destroy everything.

Once I get a little higher I'll respec into this amazing build, and I have really high hopes to be able to use this for PVM / item hunting.
 
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If you make a guide to an explosionmancer you have to make a guide for every necromancer build out there. EVERY necro build uses CE. Sure, yours has a faster cast rate to utilize it, but still, calling a build explosionmancer is a bit wierd
 
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Thanks for all the positive feedback and private messages. Unfortunately I don't have time to respond to them, but I would advise seeking help in this thread or in some other part of the forum.

lumpor: Did you read the guide? I know it's very long but if you would read it I think you'd see how this build is different from other necromancers. Keep in mind that explosionmancer is just a name, it is mainly different build because it focuses on safety instead of trying to be a sorceress clone.

I can only say that I've done a full bonemancer and a full summonmancer and the gameplay was radically different with this build. Because I had never seen a build that worked like the one I had come up with, I wanted to make this guide and had to figure out what to call it :)

Cheers!
 
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is this build WSK viable in hell? i was thinking of this build to clear hell WSK (upto baal). no MI there except the achmel types but merc&CG&CE can take of them i guess.

have anyone tried this especially on p3 or p4? and can you comment about clear speed?

will willowhisps fry my necro?:D
 
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I reached 88 yesterday and I have acquired in the past 2 days a majority of the items listed on the "expensive" gear list which to be honost compared to most classes / specs it's actually a "moderate" gear list because it wasn't a fortune worth of runes to get most of this stuff..

I spent about 3-4 hours tuesday night bugging Drognan for a good wand... found a 3BS, 1 Dim Vision, (1 or 2 Bone Wall Can't remember) and I went to socket it and only got ONE socket.. if I'm not mistaken socketing a wand has a 5/6 chance to get 2 sockets and I get the 1/6.... figures.. I then found a 2Corpse Explosion, 1 Dim Vision, 1 Teeth and ALSO got just 1 slot.. so after another HOUR of searching I found a +3 Corpse Explosion 2 socket wand and just promised myself I will keep my eyes peeled for a better wand and for now I'll eat the 3 points for to get attract.

Which reminds me. THANK YOU for the information about using attract it is frickin awesome if used right I don't need to touch Bone Prison, Dim Vision, or CGolem at all...

I have yet to run into anything that gives this build a hard time with the exception of the merc destroyer Andy and then I just have to chug alot of pots without the regen.

Question: A friend of mine asked if using Prayer Merc + Insight is overkill and a waste of a different potentially useful aura, I was wondering this because for the first few moments when your mercs aura is "off" until proccing it in combat I never really noticed a big difference.
 
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mackscynox said:
is this build WSK viable in hell? i was thinking of this build to clear hell WSK (upto baal). no MI there except the achmel types but merc&CG&CE can take of them i guess.

have anyone tried this especially on p3 or p4? and can you comment about clear speed?

will willowhisps fry my necro?:D
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he works on about p3-4, not as fast as some, but safe.

not if you're careful.



 
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Abhorsen said:
Dim Vision = godly defense versus these guys.
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or attract or confuse or bone prison or bone wall or proper tactics like wall hugging.... like i said, if you're careful you'll be fine. by the time you get to hell wsk, careful should be ingrained so it shouldnt be a problem.



 
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dim vision, ahh yea i forgot i am playing a necromancer:D

i hope his killing speed is better than a bowazon there hehe...

thanks guys,

also thank you mouseman for the guide. it gave me an idea to play a necromancer:)
 
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Can I play with this build on Sinle Player or not? Because it's quite hard to reach BS and other skills lvl 25 or more...

So does this build is effective on Single Player?
 
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yep, that's where i built my last one seen here.
 
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Question, does anyone have recommendations on what to do about Gloams AKA Insta-Death lightning shooters...

I went to run a friend to grab Anya and looked like a fool.. the moment I teleported into Frozen (whatever it's called) I was instazapped down to dead.. this happened 3 times before I gave up and a hammerdin went down and cleared it out...
 
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dont teleport for one thing then there's this...
crawlingdeadman said:
or attract or confuse or bone prison or bone wall or proper tactics like wall hugging.... like i said, if you're careful you'll be fine. by the time you get to hell wsk, careful should be ingrained so it shouldnt be a problem.
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and i think someone mentioned dim vision...

ps. this is all in addition to having maxed res (possibly even increased max res) and maybe some absorb, which i assume you know about.



 
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