This is REALLY bad design and needs fixing with what they do for dungeon bosses. I did my first inferno horde event solo a few mins ago after quest unlock, got up to wave 8 and died. Alright no problem…I got 4 lives left…oh…oh no…the game didn’t give me new skeletal minions and there’s 30+ mobs swarming on my RESPAWN point. So I kept dying non stop and got kicked out. HOW was this so poorly thought out? My minions are my build. I didn’t even have 2 seconds to make my golem grab aggro. Actually unforgiving 0/10 trash design.
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If you cast I think Army of the Dead ultimate. It auto gives you all your minions.
Edit: Looked it up for you. It’s…
- [Supreme Army of the Dead]: Army of the Dead also raises your Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages.
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Oh yeah, sadly I was dying too fast on respawn to even cast that but im much stronger now. No luck finding another inferno compass however sadly to try again.
Pits giveth all the goodies. Run them and they will drop. It’s not guaranteed but it’s pretty much my main activity since I’m pushing to P300 and I have them coming out of my ears. I salvage all 6 and have started salvaging 8 too lol. I like the 10 for the max amount of aether.
Good luck!
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I think the purple opal also procs a few compass drops from time to time.
Virtually every NMD run awards a Compass.
Wut? I have an inventory full of them. You can also stash them. Do a few whispers, I think you’re guaranteed one?
NM dungeon with crafting mats opal are also the best for Obducite if you calculate time+quantity
You can get like 1500 Obducite like this in 2 minutes basically lol. Way more efficient than a wave 10 overall.
You have to spec into it, so not everyone will have it.
Walking into a boss room will spawn all your minions because some dev realized it is your build and there’s no corpses to get it back, so there is precedent here.
Running a corpse-dependent build in pits can be iffy sometimes anyway because corpses despawn constantly in there, probably due to quantity. I can’t tell you the number of times a corpse was there when I went to cast tendrils and suddenly it wasn’t anymore.
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Blizzard don’t care for minion necro, has been like that since launch.
Still waiting for the day minion necro will be S-tier
Yeah minion necro has too many issues. A lot of work will be needed till its as good as blood builds. From many QoL to mechanics of entire summoning skill/book/scaling of damage.
Swap to any blood build and you wont have issues + you will be immortal since you can stack LIFE + blood orbs on the builds instead of IAS. I ditched minions and now I can facetank everything no problem and can point my damage where I need it unlike minions.
That’s good and all but to be fair, irrelevant to OP’s point. The answer should be to have the game work with minion builds in general (a core identity of the Diablo necromancer,) not “play something else.”
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The last good minion build was in D2 LoD. It was some kind of trash in D3 and is still not good enough in D4. I hope all (old) classes get some love with the mid-season patch….
Welcome to Diablo IV - the game where the franchise’s most iconic builds such as minion Necro and WW Barb are complete dogsh*t.
Brilliant developers at work here, you see.
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Yeah I know, but there is no helping here currently. AotD as ultimate sux compared to Soulrift. The resummoning should be passive for class on timer.
So there is no good way to get minions after you die unless Blizzard fixes minion necro.
More people giving up on minion nec might help convince Blizzard to do something. I would love to play minions and I believe all necro builds should have minions, either utility/defensive/offensive focused no more sacrifice but that would require huge rework. For now its better to give up minion necro and just hope for future fixes 
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I did not know you are able to stack IH compass. I will try that 
Minion Necro is not the build you want to use in IH. Wait till you have masses at each corner that you have to destroy alone because your minions are busy with the mobs. You can forget about the 200 Aether for the main chest.
I am past Paragon 220 with mine on Torment IV. My gear is just average but 12/12. I did Pit 77 so far. Can do Tormented Bosses but have to be careful. It is not so bad in terms of performance but I don’t find the build fun to play. I will be switching to a Blood build.
It’s doable but definitely not ideal. Pretty much need a golem-based build if you’re going to minion hordes, but if another mass pops and its cd isn’t done you’re screwed.
My Blizzard/Ice Shard/Nova/Shatter sorc decimates hordes though, although pit bosses are a PITA.
You lose some, you…lose some.
I think when a necro dies, all minions should respawn with him. Its that way for the world boss, just make it that way anytime the necro dies.
can’t you become a blood mist thing to have temporary invulnerability to evade those hordes?
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