Darkness Summoner on Ancestral Dungeon

Necromancer
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I recently switched to Darkness or Blight Summoner. Please be easy on me. I just reset/replaced my Paragon Boards, Eliminated Bone Spear abilities and legendaries, replaced Glyphs.

I reset my Bone Spear Summoner. My Bone Spear Summoner was able to reach Torment difficulty and able to sustain on its World PvE. It was able to beat Sacred T20 Dungeons consistently. However, it’s inconsistent on Ancestral Tier Dungeons due to poor DPS performance. My previous Summoner could handle easy affixes but fail on certain affixes like against Cold/Freeze Elites. It cant even kill The Butcher when it pops out on Sacred T20 Dungeons… I able to kill him once but after losing to him 6 times.

What’s wrong? I have all the basic pieces of the Summoner but I dont have the Ring of Mendeln which would help me on DPS. I may not able to get that Unique Ring becoz I would be stucked at lower Tier Dungeons.

So I reviewed everything and I found a breakthrough. Why am I using a Cult Leader Board very early. My Summoner is not struggling to survive on Torment World. When I played Summoner, what key do I spam? Why am I not using a Legendary Power that buffs me when I spam that key? That’s when I discovered Flesh Eater. It gave me way better Minion DPS although I would need more.

Bone Spear is great but I want my minions to be buffed on DPS when I throw Bone Spear. It doesnt, although Bone Spear is the best for spreading Vulnerable to Targets. Later, I also tried Corpse Explosion. I discovered that it does decent DPS and at the same time regain Essences. And it also helps with the Flesh Eater Legendary Node. Then a little later, I found Blighted Corpse Explosion that transforms into Shadow/Darkness Skill which is good for Shadow Blight Passive. I found Shadowblight passive better than Kalan’s Edict becoz I dont have the Ring of Mendeln. And I found a Legendary power that Buffs Shadowblights. I realized that I have a Unique 2H weapon that chills targets from Darkness Skill.

So I have to get rid of Bone Spear to accommodate Darkness skills: Blighted Corpse Explosion and Supernatural Blight (this buffs minions) using Bloodless Scream Unique 2H weapon that buffs Darkness damage. It makes sense. While mobs are busy with my minions, when they stepped on Miasma from Blighted Corpse Explosion plus Supernatural Blight, they are melting.

So it became a build… I call it Darkness Summoner build… I would use this until Ring of Mendeln. Or maybe maintain it.

This is Ancestral T24 showcasing the Darkness Summoner in action. I reset my Paragon Board and redo my glyphs to support this build. I am still missing some main key Legendary Aspects from Darkness skill. That Legendary power is so rare. Maybe I had it then and discarded it. I was stupid. Anyway, I rebuilt everything. Back now, on regrowing the right glyphs. I am having fun BTW.

And if you ask, if I am not going to use minions as Necromancer, I should have played a Sorcerer instead. I am not saying the Summoner is the best build in there but it is viable on Torment at higher Tier. I wanna see how it would go. At least I know Minions and Bone Spear cant mixed together. But Blight/Darkness does. I will see. It all depends on the items I get. So far, this seems the best from the gear that I have.

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At 76, I was able to complete 45+ NM with mob level around 101 in about 20-30 minutes as a complete Minion Carry. I attempted a 52NM at 74, but the Taunt issue killed me a lot to loose that Key to test further, but I was able to down Elites thanks to the Ring Procs and Invulnerable. What I noticed through some swapping is that the Unique ring is the Hard carry of the build, not the amount of investments in gear, Paragon, and skill points, though some of the stats like Dmg close, Vuln Dmg, etc. contributes to the Minions. So, I was able to add certain things to factor that in. Without the ring, my Minions hit like noodle, which is really sad. Also, lets not forget the bugs that play into long runs like Golem Taunt not working 50% of the time, Mobs passing by Minions one shotting me, Random AoE I don’t see 1 shot, Fire AoE that destroys Golems/Warriors, Bubble Elites with AoE Affix makes it hard to run into since half of your Dmg (Mages) are outside hitting the bubble, so your more then likely to either die, or run into the bubble to do some core Dmg with melee, until it teleports around like a wild beast; I had to switch to Warrior Glyph for the increase Dmg to compensate and it was still worthless. And other problems along the way.

The Dmg is there if you have the Ring and other stats, but without it becomes hard. Its sad because I would love to see the amount of things I put building Minion work without the support of the Ring.

I probably will switch to Shadow once I get the pieces and when I hit 100. Right now, I’m riding this dreadful build out.