The summary of ‘Necromancer Darkness Summoner Build Guide Diablo4’

The video showcases various builds and strategies for necromancers in games like Diablo 4 and Path of Exile. The content creator discusses optimizing skills, passive abilities, gear choices, and gameplay tactics to maximize damage, crowd control, and minion management. They emphasize generating corpses, freezing and stunning enemies, and enhancing shadow damage output. Specific skills like Corpse Explosion, freezing tactics, and use of companions like Gola are highlighted for efficient gameplay in nightmare dungeons. The player demonstrates the build's effectiveness in combat scenarios, emphasizing the importance of defense and future potential for further enhancements.

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In this segment of the video, the content creator discusses their Shadow Slash Darkness Summoner build for the necromancer in Diablo 4. They showcase a build focused on Darkness spells and pets, emphasizing skills like hemorrhage, blight, Supernatural blood, and Corp explosion. The build is designed to generate infinite corpses, maximize damage, and create stuns, making it effective in Nightmare and Torment difficulties. The player highlights the synergy between Corp explosion and grim harvest for quick power bar recharging and massive dot effects. The build aims to continually stun and freeze enemies on the screen, making it a fun and powerful choice for gameplay.

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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses maximizing skills like Death’s Embrace, Mage Mastery, Corpse Tendrils, and various other abilities for enhanced damage, crowd control, and minion management in the Path of Exile build. They emphasize the importance of abilities like Gloom and Terror for increased damage and slowing effects, as well as the significance of specific passive abilities like Def’s Defense and Shot of Blood for maintaining minion sustainability and boosting shadow damage output. The speaker also touches on their progress in the Paragon tree for further enhancements in shadow damage and damage reduction. This detailed strategy aims to optimize damage output and control in gameplay.

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In this segment of the video, the key actions and details highlighted include the importance of picking damage nodes for Pets, specifically the cult leader Paragon board for increased damage for minions. The placement of the glyph and socket is emphasized for maximizing the benefits. The Paragon tree provides damage reduction and buffs for minions within range, with a focus on boosting minion damage. The speaker discusses their gear choices, such as using skeletal mages for freezing enemies and enhancing skeleton damage on gloves. Additionally, they mention using an aspect for extra armor on legs and increasing the maximum number of warriors on boots to generate more corpses. A Shadow amulet providing a significant damage bonus is recommended.

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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the Shadowbride Key passive ability which deals massive damage when procced multiple times. They mention stacking damage up to five times, increasing Critical Strike chance and damage, and using the Bloodless Screen weapon for extra Darkness skill damage and freezing enemies. Ghost Sapphires are recommended for fortification bonus, and Book of the Dead choices like Skeletal Warriors and Cold Mages are suggested for creating corpses and dealing damage to frozen enemies. Shadow Mages could also be used instead of Cold Mages for chilling effects.

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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses using Shadow Majors for stunning or an extra Shadow bolt to freeze enemies. They recommend using Gola as a companion for generating corpses and taunting enemies. The strategy involves taunting with Gola, casting Corpse Trend drills for stunning, and then exploding corpses. They emphasize the effectiveness of freezing enemies with this build in dungeons. The speaker also mentions using attack speed potions like Assault Elixir to enhance Corpse explosion speed. They demonstrate the gameplay by casting Golem, taunting enemies, using Corpse Trend drills, and exploding corpses to deal damage efficiently. Despite some gear challenges, they find the build enjoyable and effective in Tier 20 nightmare dungeons.

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In this segment of the video, the player demonstrates a level 65 character taking down a level 73 mob using Corpse Explosion and Frost Nova skills to stun and freeze enemies. The player discusses the effectiveness of the build, emphasizing the importance of generating corpses quickly and improving defense in the gear. They mention the potential to enhance the build further with better gear for higher difficulty levels. The player highlights the build’s ability to freeze enemies and sustain pets in combat, providing a strong advantage in boss fights. A future blood summoner build is also mentioned as a work in progress.