There was nothing special about my poison necro. I switched over to full trang set, after I finally found the damn shield,per advice on this forum. I switched to an a2 merc and geared him out, again per advice on this forum (tyrael's with 4x diamonds), ethereal unique ghost glave, unique ward with absorb gems, blood rings, gloves, and I forget the other parts... mostly all leech/tank items.
After charms, equipment, etc., my necro had about 6k life I believe. Around 50 base str. Ptouch was doing over 170k.
Equip was full trang, mara's (I think), elemental rings both with 10% poison (1 had + 1 necro skills- hawt), perfect 20% elemental boots, and perfect dweb.
Trang shield had 1 skull putting me at 49% dr, and I believe another random absorb, helm had pfacets, armor had rubies.
I used plugy, so I admittedly adjusted my skills over time to what I considered the best single player setup. (again, first time going all the way through with one char)
A lot of people say use max gmastery / max clay and 1 point blades, always curse swap etc.
I never usually bothered with clay, because it locks out blades....a major no-no to me. I USUALLY curse swapped, however that 2 second window can get you killed on some bosses .... samheim, barbarian, etc. For a number of the LoS bosses, I found that suicide was the best strategy...spam some blades...curse swap, ptouch, and run ...stay the hell away. I actually only managed to kill the druid and assassin from residual poison after I already died. The druid could have been done without dying, but the assassin was 1-shotting my character everytime, even with blades up. I just got lucky on one attempt.
Also, hell ancients is a massive challenge. They will destroy any summons you put out faster than you can keep them up. Ptouch will get you insta killed for the most part. The only method I found that worked was spamming bone walls and iron maiden.\ (they will actually destroy themselves rather quickly like this because of their insanely high damage)
All of this said, I am by no means an expert at this game. There are so many hidden and convoluted mechanics. I would definitely read the forum, listen to the experts, use plugy to adjust your first char as you go along.
Happy hunting.
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