These summons have always been the top necro tankminions. Due to their low mana cost, we'll keep them on the left mouse button to easily make use of them as a target for our teleport.

We mainly need the life regeneration and the max life, as this slowly regenerate all of our minions and makes them tankier. But the mechanics are still the same: They grant you an aura that increases your max life and your spell damage and in addition to that grants a life regeneration. Skeletal flayers have replaced shadows in the latest patch. It is very useful for some uber bosses which would be harder if you used other skills. it's no pure summoner and requires your merc to stay alive (this build works without a merc, but it's faster and better with a merc) physical immunes can be tricky since that's our main AoE damage source You can take a sip from your beer while summoning at the start of a new run/game

if your mercs damage is high enough you can kill enemies off-screen very good in a team, since it buffs basically everything doesn't require much early game grinding can be played 100% untwinked and can be used as the first character in the ladder really good kill speed, both single target and AoE Most of your items can simply be crafted Only few monster can actually hurt you in early game (the only example: Heretics in terror) BRC can be finished without even a single ubercharm in the inventory very safe build due to massive meatshield And we will use an act 1 merc: either the Priestress or the Ranger. We'll be focusing on the Death Fury totem and Howling totem to get the maximum out of this build. Summoner necros have the habbit of being a little bit slow, but combined with the correct items/skills and most importantly, the correct merc, you can partly be even faster than a totemnec in terms of kill speed. Strangebuff - or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Merc

Diablo 2 median xl necromancer fcr