So, I’m level 100, all but 2 pieces of my gear are 925. Everything is 2x Tempered, and my 925 Weapon is 8/12 Masterworked. I’m maxxed on Armor and all Resists.
Now, by no means are they great rolls…but like that’s going to happen within the season time without playing insane amounts of time.
But. I’m just trying to complete the Season journey. I can barely live in Pit 40, and the highest Infernal I can do is a 4, and even that’s scary. I tried a 6, which is needed for the final Journey, and I could not make it past the first wave.
Just what level of Masterworking is needed to just clear the base Season? Who’s got time for that? /crylaugh
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Comes down to DR (Damage Reduction), Fortify and Barrier to help out with mitigating the damage once your armor/resists are maxed.
If you’re using Bone Storm, Aspect of the Shielding Storm helps a lot.
Aspect of Hardened Bones is extremely useful if you use pets. 25% DR right there.
Aspect of Might if you use a Basic Skill for any reason helps out a lot.
Necrotic Carapace (passive in the Corpse & Macrabre part of the skill tree) helps with Fortify.
Drain Vitality also helps if you’re using a Blood build.
Death’s Embrace (found in the Curse Skills section of the skill tree) helps to add some DR against close enemies.
Various paragon nodes of course.
Pick your poison and stack up.
My necro is weaker in s5 than it was s4
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Oof, well, I’m using Maxroll’s Minion Necro, have all the aspects, etc. Still can’t survive.
I’m kind of surprised that this season doesnt have any kind of" extra power" mechanism? Like, no construct, no potions, nothing…and it’s even a limited season because of the upcoming xpac.
Not really sure how running this is any different than just running Eternal. But I though Seasonal was supposed to have buffs?
Season 4 had the itemization overhaul, so the ‘gimmick’ was gutted to a reputation grind instead. S5 introduced Infernal Hordes instead, not to mention it’s only a 2 month season. I imagine come S7 at the earliest we’ll see Seasonal Gimmicks again.
Currently right now S5 only offers a little easier leveling (with the use of ashes) and a guaranteed grind for resplendent sparks through the reputation system. As well as free cosmetics through the free battle pass. If none of that interests you though, Eternal would be the way to go until the expansion hits.
Hmm… strange. I can do pit 60 in 3-4 min. I just leveled my gear to 8/12 so I could do the new hordes.
Check out Maxrolls minion build. It’s not a bad guide.
Personally I hope the reputation system never goes away. I love that. Especially now that they made it infinite. I mean that box almost always contains junk but its just that extra thing that makes the game more fun for me.
As for minion necro it sounds like you need DR. If you are capped armor and resist than that is the only thing left. Unless you have low HP pool. Does your gear have health on it?
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Yeah, that’s what I’m using. But do I really need 8/12 on all my gear to do the season? If so, I’m out, that’s just…ooof. That’s A LOT of pits.
That said, how is that going to help on the one-shots? Masterworking is only going to increase minion damage really, that doesn’t help with defense that I have maxxed out.
I’ve got max health on what I can…but I can only re-roll so much without running out of mats.
I think it’ll be a staple moving forward, even more so since they added the infinite grind to it at the end. I just don’t see them removing it, which is a good thing, I also like the rep grinds myself.
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I think so too. I really hope they do.
Infernal hordes gives you much more masterwork mats. You will be 12/12 in no time.
I do like the infinite rep stuff, but Ive yet to get anything useful from it.
If this really comes down to finding the right gear with the right affixes just to complete the season, then…that’s horrible IMO.
I’ve yet to see a single “good/decent” item with the right affixes that I need.
IMO, you should be able to complete the season with sub-optimal affixes, but that doesnt seem the case with this one.
This is the first season that I’m struggling hard to be fair.
No you really don’t. I was running through NM 100’s and T60’s cake. Also crushing Tormented bosses too. I just wanted to do better in the hordes.
Are you using your summon skeleton as that brings up your priests that give a buff. Also consuming a corpse gives a buff. And if you consume 5 it gives another buff. I sometimes like to preload to 4 before a big fight. It will keep it. then when you get in. Tell your golem to atk. It should produce a corpse. Consume it and them hit golem atk and your army. Make sure to always consume if you can as it also gives some much needed resource. And use your curse for DR and it helps with cooldowns too.
I assume thats what Im doing.
I use summon skeletons and my curse basically as they are available. And I use Army and my Golem action as they are up.
The problem isnt with them doing damage, they seem to do it fiarly well…but if I get that ONE mob that looks at me the wrong way and jumps at me, Im literally just dead.
I think part of the problem is that my Essence is draining so fast that I have to “time” my curse. Half the time I can’t use it cause I dont have the Essence cause my minions are draining them. Even using the corpse action cant keep it up so I can use curse 100%.
I’m assuming that your at resist and armor cap?
I otherwise don’t know what else could be going wrong?
Yes, max armor, and all 70 resist.
I wish I could help but I’m all out of ideas.
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You’ll need more DR sources. Maybe try to farm up a Shako or Tyrael’s Might. Tormented Zir is realy generous again this season. In high endgame you need to concentrate more on defenses. Because it doesn’t matter how high your damage is, if you die all the time.
my minion necro is quite tanky. you can get a lot of damage reduction from your paragon board, and fortify also helps a lot.
(i do make sure that i use 1 temper that grants me a high fortify chance when my minions atack as well, just incase im low on corpses)
also, switching the blood golem perk to the “30% dmg you receive gets redirected to your golem” can help in certain scenarios.
if you want to be super tanky: Hardened Bones aspect (25% dr at max level, if you put it in the amulet it should be around 40%), fortify, DR, barrier, gylphs and paragon, Bone Storm (DR + crit chance)