Dr. Strangebuff - Summoner Nec

Its all about beefing up your minions, especially in Fauzt. I had the similar problem and that Goethia plate just wouldn't drop. I used a crafted ancient armor (+2 skills, 10k defence, +150 summon life) instead.
I spent some time crafting sacred armor pieces and jewels and my summons went from around 30k life to around 50-60k which made a huge difference in Fauzt.
Then just spamming boneyard a lot and move slowly.

Kylrath wrote:I have all the endgame gear already.
I dont have santa compana . and farming fauntz without it seems completely impossible. I try to summon flayers behind necrobots but somehow me or the merc will die.
Love this guide and im a beast in ta and teganze, but fauntz...

Had the same problem, I then switch to Blood mage Merc and his fire damage make quick work of them Necrobot

so im just at lc2 i see your sklill plan like this :

Continuing Terror

▼ SHOW SPOILER
From this point on you want to max the following skills:
1. Death Fury Totem
2. Howling Totem (20-22 points is enough)
3. Embalming
4. Death Ward
5. 20 Points into Nightwalker
6. Rest: Frostclaw totem
1-pointers: all summons and Bend the shadows.

for after i do lc2(yes i knopw that one above isnt the lc2 plan but the one after it..
my question is where you list 20-22 pioints in howling is enough or.. 20 points in nightwalker..
do you mean hard points??
or can i add 10 actuall skill points and let the 10 + all and + necro skill levels soft points do the rest???
it makes a difference

so which way??

L H wrote:You won't get hit if you teleport more often. I farmed Fauzt (albeit different totem spec, but still even squishier without Death Ward like this guide suggests and like 40 less miions) easily. My guess is you're standing around in one spot too long. Teleport more often, keep your minions on top of you, let the merc do the payload. 1 pt boneyard is a nice addition here too if you get bored of just teleporting every few seconds.

yeah thats been my problem this is my first minion stack and teleport around build.. so i found i was standing still too much and not getting the bonus fom various minion auras and not letting my tanky merc 30k def?? do a lot of the heavy lifting so to speak..

about every minute or 2...teleport.. it lets your minioons unstack swarm.. and then restack if you dont wanna move much but just accomplish the teleport.. cast a dft or howling totem those can be used as bend shadows targets

20 Hard points. This will give you 50% avoid for totems.

HechtHeftig wrote:20 Hard points. This will give you 50% avoid for totems.

cool and same for howling 20-22 hard points? + all the bonus skill lvls on top of that?

Yes. Howling totem grants cb per hard point. More is better, but make sure to have at least 41% (20 hardpoints)

HechtHeftig wrote:Yes. Howling totem grants cb per hard point. More is better, but make sure to have at least 41% (20 hardpoints)

thanks that makes sense thanks for explaining a bit of the mechanics/number crunching stuff that helps

so act 2 /3 terror is where shrines and sacred items are starting to drop.. having +200Mf doesnt hurt either.. but just fyi thatsseems to be where they start falling..
so far only found a cfew quiet shrines.. what shrines do i want for merc?? for self obviously magical for minion stuff.. but for merc do i want "weird"? for the +enhanced dam? and the flat dam bonus??

bradr wrote:so act 2 /3 terror is where shrines and sacred items are starting to drop.. having +200Mf doesnt hurt either.. but just fyi thatsseems to be where they start falling..
so far only found a cfew quiet shrines.. what shrines do i want for merc?? for self obviously magical for minion stuff.. but for merc do i want "weird"? for the +enhanced dam? and the flat dam bonus??

When you first craft a weapon for your merc, it doesn't really matter which shrine you use. Just make sure to bless the bow with a weird shrine (in order to get 50% Ed so that weapon can reach 200 ED with 5 mystic orbs. Don't forget the lucky bonus.)

Try to get a weapon with at least +280 max damage.