Suggested Necromancer Changes (All Builds)

[Skulm-21836]

Thank you for your remarks.

@Darber-11129

I seriously doubt that the d2r devs are going to create, or vastly modify any skills(referring to attract being worked into warp), I’d love to be wrong, but i don’t see it happening.

Frankly I also think it’s probably not happening, but we have a great necro community and I wanted to at least highlight the problems so maybe sometime in the future this post can be used somehow. Back in 2001 we also would not predict that there will be a D2R in 2023 so I personally prefer to keep my hopes up and remain positive.

@Darber-11129

Archers could be fun, but mastery should give them a chance of deadly strike.

Deadly strike does sound solid. Yes I think this can work.

@Darber-11129

I would also love to see skeleton warriors with a chance of CB. would have to be a very low chance. maybe .1% per point of mastery? at level 40 would be 4%, which may even be too high.

Yes CB on skeleton warrirors should not be super high, but it should be visible. Considering CB gets reduced effect on higher player count (especially P8) this would be a fair buff anyway.

@Darber-11129

Revives… I agree they should probably be permanent, but their numbers would have to be gated. nobody likes managing 25+ revives, not to mention the AI freaks out and the block each other. maybe 6 -10 max revives(scale similar but less than raise skele)

I personally feel like the sweet spot can be around 20-25 revives. If they become permanent, we can see Summon Necromancers diversifying their army and customize it even further. This would create a whole new point of discussion in the Necromancer community; ie. “What is the most optimal army formation?” Would love to see it.

@Darber-11129

Fire - My thoughts, is that he should enhance the damage of your minions, either through enchant, or provide his own might aura. this would give you more choices for your mercenary, me and Haseen have been bros a long time, but sometimes i would like to see other options usable.

I am more and more convinced the Fire Golem should be a Dragon Paladin but it can benefit from enemy negative fire resistance gear. They fixed Assassin traps and traps can now gain benefit from enemy -resistance gear. If we make fire golem benefit from enemy -fire resistance gear, we can see a fire focused necromancer with flame rift + fire skeletal archers + fire golem + lower resist + flickering flame runeword and maybe even phoenix runeword (if you are fast enough you can still corpse explode before redemption consumes a corpse). Liked your idea too.

@Darber-11129

For poison dagger i can offer this suggestion… its duration is entirely too long, it needs to be compressed, and similar to smite…it should never miss.

I like the idea that it should never miss. The main problem is the poison damage itself. Right now, poison damage is interrupted if any other source of damage is applied. This is the main reason why poison nova necro cannot kill bosses efficiently because the army intervenes and flat out cancels the poison nova damage even with physical damage. IF they fix how poison damage works then most of the problems will be automatically fixed.

[Darber-11129]

Thanks for the repsonse!

I didn’t know poison damage was that way, that fix needs to happen asap.

I’ve played summoner necro since before LOD came out. always been my favorite, and i just got an enigma put together for my first time since 1.10 - the difference it makes is night and day difference.

i always put dim vision in my builds, i consider it a highly un-utilized skill. i enjoy being able to turn mobs “off”. i also recall it disabling special attacks, but that no longer seems to be the case.

I really just want to see necro be viable for p8 content, like some of the other classes. and i am hoping that is the developers goals, it sucks we have to wait, but if they are working towards getting EVERY class, viable on p8, then i’m happy to help where i can.