Yes, and?
You’re not going to get an infinite-hitpoint aggro-magnet. You’re not going to get a Win-While-AFK button.
That’s why minions have HP at all. That’s why Minions can be defeated.
Because otherwise, they would be Win-While-AFK buttons.
Main’d Necromancer in D2.
Leapt on Necromancer when it finally came out for D3.
Leapt on Necromancer when the second Beta weekend happened in D4.
In all three cases, did so specifically to become a minion-focussed character.
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Also, main’d Mastermind in City of Heroes/Villains. The most pet-master-y class of all time, across all games. My first MM literally had no attacks of his own. All buffs, with a splash of CC … and his minions. He was Robotics/Forcefield, if you know the game.
So, yeah. I definitely get the point of a pet class. AND IT SHOULD NEVER BE “TO WIN WHILE AFK”.
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I think it was more to test the stress of the players.
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Partial Success I think i was more disappointed and angry. 
= stress
I made another necro after they did the update and it got a wee bit easier without putting points into mastery. I may reconsider at launch but I rolled a barb and it plays really well.
I played my necro after the hotfix … still got wiped out by an elite.
It’s still garbage. it’s better but garbage. Priest needs to heal for 50 % of their life minimum… Hitting Skeleton button ever other seccond isn’t fun trying to keep these weak skeletons healed.
Skeleton Priest is officially working now so there is that …
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They need to look into WHOS decision it was to gut a class THEY made a big spectacle out of when they launched it last test. They then take a sledge hammer to the class and we get this… MOST old time necro players did not come to d4 to play this watered down version/vision of a hollow necro. ( Again young devs refer to d2 skill tree and synergies since you have no ideas of your own.)
These ‘young devs’ vision/version is not why I came to play a necro in d4. If you are keeping pace with other businesses in these backward times then pushing away your old customers for these ’ New Generation of gamers’ makes more sense with this version.
I can see my type of gamer is no longer welcome in these here parts.
Personally i am not looking to play Lost Ark or a nock off of it where i have to be pushing a button every GCD … I want to relax and play the game.
Currently It is practiaclly impossible to heal your skeletons. Priest ability officialy works but doesn’t do a knoticable amount of healing. Skeletons have enough HP now …
It is supper awkward to be more efficient by just letting the skeleton die just to resummon a new one … It’s completely against the idea of the kit.
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The heal doesn’t even seem to work. After testing by clearing out a bunch of corpses to heal my skeletons that barely survived, their health bars didn’t even move beyond natural healing. 10% of max health, times twelve corpses, should be fully healed, not “slightly less dead”.
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It does. it’s a HOT which is TERRIBLE design… if it healed maybe 50 % of their life over the durration … Sure but 10% … it’s TERRIBLE
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Even worse, it’s a HoT which doesn’t stack with itself.
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If it were 5% immediately, and another 10% over a 2 or 3 seconds, it would actually be useful IMO.
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Blizzard in last 5-10 years act like a abusive parents, which dont want they kids having fun. If we find something good in their games, they destroy it. Very toxic moves from their side. Maybe they want us to accept it and just play, because we are fans, but summoner necro is so classic and popular thing, and need to try very hard to make it bad. Its like make a superman game, where superman cant beat robber in one hit :))) I dont know anymore what balance they want to reach. Its looks like they know nothing about their games.
Necro’s pets were already getting wipe on several bosses and Ashava before they nerfed them and this is only low level, low difficulty…
the witch doctor’s pet were perfectly fine at low level at the release of D3, but still they were dying instantly at high level and were unplayable.
I’ll start the release with a sorc and see if the necro’s pet are playable HL
the blood mist did work out better then summon
I would like to apologize for losing my cool, its just i was soo upset and i cancelled my pre-order and now i bought it again and i got to level 20 and beat AhChava with a Non-Summoner blood mist necro. i have come to the terms of playing with a broken necro. im just gonna have to live with the dying inside. i really love the necro class its my type of style. i got to 20 with other classes the sorcerer is cool and OP but i want my necromancer.
The build so Op it could solo raid bosses, used a really stupid example to try and prove your stupid point.
I seemed to do ok with the Necro and was mainly the lack of gear compared to the beta that made the most difference. Using debuffs helped me get closer to the DPS from beta (minus the buffs from legendaries) so comparing to decent gear as opposed to all legendary’d out.
Also the Necro nerf (my usual go to) made me want to try the Rogue instead and had fun with the class!
Irrelevant. The fact I main’d it still establishes my “played pet classes a lot” credentials quite nicely. Also, I said that was my first MM. Not my only one. I rolled him on Day One, with the full intent of being “nothing but pets, all day long”.
Nor was that an AFK class to play. You needed to pay attention, and direct your minions (of whatever sort) to be effective. Poorly-played MMs of any powersets - including Robo/FF - were Debt magnets, nothing more.
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Been playing a pet Necro on launch till lvl 40…
The little buff we got has made a difference although picking up the minion health/dmg nodes early on is a big help. Some of the dungeon Aspects help with dmg as well early on until u get a big hitter.
Ultimately I’ve found the pet necro works with a very specific build tree, which sux if youre keen to experiment with other skills or build types.
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Even the very first boss, which is Level like THREE can one shot them. It’s meant to be a summoning class and they weren’t kidding as that’s what you’ll be doing most of the time. Though I still do like the class as ‘I’ll see how it goes’ and it’s VERY early days yet.
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