So I leveled 2 necromancers to test different builds and also get different gear (rumored aspect and unique drop for other specs).
My first was a infinimist CE and I kept getting minion/blood items, so I made a second nec to purely use as much minion as I can. What I have currently now at 75 is a really fun minion build, BUT it requires 3 uniques and I believe all 3 are rare sadly 
. However, I got 2 of them farming on my mist/CE nec.
Ring of Mendelle
Deathspeaker’s Pendant
Razorplate
Now i’m walking around with max minion and bone golem, 15k+ thorns, aoe Blood Surge, and bone prison to proc mendelle 100% on boss/elites.
Should definitely give this a go if any of you have the 3 items. You can also do it without the razorplate, but that just makes it more fun. I’ve been able to clear 40+ so far no problem at 75, so will try to see how far I can push as I get closer to 100.
Ring of mendeln with thorns sounds interesting but you should probably drop the deathspeaker’s pendant. Blood is not very good and uses a lot of essence.
Usually in this game you want to focus on 1 type of damage and boost it as much as possible. You have 3 different types of damage going on that don’t work well with each other.
Mendeln wants a lot of crit and crit damage but overpower can’t crit. Also blood skills and talents don’t boost thorns really.
Your build will probably work in open world just fine but won’t work in higher tier content most likely.
Definitely post a video once you have it working though as it is unique.
So the goal of using pendant and blood is not for the damage, but for the fortify + survival + mendellin proc. Doing decent damage on surge is a plus, but not a necessity.
The pendant causes blood surge to be casted on all your minions, so if they are scattered (usually always) with single mobs etc, the pendant surge echo might proc mendellin and kill all those scatter mobs without you having to chase.
Plus going blood makes you so tanky and you improve your minion survivability, so they can proc more mendellin.
I’m still testing the build to see what else I can improve. Added a 4th unique (Mother embrace) to help with +Lucky chance and essence on surge.
Blood surge has a 12% proc chance it’s not going to be proccing anything.
You have to waste points in blood surge to get no damage from the ability. You are better off just stacking stats to make mendeln stronger.
Since Mendeln wants crit it doesn’t work with blood skills because you want overpower for them and overpower can’t crit.
Be sure and post your spec clearing decently high dungeons (+15 your level) if you think it can work. Until then it is not a proven build and based on how skills work is not likely to function like you want.
I tried deathspeakers pendant and it can do pretty good overpower damage, especially if you use the overpower board and glyph. The downside is that just getting it to overpower uses all the essence so I cant focus on cursing or I have to actively farm essence because bloodmist is down, it just doesn’t feel good to play. So far the best combo is to use the bonespear vuln aspect and stack vuln on your rings, but it still kills soooooo slow compared to other builds.
So far I can clear +15 lvl NM dungeon at 77 without much issue with this build. It’s quite fun to play as I just let thorn and minion do most of the dmg without my minion falling over.
You definitely do not spam blood surge as it’s only just to proc for all your minion. Even if the lucky % is low, it’s still aoe and will proc your ring.
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I guess as long as you are having fun it doesn’t matter how under performing it is.