You are lvl 62. I am not sure, but is WT4 not lvl 70+ or so…
I already killed Ashava WT4 brother.
Doesn’t mean minions aren’t useless still.
I just have a good bone spear weapon.
Ok, but I guess that when it comes to minions and their scaling the monster lvl is a thing. I will try the capstone dungeon when I am around that lvl.
Yes it feels like they get crushing blowed to death. Good ol punishers and ice clan maulers.
Thats just regular mobs too, wait for champs XD
I will test it when I am at the right lvl.
And yjust to confirm, the monsters are lvl 70 in the WT4 capstone dungeon
It’s 70 or 73+
I do hope minions survive at level or it would be absolutely trash design.
I get it with us being under leveled, but its funny when I was seeing level 50~ barbs in WT4 just yeeting into a pack no f’s given.
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All that broken stuff like barb will get nerfed or maybe it is nerfed already.
Well I would of seen the barb last night. That was after the patch.
And I’m more for just making the less viable builds more viable… You end up slightly nurfing other builds by bringing up lower ones.
But when its to op, I def agree with the nurf.
Well, it’s only a problem a small minority of the people playing the class are having, so maybe it’s not a class problem?
Those “level 50 barbs” were recently nerfed. Also, how do you know what gear they have? Maybe they ran some dungeons for the perfect affixes for their spec, something a large majority of people don’t do or want to do.
Looks like we cant read what I said in that sentence. “last night”
Sorry Its my other post XD
Still doesn’t change the fact that some are OP as hell they can go to WT4 so early. Then if you go with a necro. You’re lucky to get there before 60. I’m 62 atm AND the ONLY reason I can kill anything is because I rolled a 2600~ dps scythe.
I just understand how hyperbolic and anecdotal internet people are. Nothing is as they say it was because they have 1% of the information they need to come to a propper conclusion.
Necromancer right now looks like an “incomplete” class:
1. No movement spell
Why? It is currently not a “Broken” class so there is no explanation for this choice.
Maybe Blizzard is “scared” about this class, I really don’t understand.
2. It is not possible to set a “pet mode” (Passive/Aggressive).
Why? A “summoner” class like this works at 30%.
3. It is not possible to choose their target or their position.
Same as point 2.
4. pets are too squishy because we have no control over them
Same as point 2.
During the Beta I wrote immediately to Raxxanterax and Wudijo (obviously other players will have done it too) to tell Blizzard to do something, especially for point 2.
Nothing has been done sadly.
I hope Blizzard does something BEFORE the new Season, because right now this class is like “any” caster class but not a real SUMMONER class.
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not sure, I play summoner build with reap and atleast still it is decent, yeah the skellies dies, but i almost alway shave so many bodies up, i can just spam click them up in seconds again, and continue.
bosses might not die like super fast, but most of the time, i feel there is no true danger, unless I am silly and stand in bad stuff that can one shot me.
this is on nightmare diffculty, though i cleared the game on tier 1 whit no true problems at all, and if i died it was always due to me not looking where I was standing, not a single time due to skellies dying
It’s super slow to get started, but once you get some proper gearing going, it’s not so bad.
Of course, I have about +30% minion life from gear bonuses, but they’re pretty beefy on my minion/corpse explosion build at around 52. The trick is to keep Skeletal Priest up as much as possible, and get the skill that prevents minions from being one-shot.
Of course, there’s nothing stopping bosses from just ignoring all the minions and one-shotting ME.
I finished campaign with minion/blood (skels + blood golem + decrepify + blood wvave + decompose + blood surge with the double nova leg and using ratha’s vigor for insta clear on almost any pack) build and i absolutely obliterated every boss without dying (andy was the hardest and i almost died). I’m lvl 48 rn finishing some renown and leveling before going world tier 3 and i’m hoping it to get way harder cause tier 2 as minion/blood was way too easy.
You must not have run into butcher. 
I ran into the butcher multiple times (T2) in the early levels, like six times, once in a basement, not even a real dungeon. I think he was stalking me.
I took to just standing still and letting him kill me, it was faster than trying to run. Minions are useless against him.
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oh yes I did run in to the butcher twice, died both times, but I dont count butcher at all, becuse he is just horrible hehe.
and most classes cant handle him, unless realy good play and luck to be honest.
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Yup. Necro minions are trash.
I dont know why blizzard thinks ineffective minions are fun. But theyre dead wrong.
Watch a sorc explode a room in 1 second. Then come in with your skellies and struggle to kill white mobs.
Complete garbage.
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Ye just did a trio WT4 Hellgate. Spent most my time summoning minions. Thank god I’m a 5 sac then bone spear build. Or I’d do 0 damage.
Those 2 were Sorc’s, they just yolo’d.