There is no need to bump up this thread again after almost 2 months, please stop
Not level 50 yet but level 30 and it does get better honestly. They feel more and more useful the more you trait their damage passives and stuff in the skill tree.
I am also 30 and they feel fine, But just did a stronghold and they got slapped on the last boss.
But some people are saying it is 40+ when Druid & barb start to bonk and Necro starts to not.
That’s why i want some perspective from higher players.
Im level 40 at the moment and I’m having a blast with my minion/CE build.
I changed my build a bit to have a lot of shadow dmg passives and sever as core ability.
Much more enjoyable currently.
Level 33 minion build here (sacked golem for attack speed) and doing great. Killed Astragoth (or whatever its name was) with full compliment of minions. Reap, Bone Spear, Decrepify, Blood Mist, and Army of the Dead.
We know minion builds are okay at lower level, guys. He’s specifically asking if anyone has made it work at level 50+.
Minions are only worthwhile if you have the + # of warrior, + # of mage legendary pieces.
During early stages, your build will depend overwhelmingly on what type of legendary pieces you find. You spec into whatever skill that aspect specializes in, at least that’s how I’m playing it.
lvl 44 and to be honest the minion build doesn’t keep up to my friends barb, or the sorc, or the rouge. I have constantly fallen behind them, not being able to kill elites and even regular mobs… I have the legendaries that give + minions and + minion health stats and + minion atk speed… it just doesn’t play well, I’m on world tier two and they just die constantly to regular mobs. I have my talents put into minion stuff and corpse explosion and golems and mages. the minion necromancer feels slow the whole time. the golem taunt doesn’t work half the time I still have the elites target me when I have the taunt up.
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Level 40 Necro here, I planned my build weeks ago and so far it’s been working really well.
Picking up the passive nodes for minion health/dmg early on help a lot, as does focusing on Aspects that empower minions (theres like 3 or 4 that come from A1 & A2 dungeons).
Now if only the game would stop crashing I’d be able to play her…
Well, that is what i expected for sure.
Hopefully it gets buffed, i want my undead army
Necro lvl48 minon build with BS.buold ficused on minion life and teir survival. Minions are really bad … constant spaming prist to keep them alive. I loved Summon necro D2. Minions in D4 are awful.
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Which is why the first beta nerf was so puzzling.
they were expected to be bad high level even back then, even when people considered them OP.
Just did the boss after the black lake (as level 36, because i took my sweet time starting the main story) and he slapped my minions hard so at the end of the fight i only had 1 skirmisher up and the golem.
Tho my current build is skirmishers instead of reapers and i don’t currently have hewed flesh.
But still, the devs really need to fix this Asap (as in now and not mid-july)
The build guide i’m currently have on states this.
“We start off weak and reliant on our Skeletons for single target damage. Eventually swapping them to more utility options and ultimately sacrificing them for their bonuses”
It’s just sad that you are expected to sacrifice them at higher level… Because everyone knows minions will never be able to keep up with the scaling higher level.
I just hit 27 a bit ago, and necro is the epitome of a"D4 could have used 1-2 more buttons" class.
I’ve found a way to work with it, but holy…it’s almost as if Blizzard thinks all pet classes need to be on rails.
Very true.
Have to sacrifice the ultimate skill slot for golem 
But dono if the Army of the dead every 90 seconds is better than golem tho.
Do you have the talent that lets your priest heal for a huge chunk every once in awhile? I just started speccing into it, and if they still die all the time even with those talents…I’m not sure what to say.
Yup, I chose golem. Unfortunate, but it is what it is.
Still disappointed in the low amount of buttons. T_T
There’s so many things i want to spec into… Hopefully the 58 points total will be enough at the end
I just discoveres what I was doing wrong. level 50 fully pure shadow summoner. Playing WT3 solo with so much fun and clearing ez
They still work fine at level60 with full minion Aspect gear. Actually almost did capstone level70 dungeon when i was level56 with some zerging. Boss only had one bracket of HP left, but i gave up after being frustrated with getting one-shot lol. Will try again when i find a level60 weapon and some more armor/ life gear. Was surprised my damage held up against level70 mobs in the capstone dungeon actually.
Have a level 53 Sever Necro using 5 shadow mages (Reavers and Golem sac’d) and they seem fine so far. Sometimes they die. Not a big deal. Just rez them. May get rid of them now that I got the shadow bonestorm aspect. Not sure yet. They have felt good so far because of the CC they offer.
Also made a second Necro to try out minions because I was curious about how bad everyone was saying they were. After the patch yesterday they feel really good but I am only level 38. I imagine Capstone and beyond might be a different story.