Bringer of Minions: Not your Normal Minion Build

In terms of survivability I still think a life leach gem or minion life(+ vitality) would be superior. zombies can only receive 3 endurance charges so that's 12% physical damage reduction and 12% all resist.

The Grasp is definitely op. That infernal blow pretty much owns anything works so well with the -fire resist your giving to your BM's anyways

Hi there, im making my first necro & hc char, should i go for this build or its too risky ? i saw the mattc build too what the big difference ?

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mattc3303 wrote:

In terms of survivability I still think a life leach gem or minion life(+ vitality) would be superior. zombies can only receive 3 endurance charges so that's 12% physical damage reduction and 12% all resist.

The Grasp is definitely op. That infernal blow pretty much owns anything works so well with the -fire resist your giving to your BM's anyways

The gem also gives reduced stun threshold, so they stun more as well. I sorta of like having a little bit of both.

Also, they seem ALOT tankier than I thought they would be with 3 endurance charges. They are on full life so often now, I was thinking of swapping to a +phs damage on full life gem! j/k :)

But yea, I wouldn't be surprised to read in patch notes soon that something was broke with endurance charges on minions, similar to how the life scaled with monster level bug made them extra tanky.

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JeagerX wrote:

Hi there, im making my first necro & hc char, should i go for this build or its too risky ? i saw the mattc build too what the big difference ?

There are too many differences to call one big I think :). His is probably tankier due to not using BoR, but using IR.

This gets me thinking, I think mattc and I should PVP sometime for a lol :)

Would be pretty unfair after round 1 due to the winner being the only one left with minions. Unless you could raise the other person's dead zombies, just not your own! :))

And what about HC, is it viable ?

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JeagerX wrote:

And what about HC, is it viable ?

I would think so. It's fairly tanky and you'll have substantial meat shield.

This character was made on anarchy, so I play appropriately aggressively, and I believe I've only died once since reaching mapping level.

can you make an updated Passive skill tree. tis broken now with the recent update

Would like to see this too :)

Vezy intersting using bringer for minions, but I can easily farm most of the 72-76 maps myself with 4,5K ES and still gaining xp and sustaining my map pool. What a strange idea using BoR. I understand Life based, bringer based is very meh to me ^^. Mb because I have never looted the item of something close to it value-wise despite my 150%+ magic find, I guess I'm still too noob.

Long story short I find your build a joke because I can do as good or mb even better(that's the most funny) with a gear less valuable in total than half the price of one of your gear pieces. (ah, and I bring my 2 maledicts and pumped auras too in groups)

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galuf wrote:

Vezy intersting using bringer for minions, but I can easily farm most of the 72-76 maps myself with 4,5K ES and still gaining xp and sustaining my map pool. What a strange idea using BoR. I understand Life based, bringer based is very meh to me ^^. Mb because I have never looted the item of something close to it value-wise despite my 150%+ magic find, I guess I'm still too noob.

Long story short I find your build a joke because I can do as good or mb even better(that's the most funny) with a gear less valuable in total than half the price of one of your gear pieces. (ah, and I bring my 2 maledicts and pumped auras too in groups)

Using Bringer of Rain is hardly a strange idea. Most blender build uses it. Zombie does melee damage only so it makes total sense. 7 technical sockets from the 3 skills innate from BoR and 4 sockets of your choosing (including Raise Zombie).

Anyways, I hope you update us with a 1.0.2 version. After trying out Rathik, DonaldF and tehOsiris summoner builds, I think I'm yearning for a Pure Zombie build (with or without Skeletons) that can survive a long time without having to recast like tehOsiris's zombies and does the damage output like DonaldF without abusing the socket glitch.

I may not have a Bringer of Rain (prolly won't be getting one any time soon unless Piety would be a darling and drop one already) but it would be nice if someone made a successful Pure Zombie build. So to anyone that's reading this, please take on this end-game build task :D