Must have skills for Summoner

I just hope that finding such a sweet spot(gear and passive wise) to balance ES/armor is possible in the game.
Looking forward to testing it out in the beta!

I'm not really fond of necromantic aegis.

It doesn't give your minions many good options other than additional defense, which is not-great because:

a) Minions are cheap. If one dies, you can easily replace it.

b) While +minion life% modifiers increase the size of the instability explosion (because instability goes off minion HP), things like energy shield, block, or resistances increases survivability without increasing explosion size.

c) Losing your shield is a pretty big penalty.

d) It occasionally doesn't work as I feel like it should.

For example, necromantic aegis + tempest shield would be an awesome combination. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, because your minions get your shield bonuses, then you get the bonuses from tempest shield, but because you don't have shield bonuses (anymore) then tempest does nothing. As far as I know this is intended, not a bug, even though it's just giving the player the worst of both worlds for no apparent reason.

As far as I know, all shield passives work similarly. You don't get the bonus, your minions don't get the bonus, everyone loses.

Anyway, yeah. I don't like necromantic aegis much.

I do like things which boost aura radius, though. Auras are nice with minions.

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rasdel_83 wrote:

A witch or shadow for the matter, without ES would not last long. The templar on the contrary are more meaty and can wistand more damage. Still ... if you check out my build... you can see that i have selected some ES nodes AND some armor/shield ones too... to avoid going ALL ES...

Going all ES could be just fine, though. A lot of people consider ES the best form of protection, even.

Hello guys,

i don't want to create a new thread and since you spoke about a summoning Templar with Chaos Inoculation I thought to share my build with you.

It's focused around Minion Instability and Chaos Inoculation.

Check it out please: http://tinyurl.com/73jf5aj

So far I spend 65 points which gives me the following enhancements:

+300 Intelligence, +120 Strength (i want to use equipment with armor and energy therefore I need some Strength), +183% more Maximum Energy Shield (this should be enough, because I get a huge bonus from the 300 Intelligence), 44% increased Armor, +90% increased Minion Damage, +60% increased maximum Life of Minions
and 4 additional Minions. And of course 100% chaos resistance with which some enemies are completely harmless.

The idea is basically to have strong minions with good fighting abilities and a “little” explosive present when they die.

In fights, I will be mainly casting curses from behind and deliver auras.

With more than those 65 skill points I would grab the four 30% increased Energy Shield from equipped Shield skills near me, Hex Master and Whispers of Doom.

I won't choose Necromantic Aegis because i need the Energy Shield boost from my equipped shield. What annoys me is the Lord of the Dead skill. It's wonderful, but I would be forced to grab many passives I really don't need. That's in my opinion not worth it.

My only concern with this build so far is that it’s maybe becoming a bit boring because all I do in fight is casting curses and recast my minions.

I would like to hear your opinion about this build.

ok huge problem im seeing with summoners atm is inability to cause enough dps to kill basically any tough boss on ruthless and any mob with lifeleech or regen. Have to keep massively altering setup wheneveri have to get past chatters or w/e,.

I am a Caster/Necro and i am not sure if i should make my Minions Stronger whit Necromantic Aegis also it´s 7 lvl´s away from me but i am not sure if it would be good or Bad for my Build, what do you Guy´s Think?

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I got enough Mana left to Give my Minions some Discipline:) Now they have ES, but now i think i should invest in my Mana, cause Discipline lvl 2 plus Clarity lvl 9 = MUCH o MANA, but i can Spam my Spells!

Oh Right also Chatters is that Funny Big Skeleton whit that Ice Hammer right? I Killed him like a Normal Mob (is it possible that he was Stronger before?), but my Problem Yesterday was that Sawbones (a Necromancer Unique) he is a really Though Dude in Combination whit a Rare Necro and someone whit Puncture (That Hurts damn it!), i think i will get my Revenge now^,.,^!

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First i killed that Puncture Rare Big Skeleton Archer Dude (LOL) and then the rest was Easy, that damn Sucker Sawbones was Resurrecting My Victims all the time but in the End was only some Pieces Meat on the Flood, that was a nice Massaker, Necromancer vs Necromancer is always a Dirty Battle (especially if the Devs add some more Gore in the Game^,.,^).