The General
by Boogietron

Class: Necromancer
Tag: GEN

Introduction

The General is a variant made for army combat. He sort of transforms D2 from rpg to rts. He uses MAD amount of minions BUT he has restricted use of the better ones. He is the guts and blood of the undead army.

Items

Armor
He must obtain a chaos armor as he is part of the undead army and it is of great honor to wear chaos armor. He may not enter the portal to act 4 on hell difficulty unless he is wearing chaos armor for the undead kings do not want the army of undead seen in hell/hell without a properly honorable general.

Helms
He must also find a bone helm as it is proper attire for any member of the undead army.

Shields
Must get a bone shield as soon as possible. After all, he is the general and what would the army do if he died?

Weapons
He may use wands and any other mace class weapon. If he uses wands he must obtain a grim/grave wand if one is available.

Spells

He may max skeleton mastery.

He may have max raise skeleton. These will make up the foot soldiers of his army. He may have raise skeleton mage but he may not have more than half as many points in skeleton mage as he has in raise skeleton. Say he has slvl 10 raise skeleton he may have slvl 5 skeleton mage. (Note: This is rounded up.)

He may have Revive but it must be not higher slvl than half of skeleton mage. Say you have slvl 6 skeleton mage you may only have slvl 3 revive.

He may have a slvl 5 or less attract but must have at least 1 point in it. He uses attract to signal to his men what he wants them to attack.

He may have 1 point in Amplify Damage, 1 point in Weaken, 1 point in Terror, 1 point in Lower Resists, and 1 point in Confuse. These represent the moral boost the general gives to his men and the chaos that occurs when the opponent sees his army. He may use 1 of theses curses during a battle. He may only switch to a different curse once all the involved enemies have been killed.

He may have up to 5 points in Corpse Explosion or Poison Explosion. These represent the artillery fire and gas warfare.

Ranks

All generals start out as Generals. Plain and simple.

Once you obtain a bone shield, bone helm, and chaos plate you are an Honorable General.

Once you beat Diablo on hell/hell you become a Legendary General.