Necromancer Builds

[Scorten]

I've just played the game for the very first time and was wondering whether a D2 necromancer style build is possible? I've only been able to find one necromancy related skill (raise dead)..

[Nanukotu]

I know the warlock has a few different pets that he can summon in the trees. but since i only specced in to poison at lvl 50 so far i don't really know if they are viable. currently i just used the zombies i got as a meat shield while my curses bur down the enemies.

[Astasia]

I don't think so. I played around with warden which has 4 different pet skills, the only pet that really did any damage were the spiderlings because they could proc both spores and pods, though spores are rarely useful. Even with all my gear aimed at boosting minions it was still far more effective for me to kill things with my basic 0 mana attack. At best the minions were an effective distraction for the enemy. The issue is the game throws a LOT of enemies at you, and the minions don't really do AoE (there's a fairy pet with a very weak chain lightning) and don't have a high enough single target attack to quickly clear the screen. They are OK against bosses, it's still a lot faster to help them, but you can hide behind like a pillar and just let the minions kill the boss in a reasonable amount of time.

I only got up to level 50 on my minion character though, it might get better later with more stat stacking or some of the later sets.

[Saitech]

Originally posted by LakaiScorten:

I've just played the game for the very first time and was wondering whether a D2 necromancer style build is possible? I've only been able to find one necromancy related skill (raise dead)..

Other than the raise dead which you found already, there are a few different types of summons you can have, in the poison tree a choice between melee zombies and ranged floating eyes, there are also temp summons that proc called living bloods.

In the fire tree you have a choice between ranged imps and melee devils and an ultimate skill to summon a temp demon.

Other than summons you can find equipment that can spawn pet/minion, so far I have found a ring that summons a goblin, a whistle that summons a 3 headed hell hound and a helmet that summons a demon.

You can't really let your summons do all the work and kill everything for you, they are better at combat support and with the correct gear and skills they can be pretty good tanks.

I got my summoner to lvl 100 but still trying to get the set items and stuff to make the most of it.

[MrSlayerBBQ]

I have only come across one minion type that doesn't die immediately on higher anomaly levels and that's the Infernal demon ultimate summon guy. (he is permanent and autosummoned with a certain legendary headpiece)

Minions are tremendously useful as distractions and meatshields. So while they aren't something to build you character around, they are still doing something for you.

I would advise you to make a build, and put in some appropriate minions along the way.

[Jeff]

theres a summoner set that gives you 1 hellhound for every soul you currently have, don't know how viable it is though

Demon Lord's Regalia
2) +25% Fire Damage
3) Spawns a Hellhound companion for each Soul held. Hellhounds have 66% of the Warlock's Fire Damage and have 66% of his health.
4) +6 to Maximum Souls.

[YoyoTanya]

Most of the pet build in this game are too weak to leveling with.
But after you hit level 100 and have 100-200 mastery, It start to shine.

I suggest to play with Nuker/DPS build first to hit level 100 and get 150+ mastery asap.
Then respec to any pet build of your choice.

Warlock have only 2 type of permanent pet but have many skill and passive to scale his pet damage to the roof.
Warden have 4 type of permanent pet but have fewer passive/synergy skill to boost up his pet.
He also have wisp build which consider as another pet build that very strong in late game.

Never try to make pet build with another 2 class yet.

[MTBear]

Square made mention in a post somewhere that pets might get a buff, I sure hope so as I feel pets build need to be a thing in ARPGs.

[CarlZalph]

Originally posted by Jeff:

theres a summoner set that gives you 1 hellhound for every soul you currently have, don't know how viable it is though :D:

Well comparing it to Burning Hells you'll see it's vastly slower/inefficient.

[camelotcrusade]

I found that hellhound whistle and would love to get an upgrade. But I've only seen one drop in nearly 100 levels. Are there specific mobs or areas where I should look for it? And in general, do you guys know if different mobs/areas have different drop tables?