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The Golem Necromancer

by aaronfezdeat

		How to Make a Golem Necromancer Made by:Aaron Nicoll (aaronfezdeat	
 Table of Contents:
1:The Necromancer
2:Training
3:Stat Raising
4:Skill Raising

Legend:
1:Chp.-Chapter
2:Esc-Escape
3:eg.-excetera

			Chapter 1:The Necromancer

	The Necromancer is a unique character that raises the dead to fight for him or creatures from the earth (eg.The Clay Golem). He (the Necromancer) can also curse his enimies to make fighting more to his advantage, and to weaken them.He can also use Bone Spells (look under Chapter 4:Skill Raising) to raise hs defense or aid him with "bone spells"(hence again look under Chapter 4:Skill Raising). The Necromancer can have an advantage over his adversarys because he can use long range spells to attack his enemies (eg.Teeth, look under Ch.4:Skill Raising), and summon the dead or earthly creatures to fight for him to stay out of harm's way well pumelling his enimies with long range spells. There are two kinds of Necromancers, the Skeleton Necromancer, who can summon up to twenty skeletons to create a mini army, and the Golem Necromancer. I will be focusing on the Golem Necromancer. A Golem Necromancer is a Necromancer who instead of summoning skeletons to do his bidding, summons a Golem who is more powerful. Let us begin with the guide.(Note; In this guide I  will also be helping with the quests, sometimes in heavy-detail, or sometimes in light-detail). There are Necromancers who are well-balanced, into curses or maybe even Bone Spells, but this is your necromancer, and you may customize him in any way. This is only a guideline, keep that in mind.

 			Chapter 2:Quests/Training

	When training your necromancer, I advise you to be patinet, as you will not level up every two minutes. What I advise you to do is this;
	When you first start training, stick to the Blood Moor untill you are level three. Then go to the Den of Evil and complete that quest and at the same time grow 1 level. If you don't want to beat the Den of Evil and want to continue to train there for a couple more levels, what you do is this. When you have killed every monster there except for one (you will know you have done this as when you have seen all the monsters, your Quest Log button will appear on the left-hand side of the screen, and when you open it it will say there are how many mobsters are left, as long as you have that quest selected). So when it says there is one monster left you press the Esc button, and then press Save and Exit. Then "log" in again with the same cahracter. Go back to the Den of Evil and you will find that there are new monsters everywhere again. You can do this as many times as you want. Return to town and speak to Akara for your reward (which is a skill point, and at this point i advise you to put it into your Bone Armour). Moving on, then proced to the cold plains, and just ignore Flavie as all she does is tell you that extreme danger lurks ahead. The first thing you do is find the waypoint so everytime you go there, it will be easier. Then travel around for a bit and kill all the monsters you see. It is a good idea to stay here and train on or two levels so you can be prepared to fight the Blood Raven and her minions. Then move on to the Burial Grounds. At this time you should be around levels five to six. The wand you have should give you a skeleton, so use him, as he will be to your advantage. When facing the Blood Raven, ignore all here minions, and head straight for her. Only attack her as that alone will be a difficult task. You should keep Health potions in slots one to three on your belt, and Mana potions on slot four as you will be needing them to regenerate your skeleton. Before you face the Blood Raven, prepare a Town Portal, as you won't have time to later and could mean your only way of escaping death. Well facing the Blood Raven, keep your fingers over hotkeys one to four for your belt, as you will be needing potins to live. After you beat the Blood Raven, don't expect to grow a lvl as you were just trying to survive. If you do want to level up after beating the Blood Raven,. train in the Cold Plains until you are about to level up, and then face her. When you kill the Blood Raven, a mass of swirling "lights" will appear and spin everywhere killing her minions. When that stops, collect all the dropped items and head to town using the Town Portal you created earlier. Head to Kasyha and she will give you a mercanarie. A mercanarie is a hired soldier/bowman/bowwoman that follows you around and either attacks your enimies in hand-to-hand combat or from a distance with bows or magic. I advise outfitting your mercanarie as that will make thier attack and damage rating go up as well as thier defence. You can only outfit you mercanarie with armour, helms and certain weapons depending on the type of mercanarie. It is a wise idea to outfit your mercanaries with etheral items as thet have added features and defense, and durability never goes down on a mercanarie. Then go talk to Akara and she will gie you the quest, The Carin Stones. Around this time you should be around levels six to eight. In this quest you have to travel to the Dark Wood and find the Tree of Inifuss, which will give you a Bark Scroll. You have to travel first to the cold plains, and then go through the Underground Passageway. When you get to the end of the passageway, you will be in the Dark Wood. You must search the dark Wood for the Tree of Inifuss (which is usually located near the bottom the Dark Wood. When you have destroyed all the monsters and gained the scroll, make a town portal, and go back to the Rouge Encampment. Go and talk to Akara and she will tell you that something like you have to find the Carin Stones in the Stony Field, and activate the portal to Tristram after you have killed Rakanishu and his minions. Then touch the stones in the order the scroll tells you to, and this will activate the portal to Tristram. Go through the portal and you will be in the upper right hand corner of Tristram. Head to the centre of Tristram and kill any opposing monsters. When you reach the ruins you will usually either find Skeleton Archers or Fallen. Go to the centre of the ruiins and either kill the Champion Skeleton Archers or Champion Fallen Shamans and thier Fallen minions. Then move on and kill the rest of the monsters you see before facing Griswold. At this time ignore Deckard Cain's crys for help, and kill Griswold. When facing Griswold it is advised to attack him a long range as he is cursed, but attack him in hand-to-hand comat with you and your mercanarie. When you kill Griswold, go to the bottom and start walking left. Kill all the enimies in you way until you reach Wirt's Body. Click on it and a Wirt's Leg will come out along with piles of money. Pick up the Wirt's Leg and the money, and create a Town Portal. Go to Akara and buy one Identify Scroll for every unidentified item. Sell all the items except for the valuable ones (priced at about one thousand gold or over) because these will be worth more later on in the game. Take all the equipment better than you own and equip it. Sell all the old stuff. Then go to Misc at the top and buy a Town Portal Tome. At this time don't buy any items as at this time you only need gold to repair items and buy scrolls. Then head back to Tristram through the Town Portal you created and free Dekard Cain. A Town Portal will appear and Cain will go through it. Create another Town Portal and head back to the Rouge Encampment. Go talk to Akara and she will tell you we need to seek council with Cain. You get a ring as a prize or something random. Then go talk to Cain, and he will say he will identify items for you for free as you rescued him. Then go to you private stash and store the Wirt's Leg, all your gold, any valuable items, charms you can't use yet and gems. Then log out and back in and keep going back to Tristram and killing everything. Keep doing this until you are level thirteen to eighteen. The higher the better. At this time I will stop giving advice on quests and tell you where to train and until what levels. After you beat the First Act, do Tomb runs until you are level twenty to twenty one. Then go and do the Ancients level for another level. When you get there, do Baal runs until you are level forty. Then in your Horadric Cube, transmute the Wirt's Leg with a Town Portal Tome, which will create a portal to the cow level. Train on nightmare cows until you are level fifty to sixty. DO NOT KILL THE KING MOO COW or you will not be able to return. Then do Nightmare Baal runs until you are level seventy to seventy five. Then in Hell Mode, start cowing again until you are level eighty. Then do Hell Baal runs until you are level ninety. If you want a complete customized guide, wait until the revised edition comes out this December 30, 2006. 

		
 				Chapter 3:Stat Raising	

	Until you are level five, raise all your stats up to twenty five.When you reach level six, start raising up dexterity, strength and vitality. Each level alternate and give each five Skill Points at a time. This will make your Attack Rating, Attack Damage, Stamina and Life go up. When your Attack Rating and Damage reach in the 200-600 range, stop giving points to strength and dexterity. From now on give your points to vitality to raise your Life and Stamina.

				Chapter 4:Skill Raising

	This chapter introduces a gives you guidelines to make a Golem Necromancer. What you do is until level six, put all your skill points into the Bone Armour. When you reach level six, put your points into the Clay Golem until you reach level 12.Then put six points into Golem Mastery and alternate putting points into Clay Golem and Golem Mastery until you reach level twenty four. Igmore the Blood Golem as to me it is a weakness and not an essential. Only put one point into Blood Golem as you will need to do so to make the Iron Golem. Onlt put a max of ten points into Clay Golem, and max out Golem Mastery. Save the rest of your points until you are level twenty four, and then procced to max put Iron Golem. Ignore the Fire Golem. When you have maxed out Iron Golem, proced to put the rest of your points into revive. Remember, this is a guideline and you may customize your Necromancer in any way. This is the way i did it, and it works for me. But if you fancy other skills, then go ahead, it's your character. 


This is the end of the first guide. I will be making guides on other Necromancers, and complete the quest section on this one. Have fun playing Diablo 2, and remember, this is only a guideline, and you may customize your necromancer in any way.