Talk:The Swarm/@comment-89.184.152.106-20160121074939

Made a Swarm Monk. Fast, high health, ignores armor and high resistance and armor(at level 43, it has 35 Dex and over 600 health). Attacks about twice per second(much faster in campaign due to bonuses), and that is including the proc-items(usually lowers attackspeed). Chance for self heal, lifeward, Chaos Plague while attacking, and wields the Sword of Sir Aranok(+25 slashing, +15% crit chance).

Allows him to quickly capture mines(high dex), run over to nearby enemies(high dex) and destroy weak defended bases before they can react. All while your main base is being developed and building up a powerful force of Scarabs and Scorpions(scorpions are quite fast and great for weakening enemies by poisoning them).

Basically, I have no difficulties with the early game(hero + retinue of Scorpion Priests to summon high level fire elementals enmasse), deathballing middle game(huge scarab/scorpion army) and mobbing up in the end game(expendable fire elementals + nearly invincible hero, + remains of the deathball).