

In terms of skills, we should be focusing on skeletal mage due to the 2.4 patch, Blizzard does change it up a bit from a few of the more common builds, but the reality is ideal summoner builds generally have a lot of points to spare.Īs far as what you do invest in the initial summoner setup for classic builds, it's 20 points in race skeletons for quantity and 20 points in skeleton mastery for quality, and a point in all of your one-point wonders. Since what will be hitting you as a summoner is not going to be blockable, so we don't waste it on dexterity and you'll have no mana problems if you set up the rest of your gear properly and use an inside golem. As usual for most builds, we just get the stats we need for our gear, in this case, the bare minimum strength for setup we want and everything else is going into vitality. One nice thing about the current optimal setup is that it will be made even better with the planned changes. How the optimal setup for Summoner Necromancer While we are looking at the upcoming changes to the skeleton mage as part of this, we're also going to talk about how the optimal setup for Summoner Necromancers is not exactly what you'll find on a lot of build guides.ĭiablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 Necromancer Build Guide - Improvements For The Summoner In 2.4 Today we are looking at a skill tied to an already popular but often misunderstood build - the Summon Necromancer.

As part of the journey into preparing for 2.4 D2R, people have been building characters around some of the major skills being modified, so we can look at how they perform prior to the patch's release and after.
