diablo 2 raise skeleton or skeleton mastery

Points in skeleton mastery at about a 1:2 ratio to skeletons, then max it next when skeletons are maxed.Don’t max them until you have at least 1 point in other stuff you need, like your curses and golems and at least 1 point in corpse explosion I levelled my summon mancer in this order more or less

Pointless to go bone/poison attacks since you cant get synergies properly, Bone armour is annoying to recast all the time and isnt worth it after the marrowwalk bug was fixed, curses are marginally improved by additional skillpoints if you have high + all skills already. Occasionally you come up again a monster with unbreakable physical immunity and then you will see that it goes down quickly because of mages.Īnd it isnt like there are any other good skills to put the skillpoints into after you max out the 3 fishymancer skills. Mages attack from a distance and so can never be blocked by crowding and prevented from attacking enemies like your melee skellies. Mages have 6 minutes or more of poison damage duration to prevent monster heal even when you are in town or out resurrecting your army after a retreat from battle.Ĭold mages have crazy chill duration, on Hell usually 6-7 seconds to slow monsters down. If you wanna see your mages damage in action then go to WSK and find some physical immune monsters and dont cast amplify damage but let your mages handle them alone and you will see the monsters go down fast (if you have 16 mages like me and level 45-50 mage skill level anyways). Why?ġ.Free extra damage (especially if you use infinity on merc to boost mage damage). At level 40 average elemental damage per mage is 531 with 8 mages that is 4,248 elemental damage.Ī summoner should definitely max out skelly mages.

Diablo 2 raise skeleton or skeleton mastery