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my character is 90ish in Resist, Necro, SS, Eval, and Magery. It has focus and med at 100. 70s all resists and 100% lrc with +20 INT.
I can't seem to get this character going. The best I can do is put out 2 EV's, animate a few corpses, and just stay alive while my pets do everything. This is fairly effective, I don't run out of mana and can take down just about anything that doesn't auto dispel. But it doesn't feel at all like I'm getting the most out of this template.
I have a mage wep on and jewelry to boost my magery back up to 95, but I fizzle 90% of the time unless protection is on. So I end up running protection, wraith form, and just withering medium level spawns with my pets out. This is very good against medium level stuff, but I can't see myself doing anything more difficult than that. Painted caves is the hardest spawn I can camp.
When I try to solo something like a dragon that auto dispels, so it's all up to me to do damage, I use corpse skin, strangle, and spam poison strike/flamestrike while healing up. The damage is incredibly slow and requires a lot of running away to heal/cure poison. It takes so long like this that I find myself going back to camp medium spawns with EV's and getting no gains.
So I'm in a position where either I'm in town equpping a mage wep-29 skill and FC/FR 2/6 and spamming reveal on the ground, or I'm throwing out EV's with a 40% success chance and just standing there to loot weak enemies.
Is there something I can add to make this character more effective? Or a better playstyle I should adapt?
Poison skill? a weapon skill? anatomy/eval combo so I can equip a spellbook? a whole other discipline of casting?
I have only 300k gold to play with, but I'm willing to resell items from the shop to get more gold for gear if that's what it takes.
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TLDR; I want to be able to solo difficult monsters as a necro mage. What does it take to get this template to be at it's peak for PVM?