Still after the todays buffs to our pets, the petbuild is still not good.
Pet’s switching targets midfight (there is no posibility to force them to attack an target). They hit the Boss or an Elite and in the middle of the fight they run like 50 metres away and attack and non priority target.
The Damage of alle pets are not good scaled. They do way to less damage. Skeletons with special attack don’t do the special attack.
Bosses/Elites and all other enemys ignoring the pets and run always to the player.
Kalan’s Edict is not useable with this mechanics. And even with an shield after getting a Hit we will loose the buff from it. Decrease the time need to not get dmg for the buff or remove the timer and give the buff permanent. (so it feels like an Ultimate ability)
Not playable or not viable up to your standards? I am not that far with my necro so I’m just wondering.
Also, what level is your necro?
I would assume not particularly viable. I made it through the campaign with a pure pet build. Regarding my experiences at level 46 ish, not being able to control the pets is awful. They will just randomly attack things, and ignore targets like treasure goblins sometimes which is unfortunate to say the least. Also, there are a few barriers you have to break and pets don’t attack them, resulting in a very long smack against a wall as most of my build’s damage was in pets.
I have noticed that some mobs have AIs that simply ignore pets and will run straight at you regardless. It is odd, and the AI seems to heavily determine the difficulty of some fights. I have had bosses that would happily wack away at the pets, making the fight trivial, and some that would never stop chasing me.
Necro is Level 64. And there is no good dmg output from the minions. Have a full build for minion dmg and atkspeed etc. even with near 7k atkpower, ant 35% crit chance. This stats will be go up more and more for sure but all minions are still stup*d and change targets midfight without a chance to force their target.
Gotcha, yea I’m nowhere near that level, low level they seem to be just fine. If you have correct legendary items, gems, etc, you would think it would be viable, but I guess more balancing should be happening.
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Just got my necro to lvl 57, and It’s by far the worst class I ever play. Pets are weak, don’t hit hard, and the worst thing is that u have 0 control.
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agreed minions feel like an afterthought
developed bone blood shadow oh wait necro have minion too ok throw these in
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I’ve been minion built since Beta and I had zero issues at all. In fact I want to up the difficulty level as my minions slay through everything like hot knife through butter, the only time I struggle is when my pets die from 1v1 fights and I cannot heal them, other than that I love the minion build