3:51 - "Now for the gear remember, this is not end game best possible bla bla bla type of gear" *Infinity mercenary runs across the screen* :D Jokes aside, nice guide. I like to upgrade from tele staff into a tele charges circlet/amulet with + necro or summoning skills, that way you avoid losing minions while swapping, at least until you get that elusive enigma armor.
I disagree with putting a point into bone armor. Theres no point in having 110 damage reduction at this level with a bunch of summons. I also (and please Im not trying to disrespect this vid) completely disagree with maxing points in amp damage... whats the point when you can spam it and have an insight golem for mana and it has a large radius anyways? Thats a whole lot of wasted points imo. And this video should definitely be called something more like "budget summon necro" with that wand. Why not just AOKL? Im no D2R master but not getting decrep for bosses while maxing amp damage just doesnt make sense. For how little putting points into amp damage does, you should just put more into skele magi. I know ppl dont like the skill but more summons is better than upping the radius of amp damage when you can just cast it multiple times (and comon we need more help killing baal). And lastly... unpopular opinion here... FCR doesnt really matter much for a summon necro (if someone thinks it matters and you have a lot of fcr then why max amp damage???). Use homonculus for all res instead of FCR with spirit shield. And get yourself a chillin necklace with +3 summon skills and strength to help wear Marrowalk boots.
A lot of good points in this post. Decrepify is an amazing curse, and combined with a well positioned Clay Golem it can literally shut down the most dangerous enemies in the game. FCR as you pointed out isnt needed, but to go into further detail, here's why: First up, you wont ever be spamming curses, in fact the only thing you will ever spam is most likely Corpse Explosion, and there are still only a finite amount of corpses to nuke. Necro's are usually VERY well protected by their armies, so shouldn't be anywhere near the front line, so minimal, if any, risk of their cast being interrupted. In real terms, it makes so little difference how quickly you CE. Its the difference between everything around you being dead in 3 second and 4 seconds. No FCR requirements, as you pointed out, opens up the slot for Homonc. An amazing necro item, great block chance and rate, solid resists, good +skills (better than spirit), no requirements for investment into Str to be able to equip that Monarch in the first place. Plus decent mana perks (the +5 mana per kill will pay for a hell of a lot of Corpse nukes). Its even worth using a Larzuk reward on
I think mages are sort or marginal, but I pretty much agree otherwise across the board. The homunculus is super underrated. Why on earth would you do spirit shield when you save a TON of strength and get solid res and skill buffs and block from homunculus?
I agree to most of this for the most part. Although this is still confusing for me, as to why does every player out there act like it's a cardinal sin to max out something like Amplify. It doesn't make much sense either to do Skeli mage because you'll get pretty much your strike force from revived monsters who will mostly have all the elements you need for damage. I get that Amplify doesn't break immunities as much as other curses do, it's tiresome to keep casting it for general combat, especially when your party is reliant on certain cheap debuffs. I find decrep and low res to be very efficient in handling champions, or uniques, if not bosses. But amplify is rather reliable for dealing with grunts around the field, most of which is many and in case of hell, they have immunities.
The beauty of this build is literally you need NO GEAR :D and it can go thru the game pretty smooth, not the fastest definetely, but very safe and can carry his own sh1t and even help others troubling with those imunnities if needed :)
Honestly I don't know ... naked ?? For the most part I would say yes of course but as I did a lot of playthrough it's by far the one that causing me.the most problem ... when u have to go to chaos under gear under level ur not having fun at all killing diablo with iron maiden reviving golem is super boring and take times ..
value of gear on character: about 5 fg value of gear on merc: 5000 or more :D this build kinda relies on the merc getting kills for CE and taking down bosses. suicide branch, arm of king leoric, "white" or "spirit" runewords are all miles better than that wand and basically free, while hotspurs or aldur's boots would bump up your lacking fire res. golem mastery points i found to be wasted, my insight golem never dies without it, i'd rather max skelly mages - especially with infinity on the merc, they'll start dealing some damage at larger numbers.
I don't think the bug was with leaving the game. The golem would persist, there was an issue where if it went so far off-screen it'd just kinda die or something (I forget the specifics) great vid man! This has been my go-to for a long time.
Started up playing the remake a couple weeks ago, never knew the depth of this game as a kid. started watching learning guides, binged watched all of yours. The voice and attitude gives me friendly dad vibe had to drop a sub, keep slaying!!!!.
My merc uses G-face + Obedience + Treachery. Even though without any life-leech, he almost never die. And in 8pp games my army knock down bosses very fast.
honest question: is this a stupid build idea? SummonMancer A5 merc LastWish/HandJustice Barbhelm(ironskin) Dream iron Golem: Beast Leaving my hands free for a good White
I have been playing my cold sorceress mainly but every second skiller GC that dropped for me (not found a single cold one yet) was summon necro GC. When I had 6 of them I had to make myself one and its been a blast to play and soon through Hell difficulty. There are many nice wands for the necro, and I use the Carin Shard (+3 summon in total). Its possible to swap to e.g. Ume's Lament for +2 skill and get +2 decrepify if you don't want to put points into that for a boss fight. Also using Homunculus now which gives +2 skills and +2 curses as well as nice +40 resist and mana regen. Its a really nice alternative to Spirit shield imo. Also stacking fcr doesn't seem that important, the corpses explode regularly still with normal and generally things go down fast. TP repair seems like a big catch about this one, my inventory is packed full with summon skillers, gheeds, id book, cube, torch and small mf charms. The skillers can offset you swapping gear for some MF stuff instead. How about more run speed and just move about fast instead? Also using one belt slot for TP scrolls you can throw that book out as its not really needed to have so many pots on this build. When doing runs you will likely just leave game and start a new one to go to town anyway.
Nice video! However, can't imagine a Necro without using Decrepify or at least taking it as an option. I mainly use Clay Golem (still in leveling mode in 80's) as no matter how hard I try NOT to lose my Iron Golem, he usually disappears every other play session causing me to have to create another Insight. When I have runes and bases to burn, then I may switch full time to Iron Golem/Insight, however maxing Golem Mastery over points in Amp Damage would be my suggestion. And of course never cast Mages as they almost always get in the way in 2.4 everything will/may change depending how much they buff mages.
@@JanJanNik Without Golem Mastery you Iron/Clay Golem would never survive in Hell. Not sure why you think Golem Mastery does nothing, when it clearly provides a massive hit point increase for your Golam
@@yipp_yippee i've played summon necro for a week now and my iron golem never died before me, even at 1 hard point. maybe you're doing something wrong?
Personally wouldn't pass on the rest of the curses, but this is a legit variation of fishymancer. It's laffs in the pit for sure. Maelstrom is amazing, if it drops and you haven't made a summoner yet, go make one. Lots of mileage from ye old yew wand. Hopefully it spawns all +2 or +3 like Phil's for you. Could also shop a wand with those +attract and/or +decrepify +lower resist mods to make a White. Lower resist can help you with CE spam on those stoneskin/physical immunes.
nice video, but for a more realistic merc build, you can't go wrong with duress + obedience/socketed hone sundan + g face to turn him into a CB maniac, they are also very cheap and obtainable.
I like 1 point in attract, 1 point decriptify. I've started only playing hardcore, that attract is great crowd control to get the first kill. I was lucky to find a rare +2 summon, charge of tele amulet for my necro. Way better than switch, but staff on switch is more reliable to find. Obediance, treachery, tal mask
I have almost this exact build, except my merc has 100% CB through Obedience, Duress, and Gface. And I'm running War Travs (35MF), a +3 summon ammy, and I swap out 28/30 me Nagels and 2 Dwarf Stars (when I want more GF). I also am using King Leoric's Arm and Homunculus. Honestly I think my merc enables me to clear faster. Obedience is in an eth thresher. I can take down HDiablo in ~3 seconds. I clear everything and pop all containers. I got a Sur from a hidden stash. I also only have one point in amp damage and put the rest in revives.
Sweet Phil may i suggest looking for a white base shrunken head and look for curse skills that you want and make a splendor shield instead of spirit. Yes you lose a one to all skill, BUT you save precious skill points like 3 to 7 (decrep/lower res)
If you are doing end game stuff surprisingly act 1 merc can be awesome because there is a bow with a fanaticism aura and an armor with a thorns aura as well as a helmet with a holy thunder aura. Would actually be better than infinity as unless your skeletal mages somehow do good damage physical damage is going to be the way to go.
Aye, Andrew is right. Decrepify is good on bosses because it slows their attacks and less of your minions get damaged and die, especially in boss rooms with little to no corpses to replenish. But when you are out and about, with little danger of the attacking hoards, Amplify Damage will reign supreme as it does more to increase your minions actual damage output. The mobs typically go down quick anyway without damaging your army too much as it is, so focusing strictly on maximizing your damage is more important so you can pop the first corpse. Hope that helped. Good luck.
You do not need to use a spirit shield for a summon necro as the Humunculus is actually better due to the resist all, the +2 necro skills, and the +2 curses (necro only) and most of the other gear requires less than 100 strength as the gear I use for this build is generally Shako, Skullders Ire, Arachnid's Mesh, War Traveler, Trangs Gloves, Humunculus, Heart of the Oak. For rings you can use 2x SoJ, 2x BK, or 1 of each For the amulet a +2 necro skills amulet or Mara's. Base Stats: Str 97-110 Dex 35 (For HotO) Energy 25 (0 points into this) and Vitality all points after Str and Dex are done My actual character has slightly higher Str so I can switch between Skullders and Arcaine's Valor Base skill levels: Summoning Skills: Skeleton Mastery, Raise Skeleon, Raise Skeleon Mage, and Summon resist 20 Golem Mastery, Clay Gloem Blood Golem, Iron Golem ,and Revive 1 Poison and Bone Skills: Teeth 1 Corpse Explosion 11 or higher if you put fewer points in curses Curse Skills: Amplify Damage 5 the skill levels work well as all the +skill bonuses from gear make it work
Legit question from someone who only made it as far as Nightmare before restarting in ladder. Why do people keep playing once they hit level 90+ and beat Act 5 Hell? Like what is there left to do, beyond fighting the same boss over and over and over, to farm for gear you don't even need? Is it to farm gear for alts? So your next character can have amazing gear without needing to rely on RNGesus? If so, what happens when you get every class to level 99?
all good but put one point into Life Tap and one into Confuse, those two are a must in my opinion, Life Tap makes ur merc immortal and Confuse makes u a cow god haha also really good when u trying to survive a pack of mobs
I mean, it's quite a flexible build -- but why max out amp dmg? Much rather put at least 20 points in bone wall/prison for that extra absorb. Also, life tap & decrep are absolutely necessary if you ever plan on running ubers later on. Lastly, I would take some extra points out of golem mastery and put some in Clay Golem for that extra % slow, it helps with ubers, mostly for the merc to stay alive. IF the build is STRICTLY for ubers, then CE can be left at one point too, but yeah, can't go wrong either way if it's just lazy farming.
Safety being a summon necromancer, I was like ten feet away from a elite cow and on death he wiped me out lol! My res was mid to high range in some areas, had to be a fluke, I have done cow many times with low res and never got killed! I was so pissed, I was close to getting a level, probably why it happened lol!
I have a build similar to this but use a +2 wand. I can’t, however, keep my iron golem alive! He dies super fast in chaos and cows (players 1) and I’ve lost so many insights.
Make sure your merc is alive at all times, as he will be attacked first. If he dies your golem is next. And you wanna have points in golem mastery and 1 point in summon resist... My golem has 6-7000 health and have never died. I got 9 points in Iron golem and 9 points in golem mastery... Plus gear
Thanks for the tips. Is it worth putting points in iron golem? Doesn’t seem to raise hp, only golem master does. Looks like I don’t have good enough gear because my golem is at 4500 hp do that would explain why he does so often.
They said they aren't nerfing anything. Only boosting other stuff. Do unless the devs are lying again this should work exactly the same after patch. Perhaps with some tweaks after others skills are boosted it will be even more powerful.
unless there will be changes they will buff Golems and rise mages so they are tanky and do more dmg to scale. This build is super effective and will grow even stronger... ONLY down fall is at the start of every run you have to summon your whole army. but there's nothing you cant clear (besides stone skin immune to fire)
@@ekimm2517 stone skin immune to fire sounds awful... maybe a buffed golem can do it... ..wait..nope.. shit... lmao...maybe the buffed act 3 ice merc will be useful
With pride your merc will then freeze enemies.. And they will shatter when they die.. So u cant summon skellies og corpse explosion Them.. Then you would need your golem to kill until you got your army
I feel that the video lose it's purpose of showing low geared summon necro build but then you have a god tier end game merc build. Also why not have a spirit weapon ? It seems way better than that wand and is not hard to get compared to the shield
Bone Armour is jsut way too weak. 110 dmg absorbed is not going to make a difference between dying or not in vast majority of cases, its not even 10% of your HP
Iron Maiden on Hell difficulty sucks. Just no. I use Decripify along with Clay Golem to slow almost completely any boss, then my skeletons and revived enemies do the rest.
Hmm. You can easily get 300-400 mf / 1000 gf on a summon necro without charms or enigma and still not lose kill speed or risk the summons staying alive.
Half of corporate explosion is physical damage and half is fire. So amp damage increases half the corpse explosion damage. Also the skeletons and merc do physical so it increases there damage as well.
@@SweetPhil decreprify is good on diablo, if your army, merc and golem is infected by amp dmg.. The kill is slightly slower, but you make sure your merc and golem survives (savning an insight)
Summoners need 20 in mages, they do a lot of dmg. Only 1 in CE cuz + skills give u plenty of range. Infinity act 2 merc is the best, gives - enemy defense for ur skellies to land every time and more dmg from CE (deals %50 fire) plus more mage dmg.
+skills can be unreliable for CE and that's one of your only few active offensive skills. Just max it out and you'll still have plenty of points to spend to maybe amplify damage, which wrecks physical immunities. You'll also get a lot of damage from revived monsters, so there's no need to be overzealous on the mage
@@danielgeronimo5538 CE only increases range. Hardpoints into mages increases their overall dmg. 20 points in mages is a must have as a summoner. They help drop monsters way faster to get off CE's and theyre permanent summons unlike revives. hell baal goes down so much faster with 20 in mages
@@TonsoficeAnd that's why you need points in CE. It doesn't make much sense to put too many in Mage unless you really need a ranged fighter. I'm good with like 5 mages and 9 frontline skeletons. And really you will mostly use your revives for bosses, you can use the very monsters Baal summons against him as you enter. Plus said monsters are easier to kill with a large explosion detonation range. Besides you have a chance to have cryo mages, you know why that's awful? They destroy bodies, you know why that's bad? You cannot re-stock your army that way, so if a skele mage dies or three of your melee skeletons, they're hard to revive. +Skills is better for Skele mages, full on with CE. Chaos runs are better and you'll have tanky fodder revives. Pull a Clay Golem if decrep doesn't slow down enough.
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3:51 - "Now for the gear remember, this is not end game best possible bla bla bla type of gear" *Infinity mercenary runs across the screen* :D
Jokes aside, nice guide. I like to upgrade from tele staff into a tele charges circlet/amulet with + necro or summoning skills, that way you avoid losing minions while swapping, at least until you get that elusive enigma armor.
Necro is a mercenary here.
😀. He could just use virts leg and it would be ok.
Thats funny. The rest of the gear is bad. The infinity merc should be traded away for a real summon necro build. Infinity is terrible on this setup.
@@stephenblack8698 It's pretty obvious he has max gear, he's just giving some examples of what to use on the cheap
I disagree with putting a point into bone armor. Theres no point in having 110 damage reduction at this level with a bunch of summons. I also (and please Im not trying to disrespect this vid) completely disagree with maxing points in amp damage... whats the point when you can spam it and have an insight golem for mana and it has a large radius anyways? Thats a whole lot of wasted points imo. And this video should definitely be called something more like "budget summon necro" with that wand. Why not just AOKL? Im no D2R master but not getting decrep for bosses while maxing amp damage just doesnt make sense. For how little putting points into amp damage does, you should just put more into skele magi. I know ppl dont like the skill but more summons is better than upping the radius of amp damage when you can just cast it multiple times (and comon we need more help killing baal). And lastly... unpopular opinion here... FCR doesnt really matter much for a summon necro (if someone thinks it matters and you have a lot of fcr then why max amp damage???). Use homonculus for all res instead of FCR with spirit shield. And get yourself a chillin necklace with +3 summon skills and strength to help wear Marrowalk boots.
A lot of good points in this post. Decrepify is an amazing curse, and combined with a well positioned Clay Golem it can literally shut down the most dangerous enemies in the game. FCR as you pointed out isnt needed, but to go into further detail, here's why: First up, you wont ever be spamming curses, in fact the only thing you will ever spam is most likely Corpse Explosion, and there are still only a finite amount of corpses to nuke. Necro's are usually VERY well protected by their armies, so shouldn't be anywhere near the front line, so minimal, if any, risk of their cast being interrupted. In real terms, it makes so little difference how quickly you CE. Its the difference between everything around you being dead in 3 second and 4 seconds.
No FCR requirements, as you pointed out, opens up the slot for Homonc. An amazing necro item, great block chance and rate, solid resists, good +skills (better than spirit), no requirements for investment into Str to be able to equip that Monarch in the first place. Plus decent mana perks (the +5 mana per kill will pay for a hell of a lot of Corpse nukes). Its even worth using a Larzuk reward on
I just love some floaties and visible aura buffs hence why I invest a point to it....
I think mages are sort or marginal, but I pretty much agree otherwise across the board. The homunculus is super underrated. Why on earth would you do spirit shield when you save a TON of strength and get solid res and skill buffs and block from homunculus?
I agree to most of this for the most part. Although this is still confusing for me, as to why does every player out there act like it's a cardinal sin to max out something like Amplify. It doesn't make much sense either to do Skeli mage because you'll get pretty much your strike force from revived monsters who will mostly have all the elements you need for damage.
I get that Amplify doesn't break immunities as much as other curses do, it's tiresome to keep casting it for general combat, especially when your party is reliant on certain cheap debuffs. I find decrep and low res to be very efficient in handling champions, or uniques, if not bosses. But amplify is rather reliable for dealing with grunts around the field, most of which is many and in case of hell, they have immunities.
FCR for Enigma
The beauty of this build is literally you need NO GEAR :D and it can go thru the game pretty smooth, not the fastest definetely, but very safe and can carry his own sh1t and even help others troubling with those imunnities if needed :)
Honestly I don't know ... naked ?? For the most part I would say yes of course but as I did a lot of playthrough it's by far the one that causing me.the most problem ... when u have to go to chaos under gear under level ur not having fun at all killing diablo with iron maiden reviving golem is super boring and take times ..
Umm as a new player… you’re gonna need gear. Unless you love dying and getting your gold taken
Gonna make my first ever summon Necro at ladder reset. Looks like fun and effective budget option!
Felt this overconfident until I reached Diablo, and he proceeded to kill every single one of my minions in a single fire nova :p
value of gear on character: about 5 fg
value of gear on merc: 5000 or more :D
this build kinda relies on the merc getting kills for CE and taking down bosses.
suicide branch, arm of king leoric, "white" or "spirit" runewords are all miles better than that wand and basically free, while hotspurs or aldur's boots would bump up your lacking fire res.
golem mastery points i found to be wasted, my insight golem never dies without it, i'd rather max skelly mages - especially with infinity on the merc, they'll start dealing some damage at larger numbers.
I don't think the bug was with leaving the game. The golem would persist, there was an issue where if it went so far off-screen it'd just kinda die or something (I forget the specifics) great vid man! This has been my go-to for a long time.
Started up playing the remake a couple weeks ago, never knew the depth of this game as a kid. started watching learning guides, binged watched all of yours. The voice and attitude gives me friendly dad vibe had to drop a sub, keep slaying!!!!.
I was picking up more of a "daddy" vibe
My merc uses G-face + Obedience + Treachery. Even though without any life-leech, he almost never die. And in 8pp games my army knock down bosses very fast.
honest question: is this a stupid build idea?
SummonMancer
A5 merc LastWish/HandJustice Barbhelm(ironskin) Dream
iron Golem: Beast
Leaving my hands free for a good White
Mfing on summoner on HC is the top tier move. You can flood MF and your overall dps doesn't really change
I have been playing my cold sorceress mainly but every second skiller GC that dropped for me (not found a single cold one yet) was summon necro GC. When I had 6 of them I had to make myself one and its been a blast to play and soon through Hell difficulty. There are many nice wands for the necro, and I use the Carin Shard (+3 summon in total). Its possible to swap to e.g. Ume's Lament for +2 skill and get +2 decrepify if you don't want to put points into that for a boss fight. Also using Homunculus now which gives +2 skills and +2 curses as well as nice +40 resist and mana regen. Its a really nice alternative to Spirit shield imo. Also stacking fcr doesn't seem that important, the corpses explode regularly still with normal and generally things go down fast. TP repair seems like a big catch about this one, my inventory is packed full with summon skillers, gheeds, id book, cube, torch and small mf charms. The skillers can offset you swapping gear for some MF stuff instead. How about more run speed and just move about fast instead? Also using one belt slot for TP scrolls you can throw that book out as its not really needed to have so many pots on this build. When doing runs you will likely just leave game and start a new one to go to town anyway.
Thank you for making this Phil! Awesome work as always.
Nice video! However, can't imagine a Necro without using Decrepify or at least taking it as an option. I mainly use Clay Golem (still in leveling mode in 80's) as no matter how hard I try NOT to lose my Iron Golem, he usually disappears every other play session causing me to have to create another Insight. When I have runes and bases to burn, then I may switch full time to Iron Golem/Insight, however maxing Golem Mastery over points in Amp Damage would be my suggestion. And of course never cast Mages as they almost always get in the way in 2.4 everything will/may change depending how much they buff mages.
Very Agree with decrepify. Hell diablo on +8 difficulty died without killing any skeletons, golem or merc. Almost broken on bosses.
mages still provide a solid damage increase as their numbers grow, while golem mastery does literally nothing.
@@JanJanNik Without Golem Mastery you Iron/Clay Golem would never survive in Hell. Not sure why you think Golem Mastery does nothing, when it clearly provides a massive hit point increase for your Golam
prefer summon resist over golem mastery. plus you can re-summon a clay golem without a corpse every time hp gets too low.
@@yipp_yippee i've played summon necro for a week now and my iron golem never died before me, even at 1 hard point. maybe you're doing something wrong?
My favourite build in the game. Slow but satisfying. Decrep make bosses easy borderline boring. Tele staff is a must.
Personally wouldn't pass on the rest of the curses, but this is a legit variation of fishymancer. It's laffs in the pit for sure.
Maelstrom is amazing, if it drops and you haven't made a summoner yet, go make one. Lots of mileage from ye old yew wand. Hopefully it spawns all +2 or +3 like Phil's for you.
Could also shop a wand with those +attract and/or +decrepify +lower resist mods to make a White. Lower resist can help you with CE spam on those stoneskin/physical immunes.
I took down my 1st D clone with a barebones fishymancer using Decrep and 10 Udars. :) Such a capable build!
Looking forward to starting a necro once 2.4 drops! YEEEEEEEEEE!!!
nice video, but for a more realistic merc build, you can't go wrong with duress + obedience/socketed hone sundan + g face to turn him into a CB maniac, they are also very cheap and obtainable.
I like 1 point in attract, 1 point decriptify. I've started only playing hardcore, that attract is great crowd control to get the first kill.
I was lucky to find a rare +2 summon, charge of tele amulet for my necro. Way better than switch, but staff on switch is more reliable to find.
Obediance, treachery, tal mask
or you could just go into pindle's portal and summon your entire army without having to kill anything
That 1 point in decrepify is so good for bosses. It will also prevent Baal from cloning or teleporting, which is a huge QoL when doing Baal runs.
I have almost this exact build, except my merc has 100% CB through Obedience, Duress, and Gface. And I'm running War Travs (35MF), a +3 summon ammy, and I swap out 28/30 me Nagels and 2 Dwarf Stars (when I want more GF). I also am using King Leoric's Arm and Homunculus.
Honestly I think my merc enables me to clear faster. Obedience is in an eth thresher. I can take down HDiablo in ~3 seconds.
I clear everything and pop all containers. I got a Sur from a hidden stash.
I also only have one point in amp damage and put the rest in revives.
Sweet Phil may i suggest looking for a white base shrunken head and look for curse skills that you want and make a splendor shield instead of spirit. Yes you lose a one to all skill, BUT you save precious skill points like 3 to 7 (decrep/lower res)
Hi. Which build is faster clearer? Summon or poison nova necro? Your opinion? Or can u compare this two builds shortly?
Take dim vision for lightning ghosts. Idk why people don’t pick up that amazing curse. It’s worth sacrificing a point somewhere else
If you are doing end game stuff surprisingly act 1 merc can be awesome because there is a bow with a fanaticism aura and an armor with a thorns aura as well as a helmet with a holy thunder aura. Would actually be better than infinity as unless your skeletal mages somehow do good damage physical damage is going to be the way to go.
My necro is like this but I use summon and bone spear to help my summons get a body to pop faster
Im always on a budget lol. Love these video!. Good work!
Awesome video man Ive got a mid level necromancer that has been collecting dust so this build looks like it would be worth the re spec
you should always use 1 pt into Decrepify. Maxing out amp damage isn't needed.
personally i always use decrepify instead of amp. i really like how it slows down and weakens monsters so my skellies can destroy them faster
How do you get insight not playing ladder for iron golem? Of course I play single-player only.
Would you use decrep over amp damage for just regular clearing? Or is decrep really only good for bosses?
Amp does way more if you look at the damage percentage.
Aye, Andrew is right. Decrepify is good on bosses because it slows their attacks and less of your minions get damaged and die, especially in boss rooms with little to no corpses to replenish.
But when you are out and about, with little danger of the attacking hoards, Amplify Damage will reign supreme as it does more to increase your minions actual damage output. The mobs typically go down quick anyway without damaging your army too much as it is, so focusing strictly on maximizing your damage is more important so you can pop the first corpse.
Hope that helped. Good luck.
Captain, what if my iron golem dies? Do i need to sacrifice another insight to get a new insight iron golem?
pretty sure I remember iron golem following me from game to game in LoD as well. Are you sure this was a D2:R cchange?
You do not need to use a spirit shield for a summon necro as the Humunculus is actually better due to the resist all, the +2 necro skills, and the +2 curses (necro only) and most of the other gear requires less than 100 strength as the gear I use for this build is generally Shako, Skullders Ire, Arachnid's Mesh, War Traveler, Trangs Gloves, Humunculus, Heart of the Oak. For rings you can use 2x SoJ, 2x BK, or 1 of each For the amulet a +2 necro skills amulet or Mara's.
Base Stats: Str 97-110 Dex 35 (For HotO) Energy 25 (0 points into this) and Vitality all points after Str and Dex are done My actual character has slightly higher Str so I can switch between Skullders and Arcaine's Valor
Base skill levels: Summoning Skills: Skeleton Mastery, Raise Skeleon, Raise Skeleon Mage, and Summon resist 20 Golem Mastery, Clay Gloem Blood Golem, Iron Golem ,and Revive 1
Poison and Bone Skills: Teeth 1 Corpse Explosion 11 or higher if you put fewer points in curses
Curse Skills: Amplify Damage 5
the skill levels work well as all the +skill bonuses from gear make it work
Legit question from someone who only made it as far as Nightmare before restarting in ladder.
Why do people keep playing once they hit level 90+ and beat Act 5 Hell?
Like what is there left to do, beyond fighting the same boss over and over and over, to farm for gear you don't even need?
Is it to farm gear for alts? So your next character can have amazing gear without needing to rely on RNGesus? If so, what happens when you get every class to level 99?
Look up Pandemonium event and Diablo clone
all good but put one point into Life Tap and one into Confuse, those two are a must in my opinion, Life Tap makes ur merc immortal and Confuse makes u a cow god haha also really good when u trying to survive a pack of mobs
I mean, it's quite a flexible build -- but why max out amp dmg? Much rather put at least 20 points in bone wall/prison for that extra absorb. Also, life tap & decrep are absolutely necessary if you ever plan on running ubers later on. Lastly, I would take some extra points out of golem mastery and put some in Clay Golem for that extra % slow, it helps with ubers, mostly for the merc to stay alive. IF the build is STRICTLY for ubers, then CE can be left at one point too, but yeah, can't go wrong either way if it's just lazy farming.
Safety being a summon necromancer, I was like ten feet away from a elite cow and on death he wiped me out lol! My res was mid to high range in some areas, had to be a fluke, I have done cow many times with low res and never got killed! I was so pissed, I was close to getting a level, probably why it happened lol!
Is there any way you could do a summon druid build Phil? Please
Thanks bud, you’re the man! 🤟
What about decrepify? It's amp damage weaken and reduces damage
I hope blizzard can fix the issue where the revives stay stacked on top of each other.
I have a build similar to this but use a +2 wand. I can’t, however, keep my iron golem alive! He dies super fast in chaos and cows (players 1) and I’ve lost so many insights.
Make sure your merc is alive at all times, as he will be attacked first. If he dies your golem is next. And you wanna have points in golem mastery and 1 point in summon resist... My golem has 6-7000 health and have never died. I got 9 points in Iron golem and 9 points in golem mastery... Plus gear
Thanks for the tips. Is it worth putting points in iron golem? Doesn’t seem to raise hp, only golem master does.
Looks like I don’t have good enough gear because my golem is at 4500 hp do that would explain why he does so often.
Also you can stack so much magic find on this build and still be an effective killer
I like how he has trangs. But the wand could be better.... A rare wand maybe. I actually don't know much about necromancer
the main prob i've been having with the summoner are the asshole special enemies that i shot with ice novas when they die in hell difficulty.
I've been switching between clay and fire golem.
In your run, you summon 5 skeles, why not the full 12 your 33 RS grants? Why not? You are almost always full mana, you should be full skele
Wont this change with the class updates? If not I may start a necro
They said they aren't nerfing anything. Only boosting other stuff. Do unless the devs are lying again this should work exactly the same after patch. Perhaps with some tweaks after others skills are boosted it will be even more powerful.
unless there will be changes they will buff Golems and rise mages so they are tanky and do more dmg to scale. This build is super effective and will grow even stronger... ONLY down fall is at the start of every run you have to summon your whole army. but there's nothing you cant clear (besides stone skin immune to fire)
@@SweetPhil my main concern is synergies being changed and having to use 1 respec just to set it right
@@ekimm2517 stone skin immune to fire sounds awful... maybe a buffed golem can do it... ..wait..nope.. shit... lmao...maybe the buffed act 3 ice merc will be useful
@@ekimm2517 you can get about 15-20 skellies for free at the start of every game in the pindle portal.
I always use the Puzzler until I can get enigma on non sorc characters.
best character to play for new player, u can farm all gear u need to get stronger u can farm Runes normal to hell i strongly recommend :)
Is this player 8? Corpse explosion doesn't work that well in that case.
Why get FCR on a summoner? Doesn't seem that beneficial.
Bone spear and teeth secondary
teleporting and CE
How about pride for merc?? Concentration aura
With pride your merc will then freeze enemies.. And they will shatter when they die.. So u cant summon skellies og corpse explosion Them.. Then you would need your golem to kill until you got your army
It's so easy to find plus summon gear. I'm poor Af and was able to make level 35 summon.
Is it possible to beat uber tristam with that Kind of build? I have slighty better and i must know what are my chances?
A summon necro can easily beat Ubers.
Lvl 20 concentrates pride golem for the win
"This is my budget necro build." *Throws 6 ber runes at merc*
I use iron maiden for boss battles
I feel that the video lose it's purpose of showing low geared summon necro build but then you have a god tier end game merc build. Also why not have a spirit weapon ? It seems way better than that wand and is not hard to get compared to the shield
Bone Armour is jsut way too weak. 110 dmg absorbed is not going to make a difference between dying or not in vast majority of cases, its not even 10% of your HP
A WHITE runeword would be fine. It’s also the cheapest.
I see people running around with the shako all the damn time and i can never get the damn thing to drop.
Probably easier to buy one at this point.. Um to mal usually
@@frederiksnderkrmikkelsen2010 i have neither of those two runes. i'm trying to get at least 3 UMs for armor and have one rune left over.
Iron Maiden on Hell difficulty sucks. Just no. I use Decripify along with Clay Golem to slow almost completely any boss, then my skeletons and revived enemies do the rest.
YESSSSS I thought I was being ignored in chat 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sorry hard to keep up sometimes in live chat and play.
@@SweetPhil Thank you so much for making this video!
I got a horker lol gold is of no issue to me... repair gang all day lol
Hmm. You can easily get 300-400 mf / 1000 gf on a summon necro without charms or enigma and still not lose kill speed or risk the summons staying alive.
Why not Decrepify?
I don't use points on skills I don't use.
@@SweetPhil makes sense. I guess my question should have been...why amp DMG over decrepify?
Half of corporate explosion is physical damage and half is fire. So amp damage increases half the corpse explosion damage. Also the skeletons and merc do physical so it increases there damage as well.
@@SweetPhil decreprify is good on diablo, if your army, merc and golem is infected by amp dmg.. The kill is slightly slower, but you make sure your merc and golem survives (savning an insight)
Summoners need 20 in mages, they do a lot of dmg. Only 1 in CE cuz + skills give u plenty of range. Infinity act 2 merc is the best, gives - enemy defense for ur skellies to land every time and more dmg from CE (deals %50 fire) plus more mage dmg.
+skills can be unreliable for CE and that's one of your only few active offensive skills.
Just max it out and you'll still have plenty of points to spend to maybe amplify damage, which wrecks physical immunities.
You'll also get a lot of damage from revived monsters, so there's no need to be overzealous on the mage
@@danielgeronimo5538 CE only increases range. Hardpoints into mages increases their overall dmg. 20 points in mages is a must have as a summoner. They help drop monsters way faster to get off CE's and theyre permanent summons unlike revives. hell baal goes down so much faster with 20 in mages
@@TonsoficeAnd that's why you need points in CE. It doesn't make much sense to put too many in Mage unless you really need a ranged fighter. I'm good with like 5 mages and 9 frontline skeletons.
And really you will mostly use your revives for bosses, you can use the very monsters Baal summons against him as you enter. Plus said monsters are easier to kill with a large explosion detonation range. Besides you have a chance to have cryo mages, you know why that's awful? They destroy bodies, you know why that's bad? You cannot re-stock your army that way, so if a skele mage dies or three of your melee skeletons, they're hard to revive.
+Skills is better for Skele mages, full on with CE. Chaos runs are better and you'll have tanky fodder revives. Pull a Clay Golem if decrep doesn't slow down enough.
played like 1000 hours and never got shako.... yeah really "obtainable" stuff you got there
"Summon necro" dude has 4 skeletons 🙄 yes.
lame ancient meta attempting to continue to be by adding infinite for no reason
Algo
Tell new players to not cube Orts!!!
another budged build with infinity😂