Necromancer - Runeword Armor?

[reverendphil]

I'm a little ways into nightmare now, and looking at what cool things I can shoot for. Looking at the wiki, Runeword armor kind of.. sucks? I know there's more going to be added, but both sets seem to give bonus' that basically don't matter for a necromancer.. or more to the point give other people powers that necromancers have as a class. Am I missing something I should be going for?

[HouseOfTheRat]

Maybe this is why Necromancer is so popular! As you said there will be more runewords added to the game, including class-specific ones. Nightmare is a little early for rune armor anyway as you are still replacing gear soon somewhat often. The night vision effect is different to heat vision (can't find a screenshot now but it is the typical green night vision).

For now you can runeword a weapon - if you get lucky and find a good exceptional wand and slap a runeword & socket on it you can make a monster weapon that will carry you for many levels. Nightmare is a good point to start farming crystals - a fairly easy way to get rares and increase your chances to get exceptional and unique ones that can be very powerful. Hint: use magic find gear when planting crystal bulbs!

In Nightmare you can also craft up to Uncommon quality armor (up to Rare in Hell and Inferno - Exceptional coming soon) so that is another upgrade to pursue if you like mining or farming a lot of ores. One bonus will always be resistances, if you roll Uncommon it will have an extra bonus. Again use magic find gear to increase your chances at a magic roll.

[reverendphil]

I've got a blue set of blue armor (cobolt) and it looks like there's no new ores in nightmare. I've got orange quality crystals in them, and am starting to plant squares, which I guess is for the next difficulty level. Man, what I really want is a solid cold weapon to take advantage of my cold damage bonus'. I have enough runes that I did one of the upgrades on my current weapon. I think at this point I need to just trudge through the remainder of nightmare, and then take it slow in the next tier. Also, wait for the next batch of runeword recipes to show up. Do they change daily at the vendor also? I only saw 2 of the.. 6? different weapon options.

[HouseOfTheRat]

Yes, vendors refresh every in-game midnight.