Diablo 4 – Is The Necromancer The Right Class For You? Our Brutally Honest Impressions | Open Beta

I have always been a necro player. One thing that they did that I think is worth emphasizing is that ALL the skeletons are now on one skill. This is a SUPER big deal as it frees up one extra slot for non-summoning skills compared to previous Diablo games. The developers definitely listed to you (or the tons of "yous" that were pointing it out and they have now altered the class. Skeletons are more fragile and do more damage and corpse explosion has been flat out nerfed 🥲 Honestly I am happy about the changes because it sounds like I will be much busier keeping my team up and running than I was in the beta.

Going from Druid to Necromancer was night and day in terms of ease of play. I didn't manage to lean into it as much as I'd hoped, but I'd honestly be interested in a necro build that leans heavily into thorns while using shield skeletons and the bone golem (not sure if I'd keep the mages in the build, but likely). With how minions swarm and the golem has a taunt, you could be potentially getting a lot of thorns damage applied to enemies while staying at a safe distance. Especially for larger enemies whose attacks have a much larger hit area, if they're hitting more than 2 skeletons with a sweeping strike or something, they're actually taking more damage from thorns than someone without minions. Have ways of generating corpses to keep your minions health topped up (or other ways to heal them like I believe there's a way to do with blood orbs you generate) and your minions may be able to do most of the work for you even into late game.

cant see why you wanted monsters to attack you when your minions are alive.
doesnt that defeats the purpose of having minions to, i dont know, tank for you???

Once I got a legendary that gave me essence when I used corpse explosion I replaced my basic attack with it. Used Decrepify>Blood Nova>Corpse Explosion>Blood Mist>Corpse Explosion. Rinse and repeat with Decrepify as needed. Fun times! My goal is to find that one asap again. Nice AOE build afaik. But what do I know? It’s my first go at this game lol

it's great for mobbing and absolute shit vs bosses (see 2:34)

When I think of the Necro I remember Gru yelling “Assemble the minions” from the film Despicable Me. Haha

I'm gonna play Necromancer, I was easily leveling and killing everything in the highest difficulty by myself. Shit was fun and easy. There's no way in fuck i'll play any of the other crappy classes. I might make a Druid but I hate the up close and personal classes.

I’m glad content creators are finally calling out how boring it is to play alongside someone playing necromancer.

i did have a lot of fun even when i got completely op with the blood mist corps explosion activation scythe ^^

During this last beta weekend, I went from the grueling Barb to a Necro. Soooo much more fun. As you note, we shall see what the release build offers. Thanks for the overview.

Is it me but it lacked mobility skills though compared to d3 version of the class ? 🙁