True Necromancer

[Skavenaps]

So i TR again my toon yesterday and i wanted to do a Cleric life. I come up with a build. Goal its self healing (harm), Melee (staf centered), Evasion (monk) plus casting as support/buffing. Most of time will run in vampire form. Palemaster tree gives 8% Spell Crit and Divine Disciple 8% more. So with a 16% item and 5% base 37% dont look bad.

Str 16
Dex 8
Con 14
Int 14
Wis 16
Cha 6


1 Monk 2 Power Attack,Cleave
2 Cler 0
3 Monk 2 Two hand Figh,Extend
4 Cler 0
5 Cler 0
6 Cler 1 Great Cleave
7 Cler 0
8 Cler 0
9 Cler 1 Master of Forms
10 Cler 0
11 Cler 0
12 Cler 1 Quicken
13 Cler 0
14 Wiz 1 Maximize
15 Wiz 1 IC:Bludgeon
16 Wiz 0
17 Wiz 0
18 Wiz 2 Grand Master of forms,Empower
19 Wiz 0
20 Wiz 0
21 E 1 Overwhelmign Crit
22 E 0
23 E 0
24 E 1 Ins Reflexes
25 E 1
26 E 1
27 E 1 Blinding Speed


Pale Master
Dark Reaping

Spell Critical: Negative Energy I:

Negative Energy Conduit:

Shroud of the Zombie:

Spell Critical: Negative Energy II

Efficient Quicken

Shroud of the Vampire:

Spell Critical: Negative Energy III:

Necrotic Bolt:

Cloak of Night:

Spell Critical: Negative Energy IV

Bone Armor:

+1 Constitution

Improved Shrouding


Divine Emissary
Divine Emissary of Darkness:

Spell Critical: Negative

Spellpower: Negative:

Sacred Defense:

Spell Critical: Negative

Spellpower: Force:

Enervation:

Spell Critical: Negative

Spellpower: Negative

Divine Vitality

Negative Energy Burst

Spell Critical: Negative:

Archimage
Illusion I: Invisibility

Spell Critical:Elemental and Force I:

Energy of the Scholar

Efficient Maximize

Illusion II: Blur

Illusion III: Displacement

Hensing Mystic
Riddle of Fire

Staff Training

Way of the Clever Monkey

Fists of Iron

Quick Strike:

So, what do you think? Did anyone tried that before? How went? Any advices welcome.

[Bumbaragum]

Str 16
Dex 8
Con 14
Int 14
Wis 16
Cha 6

1 Monk 2 Power Attack
2 Cler 0
3 Monk 2 Two hand Figh
4 Cler 0
5 Cler 0
6 Cler 1 Great Cleave
7 Cler 0
8 Cler 0
9 Cler 1 Master of Forms
10 Cler 0
11 Cler 0
12 Cler 1 Quicken
13 Cler 0
14 Wiz 1 Maximize
15 Wiz 1 IC:Bludgeon
16 Wiz 0
17 Wiz 0
18 Wiz 2 Grand Master of forms
19 Wiz 0
20 Wiz 0
21 E 1 Overwhelmign Crit


So, what do you think? Did anyone tried that before? How went? Any advices welcome.

You didnt mention any race, but by stats distributions looks like a 36pt Warfoged, I would recomend a dwarf if its not to late

Your feat selection is all borked... lets try it again.

1 Monk Extra: Power Attack
1 N :Cleave
2 Cleric
3 N : Extended Spell
3 Monk Extra : THF (no reason why, Toughness would be better)
4 Cleric
5 Cleric
6 Cleric : Great Cleave
7 Cleric
8 Cleric
9 Cleric : Adept of Forms
10 Cleric
11 Cleric
12 Cleric : Master of Forms
13 Cleric
14 Wizard Extra : Quicken Spell
15 Wizard : Improved Critical
16 Wizard
17 Wizard
18 Wizard Extra : Maximize Spell
18 N : Grandmaster of Forms
19 Wizard
20 Wizard
21 E : Ovherwelming Critical
...etc

There fixed for you, dont forget to maximize the Heal skill, now adds power to negative and healing spells. I didnt try the build, but was imagining something similar. Should work, Have fun.

By the way Extend is important to keep the buffs up, unless you want to cast it every minute 3-4 spells.

Wizard Spells

4th Death Aura; Negative Energy Burst
3th Haste; Rage(or Sleet storm); Displacement (Extend them)
2th Invisibility; Blur; Something; Something
1th Jump; Tumble; Shield; Protection from Evi(or something else, since its also available from clerics spells list; Detect Doors;

[Skavenaps]

You didnt mention any race, but by stats distributions looks like a 36pt Warfoged, I would recomend a dwarf if its not to late

Your feat selection is all borked... lets try it again.

1 Monk Extra: Power Attack
1 N :Cleave
2 Cleric
3 N : Extended Spell
3 Monk Extra : THF (no reason why, Toughness would be better)
4 Cleric
5 Cleric
6 Cleric : Great Cleave
7 Cleric
8 Cleric
9 Cleric : Adept of Forms
10 Cleric
11 Cleric
12 Cleric : Master of Forms
13 Cleric
14 Wizard Extra : Quicken Spell
15 Wizard : Improved Critical
16 Wizard
17 Wizard
18 Wizard Extra : Maximize Spell
18 N : Grandmaster of Forms
19 Wizard
20 Wizard
21 E : Ovherwelming Critical
...etc

There fixed for you, dont forget to maximize the Heal skill, now adds power to negative and healing spells. I didnt try the build, but was imagining something similar. Should work, Have fun.

By the way Extend is important to keep the buffs up, unless you want to cast it every minute 3-4 spells.

Wizard Spells

4th Death Aura; Negative Energy Burst
3th Haste; Rage(or Sleet storm); Displacement (Extend them)
2th Invisibility; Blur; Something; Something
1th Jump; Tumble; Shield; Protection from Evi(or something else, since its also available from clerics spells list; Detect Doors;

Hey yeah sorry for the feats! I copied them from an excel and didnt noticed that not went well. Will update the original post.

And yes, its a warforged and i agree its far from ideal. i prefer human (extra feat and +1 skill) cause i could use another THF feat and more skills.

[Panzermeyer]

So how did this build work out for you?

[Skavenaps]

So how did this build work out for you?

I played it till lvl 20, so all commnets, will be based on heroic elite dif.

Build was OK. Major problem was to find a good melee staff AND slot negative crit chance out of weapon. So far, my only choice was the cloak from abbot, so its pretty tricky the gear that toon.

Self healing was amazing and added a good chunk of aoe dmg (crits about 400 aoe negative) using energy burst. On the other side, single target damage feel lacking and no instakill made killing some healing bosses a bit hard.

Using cloak of night (even rank1) made my vampire healing 0 (1 - 50% = 0,5 = 0 on game). Light damage only was a problem on running with devils.

[Saekee]

I played it till lvl 20, so all commnets, will be based on heroic elite dif.

Build was OK. Major problem was to find a good melee staff AND slot negative crit chance out of weapon. So far, my only choice was the cloak from abbot, so its pretty tricky the gear that toon.

Self healing was amazing and added a good chunk of aoe dmg (crits about 400 aoe negative) using energy burst. On the other side, single target damage feel lacking and no instakill made killing some healing bosses a bit hard.

Using cloak of night (even rank1) made my vampire healing 0 (1 - 50% = 0,5 = 0 on game). Light damage only was a problem on running with devils.

Have you thought of using SoulEater as part of your leveling? It is a low-level staff but according to the wiki, it offers lesser vampirism to pale master forms. It also has a mortal strike--could be useful. A vampire form (with Tier 5 enhancement) would heal for 2hp per hit as a result. I imagine that the Mortal Strike on it has a low DC.
Wouldn't be so great in the higher levels but maybe low to mid?
http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Souleater