Are summoners good ?

[cypher]

I like to play as a necromancer with summons, i tried that in Diablo 4 but summons in D4 are garbage. Are summons in this game good ?

[Asdead]

I enjoy playing with my summon nercro, it's pretty chill. Summon your army and just let them do the work.

[Narcslayer]

Mine erase anything they come across effortlessly. I'm only 3 days old in this game and lvl 56 cold bone gollum with 9 archers and 4 mages just deletes everything in the game so far. So I can vouch for leveling up easy at least. No idea what comes next though.

[Kmany]

Yeah summons can be very viable even in end game.

[MrWitz]

Summons are op for campaign but fall off quickly in endgame. Other than the flame wraith totem build, I wouldn't recommend minions right now. They're supposedly getting buffed though for 1.0.

[iDankenstein]

theres like a 1-shot abomination build that absolutely slaps

[Stephanos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNMiEe0vhSw&t=266s
look at this.you don't need a full army of undead.one or two is better

[Moine]

Not that depend, for the basic summon, the life hard, but summon have not problem about do alot damage and necro is not the only way for play summon, you have alot alot obtion .

[Zerondar]

Hi, there are not only necromancer summoner builds but also Beastmancer has companions/summons.

The beastmancer squirrel build is pretty darn strong and fun (though it requires a unique to turn your wolves into squirrels if i remember correctly) - just it lacks in aoe dmge.

Necromancer has several pretty strong minion builds, but for really high corruption most of them fall off, due to minions dying.
Flame wraith is just OP and (in my opinion) pretty fun to play.

[Schakar]

I played a Zoo-Druide (Wulfs+Thorns-Bär+Tiger all converted to cold damage) which was fun. Rat-Druide is strong too if you listen the guide-dudes.
Friend played Necro-style with skeletons+golem. He had absolut no problems too.

So I would say YES. There are several minion-builds which work very well and are fun.