I agree with others that the skeleton minions besides defenders are often way too squishy to use, especially in boss fights, and it’s easy to quickly run out of corpses when you’re constantly re-summoning them. (Honestly I even struggle to keep track of how many I currently have alive, the indicator next to my resource is a bit small and out of the way, I kind of expect to see it on the skill or elsewhere on the screen perhaps)
On top of that, I struggle with re-summoning skeletons mid-combat because I have to keep changing what I’m paying attention to with my eyes, and keep moving my mouse to different places looking for each individual corpse and spamming my summon key instead of attacking of focusing on the combat or dodging out of the way, it’s a bit much to do at once especially when surrounded by many enemies or facing a boss.
I do enjoy the class overall, but sometimes it really breaks the flow of combat and makes me feel incompetent for struggling to keep up with so much back and forth. I would really really just prefer if skeletons and what-have you would auto-summon like the golem does.
Does anyone else struggle with the same things or have any tips?
i want to add that summon golem should not take up a skill slot - it could be merged into the summon skeleton skill and only trigger when pressed if the golem is not already summoned.
we’re low on skill slots as is (especially on console)
yeah i find myself in a constant loop of summoning skeletons in most boss fights now.
its quite tedious and boring having to do that tbh. breaks the flow of the game.
skeletons have always been the primary focus of the necromancer class, and in this they just arent really.
i do most damage with a maxed out blight spell, and thats not all that good
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Valid for sure, didn’t even think about how much worse it would be on console, big yikes :s
I have to also add, not having a hotkey or ability to focus my summons onto a target also sucks, especially because certain ‘ability upgrades’ mention that You/Summons will do extra damage to enemies being affected by the ability (specifically for Decompose and Blight), but your summons will be off attacking everything else making it a bit meaningless half the time, they aren’t prioritised in the least unless you get lucky with the AI or you’re down to a final enemy or boss fight where they don’t have a choice.
Honestly if I hadn’t gotten lucky and found my current legendary scythe that makes Bone Spear do higher damage, I’d probably be really struggling, I’m really relying on spamming that more than the summons which is a bit disappointing.
I’m struggling to enjoy many of the skills and not feel like it’s just a downgrade from D3’s many skills and many skill runes options, having passives is nice, but honestly they don’t seem super powerful yet. Admittedly I’m not even level 30 yet, but my initial thoughts are finding most things unsatisfying, even on the rogue or sorcerer class.
Right now I am trying a Tier 9 dungeon.
Lots of AOE and stuff on the ground.
I have specced as much as possible into survivability of my minions on skills and paragon.
But they are MELTING the moment they get into stuff on the ground…
And then you die. Resurrect with 0 minions and just die again because you dont have minions. Great stuff…
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I totally get you. I had been playing WT 2 until level 31, as my skellys and golem would take a one hit kill off certain bosses, leaving me running around trying to summon and getting swarmed. Which does not feel great when you get back to the fight, and its started again. Which with them doing hardly any damage, and them not really taking the attention away from you, they aren’t really doing their job.
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In addition to this many times Im experiencing also a lot of trigg delay in explode corpses & summoning skills, sometimes even like 1 trigg every 1+ seconds… so I end my fights with my skels that die like flies, me moving a mouse running for life but also trying to trigg corpses that wont get trigged because of the delay… also with the same mouse lol
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I just want Blood Rush back.