The Most Requested Build Guide - Budget Summoner Necromancer Diablo 2 Resurrected

To continue with the trend of easily accessible budget builds in Diablo 2, today we're going to cover the most requested build guide: a Budget build to take the Summoner Necromancer into Nightmare and Hell, as well as equipment options should you have trouble finding the gear you need early on. There are a lot of options available for countering bad luck in Diablo 2, which is one of the great benefits of its itemization.

While there are other builds possible, I'm only one person, so we'll release those as soon as possible - just takes time :)

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[BengaIaas]

The best advice I have for normal difficulty is to avoid the trap of "one point wonders" beyond the absolutely necessary.
Take only the 1 point in Amp Damage, and even delay Corpse Explosion if you don't mind the slow pace, dump EVERYTHING into your skeletons.

The reasoning behind it is that you are trying to stay "ahead of the curve", and keep your skeletons strong enough to kill every boss before the boss kills them. Shaving just a few points to get bling like Bone Armor, Clay Golem, Iron Maiden etc can leave the Skeletons weak, while not providing anything without +skill gear.

A smaller piece of advice is to keep the act 1 mercenary through Normal difficulty, as the ranged attack will help you clear narrow corridors and doorways before dying of boredom.

[ViciousPandaJ]

Fishymancer cow farming is going to be awesome now that killing the Cow King doesn't lock you out anymore.

[rafagomuka]

On normal you can use combo clay golem + iron maiden curse ( you can buy wand with this skill in act 2 from vendor)

[TheWashout]

This is my first time doing a Summonmancer n I'm loving all your content on it.

[JesusRodriguez-cmoo]

This build is so powerful with the Trang ouls set and marrow walkers

[Telmustard]

I feel as if I may have been a sizeable proportion of the requests haha, ty for putting all this in one place man! (Following your guides I finally beat Hell for the first time!)

[JoyTuub]

This will be a useful start when I decide to try going for the lvl 99 hardcore trophy on ps4. Thanks!

[fathersondiecast]

I like this build as a ladder starter myself. And yes in normal some bosses will pwn your skellies but then you break out the cheese with clay golem and Iron Maiden =)

[wolfapostle]

Good video! Im looking forward to a general video for hardcore

[TomSawyerCoD]

Your content is good and you deserve more subs.

[trashcangoblin]

thanks dude, just got to hell with my summoner and in the 'need to assemble my budget build and make this shit work' phase of playing.

I've been farming the pits atm.

[denceldr]

Really appreciate this video, thanks for all the info!

[christopherpumphrey]

This build can farm The Pits really well and if you get a Harmony Bow on Swap you can run there fast.

[Reelphresh]

Spirit sword and shield, lore, frostburns, lenymo sash if you can get it summoner's amulet or + to Necro skills, two mandale heals, act two prayer Merc with insight. Max skeleton and mastery, skeletons are the backbone, amp damage and attract, life tap. Golem mastery, and a golem. . .1 in revive as they like to despawn a lot. And corpses are needed for exploding.

[homelesstogreatness]

My SP budget SSF MF summonmancer was just rocking a full gear of topaz and a gull dagger + rhyme that's not even on a necrohead and tele staff on switch. I was able to find a +2 ammy with a bunch of res and MF. I spammed nm Andy till I have 2 below average nagels though for my rings. My boots is just whatever with MF same with my gloves. My sash is tal rashas that I found when I was casually farming hell pits and hole 1 for some exp and mfing at the same time. Finished hell already, and was able to pick up a skullder's from when when I was mfing for trang oul gloves, homunculus and gold wrap. I let my merc use if for now since my str is not enough yet and socketed it with perfect topaz and replaced his treachery in the meantime, his helm is steal skull with perfect topaz too. I'll farm an obedience for him later and make an insight iron golem out of his insight. I'll replace my Gull Dagger with a Hoto when a vex rune drops or I can just cube one up. I am confident wth my luck when it comes to vex lol. Hoto has no MF but I need the resists. But If a leoric drops that would be sick too. I'll do 1k LK runs on my nxt day-off and if 1of high runes needed for CTA drops that would hasten my route to GG by a tiny bit . though i am just aiming for vex and obedience for now. My end goal is from budget to not-so budget to GG. I've been doing this for almost a year already though. Since I don't move from one spot to another till I get what I want. Lol

[delix]

It's a struggle until you get Decrep. Normal Duriel imo is the biggest difficulty spike outside of gloams. is the Gets much easier after that. Gotta say it's funny to have clay golem maxed out and watch the bosses do one attack every 5-6 seconds or so with clay slow and decrep.

[jonsouth]

If you countess run for runes its possible late game to get Enigma for the armour although it is expensive. Beast on your secondary weapon is always fun on a Necro as the extra life of the werebear is useful in stopping you from accidentally getting killed. If you are a poison summoner Bramble gives you thorns for your summons as well as 25-50% extra poison skill damage and none of the runes are that hard to get all are available on nightmare countess. Prudence us a good mid tear armour option for the resistance buff and is cheaper than Bone. Stone also gives some pretty good defences at the mid tear. though nowhere near as good as Duress for resistances (duress also gives some good offensive bonuses and is easy to get as you can easily get a 3 socket base armour from Fara in Act 2 Normal. Lionheart is super cheap and fives nice bonuses. To be honest, the key to budget building, in general, is to countess run a lot and build runewords. I currently have a Act 2 Normal Necro who has a scythe with "Strength" on it for my merc even though Amn runes don't drop till Act 4 as I just countess ran until I had enough RAL ruins to upgrade though ort and Thul. As it gives my Merc +35% damage +7% life stolen and 25% crushing blow so my Merc was able to go toe to toe with Durial.

[creed]

I'm playing single player so I would need realistic suggestions - probably take years to make an enigma so I use a teleport circlet . Most builds are nonsense that a regular person will never see unless they play ladder-nonladder and buy the items .

[ellednilvillorente]

I never invest any point in Curses. . . I just buy from shop looking for plus skill to decrepify. . . Or anything that have +3 to summoning skill with plus skill to a curse, either amp damage or decrepify. . .or blinding curse can be good too. . .

You dont need cast rate. . . Dump all points on summoning skill after maxed. Get your corpse explosion to higher level. . .


Btw, I hate maggot lair., Hahaha. I just use other character for it and put the staff of kings on shared stash. . .

[briceps]

How many ko runes did you get during this guide? Lol. Anyways thanks im thinking of rolling necro cuz my paladin is strong but boring