Hello All,
This is my first ever build guide. I decided to write a build guide for this build that I've had good success with simply because there is not a single build up on this website that has a necromancer using !! Many people look at the insane flat cold damage and figure it makes far more sense in a hybrid melee+minion build like beastmaster. This is 100% true, but it works quite good in necromancer, due to .
There is a TON of support for cold minions for necromancers. We have awesome nodes like and . We can get extra Intelligence for the cold penetration on from and . The very specific and highly effective on chest and/or helmet is also one of the driving factors of this build, because all your damage is coming from and . And since our minions can freeze a bunch, its not actually that scary to be in melee, and also we can freeze enemies ourselves with due to .
75-90 Intelligence is the goal of the build to give you that amount of Cold Penetration for your minions from .
This build is a lot of fun. The damage we get from and is huge, and we just gotta stack crit and do big damage.
The tankiness part of the build could be improved. We use and and on our gloves to make us quite tanky. With 14 minions (9 Archers + 5 Cryomancers), we gain lots of flat armor from . Increased armor scales well with that. I feel like we are plenty tanky with most content, and with decent gear and capped resistances, I've been having no issues with survivability at 250 corruption.
Feel free to tinker with the stats on your gear. I added 4 affixes to all the uniques, just so they register when you create a loot filter, but to take this build far, I would shoot for 2 LP on and , get 1 LP on your .
Get , , , or anything helpful on your . Get , on your or once again anything helpful. Its up to you.