Lazy Summon Necromancer - CE optional

Hello and welcome to my lazy summon necro build guide.

Pros

• Safe/Very high survivability
• Incredible boss damage
• Versatile build (gear/skills can easily be swapped around)
• Easy leveling
• Your 9-5 becomes picking up loot

Cons

• A lot of key-binds (Less of a problem with D2RLoader persistent minions extension)
• Minion positioning can be tough until you can warp/teleport
• Clear speed varies based on gear progression
• Visually awkward to see minions fly and stack
• Aura activation sound can annoy some (can toggle off via launcher)

General gameplay and how the build works

Main damage is from Skeleton Warriors, with supplemental damage from skeleton mages, golems and the druid's grizzly bears. The fire golem also provides flat fire damage to the warriors via his aura AND a3 enchant mercenary will enchant the whole horde adding more flat fire damage and fire penetration. The fire damage helps when encountering a very tough physical resistant enemy.

Scale as many physical damage boosting auras as possible and debuffs. Self cast Concentration and Amplify Damage. Mercenary provides Fanaticism, Might, Blessed Aim, and Cleansing. Iron Golem provides Conviction (for lowering defense mostly, but also lowers ele resist).

Very safe build as you have a literal horde of minions to body block enemies, coupled with 1 base point into bone armor to absorb physical hits whenever they get through. The build is very hardcore viable.

Faq

• Why do i say it's the lazy version?

Well, because i don't like casting corpse explosion or weapon swapping.

• Would corpse explosion help my general clear speed?

Sure.

• Would weapon swapping help my survivability?

Absolutely

• Do i think it's necessary to be successful?

Not at all.

• Do i already have enough key-binds and would rather spend time picking up loot?

Yup.

• How did you obtain X piece of gear?

Probably crafting, read the recipes on the crafting pages.

• Do i need to have the exact gear?

No. Some sticks and bubble gum and you'd be able to beat the game.

Other variants of summon necromancer

A few quick variations you can try if this is not for you.

• Just put like 1 point in corpse explosion
• Max Summon Resist to give Skeleton Mages more ele pierce & put points into Lower Resist instead of Amplify Damage
• Trang's Set Golemmancer: scaling fire skill damage and letting your five fire golems run wild
• Golemmancer Generic: maxing golems instead of skeletons (surprisingly very viable and golems slap pretty hard)