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>
> I think that 8 to 12 is worse than 7th to 8th. You are basically
> relegated to killing only undead monsters. All of your other offensive
> spells are 1st and 4th level spells (Vampiric Embrace either doesn't work
or
> just plain sucks) thus most monsters you would face to gain experience in
> the 8-12 range will shrug all of those off. If we didn't get Ward Undead
at
> 8th I would say Necromancers would be totally screwed. But we do have it,
> and it works wonders once you get it up to a decent level. I just don't
> like the fact that you HAVE to hunt Undead from 8th to 12th.
I'm actually progressing at a rather good clip at 10th level fighting giant
scarabs and tarantulas in north ro, basically hit them with a clinging
darkness to draw them in, order the pet to attack, hit with poison bolt,
disease cloud then siphon strength. At that point your pet is probably
around 1/2 to 3/4, move in and melee with the creature as long as you can,
lifespike if necessary. I'll consistantly kill the insectoid nuisance with
about 1/2 mana to spare, usually med to 3/4 before I go looking for another
just in case they resist one of the first 4 spells. at 8th/9th level I was
taking down scarabs that /con'd red, I have trouble with the yellows now
because of decreased pet strength in relation to my level...the real trick
is to make sure your pet is a badass, there is one level pet out of the 4 or
so you can summon with bone walk that will bash/parry as well as attack,
this little guy is a machine. I call him the porta-tank. :) If you get
tired of these guys you can usually take down a white/yellow dervish
cutthroat, and the occasional shriveled mummy.
(this is all solo btw, if you add just one other person you can be a north
ro wrecking crew and take on darn near anything but the ghouls, sand giants
and dervish thugs)
-Mark