Lightning can do insane damage if you are lucky.

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Lightning is pretty wicked

 

But I could never get into it, wasn't my style

 

I have been known to pack a few +lightning skill staves for backup support though Fire too for that matter... but Ice is my first love

Fire has always been my favorite, Diablo, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Fallout but not in Bloodlines. Say no to fire in Bloodlines. Kotor doesn't have fire based force powers.

 

I use cold based spells as secondary. Seeing them freeze than shatter is fascinating.

That is one thing I like about Jade Empire. If you can get a harmonic combination with Ice Shard you get a shattering. If you use the area effect of Dire Flame you get a bunch of screaming alphas which you can then pummel to death with glee!

Another fascinating thing is killing an enemy, then raising them back to life as a skeleton to do your bidding. :D That's probably the coolest aspect of the Necromancer - summoning spells. Golems are fun to use, too. As far as the poison and bone category, I'd say one of the most useful is "poison dagger".

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I will give this much to the Diablo series, there is a lot of ways you can play through the game with the different spells, skills, and items that can be found. Its just to bad it is stuck in a fairly boring OC.

I use cold based spells as secondary. Seeing them freeze than shatter is fascinating.

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It's always good for a laugh

it's a lovely thing.

So can firewall and fireball. I even did damage with those spells to Diablo, which i found odd, he should be immune to fire based attacks, being a devil of the flames.

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Quite. I freely admit that my own sorceress couldn't have survived more than three seconds inside one of her own firewalls...

 

But a paladin that spams the zeal + fanaticism skills is also pretty lethal, especially if you're also using life- and mana-stealing equipment. I really hadn't taken the hammer-thing much by the time I confronted Baal, so there was little choice but getting in there in melee while keeping a finger on my rejuvenation potions. I took blows, but with a bit of hit and run, Baal eventually went down...

 

A lot less finesse than the sorceress, though I found dealing with Duriel is quite a pain with the sorceress - I was constantly running for my life! Not to mention the councilmembers... "

Another fascinating thing is killing an enemy, then raising them back to life as a skeleton to do your bidding.  :D  That's probably the coolest aspect of the Necromancer - summoning spells.

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And really useful when you go up against Nilathak (sp?) in the expansion. I really missed the necromancer's ability to do corpse explosions just so he couldn't do it against me when I played something else...

 

Golems are fun to use, too.  As far as the poison and bone category, I'd say one of the most useful is "poison dagger".

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Yeah. Except I always thought the golem should have been more of a sorceress thing...

All this talk about the sorceress. She is good but I like the necromancer. He can summon his own undead army to fight for him.

All this talk about the sorceress. She is good but I like the necromancer. He can summon his own undead army to fight for him.

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Swarming with undead :D

Obviously.

I love Metor. Always have, even before the patches.

Fire/Ice for me, I solo'd a lot, and not just 'boss runs', I needed/wanted 2 elements, even if they were weaker power-wise.

 

Paladin's were great fun, except I could never build one quite right. :D

Sometimes it can get hard finding the right balance of offensive/defensive auras. I'd say "thorns" is among my favorites. :D I usually don't do the holy fire/shock/freeze auras becuase they tend to be pretty useless (at least to me). They also could have made the "blessed hammer" skill a lot more useful. Although I hear with the patch it's a lot better. Anyone here tried it out?

I love just, as a necromancer, pumping my skelly skills up until I've got my own army of badass undead. Love it in the early levels of the OC and even later on, as I can just sit back, watch them annihilate everything within a 100 ft. radius and collect the loot afterwards.

I tried a necro once, I kinda liked the army you can build, though they seemed weak.

 

I've heard they've been improved with patches.

My highest character is a barbarian. Double swing is one of my favorites skills, along with leap attack. Putting points into "axe mastery" helps my character a lot. Whirlwind is fun to watch. I once had this really powerful weapon called the "Shadow Thirst Giant Axe", which was the most powerful I had in my inventory, then I lost it by accident, and haven't found a weapon as powerful since.

Never leave your weapons laying around

Sometimes it can get hard finding the right balance of offensive/defensive auras.  I'd say "thorns" is among my favorites.  :D  I usually don't do the holy fire/shock/freeze auras becuase they tend to be pretty useless (at least to me).  They also could have made the "blessed hammer" skill a lot more useful.  Although I hear with the patch it's a lot better.  Anyone here tried it out?

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The Blessed Hammer became THE skill for Paladin's in 1.10

I tried a necro once, I kinda liked the army you can build, though they seemed weak.

 

I've heard they've been improved with patches.

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I always thought they were pretty able in a fight. If one is destroyed just create another.

Never cared much about playing as a paladin or barbarian. Could be because I'm not into do-gooders and primitives.

Never cared much about playing as a paladin or barbarian. Could be because I'm not into do-gooders and primitives.

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I tried each once (actually I've tried every character just because I hate not knowing how something works in a game)

 

I never took either far, though I have to admit I liked what I was able to do with the barbarian... multihitting each and every attack was awesome :D

 

And with the gear I had, I never ran out of mana so I could do it infinitely.

 

But it got dull...

I played through with each of them at least to nightmare. Only went to hell level with a Paladin though.

 

Mostly played Amazon,Druid and Assasin on Bnet.

Wow, that's dedication

 

I rarely take something past Andariel on the first level if I can't get into it.

Wow, that's dedication

 

I rarely take something past Andariel on the first level if I can't get into it.

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Not all in one go

 

Diablo II used to be my filler game which I played between releases.