[3.15] SKELEMANCER (Skeletons Summoner) 2021 Necromancer Build. 15M DPS. SSF + VIDEO GUIDE

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Kaw wrote:
I was looking for a good skeleton guide for 3.7 and found this, but it raised a few questions for me.
I have played a few minion builds in the past. Never did uber elder with it, but all other content is done.
I noticed a few things playing minion builds:
1. Minion Movement Speed is a big part of the clear speed when you use skeletons.
2. Aura's are not very useful because in late end game you try to offscreen stuff with your minions and they are almost always out of range.

Therefore I would prefer to play with Queen's Escape, drop Necro Aegis and Commander of Darkness and go instead for Soul Weaver for the 100% Spectre Life.
By dropping the part of the tree for Necro Aegis you get a few extra passive nodes: invest them in minion life too. This way your frenzy and power charge apes will not die. Especially if you combine them with the guardian in a +2-+3 helmet with extra minion life, the minion life support gem and empower.

Curses are only needed on bosses because other stuff dies fast anyway so any manual casting of a curse is manageable.

For minion damage the new timeless jewels create an interesting option to invest in. I personally found a 320% minion damage jewel that I use now. Therefor any other passive skill point with just 10%-15% minion damage or minion damage on gear can be skipped.

Now you can fully concentrate on getting your defenses in working order and buy minion movement speed jewelry for the last drop of clear speed.
I think this way the build becomes more enjoyable and still has the same DPS potential for bosses.

1) Minion speed is always great, especially for slow zombies and skellies. Always a personal preference.
2) Single target is all that matters, you need this damage for end-game bossses

Your Spectres will die to end-game bosses and all kind of legion elemental damage, they have no damage to leech life back, so speccing into life is pointless.
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This league with the legion encounters, but also with Delve and map clearing speed does matter.

I also was able to keep my spectres alive during the shaper and red elder fight. I dont have experience with uber elder to be honest but thats not a personal goal for me.

Edit: also have around 240k dps per skellie so DPS is not a problem.
Last edited by Kaw on Aug 1, 2019, 9:36:51 AM
Love the build so far. Although I do occasionally get one shoted while idling in the back :).

Now; as I did not find reliable dps calculator. I was wondering what would be the best option for 6L (empower lvl4) blue support gem?
I have 3 red 3 blue slots. And went with Skeletons - Empower - Minion dmg - maim - splash (multistrike) - X
I went with maim instead of melee phys cause I assume maim works with summon phantashm which I am currently using as 6th slot.
IGN Dulacfarmer
Last edited by Kostabre on Aug 12, 2019, 8:08:17 AM
Nice build, killed Shaper (first try, 0 wipes) and Uber Elder (first try, 2 wipes). I've dropped Necro Aegies for Lioneye's to boost survivability, cause I have a chest with Maim, so dps is already bonkers - bosses are melted almost instantly. Also used spare talents to get reserved reduction and equip War Banner for a small dps boost.

Tried your Spectre build, but I like this one more, it's so much tankier.
Last edited by desu on Aug 12, 2019, 5:39:41 PM
Any changes for 3.8?
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fizbanger wrote:
Any changes for 3.8?

There will be for sure. Waiting for patch notes as usual
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Hi to all,
PoB is ready for update with 3.8 skill tree, but new convocation wands have not been added(
No passive tree, only a raw data dump of unknown origin.
V 1.2 Update (05/09/2019):
-3.8 PoB link updated.
-Skeletons were greatly buffed, giving them more skeletons per cast, From Dust got better delivering more Skellies, all extra skellies moved over from the tree and into the gem itself.
-Maim chest added as an end-game base chest, replacing Belly of the Beast
-added new 6L in end-game section considering new chest
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When does one stop using explosive trap?

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