Got a source for this?
Sure, just look up necromancer lead class dev interview. I aināt gonna search it for you.
Yeah, Iām asking because I looked this up and got nothing that supports your claim out of the two interviews that I watched. You made a pretty bold statement, so itād be nice if you backed it up. Are you referring to how articles from last year talked about the three core Necro specs being Bone, Blood, and Shadow?
In fact, all I got out of this old IGN interview is that minions are (or were, at some point) a key focus of the class:
Book of the Dead is all they talk about here. They even mention summoning the skeletal priest, which makes me think that at some point in development, the priest was its own minion class and not just a model that pops into existence for half a second like it does now.
exactly this, i play necro for minions. If i canāt have minions i might as well play sorceress no? However, necro without minions is much weaker than sorceress, why play necro at all? I donāt wanna play a broken class until i get SUPER Lucky and get a couple items that make a weird skill i`d initially never use (because it didnāt sound appealing to me) super overpowered and now i use this lame skill and suddenly with this weird build and setup i can clear as much as your random sorc or barb. No, im not gonna play some scuffed reaper bloodsurge build even if its stronger. I wanted to play necro for the damn minions, if it isnāt viable, i wonāt play at all, theres more games. In the era of D2 and world of warcraft they could do whatever the fck they wanted. If they hated some class or build they could just let it rot because there was no competition. forums full of hate? didnt matter to them, there was no alternative, there was no competition to their games.
These times are over, if you destroy a class or build people will walk away because there is a gazillion of alternatives in these modern times.
Thats pretty much all i have to say about it: if i donāt see something that moves heaven and earth, like 500% damage increase across the board for minions or HEFTY ai improvements, where no butcher or boss ever goes for necro anymore but instead focuses on minions first no matter what, i`m not playing this; i got alternatives that do give me the feeling of fun.