hmmm im running decompose … blight…corpse explosion…corpse tendrill…army of dead… On WT1 i run skellies on WT2 i run defenders (WHICH R TANKY AF) … no legendaries as yet cept the bubble, i just dropped incease skelatl mages amount…
what i dont remember is getttin the abities of the mages in the betas, i.e if i use cold mages i can freese them enemies after 3/4 attackes, my attacks (blight) shadow mages immobalise done see anything happen with bone LOl, was that a thing i really dont remember that happening
with defenders up they can keep the boss on them, even on WT2, shadow mages will drop me a corspse to ensure i have a defender up at all times.
After doing beta with this same build i feel off when i tryout sever build without the minions. I never liked d3 blood nova build, i tried it here on D4 its awesome yes and am sure even better when u have minions doing the nova as well but ion wana be fighting close range.
lookin forward to bone build without minions, just need to get unused to 1 man band gamestyle once i have all the currect cards.
Is there no build for golem or we gonna have to wait for some Golem is OP now Season
This has been my experience as well. THe first time this happened was with the Nyrelle’s mother boss fight. By Stage 3 all my minions wiped and that was it. Had to spec out of minions to complete it. I was level 12 or so.
lol, apparently every class is broken, same post in all class threads… which means no class is broken?! I run everything with blood, self healing is insane. I’m basically immortal. Plus shadow corpse explosion and no minions.
Game was super easy on Veteran mode with Necromancer. Made it to the end of the campaign with one death. Only used shadow mage skellies but no issue with them. Absolutely shocked people are having any issues. Assumed there would be lots of complaints the campaign was too easy. Necro is super strong.
Hmmm, I’m not having any issues with minion build. I’m using blight and decompose, I also talented into hewed flesh. I use reapers, shadow mages and bone golem, playing on WT2. Died once from being stupid in act 2. Besides that it’s been easy going. I’ve been in WT2 since the start.
I also use corpse explosion. Got all passive nodes that buff minions. Level 34 so far.
Me, I am having fun. This is my fun Pet build for now (based on the gear I get). I am playing a lot of builds to satisfy each decent gear I get. So far so good.
i dont understand how blizzard ruin such a iconic class. Everyone who says there is nothing wrong with the minions is either Troll or playing WT 1. The Necro was a fan favorite in D2 and D3 and we get this shell of a class for D4.
It is significantly worse than beta builds. Hopefully it will get some love or it will just get abandoned in WT3+. Its fine for WT1 and 2 and most people wont get past there for awhile. Most posting that it is strong haven’t reached the levels where it falls off yet.
There are minion builds doing just fine well into WT3 and WT4. Not saying they don’t need tweaking as balance across the whole game will need some work.
However, if you really cannot make minions work it’s probably more a you problem unless you are well into Ndungeon territory.
I played world tier one through the story etc.
Smashed everything didnt go below 50% health.
at 44 with garbage gear and maybe 2 legendaries that actually helped I cleared the capstone dungeon with no deaths. Minions barely died.
Ive been clearing tier 7 nightmare dungeons with 3 friends with no issues at level 53.
My damage is a bit lower than theirs but my minions are not dying.
I can clear world tier 3 dungeons solo with zero issues. The build im using is described by kripparian on youtube.
Do please, provide a video of you facerolling mobs with your minions. Pleeeeaase provide a video, because I’m playing minions, full legendary equipment, good stats and I’m not facerolling anything. It’s slow, it’s ugh… boring, but they do get the job done.
I was running 7 Reapers (Would be 8 as skirmishers) and 5 Mages along with the Iron Golem. I just respec’ed last night to try bone spear because of how bad using the miasma from corpse explosion is in group play and dodging effects. Going to look to see if I can make a bone minion build that will work well tomorrow when I’m off work.
I was running full shadow damage minions. 13 total minions counting iron golem. Between the slam miasma and the damage they do with the Army of the dead lego I melted bosses up to tier 10 nightmare solo in W3. The only downside was miasma is so dark seeing ground effects is impossible. The only thing minions need right now is either to focus the target of our basic attacks or let casting raise skeleton on a living enemy make them focus. The AI running off to attack random stuff when you’re trying to crush a dangerous elite is stupid.
I am currently using the Pet build too but I never have Skellies handle Bosses. They handle all the adds while me and the Golem choose which Bosses would die first. My 5 Mages can chill targets (frozen), while me and the Stun golem worked on Critical Targets… We want to kill first those who could fast kill my small minions. Get rid of them while the Boss is on me… then go back to the Boss. The adds usually got cleaved from Bone Storm or from my Golem stuns. Both me and the Golem has Bone Storm when I Bone Storm. The adds would be busy being Frozen unless it’s immune. ROFL.
or we gonna have to wait for some Golem is OP now Season
