The barb doesn’t have to charge into a dungeon using only harsh language to defeat enemies until he loots a weapon. The sorc doesn’t have to start without mana until they kill a few monsters with a wand. The rogue doesn’t have to find ammo before they can shoot anything after dying. Why for the live of all that is holy do necromancers have to kill a 12+ mobs to get their minions back after they die, or be forced to choose army of the dead as their ultimate skill?
If a skill is required for us, then I guess the other classes should have to go into battle naked unless they get a stupid skill as well.
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++++ to this… minion Necro power should be in his minion… when I wipe on some strong elite it’s really cool to go back to him a try to generate some corpse to summ minion and running around… what a stupid… in D3 your summons was summoned every 6 sec automatically if I am not wrong so after wipe you just waiting army back. Here you are running like chicken around a trying to steal some corpse coz you are useless… and your minions to.
I was pushed to invest 3 points in army and after wipe switch it to res all, even if I don’t want that army of the dead skill ala ghost chickens running around.
Interesting is that if you wipe on boss and when you again enter his room, your summons are resummoned automatically.
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If you run blood mist take ghastly. 24 seconds or less to get some corpses out isnt terrible unless you cant afford the skill points.
Yeah that’s another option. It’s just sad that minion necromancers need to spend points to be able to not go into battle naked. No other class has to do that.
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I am a 71 yr old lady. Not pro player. I want my minions permanently and not take up 2 skill slots.
Not fair to have to fight for survival without them.
I have Iron maiden, Decompose with decrepify and blood mist. Lvl 65. Stats are below 4,000. Worked on upping gear with gems and codex but stuck in a rut
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This needs to happen. So tired of being forced to try to find some trash to kill in order to get up and running again. As mentioned above, why is necro the only class that can’t come back from death fully functional? Not to mention having to waste 2 of the oh-so-precious skill slots on skellies and golem. Why the hell does Blizzard insist on dumbing these games down so much? FFS
I suppose this request. It’s not fair our minions are not spawned with us upon revival. Please give us that quality of life change.
Come back in a year when season 5 drops. Might have enough minion fixes by then. It’s a shatshow right now.
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I was trying to make the decompose + blight + curse route work with minions. It just doesn’t. If you want minions, you have to do a minion “lite” build instead. Here is what I ended up taking instead since I didn’t want bone spear
1- Corpse Tendrils
2- Corpse Explosion
3- Summon Skel
4- Army of the Dead
LB- Decryp
RB- Bone Prison.
Sac the Blood Golem for extra life.
My rotation is to lead with left click and right click. Bone prison with the vulnerable enhancement will always make a corpse appear with hewn flesh passive when it is casted so you can always use corpse tendrils to pull everything around what you imprisoned into the prison as well.
After pulling everything into the prison with tendrils I just spam 2 for corpse explosion until stuff is dead. Occasionally hitting 3 and 4 if needed. I can get my minions back fast with 4 after death if I need to. I removed basic and core skills from my ability bar. Damage should basically be coming from blighted corpse explosion.
Agreed, but in the interim just respec for army of the dead and spawn them back- then drop army of the dead- it’s what I do.
But that’s exactly what barbs have to do? we have 0 resource generation without shouts. we have to use 3 of our skill slots to scream at stuff to start doing work or use basic skills for 5 minutes (slightly exaggerated but I still accurate and in high tier NMD we’re not using basic attacks at all really).
I have both a necro and a barb at 100. there definitely needs to be work on both classes but this back and forth between all classes highlighting a single aspect of each saying the Whole class is OP is incorrect. Necro’s should be able to cast raise skeleton for a small amount essence only using a corpse should make the cost free. i’d also like to see Orders being added for necros so instead of having to rely on bone spear or some other skill you can direct your minions to do unique attacks or tactics to make them more reliable.
Apparently in D2 you had to resummon your whole army as well. If that’s the case I’m fine with it. Reason being is that your corpse generation should be on point and from there you can gradually get your entire army back in the middle of the fight.
I agree. At least make it so the base number of minions spawns, and then you have to spawn any additional ones from +gear you may have.
Yes please.
Feels like one wipe in a dungeon can be all I get if it happens at the wrong time.
Thank you this is so asinine, like the moment you go to a hell tide can try m on ve always getting stunned or not being able to move or summon to be killed repeated and not benefit at all goem. The helltides!!
Minions should never die and should never need to be raised, period. That’s my current stance.