no-pet cold necro possible?

[anathema]

So i wanted to try a no-pet glass cannon cold necro build, using chill of the grave, frozen ground, shatter, uttercold, and frostdusk, for damage.
The question is, can a strong frozen spear rune reliably handle mid-range situations where chill of the grave would be too dangerous to use, or is the cooldown too problematic?

I suppose in other words, if i want to reliably kill everything in as few turns as possible, am i better off going full darkness? I've already tried that, and it was my best char yet, but the frostdusk + uttercold combo intrigued me, as well as chill of the grave having same base damage as rigor mortis, but much larger area.

[sofocles]

I have tried this before, unfortunatly i dont see the damage from cold rising high enough.. the problem is there isnt a single target high damage spell for cold, and well, bosses have way too many hitpoints..

Everytime ive tried a no pet necro eventually i ended doing shadow damage because you can get 2 direct damage (beam) spells that have higher endgame damage.

Would love to see this as viable build.

[sehnsucht]

I think it is possible, the damage is fine. However, why don't you just try an ice archmage instead?

Just for the 10% cold damage from frostdusk? Well, I'll consider playing one if it provides another 50% cold penetration.

[HousePet]

Minor thread necro.

Cryonecromancer is cool. *is struck by lightning for bad pun*

I recomend grabbing Impending Doom to cover the minor shortfalls of the cold damage options.
Necromancer is tougher than Archmage, so killing bosses a little slower isn't that big an issue.
Good cold based equipment is a bit lacking though.

[sehnsucht]

Good cold based equipment is a bit lacking though.

This is true, but ice magic seems to have a higher base damage.
When exploring the vor armory, the orc cyromancer's shatter spell can hit you for 600, while pyromancer's flame hits only 200-300. However, my cold resistance is higher.
That's why I'm always trying to max cold resistance.

[HousePet]

Shatter is a conditional, that technically takes two turns to use though.
So its two turns and two resistance checks, first stun/freeze then cold.

[Sradac]

It's 100% possible, this is how I unlocked Cryo achievement. Chill of the tomb can do some insane damage, and put Displacement Shield at 5/5 and you wont have to worry about hitting yourself anymore with it. Went from 400k to 1mil Cold damage before level 35 on that necro and it was a jolly good time.

Also, use your clone but just be careful with his ass. He dosent care about friendly fire. Friendly fire chill of the tomb is whatever because you have displacement shield, but friendly fire frozen ground is annoying as hell especially when he decides to shatter you right after.

But 2 chill of the tombs and 2 of the cold fire going off all the time? Hell yeah.

[Sradac]

http://te4.org/characters/50/tome/85db1 ... 25900d6212

Here you go!! For some reason its actually not showing Cryomancy on this character?

The account info used to list WHO you unlocked things as, now it just lists what unlocks I have. Is there any way I cant track down which char I actually got an unlock with?

Also...

Look at that sexy, sexy robe on this guy
This was the Old Black Robe that was sooooooooooooo good.

You should probably look at this guys Spellpower too