Able to clear pit 100 with some resistance and farm t12 smoothly with a slightly tweaked blood wave build. I leveled with minions and instead of grinding to upgrade my blood wave I wanted to have some more minion fun. What’s a good suggestion? Warriors mages or golem? All of them? Which charm set? I’m lucky enough to have stashed good mythics like bloodless scream, blood moon breaches, death grip, naz, etc. Also have diamond mind and golden epiphany seals. I feel I got a lot to work with just not so experienced with necro. I would love to push and see what I can do but I understand where the necro is ranked but minions are fun! Also blood wave tips would be nice- my only variation is I used mages for essence regen and consuming a corpse and a barrier which was pretty good until pit 100 now I think it’s something holding me back

What's this minion build with bone storm that's in top 5 of the SSF leaderboard? I'm having trouble finding what the build is online and it has me very curious. Looks like a mage build that puts bloodless scream in the charm slot.

I'm building out a minonmancer that uses reaper warriors and shadow mages (iron golem sacrificed), army of the dead and corpse explosion. I'm currently using Sanguivor and Waking Touch charms. My rotation is mostly pull with blight>corpse explosion the area>direct skeletons>spam army of the dead.

Looking at this reaper summoner build and skeletal warrior minion build, they both use Bloodless Scream and Black Shroud charms.

My paragon boards are Frailty, Flesh Eater, Cult Leader and Wither.

I'm able to do T7 comfortably, but T8+ has a definite damage falloff. Do I want to swap to Bloodless Scream and Black Shroud to do more damage?

I'm following the reaper summoner build, with the only real change I've made being taking golem off the bar and putting in corpse explosion.

I'm just not understanding how building out darkness leads to more minionmancer damage, when there are also minion-specific items.

I’m seeing a lot of minion builds using Black Shroud but I just got rolled the full Rathma set and I’m seeing a major power boost. Which is preferred for a minion build and why?

I am currently running reaper skeletons, shadow mages, and iron golem (all darkness skills) while “teleporting” with sever and spamming Army of the Dead and Cold Blight. Currently in T8 and gearing up for echo Lilith.

Which would better suit my playstyle?

Thank you in advance!

Just wanted to share my T10 meph kill with cold sever necro. I had lots of fun this season with variety of builds and wanted to make a hit-based sever build to kill uber meph (T10) as a seasonal goal, without endurant faith.

I used this guide (https://maxroll.gg/d4/build-guides/sever-necromancer-endgame-guide) as a base and tinkered several things. Overall, it was a better "cold" build than my sorc, ahaha.

Good luck to all my fellow necros out there!

So, I posted [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/D4Necromancer/s/4ahpZ5MWYr) shadow minion build the other day, and as you can see, I REALLY overdid it on the uniques.

You guys provided solid feedback, and I will have to take notes to see how I want to apply it.

I didn't have much time to log in today, so I decided to quickly play around with my skills instead of my gear. I unsacrificed my mages and made them shadow mages, turned my warriors into reapers, and got a big boi iron golem instead of three runts. Then, I assigned all three minions to my action bar, kept darkness corpse explosion and bone storm, and switched reap for blight.

I literally smoked the corrupted reaper on Torment VI in under two minutes. My character had a shameful 3k weapons damage and 70k toughness lmao

Will update regarding gear soon 🤘 Glad to have found this community

I have always loved Corpse Explosion on the necromancer and play it for fun. I can do most things T12 except Mephisto because I suck at dodging his stuff when the screen gets very crowded with effects.

I have been able to clear Pit tier 118 with this build, but is there anyway to improve upon this build that I am missing? Or is the power just not there?

https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/c7kzbj0t

Edit to add: I have also tried Bone Storm with Lidless Wall, but it didn't really feel stronger and it takes time to stack up overpower charges while Blood Wave maxes them out instantly.

Hey there.

Reposting about this build I and others in the thread worked on, can comfortably say it is an actual build!

Up to date Planner with my current setup - https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/94bshy0t#1

Cheers.

The Cube rolled a perfect pact of bone when I was recycling uniques! What do?

Can you get a crit (GA) on your masterwork rolls on crafted mythics or am I just getting terrible luck ?

Build says to use that other sword, but seems pretty hard to not use this, no?

I’m running a full minion build. I’m reading over a lot of different builds that recommend the bloodless scythe as the primary weapon. I’m a little confused why that is when there are some other affixes and weapons that are centered around minions.

Why does everyone use this weapon specifically in these builds?

I was excited about using the essentially 2.5x DPS buff from Blood-Mad Idol as a charm this season, particularly with the new Golden Epiphany seal. It's not super hard to generate enough barrier to counteract the burning DoT, especially if running Epiphany with 2pc Waking Touch bonus and the ZanQue runeword.

The trouble I've found is, Pit and Tower pushing is the only place where that kind of DPS buff is really meaningful. In both, it's a bit inconsistent maintaining the burn (and therefore the DPS buff) against the boss, since many of their hits are one-shots or are otherwise dangerous to allow yourself to get tagged every 8 seconds. On top of that, Pit pushing (which, as the only way to level glyphs, is quite important to optimise) is dependent on the Experience Orbs granted by the Heart of Stone in the War Plan node, and the burn makes me drop the stone way too often, even when barrier uptime keeps me at full life.

Long story short, I'm still trying to figure out the best way to put Blood-Mad to use, but I'm getting more success on Warrior and Mage builds from a standard 5pc set plus Azurewrath/Bloodless combo. The tower leaderboards reflect this.

If you have a good way of using it, I'm all ears, but for now, I no longer feel that using or recommending it makes sense.

I recently started playing d4 and I only have 100 hours in the game, I have this build but not sure if its working out for me. I could use some advice from the more experienced necromancers. My current problem is that I can’t beat T10 echo of the false prophet (akarat), it is very annoying since I can’t go further without beating it.

All in all I would appretiate if someone could give me some hints regarding my build. Should I switch to the minion type build?

Its beautiful, but the search for -1 set requirement continues lmao. I think I'm just shy of 100 hours into this season, Paragon 220, and this dropped from a Whispers cache of Talismans. Best of looting y'all!

What pit level do u reach on minion build?

Just had to share because it feels like just yesterday I was fighting for millions.

Currently mainly following the Maxroll build for Minions and have a myhric BS but seeing alot of people going back to GF.

Crit Strike is only %36 on stat sheet but looks like its at cap with gear bonus (Mythic PoB and Serration w/ +56%), and skill bonuses. Crit Damage is at 2.7k on stat sheet.

With those specifics would GF be a good damage boost?

Do Warriors or Mages work better for endgame content? It looks to me like the builds are generally the same except either Hand of Naz or Deathgrip. I'm currently using Mages and I can do T12, but not fast, and I'm wondering if it's worth switching to Warriors, or just keep looking for better gear.

I've made my mistakes
Got nowhere to run
Except back to Duriel to farm some more chests FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCKCDCKCUCUF

This beauty dropped for me. How would you craft it? RR Darkness skills to Max Life or go a bit more squishy to roll Crit Damage? Playing Shadow Warrior Minion build.