Well just have to see how much the paragon board, gear with +%minion hp, and legendary aspects matter.
Thereās a legendary aspect that is minions have 20% damage reduction. And thereās multiple things on the paragon board that give minion damage reduction too. And we get skill points to buff damage reduction, and increase priests heal. I think it will be alright.
Necro feels so much better now. Did a quick test with some of the enemies on the overworld, and I wasnāt watching skeletons die as soon as they were spawned. They can actually contribute now.
They arenāt back to the CBT levels of survivability, which is fine, but at least theyāre viable now. Looks like Iām back to starting with a necro on official launch.
I didnāt play necro in the last betas, so I have no frame of reference. I rolled one before this change, and I didnāt think it was awful.
Minions took a lot of maintenance, but I think I would have gotten bored if it was as OP as people showed it being before. This isnāt supposed to be Path of Exile, after all.
This is nice, most other complaints where just a bunch of crybabies QQing about FOMO or the lack of time and skill.
Good job on the quick response Blizz! Fixing it during the beta shows you guys do care if it comes to legitimate complaints!
To provied feedbacks on skeleton minions survivability after this hotfix? Yeah, i know, this is insane.
Which is why my post is mostly about the future. In an ideal world imo they wouldnt make huge changes that piss people off in the first place. If any, it would be nice to see small to moderate changes.
I know that wont happen though tbh which I find extremely frustrating. Ill be actively trying to find ways to avoid the stress and axiety that comes from worrying about nerfs by trying to play builds that I donāt think are likely to be hit. Im on the spectrum so people really have no idea how frustrating it can be for me to have changes like this forced on me.
That is the only changes they know how to make sadly. 20 years of blizzard gaming, if anything else, they are consistent with the crazy changes rather than incremental changes.
this was my plan with decrep
They did not say what buffs they getting but yes they needed it cause they were dieing to normal mobs and that was rudiculas. In fact this shows they caved into the whiners and did balance from level 25 and that is why i am canceling my preorder.
Any company that balances off at level 25 when there is no reason to twink out till max level shows they have not learned from wow and all their other games.
They dont deserve my money
iām sure they just nerfed some aspect or paragon later on like with druid pets after they got their ābuffā. so cave for leveling purposes but endwise remains same
edit: darn deleted last post cause I thought it wasnāt a reply on accident 
No it was way OP. It was a joke.
Sorry, how do you know you have been hotfix. My Necro sux very bad now, I just started 30mins ago.
I am feeling like refunding the game. Blizz Destroyed my favorite class. All dead one hit by the first demon boss.
My question is how much of a buff? Are we back to how they were last beta? 10% more than they are pre buff? numbers would be nice.
I mean post after post had nothing but people agreeing that the summons survivability was absolute trash. I canāt believe they even deployed necros at start of slam like that. How anyone thought the extreme nerf was balanced was beyond me.
Always nerf with a delicate touch, then adjust where needed. Having to reset the dial every balancing patch is quite ineffective.
They need to be buffed even more. What about them in higher world teirs, as of now they will be useless.
Can confirm. T3 after the capstone, worthless.
25 days late 
Iām not having any problems. Did find a legendary that increased my minion count by 3 though 
What level and tier are you at?
They donāt need a buff they just need a buff 
Did this happen on regular servers yet? I literally havenāt been playing because how terrible it is