Necromancer Summoner works

Necromancer
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Here’s my most recent T20 dung run as P64-65, right before I go to WT4. (Audio bricked, so put something epic in the background)

Few points:

  • I am P64-65, T20 gives mobs of WT4 aka minimum 73 level.
  • Haven’t changed my gear since I reached 55, so most of it is capped at that level.
  • This is my purely DPS build, but you could go survival with the bone storm and the barrier lego if you have troubles staying alive.
  • This is hardly my most epic and best run (considering that I even wipe once), nor it is some form of a “flex” - just a showcase that it works and quite nicely.

Yes, there are problems with the summoner and most importantly with the AI’s behaviour. Yes, leveling as one was a legit pain and I wanted to jump out of the window until I reached at least 25.

But it works and it’s fun.

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I dont think anyone was really doubting necro summons for trash clearing. The issue people were having were for boss fights where there were limited corpse availability.

Looks good though.

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Except there are half a dozen ways to get corpses if you need them. Even on bosses. There’s literally a talent that gives you a lucky hit chance for corpses.

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Minions don’t die on bosses because bosses doesn’t do enough attacks to out damage the heal.

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Reapers with a 15% chance to spawn a corpse upon hit fix that issue instantly, especially if you buff yourself with attack speed.

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The latest patch massivly improved minion viability.

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It works for me too.

It all depends on the gear that I get. I played Solo as in all solo.

But I dont think beginner’s could handle high difficulty Necro though. They thought the pets would kill everything while they watch TV. ROFL. It’s not like that.

My first try on WT2 Lilith…

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blighted corpse explosion minion build is nasty once u can deal with the constant black out LOL

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you also have 6 of both types of minion which most players won’t get till much later in the game.

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Yeah. They posted earlier that they have a fix for it that will be implement later this month with a larger patch. I look forward to going back to it but for now for the sake of my buddies I have swapped builds haha.

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I can’t pinpoint exactly when that happened, but it was somewhat in the middle of the msq, hardly “much later”, requiring only 2 legendaries.

I’d also argue that this isn’t a showcase of summoner leveling build either way nor that their quantity matters much in the early game.

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@AggroNova-1339 what build did you go?
I too switched cause it prevents my wife and I from seeing what is on the screen but…I feel weird without minions and bonespear just doesn’t feel satisfying enough, we’re level 30 tho so I’m sure the build is no where near optimal.

They need to fix the blackout sooner than later on a major patch…right now it sucks for anyone cooping or partying with a Blighted CE Necro.

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Do you have a link to this build?

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You have a similar build it looks like to what I’m running (lvl 55 atm) but I don’t use an Ult and instead use blighted CE and the shadow passive keystone skill. One CE seems to do as much as an Ulti but doesn’t have a CD and actually more as it ramps shadow damage stacks.

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I, too, enjoy waiting for a class I pick to be viable after level 50 and I’m done with the campaign. It is the best part of this game.

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My only question with this is how do i use blight properly? You and i have the same skill set up (even placements its kinda freaky) but im curious if im using it effectively. Im sure our passives may be different however.

Ive just been spamming it on large elites or bosses.

Its good to see the idea of what i want to do is effective.

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boss kills 3 at a time and by time u resummon em and make corpses 4 have died.

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Summoner so far has been working great up to level 58 so far. There are a few notable things but the class / spec is far from unplayable as the these forums make it out to be. The minion AI and things like an Elite with Fire Enchant ( which in dungeons wipes your minions pretty much all once ), but Im sure these will be hammered out by the developers

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its 12% chance on lucky hit to spawn a corpse.

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Yeah bosses are not the issue. The issue is large elite packs. Also AOE destroys minions.

Actually minions are fantastic against bosses from my experience. They do a lot of damage to bosses.