The NecroBeast: A Spear Throwing Bear

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LeegionOnEast

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The NecroBeast: A Spear Throwing Bear

This is the funniest build I've ever played. It actually can deal decent damage, and scares the **** out of pubs. That's the main purpose. Hopefully it doesn't only work on my Single Player because of the Editor I use...I'm pretty sure closed Battle.net allows Bears to swing with Missle Weapons, but I could be wrong.

Equipment:

Helm: 'BerBer' Crown of Ages
Amulet: Highlord's Wrath
Armor: 'Fortitude' Archon Plate
Weapon: 'Brand' Demon Crossbow
Weapon2: 'Beast' Bezerker Axe
Shield2: 'Spirit' Monarch
Gloves: Dracul's Grasp
Belt: Arachnid Mesh
Ring1: Ravenfrost
Ring2: AR/Stat/Resist Ring
Boots: Goreriders

Hellfire Torch
Annihilus
Damage/AR/Life and Resist/Life SCs and GCs
FRW SCs
It is an alright option to hold a 'Call to Arms' Flail in the inventory to pre-buff with, as well as a Demon Limb.

Skills:

20 Bone Armor
20 Bone Wall
1 Bone Spear
20 Bone Spirit
1 into each Curse except for the Confuse/Attract column.
20 Golem Mastery
The rest into Clay Golem

Stats:

Everyone always right the same thing. Enough Strength and Dexterity for equipment, then the rest into Vitality.

Gameplay:

Run up to them and start swinging with Brand equipped. They get knocked back, you run and hit them. They'll think the Spears are deadly or that you are using Bonehew. Either way, they tend to run. The Spear damage isn't too bad. You send 3 a second, totalling at 450+ damage PvP. If they run, Open Wounds takes over.

Thanks for reading my guide on a pretty much useless build. Comments are appreciated.

EDIT: Wow. I posted it in the Druid Forum...well I guess I'll leave it, it's almost related.
 
Heh. Nice idea! Couple of thoughts - first off, don't you just WISH the Marrowwalks bug was still around? Damn!

Second, too bad you can only hit 10 FPS with a bow as a shifted Necro. I wonder if it wouldn't be worth it to go for Bonehew or Oath for the speed. Oath would leven give you a bit more damage - level 20 Bone Spirit ain't bad, all things considered, even if the cast ratio was down. I did some calculating using the Dragoon's site, and you could hit 8 fps with an Oath Zerker, 6 with an Oath phase, and 7 with an Oath flail. Bonehew could hit 7. I'd almost think it was worth it for the extra speed . . .

Nice idea - fun and surprising! I wish Bone Armor synergized the spear skills - it'd be pretty cool to run around with Bone Armor on a bear!
 
How do you get ar? Or does the exploding arrows from brand make ar unnecessary ... b/c I started a necro wb and put like 200 base dex on and im at 3k ar .. i havent done charms but i still doubt i'll break 10 w/ mass x/20/xx max/ar/life sc's.
 
I'm pretty confident that I hit 8 FPA with the Demon Crossbow. The WS on it is -60. That's what Dragoon's site told me...maybe I read it wrong?

On the AR part...I'm still working that out. I'll get back to use, possibly with an updated build.
 
Just noticed I did the skills wrong when I posted...no wonder it seemed like I was short so many points.

I had it on my character as this:

20 Bone Armor
20 Bone Wall
20 Bone Prison
20 Teeth
20 Bone Spirit
Curses

That's how it should be. I added the Golem stuff in when I thought I was missing points.
 
ElohimWolf said:
wont the dmg on this char be too low too hurt anything in pvp?
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It's mostly for pubs. It can very effectivly stun lock with the knockback+Spear combonation. Pubs generally don't have too many high life characters because most can't afford high lifers and many don't BO often enough. If you hit once a second, that is about 200 damage from Spear, which isn't too bad considering it can start a stun lock.

It's a build for entertainment, not efficiency.
 
LeegionOnEast said:
I'm pretty confident that I hit 8 FPA with the Demon Crossbow. The WS on it is -60. That's what Dragoon's site told me...maybe I read it wrong?

On the AR part...I'm still working that out. I'll get back to use, possibly with an updated build.
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I don't know about that. Brand has no inherent IAS and NO weapon has a base speed of more than -30. You might have been reading a specific Demon Crossbow entry . . . perhaps the Demon Machine?
 
That's why I'm wearing Highlords. :wink3:

I'm looking into new helm options. Crown of Ages is great, but I'm sure there is a random helm no one uses that might be alot better. Any ideas?
 
LeegionOnEast said:
That's why I'm wearing Highlords. :wink3:

I'm looking into new helm options. Crown of Ages is great, but I'm sure there is a random helm no one uses that might be alot better. Any ideas?
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Ever figure out ar .... b/c i had 3k w/ duel angelics and mad dex .... just curious .... i know i can get 10k ... but dunno if i can get 15k
 
Voice said:
Ever figure out ar .... b/c i had 3k w/ duel angelics and mad dex .... just curious .... i know i can get 10k ... but dunno if i can get 15k
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I'm playing around with it. I was thinking throwing the remaining points into Dex, and using a helm with the Visionary mod. Something like:

Rare Circlet/Helm
Visionary Mod
Resistance
Strength
2 Open Sockets

Still working on it. Right now with Demon Limb for prebuff I get decent, but not great, AR.
 
LeegionOnEast said:
That's why I'm wearing Highlords. :wink3:

I'm looking into new helm options. Crown of Ages is great, but I'm sure there is a random helm no one uses that might be alot better. Any ideas?
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Highlords is OIAS. Won't add quite the same...
 
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