alright, i was reading AlmostDeadly's guide and i got a crazy idea and wanted to run it past you guys. The idea is a melee necromancer. Have the bone armor stats and the synergies maxed, iron Maiden, amplify damage, Life Tap, Decriptify, and Dim vision maxed out (or whatever you want maxed out) ; raise strength, dex if you want max block, and vitality. the equipment could be additions like Bramble and other ideas that add bonuses to life, strength, FHR, and whatever else you need. Well, that was pretty much the idea I had, and it may be unorigional but I wanted to have a feedback on it.

I had a meleemancer a long, long time ago. Basically, it's quite a fun build, the idea is that you use weapons like Beast and have a nice army of Revives / Skeletons, with all your aura gear boosting them and you melee'ing in there as well (otherwise it's just not viable, your damage sucks). However, from any PvP or serious PvM aspect, this build sucks majorly.

The idea is that you max out Poison Dagger. This is due to a bug, because even though you won't be using Daggers, having the skill active under your left click will still grant you the AR bonus, albeit you won't get the dmg bonus (you'll be lacking AR a lot).

Well anyway, I wouldn't really recommend this build, but if you're interested, let me know and I'll see if I can advise you a little.

well, I thought it would be fairly cool, having a meleemancer and all. Having the skeletons would also help out a lot. along with a Clay or Fire golem, throw in resists and thorns aura and the build might be a decent PvMP (melee player). Against spellcasters though the build would have to either have teleport from the egnima (spelling?) or else it would have itself ripped a new one. It would be a build I'd like to work on, but am undecided on. My computer BTW is also crashing a lot on my connection, so Bnet wont run for long. We could create a guide and see wether or not someone else would be willing to try it out.