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00:00:00 – 00:19:46
The video is a comprehensive guide on optimizing a Summoner Necromancer build in Diablo 4, particularly focusing on various strategies for maximizing damage output and survivability across different game tiers.
Key aspects of the build discussed include the utilization of Shadow minions, which offer a 120% damage multiplier and enhanced survivability, making them highly effective for challenging content. The importance of Bone Prison for managing monster aggro and reducing skill cooldowns, and the use of Blight to boost minion damage, are highlighted for their synergistic benefits. Furthermore, the speaker emphasizes the use of corpse tendrils for crowd control and fortify generation, critical for surviving high-damage encounters.
The Golem, particularly the Blood Golem, is favored for its damage output, supported by strategic use of masteries, Hulking Aspect for cooldown reduction, and essential gear attributes like cooldown reduction, attack speed, critical strike chance, and intelligence. The Paragon board setup is another focal point, prioritizing maximum life nodes and specific damage multipliers, including notable nodes such as Tenacity, Scent of Death, and Flesh Eater, to enhance the build's effectiveness.
The speaker also underscores the significance of minion attack speed, achieving attack speed caps through various sources, and balancing gear stats to optimize performance. The video concludes with an endorsement of the Shadow minions over pure minions for higher tier content, encouraging viewers to adopt this build for improved resource farming and high-level clearances.
00:00:00
In this segment of the video, the creator discusses the performance of their Summoner Necromancer build, specifically focusing on the differences between Shadow minions and plain minions. They highlight the advantages of Shadow minions, including a 120% damage multiplier and significant survivability enhancements, which made the featured boss fight the easiest they’ve had. The video also addresses a mistake where the creator forgot to activate a key aspect of the Shadow minion build, yet still achieved impressive results. They mention that despite this error, the build has strong potential to clear high-level content. Additionally, the creator encourages new viewers to subscribe and refers to timestamps for more detailed information about the build, including gear and skill tree decisions.
00:03:00
In this part of the video, the focus is on maximizing damage output and utility for a Golem build in Diablo 4. The strategy revolves around using Blight to add a 20% damage multiplier for minions, specifically triggered through Bone Prison. Bone Prison offers multiple advantages, such as applying Blight to a larger area, managing monster aggro, and reducing cooldowns of all skills by up to 3 seconds per target hit. This enables effective grouping of enemies for the Golem to attack. Additionally, Hulking Aspect further reduces the Golem’s cooldown, making it a reliable option. The video also highlights the importance of using masteries to keep minions alive, consuming corpses for damage boosts, and maintaining essence through Grim Harvest. Max ranks of Decrepify spell provide significant damage reduction and survivability by greatly slowing down enemies and allowing skill spamming.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses various strategies and tips for optimizing a build in a game. Key points include using corpse tendrils to pull in monsters, applying slow and vulnerable effects to enemies, and generating fortify to prevent one-shot kills. The speaker emphasizes the importance of the ultimate skill tree, specifically using bone storm for critical strike chances. They also outline the benefits of different minion setups, such as using Reaper skeletons and Shadow Mages for generating corpses and buffing damage. The speaker prefers the Blood Golem for its high damage output. Finally, they discuss gear optimization, focusing on cooldown reduction, survivability stats, and specific armor thresholds.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the focus is on optimizing various aspects of a character build in a game. Key points include prioritizing corpse tendrils over decrepify, and ensuring maximum survivability through Golem Mastery and other defensive measures. For equipment, the video stresses the importance of specific aspects, such as using void for the helmet to enhance bone prison abilities, and suggests attributes like attack speed, critical chance, and intelligence for gloves. The video also covers tempering Golem damage for offense, stacking survivability on pants, and choosing optimal stats and aspects for boots to balance movement speed and survivability. Additionally, the video details the ideal features for amulets and rings, emphasizing critical strike chance, attack speed, intelligence, and Golem-related boosts. Finally, there is a quick overview of attack speed caps and how they function within the build.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the concept of attack speed for Paragon boards, emphasizing that reaching a 100% combined attack speed from various sources (including necro and minion attack speed, special effects like frenzy, etc.) is the goal. They explain that different weapons, attacks, and minions have varied break points, making it essential to aim for the cap.
The speaker uses a one-handed scythe for its higher base damage and One Life on kill to keep themselves and their minions alive. They mention the benefits of lucky hit chance for triggering decrepify cooldown but note it isn’t necessary due to other cooldown factors.
When discussing stats, the focus is on intelligence, critical strike chance, and maximum life. They emphasize minion attack speed and golem damage over shadow mages, considering the latter ineffective for their current build. The blighted aspect is used for damage multipliers, and the off-hand focuses on intelligence and maximum life.
The Paragon board setup prioritizes maximum life nodes and specific damage multipliers from applying shadow damage and curses. Bone graft is used for its double effect, contributing to the overall strategy and resilience of the build.
00:15:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker elaborates on a Paragon board setup focused on maximizing life and damage for a specific build. Key points include:
1. Importance of the tenacity node for its 14% maximum life boost.
2. Building into the scent of death for additional maximum life and potential damage reduction with the territorial glyph.
3. Transitioning into flesh eater for a 1.1x physical damage multiplier and utilizing the “raise skeleton” skill to maintain a 30% damage multiplier for the golem, which also grants healing.
4. Integrating the cult leader board for increased minion damage and attack speed enhancements.
5. Utilizing the bloodbath section to gain a 22% damage multiplier on critical hits against non-healthy targets.
6. Finalizing with the hulking monstrosity board for a 25% damage multiplier, ignoring additive damage.
Overall, the build focuses on strategic node placements and skills to maximize life and damage output.
00:18:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the improved survivability of a specific build without shielding and credits Karian for highlighting the necessity of better survivability for higher tier clearances. The speaker mentions successfully clearing tier 60 with the Golem build introduced earlier and explains that enhanced survivability allows for efficient resource farming at tier 61 and above. They also suggest that reaching tiers close to 100 will depend on acquiring better affixes and crits on Masterworks. Additionally, the speaker confirms that Shadow minions are generally better than pure minions for higher tier pushes, although speed farming lower tiers or other activities might benefit from a different minion build. The segment concludes with the speaker encouraging viewers to subscribe, like, comment, and check the pinned comment and description for more information on builds.