just remove army of the dead, its a horrible ultimate that doesn’t even benefit from minion buffs. Hell it doesnt even have any other affix other than Ultimate. Replace it with animate dead so we can have the monsters of sanctuary fight for us like in D2. It would give more depth to the necro and give the minion build more damage and versatility.
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Currently 86 using aotd with select gear running pure physical minion build. Aotd is awesome. Blighted tendrils + blood orb on corpse skill and blood orbs lower ultimate + decrep aura means its up constantly, almost spammable. My pets never die and with the aspect theyre murdering.
Its not as effecient nor as fast as bone spear, but it works, and works well.
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are you using a golem? I was wanting to use bone storm to get the barrier through shielding storm aspect, but there are TOO FEW BUTTONS available.
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Yes my bar is 1. Skeles 2. Tendril 3. Golem 4. Aotd left: blood builder right. Corpse explode.
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Imagine dropping mist for golem on a necro. It’s an option of course but you’re wide open to chain CCs.
Army is good for two things, high lucky hit chance to procc Mendeln and to keep your minions up against pre 1.1.1 fire enchanted elites.
It’s nice that it summons any minions that are down but it would be great if it also healed those sitting at 10% HP and about to die.
Army of the Dead is fantastic single target DPS and actually makes it to where your minions can’t die when it’s up.
Isn’t it a fixed 90% damage reduction and a roll for attack speed? While that sounds high, during S0 in high NM keys I needed 100% uptime on Unyielding Commander to make them barely survive fire enchanted elites.
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Anyone know if army benefits from thorns?
Can they even be attacked?
Good question, they seem to collide and blow up near stuff., so wonder if its possible.
Oh yeah you’re right I got the two mixed up.
Dont need it, im hardly attacked to be CCed.
Send in iron golem with stun, pets follow. At that point tendrils #1 pops off. Corpse explosion following. Pop aotd, typically the majority of the packs are dead at this point. Grab blood orbs. Minions barely die and if they do, theyre almost instantly resummoned. Average cooldown on aotd is about 10 sec with orbs. 92 now having 0 issues and just got mendln last night, it clears almost as fast as my bone necro does on eternal.
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idk, there are plenty of elites and regular mobs that ignore minions and chase you around
Have you not played in a few days? Blighted Corpse tendrils is bugged currently 
Switched to plagued. Blighted is easier but with org on consume, you already get a ton.
I agree. But chasing you and ccing you are different. Plus if you send in the golem pretty much offscreen, you hardly get full aggro. I mean, it still happens. But its not frequent.
I used to pull ~20 mobs onto elites, cast 3 tendrils and blow them up. It would take a minute or two to procc and consume enough corpses to come close to that amount.
Wukong forgot to mention that he only fights mobs his own lvl. So if you are normal and fighting mobs 10+ lvls, ignore him