My poison necro doesn't do enough damage

Hello,

I respec my summoner necro because i was bored as hell and it was not fun for me. i’m lvl 33 and i respec poison.
I don’t do any damage, that’s just hilarious. i did some baalrun yesterday, it’s just impossible like this.
Is the poison build became stronger after a while or did i need to respec into bone?
I already have Ancient’s Pledge and Stealth.
I have 7 point in dagger, 7 in poison explo, 3 in poison nova and 8 in clay golem + all the curses.

So, what did i do wrong and is it gonna be stronger later? Someone give me Blackbog’s Sharp but it’s level 38. Do you think it can help?

without Death Web, poison necro is pretty bad.

Also you need to lower res curse, then use poison nova. Once 1 mob is dead, just spam corpse explosion to delete the whole map

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Hey, Poison Necro’s tend to be pretty weak compared to other builds, but they can get strong once you have good gear on. I can help a little although I’m not pro at this game.

The points into Poison Explosion are wasted at the moment. Even if you have only one point into Corpse Explosion, you should always be casting it over Poison Explosion. Max out Poison Nova first, then focus on your synergies (if you’re gonig full synergies). it helps to have some minions in front, and an Act 2 merc. Lower Resist is the best curse for Poison builds, but more than 5 points is a waste because + to skills won’t be difficult to raise it to about 15 or higher, and points past 15 start to do almost nothing for its stats.

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Imma try what you’ve said, but the fact is that i don’t like corpse explosion, that’s why i goes to poison build.

I don’t know why but i don’t like that spell

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no, poison necro can’t kill poison immune
play bone spear necro, equip enigma and strong act2 merc , kill one monster and CE
or equip enigma and eth vogue infinity, act 1 merc with ice bow, bone prison on monster, lower resist, bone spear and kill and CE

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So there’s no way to play necro without CE then?

for pvm, CE is cheap and efficient skill…

if your gear is good enough and you player only player 1, poison nova will kill enemies pretty quick by itself

there are certain areas which are not good for poison farming.

Best places to go with poison nec:
hell cows
chaos sanc
the pit

all die from poison nova. On players 8 though, you need CE unfortunately.

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Bone necro will have better chance in hell than poison?

WITHOUT CE of course

Bone Necro is very strong. Shop a +2 or 3 to bone spear 2 socket wand and make white runeword in it

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well strong, mostly because of CE as well.
Bone spear is used mainly to kill some mobs first and then delete the rest with CE

bone spear is quite bad aoe as it only hits one line

Because it’s visually boring, gimmicky and takes damage away from the fun stuff.

That existing makes everything else lose damage, just because it’s so strong and is always an option.

Every season I wind up with a poison nec, I think they are fun. I go summoner till 80, then once I have the gear i switch over to poison nec.

Yes you kind of need a DWEB, you could go with a +3 poison nova white wand, these are surprisingly hard to find. DWEB much better.

So you really need:

DWEB
Trangs gloves
70 poison sunder charm

last season I rolled a perfect 50 brambles armor, which was quite nice.

Once you get your poison nova 7k+ and your rocking like -50 poison enemy
poison resist, things just all die on the screen rather quickly.

Trang shield gives -25 pr alone, nice to pair with gloves/belt, so dweb not the only option for pierce but I agree pnova/pdagger is a lot of fun to level up and very easy to be effective in p1

I’m not trying to be rude but why are you playing necro if you don’t like the strongest skill in it’s tool kit? Outside of endgame CE is absolutely what gets you through hell. CE is heavily used in summoner and bone builds until you have enough gear to make bone spear your main damage dealer. It legitmately can clear the entire screen and does more DPS than any other skill necros have. the poison nova build doesn’t but needs expensive stuff to even be remotely good. If you really don’t want to use it bone spear is the only damage you’re gonna get and before you have decent gear CE carries it too.

I’m not trying to be rude but are you [people] aware that you’re responding to a 3 year old post by a dude who hasn’t been on since 2021?!

Most necro builds revolve around corps explosion :wink: poison necro is about weakening most monsters, killing one target and chain killing the rest if the group. Its quit satisfying. But be mindful it very mechanically demanding compared to other builds. You need to juggle multiple curses, teleport, ce, pn, skelton army management, your iron golem cannot die etc.

Yes totally agree.
It’s second nature to me on controller, but when I try to play it on keyboard and mouse it’s really tasking. Revives, skellies, golem, amp damage, lower resist, decrep for the bosses, poison nova, bone armor, corpse explode…
Is there even another build that utilizes this many skills?

Totally aware and found it pretty funny, but it’s a poison necro thread… there’s no way I’m not joining in lol

you replyed to an active person’s post from a few days ago. Those 2 clowns otoh …

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