Right Blizzard please for the love of god make a better minion builds for tier 4 as no matter what I do in my skill tree, gear etc I can’t for the life of me make my minions strong compared to my friends who are the same level as me but using different classes who are destroying level 80s when they are only 74. I do recommend reducing rouge power as they are just to powerful and by the time I get into battle the character destroys them all.
I had a blast in tier 3 and I did struggle with them during the start which was expected but I’m now 73 I think in tier 4 and they are now just so weak. I follow builds online for minions but nothing is working and people have been complaining about the minions in tier 4. The game is supposed to be fun but it’s now becoming terrible as I’m and my minions are dying every 5 seconds and doing little damage compared to tier 3.
Lastly add a button so you can get your minions to focus on one target as it’s so frustrating when your minions split up to kill the little targets when you can easily take them out and don’t actually focus on the target itself. As well as this add a screen number to let me know how many minions are alive and on the battlefield so I don’t have to constantly press the revive button in fear one has died.
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Yes, currently the viable builds for necromancers are a “dark” mage. Bones or blood and no minions. The diablo iv necromancer has this problem…
The class name just doesn’t make much sense. The minion build should at least be among the most powerful and not be the last.
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My lvl 70 minion build has very little issue with pets dying, and can handle lvl 75+ mobs without issue.
Invest heavily in paragon board, and glyphs… deadraiser glyph and cult leader boards specifically.
Bone storm and sever are my best friends also.
I run 4 reapers, 5 cold mages, and iron golem(vuln), combined with my aspects and cdr, my bone storm is up 2/3 of the time(working on improving that time)
Look at your build. Beef up minion defense and health.
At 73 my only issue is me dying, which im correcting by sacrificing dmg for defense. My minions tend to outlive me, i rarely worry.
I’m sure im playing my necro wrong, i have like 188% skeleton warrior dmg increase and 113% mage increase. My golem one shots most trash mobs my level. But i also have like 27 levels to go. Gear to collect and paragon stuff to add.
Reassess your skill tree. When i stopped looking up builds online and went in and redid everything i saw stuff i just wasnt using. Things made no sense until i redid the skills.
Paragon boards are the same. The online stuff is still too new. Theres a lot of junk and bad explanations. Icy veins has the right idea for which summoner build paragonboards to use, buuuut i sorta changed my pathing and which glyphs i socket. Ive also spent a lot of time leveling the glyphs i do use.
I dont think my build is weak at all, in fact i see what i do during events like legion and world bosses. But i know i dont kill as rapidly as others. I know im squishier than others. And that gets me.
I have a lvl 100 necro and have tried making minions a primary focus for my dps, however they just cannot keep up with other specs of necros or other classes of the same level. IMO minions are broken as a viable end game build, they require way too much paragon and gear investment for little return on value. Only specs viable for necro at end game are blood/bone builds.
Increase minion life on gear that allows it.
Take all points to buff minions in skill tree.
Focus on Paragon boards that buff minions.
Minions scale from your stats, so the more armour, thorns, life etc you have, the stronger your minions will be.
Jumping up into T4 requires decent gear, as ancestral gear drops, you’ll find it easier. Upgrade gear a few times and take note of armour scaling brackets I.E. 625 and 725.
Most classes go slightly slower as they jump into T4, so don’t worry, just do some easier content until you get a few better drops from mobs. I’d advise overworld quests or maybe lower Sigils where you dictate the difficulty.
Hope this helps.
P4wneyhof is one of the best YouTubers I’ve seen. He’s not a meta sheep and concentrates on having fun above all else. He offers sound advice and mains a Minion Necro. 
If you have Ring of Medeln you can sort of get minnions to work… but even with that ring its more like have a little minnions with your normal build.
There just bad over all no matter the point investment. This is partly to do with the necro paragon board being bugged. Necro rare nodes that increase minnion damage are only giving 30% of its shown effect. Example +10% minnion damage is only giving 3%. This is hurting minnions greatly.
So why yes you can use them it will take longer and be more difficult then running a bone build.
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Cheers everyone for the feedback I think I’m just going to wait for season 1 as it’s taking so much enjoyment out of the game. I will definitely return to the necromancer in the future when an update is done to them hopefully but I find that the minion build is just so difficult now and not rewarding or enjoyable. I used a fantastic build from tier 2 and 3 and found it so much fun but 4 I just can’t get the upgrades I need no matter how many nightmare dungeons I do. The rewards are always for other builds and I would change but boy it costs so much coins.