Necromancer Minions Reworked and Balanced

Necromancer
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Paragon

  • Infused Warrior: “Bonus” Your maximum number of Skeletal Warriors is increased by 3 if requirements are met.

  • Infused Caster: “Bonus” Your maximum number of Skeletal Mages is increased by 3 if requirements are met.

Skills

  • Skeletal Warrior Mastery: Increase the damage and Life of your Skeletal Warriors by 20/40/60/80/100%[x].

  • Enhanced Skeletal Warrior: When you Critically Strike, your Skeletal Warriors gain 10%[+] Attack Speed for 3 seconds.

  • Dominating Skeletal Warrior: Skeletal Warriors deal 25%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.

  • Spiked Skeletal Warrior: Skeletal Warriors gain 2%[x] Thorns for each 10% x bonus Maximum Minion Life you have.

  • Skeletal Mage Mastery: Increase the damage and Life of your Skeletal Mages by 20/40/60/80/100%[x].

  • Enhanced Skeletal Mage: Skeletal Mages projectiles pierce, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies after the first.

  • Dominating Skeletal Mage: Skeletal Mages deal 10%[x] increased damage to enemies who are Slowed or Chilled, and 10%[x] increased damage to enemies who are Stunned or Frozen. These bonuses stack.

  • Spiked Skeletal Mage: Your Skeletal Mages deal an additional 5%[x] thorns damage with their normal attack.

  • Golem Mastery: Increase the damage and Life of your Golem by 20/40/60/80/100%[x].

  • Enhanced Golem: Your Golem has a 10% chance to reduce its active Cooldown by 2 seconds and a 5% chance to spawn a Corpse each time it damages an enemy with its normal attack.

  • Dominating Golem: Your Golem gains 25%[x] increased damage to crowd controlled enemies.

  • Spiked Golem: Your Golem gains 2%[x] Thorns for each 10% x bonus Maximum Minion Life you have.

  • Spiked Armor: Fixed from being a static 2388 at level 100 to actually scale at 10/20/30% x [Weapon Damage].

  • Bonded in Essence: Every 8 Seconds, your Skeletal Priest’s Healing will Heal your Skeletons for an additional 25/50/75% of their Maximum Life.

  • Memento Mori: While you have no Skeletal Warriors and no Skeletal Mages your Sacrifice bonuses are increased by 20/40/60%.

  • Kalan’s Edict: Minions Inherit an additional 25% of the Necromancer’s stats and multipliers. While you have at least 7 Minions, this bonus is doubled.

Book of the Dead

  • Skirmishers: Now gain 15%[x] damage instead of dealing the same amount as Defenders and Reapers. Bug Fix

  • Reapers: Chance to spawn a corpse is fixed in the open world to be the same as on the target dummy. Bug Fix

  • Shadow Mages: Now activate and show Shadowblight stacks from normal attacks the same as on target dummy. Bug Fix

  • Sacrifice bonuses are applied as passive effects at all times and may be chosen separate of your minion selection.

Aspects

  • Aspect of Occult Dominion: Removed from the game.

  • Blood Getter’s Aspect: Removed from the game.

  • Hulking Aspect: Removed from the game.

  • Unyielding Commander’s Aspect: While Army of the Dead is active and for 10-20 seconds after, your Minions gain 70-100%[+] Attack Speed, take 90% Reduced Damage, and gain Unstoppable.

  • Aspect of Reanimation: Minions deal up to 2-5%[x] increased damage for each active Minion

  • Aspect of Frenzied Dead: Each time one of your Summoning Minions damages an enemy, they gain 3-9%[+] Attack Speed and 3-9%[x] Damage for 5 seconds, up to 15-45%.

  • Aspect of Hardened Bones: You Minions gain 1-2% increased Damage Reduction for each active Minion.

  • Needleflare Aspect: Now works on minions.

Affixes

  • Razor Army’s: Removed from the game. "Minions Inherit +[x%] of Your Thorns.

  • Undeath: +1-2 Ranks of All Summoning Skills.

  • Warrior: +1-3 Ranks to Skeletal Warrior Mastery. “Boot”

  • Mage: +1-3 Ranks to Skeletal Mage Mastery. “Boot”

  • Golem: +1-3 Ranks to Golem Mastery. “Glove”

Items

  • Ring of Mendeln: Your Minions have a [2-5]% chance to empower their next attack, dealing [x] additional damage.

    • Thorns

    • Minion Attack Speed

    • Maximum Minion Life

    • Summoning Skill Damage

  • Deathspeaker’s Pendant: Skeletal Priest now lasts indefinitely and increases your Minions damage by an additional 70%[x].

    • +2 Ranks to Undeath

    • Minion Attack Speed

    • Maximum Minion Life

    • Summoning Skill Damage

Quality of Life

  • Disobedience now triggers on minion damage.

  • Minions Inherit 50% of all of the Necromancer’s stats and multipliers.

  • Minions can apply lucky hit chance once every 5 seconds from normal attacks.

  • Harlequin Crest now increases summoning skill ranks.

  • Minions and Players now build threat against monsters based on the amount of damage they have dealt.

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About 90% of that will never be implemented the the 10% will be implemented but bugged :smile:

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German feedback:
Wo ich dir absolut recht geben muss ist das die minions absolut nutzlos sind. Diese müssen einfach mehr Leben erhalten und beim boss müssen sie einen prozentzualen max dmg vom boss erhalten z.b. pro Attack maximal 3 bis 4% schaden vom Boss. Sonst wird es nie einen guten minions-build geben. Weiter dürfen die minions von den Feuerbällen der Helltide ebefnalls maximal 5% schaden verlieren. Das ein Feuerball mehrere Skelette killt ist ungerecht gegenüber andern Spielern, die dieses problem nicht haben. Es ist wikrlich sehr schade das es keinen funktionirenden Minions-build für den Necro gibt. Dafür fehlt es an schadensreduktion maximalem Leben und Aspekten für die Minions. Leider macht das die Klasse somit ziehmlich kaputt. Blizzard nehmt euch ein Herz und schenkt den Minions mehr aufmerksamkeit!

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The only problem I see with this suggestion is I would get absolutely no DIY done around the house, and my wife would leave me.

I would like to see them add some new minion aspects that change spell function. Just a random idea for an example:

  • Cannibalize

“corpse explosion no longer does damage, instead your minions gain x% increased damage for 7 seconds stacking up too 10. Miasma now heals your minions.”

to explain - corpse explosion still consumes a corpse, but does no damage, instead each time you use it, you stack a buff on your minions that scales their damage. In addition minions standing inside the miasma are healed for a set amount. no idea how lucky hit would work though lol.

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  • Blighted imbuement

“Blight now empowers your minions attacks for 7 seconds dealing damage over time”

the explain - blight would no longer be cast, instead you would essentially buff your minions with each cast causing them to have a heavy DoT damage on top of their melee attack. This DoT damage would scaled based on minion modifiers, all the passive blight effects would still function as they do with the normal spell 15%[x] would still be applied etc. Also this damage would proc lucky hit.

I see these suggestions as a way to keep an active playstyle, keep lucky hit functioning as it does now, but allow players to really pursue the minion playstyle.

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Revisiting this post after revealing everyone is getting a pet / golem that is exactly what necro has always wanted is a slap in the face.

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“Don’t worry, the construct will scale with all of your stats.”
left me speechless.

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i laughed when i found out it inherits 100% of the player stats…

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Well not minion specific stats like max health, attack speed, and inherit thorns, or their multipliers lol.

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As a Necromancer, the master of bending subjects to your will… your construct will have even more power…
This power will be realised by it gain absolutely none of your minion attack speed, minion damage modifiers and in addition your hundreds of paragon points spent empowering your army will have zero benefit to your construct insuring it hits for staggeringly low amounts.

well sign me up!

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Ahahaha, yes. Instead of it being The Season of Minion Mastery, dedicated summoner builds will scale the worst.

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And when everyone is a summoner… NOBODY WILL BE!