I just can't really find myself liking PoE2, for several reasons

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Glowie_Zigger#5018 wrote:

are u aware that the necromancer was the worst part of Diablo II and back before auto-partying was a thing people wouldn't even invite you to their party if you were playing as one. on top of all that, they gave the necro bone wall which prevented other players from moving, but that is an aside

minion builds have been awful forever. they are annoying, clutter the screen with garbage and cause lag. playing as one is like watching a boring movie

Don't inject your personal opinion as the community basis when it absolutely doesn't reflect on my experiences in Diablo 2. I partied with plenty of people as a skelly necro and not once did anyone say they had difficulty playing with me. It probably helped that I saw no value in bone wall, it being just as obstructive to my minions as it was to myself, so I never used it.

It was the highlight for me in Diablo 2 as I liked the idea of commanding an army to fight, and I liked the chaos of being part of what felt like a proper battlefield. To me, that felt better than "hurr 1 man army i spin hammers, frost balls, and myself so things go boom".

Was skelly necro not as good at killing things as quickly as most other builds? Yeah sure, it's kinda hard to pull off when there's no way to scale minions off gear the same way you can melee or ranged. Safe to say this has been a problem since even during the classic days.

its not my opinion. it is an objective fact that back in the early days of diablo II the necro was the black sheep, outcast, annoying asshole who no one wanted to play with. we didn't have supercomputers and loading 15 minions caused a huge amount of lag. like you say, the character also lacked the ability to contribute in any meaningful way, so it was a complete troll and people would not send you party invites

And again you're continuing to inject your own personal dislike of an archetype and claiming it as fact.

Regardless, nothing you said has anything to do with my complaint about PoE2 summoning. They took what worked just fine in PoE1 and turned it into this sad husk that looks like GGG took inspiration directly from Diablo 3.

And the worst part is, it performs way worse than other classes, compared to the difference of PoE1 summoners versus non-summoners. There's only like 1 synergy involving arsonists, fire spells, and SRS. Frost, lightning, poison, and all flavors of melee skeleton have nothing you can boost them with. Minions that require corpses are temporary which makes them nearly worthless against bosses since there's no way to create corpses (currently).

Your personal opinion about D2 necro has no relevance about how bad summoning is in PoE2.

+1 OP.

POE2 Minion builds suck in comparison to POE1

IMO the whole Azmeri Wisp design shows GGG's left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing.

They tout slow and methodical combat, then they go on to design a mechanic that requires fast full-pack clears to keep up with the wisp or else you lose the wisp.

They tout slow and methodical combat, then they go on and make ritual sites tiny spaces with a tornado chasing you and mobs putting down floor effects and damaging auras everywhere.

And the worst thing about it? It's that I don't see them acknowledging any of these problems.

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By the way, the best way to do wisps is to clear the map of everything except one rare nearest to the wisp, then activate the wisp. Shows how badly designed this content is.

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kumogakure#7381 wrote:

By the way, the best way to do wisps is to clear the map of everything except one rare nearest to the wisp, then activate the wisp. Shows how badly designed this content is.

I just ingore the wisp, pos anyways. Doesnt do much cept deviate you from your map pathing.