I keep seeing claims that there are amazing minion builds working at WT4 at level 100 relevant content and I need to l2p and I’m brain addled.
Where are these builds?
And no I’m not asking for “suboptimal infinimist” or “suboptimal corpse explosion” I’m talking about an actual minion build not infinimist with corpse tendrils removed for minions that just downs the infinimist build
Thus far when I’ve asked these extremely wrinkly brained individuals that so quickly tell me I am brain addled not one has provided an actual build lol…
I’m pretty sure every Necro has to have some active abilities on their bar mainly because there are only three actual skill buttons for minions. You have Raise Skeleton, Golem, and Army of the Dead. That still leaves three skill buttons. Makes sense to me that even a ‘summoner’ Necro is going to put some more active skills on their bar somewhere. Otherwise what’re you gonna do, spam curses and priests nonstop? Summoners don’t even have a minion-related essence spender.
Blight is closest we have tbh and then decompse as the primary.
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Sounds like you’re looking for a build where the minions do all of the damage am I correct? I don’t think there’s enough items/paragon/etc. in the game currently to support a purely minion based build like that. You’ll always have to have something that deals the core amount of your damage, at least from what I’ve seen of minion builds.
I mean technically you don’t have to take an ability that will deal most of your damage, but at that point you’d be spending 10 minutes on bosses just resummoning minions as they died. Sounds like more trouble then it’s worth.
Necro has been a letdown for me. I was used to D3 necro smashing it up with uber mages and it seems all the best necro builds just get rid of minions.
You can try with pure minion, but I think you want the unique Ring of Mendeln in order to do it. Trying to do that at lower levels, where all you are doing is keeping them alive and debuffing with curses, is going to be quite challenging I think.
Pure summoner won’t work unless our minions have someway to proc lucky hit. All of the minion based vampire powers and Mendeln’s ring (which is supposed to be our minion Unique) require lucky hit procs to function.
I pushed to Tier 40 just with minions and no damage essence spender. My skills were Blood mist, Decrepify, Bone storm, Corpse Tendrils, Raise Skele and Golem.
Most of my damage came from bone mage with the blizzard aspect.
I got Mendeln’s ring and thought it was going to be the start of my death march across Sanctuary.
Until I found out that minions have no way of procing Mendeln’s passive.
During a bone storm rotation I couldn’t even tell if the ring was procing because it has no animation.
I looked for a way to proc it and decided on bone spear.
An unoptimized bone spear was doing more damage than my minions and without a way to tell if Mendeln’s was procing I couldn’t tell if it was bone spear or Mendeln carrying my damage.
Then I got a Lidless Wall and switched to bone spear.
You’re only allowed to play builds that the devs want you to play. If they don’t add aspects to enable a build, it won’t exist.
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The only way to proc that ring I knew of in the past was the thing that made bone prison make a blight pool or something. Minion support for necro is not great.