Wow thanx! That was just the info i was looking for...

I currently have an army of 6 skeletons and im only on level 19 lol, granted i do have an item giving me +2 to raise skeletons. I havent focused that much on skeleton mastery i have about 3 points in that.

I spent one point on my clay golem...he helped me most of the first act but became too weak now. I leveld one into blood golem now though. Is a blood golem worth investing points in :?

With regards to spells, i leveld corpe explosiong and terror and weaken. I was using mostly corpse explosion (does insane amount of damage with large groups of mobs!) So true what you say about running out of bodies to use for raise skelleton

Its fun though to spam corpse explosiong while  constantly replenishing my mana XD (given the abundance of potions this doesnt seem to be an issue)

I have also been leveling my stats very randomly...i figured two points for vitality, 2 points for magic, and 1 on str...

Edit: I gave you wrong info! Im level 18 - I have 12 points on raise skeletons! lol - 1 on skeleton mastery - 1 on clay golem - 1 golem mastery - 1 blood golem - 1 amp damage - 1 corpse explosiong - 1 teeth. My weapons gives me 2 points to raise skelly -  2 points to corpse explosion - 2 bone armour - and 3 to weaken.

I think i got carried away with the idea of having an army of skeletons

Well, Blood Golem doesn't usually get stronger than Clay Golem, their damage usually stay amongst the same level, though I prefer the Clay one because of his natural ability of slowing down enemies which when combined with Decrepify and some frost mages or the act I Cold Arrow mercenary, you can effectively slow down an enemy's movement to -90% (which is amazing for end act bosses, I can get Nightmare Baal to get an attack frame once every 2 seconds, when he usually has an attack frame of 2 attacks per second).

As for stats, I never put any points into Energy, it's mostly a waste of points since you'll get enough Mana from gear later on (this is a rule I follow for every character, including sorcerers). My stats distribution went: 10 vitality -> 10 Strength until I hit 156 in Strength (which is the Strength requirement to equip a Monarch shield which will have the Spirit runeword) and then went 10 vitality -> 10 dexterity (so I could increase the Chance to Block).

How much damage do your skeletons put out? To give you a comparison point, at level 18 I had 6 points of Raise Skeleton and 13 on Skeleton Mastery (10 + 3 from a Rare Zombie Head), and each of my 4 skeletons were dealing 28 - 30 damage.

Classes - Wizard

Description (borrowed from Blizzard again)

Wizards are renegade spellcasters who use their bodies as vessels for arcane energy, forsaking the more careful path favored by other magic users. They manipulate all manner of forces to disintegrate, burn, and freeze their foes, and they can control time and light to teleport, create powerful illusions, and deflect oncoming attacks.

Wizards grip wands and staves to focus their less potent magics, blasting at their enemies while gathering the energy or time necessary to destroy them in a dazzling hail of arcane might.

With few exceptions, wizard attacks are conducted at a distance, away from danger. As living artillery, wizards are well suited to relying on long-range destructive power.

Skills

Contrary to what you'd expect Wizards don't use Mana but Arcane Power to cast their spells. Also unlike most classes they don't have any skills that generate their ressource but all their primary skills (or signature spells if you prefer) are free to cast which is pretty damn good if you ask me!

A lot of the skills will sound familiar to any Diablo II player such as Frost Nova, Meteor, Blizzard and Teleport but the Wizard is also equipped with intriguing new spells like Slow Time which creates a bubble where enemies and their projectiles are slowed down or Archon which gives you power overwhelming!

TruckOSaurus Hype Meter

5/5 - When I get the game I think I'm gonna split my time between leveling a Demon Hunter and a Wizard because I don't think I'll have the patience to wait until I finish to main quest to try this class out!

Sample skills video

Man, the Wizard's Slow Time bubble is amazing and has the potential to be a real life saver. It does seem to play out straight like the Sorcs on DII, so I might try it as well.

Edit - In DII related stuff, got my hands on a Shako, Two Stones of Jordan and one Mara's Kaleidoscope while going through Hell. Now my Summoner Skills tree has a +12 modifier and I have full resists even on Hell

That's insane! I've always had problems with resistance in Hell difficulty, I'm usually in the negatives.

I've got a couple of Um runes that I attached to my Skin of the Vipermagi (which has a natural 27 all resist base) and Harlequin Crest. Each Um adds 25 to all resists, couple that with the 30 resist from the Mara Kaleidoscope, 45 resist from my rare mummified trophy (38 from two Perfect Diamonds and 7 all resist base) puts it already at over 175 to all resists, annuling the -100 to all resist penalty in Hell.

Man, constant Hell Baal farming is getting boring fast, and i'm still very far away from getting the Uniques and sets I wanted for my other characters :-/

If only the SP had a flowing economy as the Ladder ones... The quantity of HRs I have is ridiculous >_

How do you trade items between single player characters?

On that subject, I think they patched out the way I used to trade item between characters on Battle.net. I used to open a game with my farming character, go kill stuff for 5 minutes, drop the stuff I wanted my other character to pick up , leave the game, rejoin the game with my other character and pick up the stuff but now when I do this my second character gets the message "This game doesn't exist" but if I go back to my first character I can rejoin the game.

It's due to a mod I have, PlugY. It creates a shared stash between characters so you can trade between all available SP characters.  Plus, it also enable Ladder only events, like the Ubers and the Pandemonium event, and allows you to use ladder only items and runewords. 

Odd, I haven't had that issue myself, though I only tried that once with 1.13c. Can't you try that with 2 Diablos running at the same time on your PC?