Revamped Ascendancy Class Reveal: Necromancer

skele totem, zombie, scourge - the death knight, yes very hipster. I'm still going to try to make it work this league, I just have to move some points around, maybe try LL with aegis aurora, I will still get max block but 250 life on block doesn't matter if I use ES, so thats already out. just wont be a good league starter. this last league I tried something without summons, I guess people doing that got the build nerfed, oh well still a sad day considering that inquis still has ignore enemy res on crit, ( watched a streamer one shot atziri) thats over powered, no class gets a bonus like that, not even close.

so now my minions survive and i die all the time :D

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DAOWAce wrote:

Combining it with the damage node does nothing, summoners don't do the damage.

Never heard of Dark Pact, hm? Since Zerkers will never ever play Dark Pact again, I tried to use it in its "intentional" way this league with Skelly-Totem and Dual Apeps. Was a blast with descent clear speed and strong boss killing capabilities.
With those buffs to Skellies and zombies, it gets even better for my DP-Build.

Sometimes, you just have to try something else, you know? The rework overall is quiet nice, just the max block builds suffer from the offering change, and even there, 50% is totally ok.

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1453R wrote:

Oof. First savage nerf of the reveals - that Mistress of Sacrifice hit is painful. Not really unwarranted though, self Offerings were kinda borked as hell and we all knew they would be.

Compared to what? The way summoner used to be? Are you telling me Necro is one of the top OP ascendancy and you need Necro in any way shape or form to be OP?

If max block, Bone Offering was OP, nerf Bone Offering, why mess up the other offerings...
Or are we all hoping for buffs to gems?

Guys, Necromancer looks bad now. The Mistress of Sacrifice is absolutely crippling - cannot play Necro anymore!

Do not play Necro!!! (especially Skeletons)

Aw. I doubt it's intentional, but this is a pretty significant nerf to any build that used both Spectres and Zombies.

... like the one I've been running.

Guess I'll just run golems like everyone else. Laaaaaame.

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gkathellar wrote:

Aw. I doubt it's intentional, but this is a pretty significant nerf to any build that used both Spectres and Zombies.

... like the one I've been running.

Guess I'll just run golems like everyone else. Laaaaaame.

I actually like this change, as it allows for more specialization instead of Necromancer being a summoner generalist, where players just took all the damage on the path to spectre node.

True. The generalists will be hurt here. But the specialists are significantly stronger. And I think this is a good thing.

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AbdulAlhazred wrote:

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gkathellar wrote:

Aw. I doubt it's intentional, but this is a pretty significant nerf to any build that used both Spectres and Zombies.

... like the one I've been running.

Guess I'll just run golems like everyone else. Laaaaaame.

I actually like this change, as it allows for more specialization instead of Necromancer being a summoner generalist, where players just took all the damage on the path to spectre node.

True. The generalists will be hurt here. But the specialists are significantly stronger. And I think this is a good thing.

I guess? I didn't see a lot of generalists, but maybe I just wasn't paying attention.

Thing is, especially with the Mistress of Sacrifice nerf, I think this pigeonholes a lot of builds. My experience has been that Necros desperately need physical mitigation, and Zombies are sort of the you can get that. I think most everyone will still want Mistress of Sacrifice + Commander of Darkness, and with Invoker that leaves you in the position of choosing between Flesh Binder for the ability to not die and whatever would actually suit your build concept. This is especially relevant to Skeleton and SRS summoners, who do have to occasionally stop running around like a chicken with their head cut off in order to resummon.

Gutted as someone predicted.

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BossOfThisGym wrote:

Build that used mistress to get max block were in no way shape or form "hipster" lmao

definitely hipster. max block builds have similar pathing and unique usage except witch who just used offering and rumis like it really shares nothing in common.