necro summoner second class?

[My Killer Shack]

Cant decide between soldier or shaman.

Shaman gives me 2 more summons (briar buffs my other guys dps)

Soldier gives me more defense if I use a shield and buffs my minions and me.

Thoughts?

[Legion66]

Occultist or shaman would be the best.

[My Killer Shack]

Originally posted by Legion66:

Occultist or shaman would be the best.

soldier buffs the minions more then the occulist buff does, and more then the shaman

[Anathema]

Field Command is not better than Briarthorn + Mogdrogen's Pact.

[Legion66]

Occultist has blood of dreeg, curse of frailty, bonds of bysmiel and two reasonable powerful pets with buff skills.

[Azunai]

inquisitor, demo or arcanist can also be decent secondary trees for a summoner. they all have good buffs/debuffs that also affect the pets.

i think occultist has the strongest collection of buffs and debuffs, though.

[^7ja^1co]

Originally posted by Azunai:

inquisitor, demo or arcanist can also be decent secondary trees for a summoner. they all have good buffs/debuffs that also affect the pets.

i think occultist has the strongest collection of buffs and debuffs, though.

I'm always worried about survivability, wouldn't soldier offer more of that?

[Legion66]

Originally posted by ^7ja^1co:

Originally posted by Azunai:

inquisitor, demo or arcanist can also be decent secondary trees for a summoner. they all have good buffs/debuffs that also affect the pets.

i think occultist has the strongest collection of buffs and debuffs, though.

I'm always worried about survivability, wouldn't soldier offer more of that?

Yes, but you're not supposed to take much damage anyway with a pet build and if your pets aren't strong enough you will have a hard time.

[Befuddled Honey Badger]

Originally posted by ^7ja^1co:

I'm always worried about survivability, wouldn't soldier offer more of that?

I don't like pet builds but I made a Cabalist (Necro/Occultist) and tbh I have 0 issues with dying because my pets kill things before they have a chance to aggro onto me. Only real issue I have is with Kubacabra but that's because my pets only have ~40% Bleed resist.

Quite frankly, there's too many synergistic skills for pets in Occultist to ignore; Blood of Dreeg/Aspect of the Guardian, Curse/Vulnerability and Bonds of Bysmiel/Manipulation for utility/defense and for damage you have Raven's Storm Spirit and Hellhound's Hellfire.

Soldier gives Field Command/Squad Tactics. Yay? The rest of Solider gives really nice supporting defensive passives/actives to the PLAYER not pets so you'd be gimping your pets by a lot by going with Soldier. I guess you could include War Cry in there for the -% Target's reduced damage and possibly Blindside for the -DA but that's stretching it a bit.