My necro keeps dying :(

Started this character because she was very cheap to raise up, and fun. Liking her more now and trying to get serious, but I'm having survivability issues, since somehow enemies still seem to shoot me down in the middle of my horde, or aoe me or something else.

Using exploding fire/burning damage zombies, skelly totem with multistrike/chaos damage, raising Tentacle Miscreations and occasionally Flame Sentinels for spectres. I use Arc with elemental proliferation and culling strike myself.

I run 2 auras, Clarity and Discipline.

Any suggestions?

Passives:


Gear:

In my opinion, you should take Eldricth Battery. Whit that, i have no mana problem, and i can run six auras (purity, vitality, discipline, grace, wrath and anger). Then you could buy some life heavy + all res items (and some chaos res also) and improve your and yours minion survivability.

And don't use MB until you fell really safe.

I run with 4300 life (without MB) and when I die is entirely my fault. (I'm bad)

This is my current gear (really cheap gear) and my passive skill tree:

Thanks, that's some pretty good advice. =) I had never thought of going for ar/es equips before (just a bias I guess) but that makes sense.

Well, I dont' see any resists really. From my calculations based on gear and passives, you are at:


24% Fire
22% Cold
-31% Lightning
-36% Chaos

You've also focused on health.... and you're reserving 30% of it with your wand.
You have terrible ES.

Soooo..... Not capped resistances, Low Es, 30% Health Reserved....

You also have ONE Minion Health Gem. I mean, I guess I can understand on the Skeletons if you don't want to have the gem, but you need your Zombies to tank for you. (Hint: It's still damage, because Skeletons Die, and minion life is woth ~46% increased health at your level, so bigger explosions)

Yes. You're going to die, and die a lot. Even with a ton of minions walking around.

If I were you. And this is only a suggestion, I'm not saying you have to do this, but if I were you, I would do a couple of things.

1.) change the build a little. I dropped 6 points from your build that were "meh" and gave you 30% more resistances.

2.) Beef up your ES, or go crazy on life. Right now, you're kind of trying to do both, and cover the Chaos resist so you can use the wand. Honestly? I don't like the wand. I don't use it. I stopped using the wand, and went CI. I took all those health nodes, turned them into ES, and built myself up. This is my build

3.) Contemplate if you really need all of those Uniques. I'm Level 69. And running a similar style summoner.
Here is my gear


You'll notice that I'm only running 2 uniques. The wand and shield are "cool" but I found that I liked the personal survivability that the shield gave me, as well as my current wand. On my gear, the only things that I "hate" right now, are my rings and belt.

Hope my ramblings help.

There are few things you could change:

max your resist. Also try to get chaos resist.
-Run purity aura
-buy a new shield. Archon kite shield will be fine (it brings 24 ar. Alc/chaos it till you are happy with that (more energy shield/chaos resist or life will be fine))
-try to get another amulett. One that give you more defense/life. Sure your ammy is nice, but if you die, you need more defense ;)

Yeah, I've been wanting to replace the shield (been wearing it since 23) but hadn't seen anything I like yet to replace it. Just realized I have had an Angelic Kite Shield set aside that I had been ignoring b/c it was intended for my Templar. x_x;

Definitely going the life route, seems the easier for players like me to deal with who are still getting used to the game.

I like a lot of the suggestions put forth so far, very excited to get around to truly kicking butt again. =)

I would use minion gems on that wand (maybe skeletons). have a life gem with the zombies. manually cast the skeletons, and use the totem as a weapon (like spark). It can be a challenge keeping up the army and casting arc as well (that's what i do). lvl 70 with only 2100+hp. Pretty hard finding any decent gear, especially with hitpoints and decent stats. I use ES as additional hps. Would die far too easy if i took eldridge. Some of the gear i have has chaos resistance.

Using this setup:


nodes that add 30% resistance when using a shield. 2 of the 3 are close to max, still looking for gear/items to max out all 3. I don't die too often.

Thanks everyone! With your suggestions I was able to buy 1 alch worth of items and some stuff already in my stash to cap 2 of my resists, get my chaos resist positive and add 1k HP. =) Will definitely continue to improve!

i play with this gear

works fine to me

got 2159 life with midnight bargain (3084 without) + 1710 es.
resis are maxed on 87 (with purity).but was a little tricky cause the -20 from thatandvarius ring. chaos is -12 (will work on that)
auras i use clarity/wrath and purity.

when i have my spectres i swep my gmp for a low lvl q arctic armour (for more ms and a little -phy/fire dmg)

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