I came up with my own summoner build and it is working very well. I’m on Torment (WT4) doing Nightmare 30+, and I’m only level 73.
I can literally afk 30s
You will be tanky enough for NM, but the speed will be slow compared to a bone spear.
Still sucks after new patch. So sad.
Was a live hot fix, and highly doubt they are planning to even touch minions.
Exactly you use minions that is why I was interested in your build. Players saying minions are bad are just plain wrong. The game is clearly designed to have a core skill along with minions. Even Poe it’s a struggle now to be pure minions but it’s possible because of convoke. I like having minions out for the fantasy. Necro with some minions is very good but nowhere close to a pure bonespear build atm.
Yes I can only do 9ms with a perfect set up where as a plain old bone necro just tosses them out constantly. I seen a 6m but with a 60% distant reduction. So more like 12m.
I need buffs from consume and tendis stun+decrep set up. Also Corpse eater paragon. But I find it more fun even though its a pain the moment you get a fire mob or anything of the sort.
Its just 10x worse as my build even with me spamming heals they get murdered.
Or shielded mobs, those are really not fun unless you get the Tendis set up perfect. But you generally get cc’d or blocked trying to get into the shield in my cases. Then wait for a shield fire guy… Oh boyyyy.
Yeah, nah lol, dont backtrack now my guy.
Also, get a life dude, youre on these forums WAY too much
Backtrack what? How would you know with being here for a day?
My bone spear seems to be just straight up going through some mobs now though. Doing 0 damage.
Ye this fallen is legit god tier because my minions do 0 damage XD
Idk what caused it but 2 fallen were randomly bugged out and my bone spear couldn’t hit them so I used bone storm. But my minions could and he would go for me.
And trust me, I could be here a lot more if I wanted to. Also be on more posts.
omg these patch notes 
I hope there is some love for summons in tomorrows patch.
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I personally was trying decrep for the curse targetting and it wasn’t working for me personally.
Skeles feel more aggressive though and not just standing doing nothing.
Oh really? okay ill take a look
Might work better with other curses, but I had a mob solo and a few mobs north of me. Only 2 skeles went to the solo cursed mob.
Rest were fighting the group to the north of me.
Yeah I think you might be right they do engage better than before
Feels like they just YEEEET into fights compared to before XD That’s the best way I can describe it.
At least when I use decrep it feels that way.
Well at least they gave us one thing we needed.
Yea its a nice change, can’t say no to more aggressive skeles.
I personally don’t care toooo much about selecting targets really other then for tanking a mob that rushes at me XD Ik summoners would like that though a lot more.
At least we got a little love. And we did get buffs to generators. I just use summon skele for essence though.
Very very rare cases do I have no corpses and no essence and a mob on me. And they also buffed the decompose aspect for summoner. bone prison aspect and blood orb one. *
The passives too Kalan’s Edict/Rathmas Vigor got touched too. But I also don’t use those 
Yeah I don’t use any basic skills cause my corpse explode generates essence and my skele mages, Kalans edict I don’t use either imo it needs a complete rework on that node especially since the enemies B line for the player so much. But I’m happy with the curse change and I guess we will just have to keep asking for tweaks here and there.
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If you guys get minion damage paragon points reworked. That alone will increase your dps like 20-30% if not more. Just random guessing for that one.
And yea I seen a post about making that passive “healthy” instead of not taking damage for 2 seconds. Which I really think that would help that passive ALOT.
Summon necros pretty tanky so they should be able to stay healthy for the most part. But idk something else maybe too
Yea its nice having the curse change at least. We can send our bois in.
I feel bad because they did other things to necro, I’m just not effected by any of it. Other then the curse.
Requiring to have a curse jsut to target a minion is still pretty bad. I do not have enough skill slots anyways.
Target enemey should be grouped with priest summon.
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Could agree there, Summon Necros have legit 3 slots. I personally would always take bloodmist too. It’s our only “oh crap” button.