Diablo 2 Necromancer Summoner Build: a non-meta build based on summons to easily do story mode
THIS BUILD HAS BEEN UPDATED ON THE FULL SUMMONER GUIDE

Principle and non-meta

In a few words my build, and why outside the meta:

• this build is not the strongest Necromancer, or League Starter in general
• it is however super fun to play if you like summons
• for the runs, however, you will have to take the time to create your invocations
• the leveling is very simple because you will take advantage of your horde of invocations to be stashed behind

Statistics

For statistics take:

• strength and dexterity: enough to wear the equipment, then reset to 0 when you have enough statistics via the objects
• vitality: everything else
• energy: 0

For the bearings:

• RBF: 0
• FCR: 75
• FHR: 86
• IAS: 0

In terms of resistance:

• cap everywhere and 50% physical resistance in late game

skills

I offer two setups, the first from the ones I was playing, the second using Cheiko's crowd control.

Equipment

I will come back to this section in more detail, but overall take:

• more skills
• resistance
• FRW extension
• what to put your equipment
• try to get Enigma in priority, which groups summons

Mercenary Equipment

Choice of mercenary:

• Act 2 Nightmare difficulty attack, will have power for damage, which will boost your summoning damage

Equipment to be recovered:

• enough to keep him alive

Leveling

For statistics:

• what to wear your equipment
• the rest alive

For curse setup skills:

• 1 point in each curse as soon as possible
• 7 points in explosion as soon as possible
• max skeletons and skeleton mastery
• 1 point in Golem, Skeleton Mage, Golem Mastery and Resurrect
• the rest

For the Wall and Bone Prison setup skills:

• 1 point in each curse as soon as possible
• 7 points in explosion as soon as possible
• 1 point in each summoning spell
• max skeletons and skeleton mastery
• prison and bone wall points

History

• 1.0: creation

By Alchemists, September 2021