Minion necromancer?

[ScubaSteve]

Anyone else playing minion necromancer? Im pushing in early end game and finding minions to be kind of underwhelming so far

possible it just my build is crap but wondering if it gets better at higher levels?

[MrWitz]

My problem with minion necro is that, although it's probably the fastest leveling build for the campaign and early monos, it falls off a cliff once you get to empowered. It just lacks everything you need to push past 200 corruption. You'll die all the time, and if you don't nuke the boss quickly (which you can't because you'll lack DPS), you'll not have enough mana to bring back your army that the boss has killed. Julra especially is notorious for minion builds, her void damage just destroys them. It's been miserable, and I've tried about 10 different builds.

[matke587]

I am running a necro pure summoner, totally specced into minions on gear and passive trees. They currently have 1500% combined bonus damage melee, physical and necrotic and on 900% health for them. Only things on my gear for me are my defences like resistance, endurance etc. My minions are almost immortal

My minions do all the damage I just command them using [A] and cast volatile zombies from my RMB (which due to the health bonus last a long time)

The mistake a lot of people make on these builds is NOT going all in, and try to build a build were they can also do direct damage... trust your minions

Run with:
2 x bone golems
5 x skeleton warriors (No archers)
5 x Death Knights (mage non caster)
2 x Wraiths (permanent)
3 x Fel guards (from passive tree)
0-6 Volatile Zombies that puke poison for 30-40 seconds before exploding.

Great fun standing back and watching them eat monolith bosses

[Lightning]

I'm running a minion build atm in Empowers (Just started it really on my Necro)

1x Huge Bone Golem
1x Abomination (5 Skele warrior consume passive)
4x Skele warriors
2x Perm Wraiths
Dread Shade (Increased Aoe / No Health degen perk)

and have nearly 800% in all damage types for minions and about 1k in Minion melee damage since there all mostly melee.

Going pretty good so far even though I die really fast if i mess up since i'm not really a tanky build atm (All 75% res, hardly any endurance, 900 hp, and basically no CSA yet)

[matke587]

@Lightning get the "Woven Flesh" chest piece from first monolith boss, gives you 100% CSA.

[DeathHouseInc]

引用自 Daemic9：

If minions are underwhelming, then its probably the wrong setup. Any +damage you have will have 0 effect on them. You specifically need +Minion damage. Try this:

Shift F for loot filter
add rule, recolor: [your favorite color] [Affixes]
now, select the minion tab in the drop down to add all minion stuff. Then, in the same rule, scroll down to acolyte. Select "shared X damage" of the damage type you want to build arround.

Save the rule. equip these gears. profit

This is a golden post.

[Dregora]

引用自 DeathHouseInc：

引用自 Daemic9：

If minions are underwhelming, then its probably the wrong setup. Any +damage you have will have 0 effect on them. You specifically need +Minion damage. Try this:

Shift F for loot filter
add rule, recolor: [your favorite color] [Affixes]
now, select the minion tab in the drop down to add all minion stuff. Then, in the same rule, scroll down to acolyte. Select "shared X damage" of the damage type you want to build arround.

Save the rule. equip these gears. profit

This is a golden post.

Actually fr, though. As a new player, I had no idea this was possible. This is so insanely helpful.

[Kylorian]

And dont forget the A key targets your horde

[Hi11Zone]

引用自 matke587：

I am running a necro pure summoner, totally specced into minions on gear and passive trees. They currently have 1500% combined bonus damage melee, physical and necrotic and on 900% health for them. Only things on my gear for me are my defences like resistance, endurance etc. My minions are almost immortal

My minions do all the damage I just command them using [A] and cast volatile zombies from my RMB (which due to the health bonus last a long time)

The mistake a lot of people make on these builds is NOT going all in, and try to build a build were they can also do direct damage... trust your minions

Run with:
2 x bone golems
5 x skeleton warriors (No archers)
5 x Death Knights (mage non caster)
2 x Wraiths (permanent)
3 x Fel guards (from passive tree)
0-6 Volatile Zombies that puke poison for 30-40 seconds before exploding.

Great fun standing back and watching them eat monolith bosses

build guide link?

[Krymz (On Linux Mint)]

just started playing yesterday. trying some sort of druid minion build. is your build as boring as mine? I only got 1 attack skill because I got 4 minion skills. I'm melting everything, but it's boring.

[tiamats4esgares]

引用自 tiamats4esgares：

引用自 Dregora：

I'm playing one and it's fantastic.


Focus on melee only minions, skeleton warriors/rogue, remove archers from pool, get stone golems, wraiths (you can make a few permanent), use bone curse to curse all enemies constantly increasing physical damage per enemy hit, get gear with +minion damage.

Level 43 right now, still doing campaign but I have zero issues.

My build is very similar. I used skeleton archers at first, until I got an uber spear with + minion melee damage so now that's all I use.

I also use permanent wraiths and bone curse with the armor shred (it gets insane how much armor shred, and yes, it can go into the negatives).

I didn't realize there was a bone golem node, I should look into that.

I also use Assemble Abomination (also permanent).

I USED to use Bone Golem, both before and after the "buf", but I think it's the worse of the skills I use (even post-buff) and I had to swap something out for something that gives ward. It's almost mandatory in certain fights, sadly. After trying and not liking volatile zombies, I swapped to Soul Feast, and it's an amazing ward generator. Might not do as much damage as zombies, but I don't need damage. The ward is amazing.

EDIT: Oh another reason not to use bone golems, they are very loud and sound annoying. lol. My other minions don't make quite so much noise.

Just in case anyone reads my 2 year old post: Soul Feast is now warlock-only, or was reworked, maybe both lol but no longer an option. However, you can use Exsanguinous and Last Steps of the Living + gloves with proper affix for tons of ward generation.

I replaced Soul Feast with Transplant, which can also buff minions.

Starting next week though, I plan to try out a permanent fire minion build, just for something different to do.

[Stephanie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.